Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…
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Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
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AMD’s FSR 4 can now be used in more games that don’t have an official implementation, thanks to the Optiscaler modIt isn’t compatible with all games, as FSR 4 reportedly doesn’t support Vulkan yetPlayers may run into trouble using the mod in anti-cheat gamesThe reception to AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series GPU launch was mixed…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) business is set to hit an annual run rate for subscription renewals of $10bn. For the quarter that ended September 30, the company reported revenue of $65.6bn, up 16%. The Microsoft Cloud business posted revenue of $38.9bn, an increase of 22%, while its productivity and business processes business reported a 12%…
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It’s almost become a cliché to say that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. However, Claire Thompson, group chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) at financial services firm L&G, says data has always been crucial to big firms. What’s changed during the past few years, particularly in her sector, is a recognition of…
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Apple is finally introducing homomorphic encryption into its products. This cryptographic technique is new for the tech giant but will be a massive revolution for privacy and encryption.According to a blog post detailing the release, Apple’s upcoming release will come as part of a new open-source Swift package. Essentially, this technique allows for encrypted data…
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Microsoft has reported revenue of $64.7bn for the quarter which ended June 30, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and the company’s platform strategy. Revenue for the full year was $241.bn, which is an increase of 16% compared to 2023. In his prepared remarks, CEO Satya Nadella said: “As a platform company, we are focused on…
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As global efforts to recover and learn from the Friday 19 July CrowdStrike incident continue, cyber criminals and scammers are predictably lurking on the fringes of the discourse, picking off unsuspecting victims, supported by over newly created malicious domains associated with CrowdStrike’s branding. This is according to web security specialist Akamai, which said its researchers…
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Security leaders and software developers will benefit from deeper visibility into their organisations’ software development security posture as they work, bolstering moves towards the nirvana of so-called secure-by-design code, with the introduction of an industry-first solution from sector specialist Secure Code Warrior (SCW). SCW Trust Agent comes hot on the heels of the introduction of…
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