Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has posted full year revenue of $134.90bn, 16% more than in 2023. The Q4 2023 and full-year earnings show the company’s commitments to investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and datacentre capacity. It expects to use 10 times as much compute capacity each year to build out its…
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It’s hard to talk about AMD without bringing up arch nemesis Nvidia, and vice versa, when it comes to upscaling technology and GPU technology. Nvidia drops DLSS, and AMD follows quickly with FSR. Normally we expect Nvidia to lead with a new feature or product launch, with AMD soon following, but according to AMD’s Aaron…
Could Nvidia be trailing behind AMD in upscaling tech? AMD certainly thinks so Read More »
Forrester predicts that operational support use cases for large language models (LLMs) will develop rapidly. LLM integration with action components creates fully autonomous workplace assistants (AWAs) that become valued coworkers for support processes like finance and accounting, onboarding customers or field service implementation, and difficulty depends on the degree of input and output shaping. Adoption…
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An amendment to the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has changed the widely accepted definition of open source software, which has the potential to lead to confusion across the open source community. Towards the end of December 2023, Raul Milani, the chair of the Council of the European Union’s Committee of the Permanent Representatives of…
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Dorset-based cosmetics retailer Lush has fallen victim to a cyber security incident of a currently undisclosed nature, via a brief notice posted to its website on 11 January. “Lush UK&I is currently responding to a cyber security incident and working with external IT forensic specialists to undertake a comprehensive investigation,” the organisation confirmed. “The investigation…
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AMD has released a new version of its FSR (frame generation) feature for boosting frame rates – and made the tech open source to boot.VideoCardz spotted AMD’s announcement: “We are very excited to share with you the latest version of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) technology on GPUOpen, complete with full source code…
Countries in the Middle East are spending huge sums of money, made from selling fossil fuels, in the diversification of their economies. This means digital technology will play a key role in the region’s economic development. It will cost a lot for countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to catch the…
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Digital secretary Michelle Donelan says UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence (AI) until the timing is right, and is focused in the meantime on improving the technology’s safety and building regulatory capacity in support of its proposed “pro-innovation” framework. On 13 December, Donelan appeared before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to answer…
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This morning is an important one for AMD – perhaps the most important of the year. After almost a year and a half of build-up, and even longer for actual development, AMD is launching their next generation GPU/APU/AI accelerator family, the Instinct MI300 series. Based on AMD’s new CDNA 3 architecture, and combining it with…
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As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver,…
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