July 2024

Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance

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Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are new and different to those we’ve seen previously in the enterprise. They range from intensely compute-intensive training to day-to-day inferencing and RAG referencing that barely tickles CPU and storage input/output (I/O). So, across the various genres of AI workload, the I/O profile and impacts upon storage can vary dramatically. In…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

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Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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AMD’s next-gen driver progress makes us hopeful RDNA 4 GPUs could arrive sooner than we thought

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AMD’s graphics driver for its incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards is apparently more or less ready for action, or at least the Linux flavor is.Phoronix.com reports that ‘GFX12’ (RDNA 4) graphics driver support is in “good shape” and that AMD is enabling the driver right ‘out of the box’ (by default) with the latest patches…

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CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

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On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…

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Microsoft invented a system that encrypts physical text so people can’t read over your shoulder

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Microsoft is working to create a physical encrypting system that can encrypt and decrypt a document in real-time based on where the user’s eyes are looking. The technique is described in a new patent, which explains that it modifies letters in the text portion of the original document to help encrypt the content and keep…

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An important iPhone 17 design change was reportedly put on hold

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A new report from Ming-Chi Kuo relays that there’s been a slight design change to Apple’s plans for its iPhone 17. Though not slated to arrive until 2025, it’s no secret that Apple begins work on upcoming iPhone models years in advance.Regarding the change, Kuo writes that Apple’s iPhone 17 will not incorporate a resin-coated…

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ChatGPT’s Strawberry update could let the chatbot do research on its own

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, machine learning, Tech / By

ChatGPT is the generative AI chatbot I use the most, and I also happen to pay for the Plus subscription, even though the free tier would give me access to most of the chatbot’s features. I also happen to use GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest and best ChatGPT model. But I can’t say I’m fully satisfied with…

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Apple debunks reports that it trained AI on stolen YouTube videos

2 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Intel, iPad, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their AIs. The YouTube Subtitles dataset had video transcripts from education and online learning channels, from MIT and Harvard to Mr. Beast, MKBHD, and PewDiePie.After the controversy, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac…

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Now you have another good reason to update your iPhone immediately

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Leaked documents show which iPhone devices Cellebrite can unlock. This well-known mobile forensics company has a tool that can unlock modern iPhones and extract files from them even if they’re locked. That said, 404 Media published a story highlighting how you can protect yourself from a possible attack, and the solution is easy: Update your…

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