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6 days ago | admin-magazine.com | Amber Ankerholz

The University of Maryland (UMD), DARPA, and the State of Maryland have launched a joint effort to evaluate quantum computing systems for national security and commercial applications. The Capital Quantum Benchmarking Hub will be based at UMD’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS). This undertaking is part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which aims to verify whether any quantum computing approach can achieve an industrially useful quantum computer by 2033.

1 week ago | admin-magazine.com | Amber Ankerholz

IBM has announced IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5, a Linux computing platform powered by the IBM Telum II processor with built-in AI acceleration.

1 week ago | admin-magazine.com | Jeff Layton

I think virtually everyone in HPC knows the Warewulf open source cluster provisioning and management tool. I wrote about Warewulf starting with Warewulf 3, followed by a series on Warewulf 4. Since the beginning of the Warewulf 4 series, Greg Kurtzer, the original developer of Warewulf, formed the company CIQ to develop and support many products, such as Rocky Linux and Fuzzball, but I’m focusing on Warewulf. As of the writing of this article (May 2025), Warewulf version 4.6.1 is current.

1 week ago | admin-magazine.com | Amber Ankerholz

Varonis Systems has announced AI Shield, an AI risk defense tool that monitors how AI interacts with data and corrects permissions to prevent exposure of sensitive information. The service “monitors all AI prompts and responses for potential threats. We use sophisticated behavioral analytics to detect deviations to normal behavior, malicious intent, and known threat activity,” says Nolan Necoechea in the blog announcement.

1 week ago | admin-magazine.com | Amber Ankerholz

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), in conjunction with LF Education, is offering a free online course to help software developers understand and prepare for the requirements of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The course – Understanding the EU Cyber Resilience Act (LFEL1001) – was designed to “address the serious knowledge gap across the software industry when it comes to CRA readiness,” says Dr. David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at OpenSSF.