Using autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to target humans will erode moral agency and lead to a general devaluing of life, according to military technology experts.Speaking at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems on 30 April 2024 – a forum set up by the Austrian government to discuss the ongoing moral, ethical, legal and humanitarian…
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Last year, NVIDIA introduced its cuLitho software library, which promises to speed up photomask development by up to 40 times. Today, NVIDIA announced a partnership with TSMC and Synopsys to implement its computational lithography platform for production use, and use the company’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC applications. The development of photomasks is a…
We now have the technology for documents and digital content to develop levels of interactive responsiveness and competence that will make them appear super-intelligent. The question now becomes, how should we approach and harness this advancement? As deep learning algorithms distil key points with increasing accuracy and present them to users via the medium and…
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Austria’s success in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development largely stems from an academic realm of young thinkers, budding entrepreneurs and established professors injecting AI into a range of industries and even back into academia itself. Berlin is often cited as the hub of central European innovation, thanks largely to its promotion of startups and…
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As Intel prepares to move its fabs into its new Intel Foundry business, it will change the way it reports results in the coming months. To discuss the company’s long-term vision and give investors a better understanding of how Intel’s business will move forward with Intel Foundry and Intel Products groups, Intel plans to host a webinar…
The idea behind DevOps is that it brings together development and IT operations – the Dev and the Ops – to make it easier to create and deploy software. Platform engineering builds on this with a team made up of product managers and engineers, creating and maintaining the shared infrastructure needed by developers.Tech analyst Gartner…
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A survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload migration management saw a nine-point drop to near the bottom of the IT management funding priorities…
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At MWC 2024, Intel confirmed that Granite Rapids-D, the successor to Ice Lake-D processors, will come to market sometime in 2025. Furthermore, Intel also provided an update on the 6th Gen Xeon Family, codenamed Sierra Forest, which is set to launch later this year and will feature up to 288 cores designed for vRAN network operators…
Today’s CISOs face a rapidly expanding threat landscape. And it’s not only the volume of threats adding mounting pressure to the CISO role. Their increasing sophistication is weighing heavier, with social engineering, ransomware and operational technology (OT) and the internet of things (IoT) cited as three principle attack types keeping CISOs up at night. According…
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One area of AMD’s product portfolio that doesn’t get as much attention as the desktop and server parts is their Embedded platform. AMD’s Embedded series has been important for on-the-edge devices, including industrial, automotive, healthcare, digital gaming machines, and thin client systems. Today, AMD has unveiled their latest Embedded architecture, Embedded+, which combines their Ryzen Embedded…
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