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

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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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Crazy leak says Galaxy Z Fold 7 might be as thin as a Galaxy S24 when folded

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The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is available for preorder ahead of its July 24th release date, and it’s a foldable you should consider if you want a Samsung foldable and you’re ready to spend top dollar. The device packs high-end hardware, a few new Galaxy AI features, and a brand-new design that makes the Galaxy…

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DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists

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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of the past 12 months, according to data obtained by a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The information, acquired and analysed by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data management provider Ataccama, confirmed a total of 97 personnel, working…

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Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

6 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, AWS, cloud-native, containers, Database, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position. Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in the market, pretty much locked into orchestration of…

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Hands-on with iPadOS 18’s all-new Calculator app and Math Notes feature

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Apple Pencil, chatbot, ChatGPT, Google, Intel, iPad, iPhone, machine learning, Magic Keyboard, Tech / By

At long last, Apple has finally decided to launch a Calculator app for iPad in iPadOS 18. Previously, the company told iPad owners that third-party options were good enough and that it would only release a calculator if it could stand out from the competition.Fourteen years later, Apple discovered what could make its Calculator app…

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Accessibility: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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Suleyman Gokyigit is CIO at Fire, a US organisation which defends the rights of free speech. He also works for crowd-testing company, Applause, where he is involved in accessibility testing. Among the services Applause provides is the ability for companies that have developed new software or websites to check if  they are meeting the design…

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