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Monday July 15, 2024. 03:01 PM
They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth – not to mention capacity – to do it Analysis Within a few years, AMD expects to have notebook chips capable of running 30-billion-parameter large-language models locally at a speedy 100 tokens per second.…
Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation With the first Zen 5 CPUs and SoCs set to ship later this month, AMD offered a closer look at the architectural improvements underpinning the platform's 16 percent uplift ...
Musk firm to work with the FAA on why the second stage leaked liquid oxygen Comment SpaceX has confirmed the payload of last week's Starlink launch is pretty much a total writeoff. However, standing down Falcon 9 as authorities look into the incident could have major...
Demain est un autre jour The future of French IT heavyweight Atos is on firmer ground after the company secured funding for its rescue plan by signing a Lock-Up Agreement with creditors, although the restructuring remains subject to certain conditions.…
New project from Atom developer gains a second host OS Zed – sorry, US readers, that's its name, not 'Zee' – is a new coding tool. Until very recently it was Mac-only, but not any more.…
Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward Opinion A 'Youth and Open Source' panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan....
Case centers on 3G, 4G, and 5G patents held by US wireless IP holder InterDigital Lenovo is claiming a victory of sorts in a UK Court of Appeal ruling that bumps up the amount it owes US patentholder InterDigital in a telecoms licensing dispute - the payment is much lower...
Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us Opinion As Microsoft approaches its 50th birthday next year, it can look back with satisfaction at having created the first era of universal corporate computing, and of having ridden...
Techie left spitting chips made sure the boss was, too Who, Me? Welcome to the working week, dear readers, and good luck navigating whatever it brings – a task we hope to illuminate with a fresh instalment of Who, Me?, the reader-contributed column in which you share tales ...
Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found Feature Port Hedland is a town of just 16,000 people in a hot and dusty corner of northwestern Australia, 1,600 kilometers by road from the nearest substantial city. As such, it's ...
Years of crackdowns haven't stopped some revolting stuff China's many attempts to clean up its internet appear not to have prevented the proliferation of revolting material and products that abuse or target children.…
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory? Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and SAP.…
Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more Infosec in brief Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached – again – and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records.…
Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more ASIA IN BRIEF The interim CEO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has criticized China's approach to bug reporting.…
Sunday July 14, 2024. 01:32 PM
Just be careful not to shave off too many bits... These things are known to hallucinate as it is Hands on If you hop on Hugging Face and start browsing through large language models, you'll quickly notice a trend: Most have been trained at 16-bit floating point of...
Saturday July 13, 2024. 05:04 PM
And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice... Color us skeptical Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security.…
High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD One game developer says it's had enough of Intel's 13th and 14th-generation Core microprocessors, calling them 'defective.'…
15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware.…
Friday July 12, 2024. 10:22 PM
Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh! Two House committee chairs have sent a public letter to the White House asking it to look into a deal between AI R&D outfit G42 and Microsoft.…
Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most critical assets.…
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