by Gus Uht on Jan 31, 2019 | Tags: Opinion, Security
There are millions of viruses, etc., in the wild today. Countless new ones are devised by black-hat hackers all the time. In order to proactively defend against new exploits, some white-hatters seek out or create weaknesses or vulnerabilities and then devise fixes for them. However, in some cases, such as Spectre, fixes are not readily apparent, either to the inventor or the vendor of the target software or hardware. Regardless of the existence of a fix or not, the question arises as to what to publicize or disclose about the vulnerability. We argue that no public disclosure should be made at all, until and unless the exploit appears in the wild.
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by Mithuna Thottethodi and T. N. Vijaykumar on Jan 22, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Specialization
The GPGPU’s massive multithreading is unnecessary for DNNs, and imposes performance, area, and energy overheads. By avoiding such multithreading, the TPU is more efficient.
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by Fred Chong, Ken Brown, Yongshan Ding on Jan 15, 2019 | Tags: Quantum Computing
In a recent IEEE Spectrum article, Mikhail Dyakonov makes The Case Against Quantum Computing, focusing on the idea that building a quantum computer would require precise control over 2300 continuous variables. This view is absolutely correct if we were building an...
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by Alvin Lebeck on Jan 7, 2019 | Once again the new year is upon us and it’s time to look back on 2018 and to look ahead for 2019. It was another great year for Computer Architecture Today with 59 posts, for a total of 103 published posts from 37 contributors that generated over 170,000 views...
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