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Release: PyTorch Geometric Container for GNNs on NGC

The NVIDIA PyG container, now generally available, packages PyTorch Geometric with accelerations for GNN models, dataloading, and pre-processing using cuGraph-Ops, cuGraph, and cuDF from NVIDIA RAPIDS, all with an effortless out-of-the-box experience.
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AI Takes Center Stage: Survey Reveals Financial Industry’s Top Trends for 2024

The financial services industry is undergoing a significant transformation with the adoption of AI technologies. NVIDIA’s fourth annual State of AI in Financial Services Report provides insights into the current landscape and emerging trends for 2024.
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Bolstering Cybersecurity: How Large Language Models and Generative AI are Transforming Digital Security

Identity-based attacks are on the rise, with phishing remaining the most common and second-most expensive attack vector. Some attackers are using AI to craft more convincing phishing messages and deploying bots to get around automated defenses designed to spot suspicious behavior.
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Three Ways Generative AI Can Bolster Cybersecurity

Human analysts can no longer effectively defend against the increasing speed and complexity of cybersecurity attacks. The amount of data is simply too large to screen manually.
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Best Practices for Securing LLM-Enabled Applications

Large language models (LLMs) provide a wide range of powerful enhancements to nearly any application that processes text. And yet they also introduce new risks, including: This post walks through these security vulnerabilities in detail and outlines best practices for designing or evaluating a secure LLM-enabled application.
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How AI-Based Cybersecurity Strengthens Business Resilience

The world’s 5 billion internet users and nearly 54 billion devices generate 3.4 petabytes of data per second, according to IDC.
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NVIDIA AI Red Team: Machine Learning Security Training

At Black Hat USA 2023, NVIDIA hosted a two-day training session that provided security professionals with a realistic environment and methodology to explore the unique risks presented by machine learning (ML) in today’s environments.
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Supercharge Graph Analytics at Scale with GPU-CPU Fusion for 100x Performance

Graphs form the foundation of many modern data and analytics capabilities to find relationships between people, places, things, events, and locations across diverse data assets. According to one study, by 2025 graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, which will help facilitate rapid decision making across organizations.
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Analyzing the Security of Machine Learning Research Code

The NVIDIA AI Red Team is focused on scaling secure development practices across the data, science, and AI ecosystems. We participate in open-source security initiatives, release tools, present at industry conferences, host educational competitions, and provide innovative training.
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Accelerated Vector Search: Approximating with NVIDIA cuVS Inverted Index

Performing an exhaustive exact k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search, also known as brute-force search, is expensive, and it doesn’t scale particularly well to larger datasets. During vector search, brute-force search requires the distance to be calculated between every query vector and database vector.
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Preventing Health Data Leaks with Federated Learning Using NVIDIA FLARE

More than 40 million people had their health data leaked in 2021, and the trend is not optimistic. The key goal of federated learning and analytics is to perform data analytics and machine learning without accessing the raw data of the remote sites.
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Six Steps Toward AI Security

In the wake of ChatGPT, every company is trying to figure out its AI strategy, work that quickly raises the question: What about security? Some may feel overwhelmed at the prospect of securing new technology.
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NVIDIA Lends Support to Washington’s Efforts to Ensure AI Safety

In an event at the White House today, NVIDIA announced support for voluntary commitments that the Biden Administration developed to ensure advanced AI systems are safe, secure and trustworthy. The news came the same day NVIDIA’s chief scientist, Bill Dally, testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee seeking input on potential legislation covering generative AI.
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Generative AI and Accelerated Computing for Spear Phishing Detection

Spear phishing is the largest and most costly form of cyber threat, with an estimated 300,000 reported victims in 2021 representing $44 million in reported losses in the United States alone. Business e-mail compromises led to $2.4 billion in costs in 2021, according to the FBI Internet Crime Report.
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Accelerating Vector Search: Fine-Tuning GPU Index Algorithms

In this post, we dive deeper into each of the GPU-accelerated indexes mentioned in part 1 and give a brief explanation of how the algorithms work, along with a summary of important parameters to fine-tune their behavior.
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Accelerating Vector Search: Using GPU-Powered Indexes with NVIDIA cuVS

In the current AI landscape, vector search is one of the hottest topics due to its applications in large language models (LLM) and generative AI.
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Supercharge Ransomware Detection with AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity Solutions

Ransomware attacks have become increasingly popular, more sophisticated, and harder to detect. For example, in 2022, a destructive ransomware attack took 233 days to identify and 91 days to contain, for a total lifecycle of 324 days.
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Accelerated Encrypted Execution of General Purpose Applications

The advent of cloud computing has ushered in a paradigm shift in our data storage and utilization practices. Businesses can bypass the complexities of managing their own computing infrastructure by tapping into remote, on-demand resources deftly managed by cloud service providers.
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Mitigating Stored Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Applications

Explore how information retrieval systems may be used to perpetrate prompt injection attacks and how application developers can mitigate this risk.
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Confidential Computing on NVIDIA H100 GPUs for Secure and Trustworthy AI

Hardware virtualization is an effective way to isolate workloads in virtual machines (VMs) from the physical hardware and from each other. This offers improved security, particularly in a multi-tenant environment.
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Securing LLM Systems Against Prompt Injection

This post explains prompt injection and shows how the NVIDIA AI Red Team identified vulnerabilities where prompt injection can be used to exploit three plug-ins included in the LangChain library.
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Realizing the Power of Real-Time Network Processing with NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO

NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO library can be adopted in a wide range of applications from different contexts, providing huge improvements for latency, throughput, and system resource utilization.
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Implicit Memory Tagging: No-Overhead Memory Safety Using Alias-Free Tagged ECC

Memory safety is a major security concern for unsafe programming languages, including C/C++ and CUDA/OpenACC.
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Webinar: AI-Enabled Cybersecurity for Financial Services

Learn how financial firms can build automated, real-time fraud and threat detection solutions with NVIDIA Morpheus.
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NVIDIA AI Red Team: An Introduction

Machine learning has the promise to improve our world, and in many ways it already has. However, research and lived experiences continue to show this technology has risks.