We caught up with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo at the company’s Accelerate event in Las Vegas this week. He gave us his view on why storage write speed is key for checkpointing in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, why Pure aims to make corporate data available, rapidly, and in the place it does its day-to-day…
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With its new unskippable ad feature, YouTube might end up killing ad blockers once and for all. Currently, the video platform is experimenting with server-side ad injection, which means the ads would appear directly in a video’s stream, bypassing ad blockers.A Google spokesperson explained the test to Gizmodo: “YouTube is improving its performance and reliability…
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Mandiant has warned Snowflake customers to step up their game when it comes to basic credential hygiene, after revealing evidence that more than 160 customers – including Santander and Ticketmaster – have been compromised in a targeted campaign by a financially motivated threat actor it tracks as UNC5537. Mandiant said UNC5537 was systematically compromising Snowflake…
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SAP talked a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI at its annual Sapphire customer event in Orlando last week. But according to experts, the software giant was more discreet in addressing issues that remain central to the concerns of its longstanding users. At Sapphire, SAP was “firing on all cylinders”. Like many vendors…
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Nvidia has reported a record quarter in its datacentre division, which posted revenue of $19.4bn, up 427% from a year ago. The company said the results reflect higher shipments of the Nvidia Hopper GPU computing platform used for training and inferencing with large language models, recommendation engines and generative AI (GenAI) applications. Overall, the company…
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Apple is playing catch-up when it comes to AI. ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 and became an overnight sensation. Since then, every major tech company has shifted attention to AI, Apple included. But unlike Microsoft, Google, Meta, Samsung, and others, Apple hasn’t hurried to add AI features to its products.That’s par for the course for…
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I’m a longtime iPhone user who is dying to test all the artificial intelligence features Apple has built into iOS 18. I’m also excited about having ChatGPT integrated into iOS 18 and getting a smarter Siri assistant next year that will let me control iPhone apps.I’ll also add that I’m paying for ChatGPT Plus, a…
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Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers. A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…
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Instagram has been testing one of its most controversial features yet: unskippable ads. The new feature, called Ad Breaks, will interrupt the user’s browsing experience for 3-5 seconds before they can continue scrolling the feed.This function was spotted by Android Authority after several users started complaining about it on social media. Meta’s new take on…
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Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show’s leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we’re expecting AMD to have a…
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