Social media company Meta has come under fire as European police chiefs step up pressure against governments and tech companies over the use of end-to-end encryption to secure email and messaging services. Police chiefs from 32 countries, including the UK, said in a declaration published on 21 April that tech companies were rolling out end-to-end…
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
Being the first company to ship HBM3E memory has its perks for Micron, as the company has revealed that is has managed to sell out the entire supply of its advanced high-bandwidth memory for 2024, while most of their 2025 production has been allocated, as well. Micron’s HBM3E memory (or how Micron alternatively calls it,…
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iOS 18 is Apple‘s upcoming operating system for its iPhone models, including the rumored iPhone 16. Expected to be announced during the WWDC 2024 keynote, there are high hopes that Apple will focus on AI applications, as it needs to catch up with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other players. Here’s everything you need to know…
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While Google remains the world’s most popular search engine, the arrival of generative artificial intelligence has opened the door to some intriguing rivals. If you’re looking for a specific answer to a question rather than a list of links, generative AI can be preferable to run-of-the-mill search engines. We’ve discussed some of those alternatives in…
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With its highly successful A100 and H100 processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, NVIDIA dominates AI datacenter deployments these days. But among large cloud service providers as well as emerging devices like software defined vehicles (SDVs) there is a global trend towards custom silicon. And, according to a report from Reuters,…
Report: NVIDIA Forms Custom Chip Unit for Cloud Computing and More Read More »
Alphacool, a renowned name in the realm of PC cooling solutions, recently launched their Apex Stealth Metal series of cooling fans. Prior to their launch, the new fans had amassed a significant amount of hype in the PC community, in part because of the unfortunate misconception that the entire fan would be made out of…
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Oracle’s plans to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings could just be one of many such announcements to come in the enterprise application space, but the database application suite giant has, in fact, been working on adding artificial intelligence across its stack for some time. In September 2023, it announced its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative…
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Much of tech journalism these days amounts to the rewriting of press releases and corporate blog posts. A good example of this came on Friday, when the blogosphere cranked out one post after another that dutifully regurgitated the announcement of Meta’s decision to no longer amplify “political” content on Instagram and Threads from accounts that…
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MLCommons, the consortium behind the MLPerf family of machine learning benchmarks, is announcing this morning that the organization will be developing a new desktop AI benchmarking suite under the MLPerf banner. Helmed by the body’s newly-formed MLPerf Client working group, the task force will be developing a client AI benchmark suit aimed at traditional desktop…
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