Новости за 10.04.2024

Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet

After teasing its second-gen AI accelerator in February, Meta is ready to spill the beans on this homegrown silicon, which is already said to be powering ad recommendations in 16 regions.…

Go, go InSpectre Gadget

Intel CPU cores remain vulnerable to Spectre data-leaking attacks, say academics at VU Amsterdam.…

Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you

ISPs are just going to have to swallow it

The FCC's "nutrition labels" for broadband internet services are now a required part of doing business for American ISPs.…

Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, says Thoughtful cofounder and CPO

Now is the perfect time to review those permissions

SharePoint users should beware since audit logs on the platform have proved relatively simple to circumvent, meaning malicious actors could exfiltrate your data without tipping off your security team.…

Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether

Semiconductor giant TSMC looks to have rebounded from last year’s doldrums with revenue up 16.5 percent for the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2023.…

Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed

All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot

Today, users who want to interface with AI usually do so through a cloud-based service like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, rather than locally.…

The particle bearing his name lives on

Obituary  In a world dominated by instant gratification, Peter Higgs, who died earlier this week, had to wait more than half of his 94-year lifetime to see his theoretical predictions confirmed, thereby changing our understanding of the universe.…

BatBadBut hits Erlang, Go, Python, Ruby as well

Programmers are being urged to update their Rust versions after the security experts working on the language addressed a critical vulnerability that could lead to malicious command injections on Windows machines.…

There's a new version of Canonical's LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving

No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle

Hard drives are now being sold at elevated prices and the sector is even experiencing shortages thanks to AI-driven demand, which has similarly boosted prices for SSDs and GPUs.…

Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs

8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses

A SAP transformation program has been slammed by the European Works Council as a mask for making job cuts.…

Using threat intelligence to mitigate against security breaches

Webinar  There are some unhappy projections out there about the prevalence of third-party security breaches.…

And possibly replace entire business units too

Intel Vision  In his Intel Vision Keynote on Tuesday CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined a scenario in which AI will eventually automate entire offices – or potentially even whole businesses.…

It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts

Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s

Cloud Next  Hoping to upsell freeloading corporate users of its Chrome browser, Google has announced Chrome Enterprise Premium – which comes with a dash of AI security sauce for just $6 per user per month.…

Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions

Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent

2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap

An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies – and 2025 looks to be on a similar track.…

Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs

Intel Vision  Intel claims its forthcoming Lunar Lake CPUs will have over 100 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) of AI performance – 45 of them from its neural processing unit (NPU).…

Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates

Patch Tuesday  Microsoft fixed 149 security flaws in its own products this week, and while Redmond acknowledged one of those vulnerabilities is being actively exploited, we've been told another hole is under attack, too.…

Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit

That AI PC pixie dust doesn't seem to be working its magic just yet as shipments were up for the first quarter of this year, but only by a few percent. But rising prices mean those who do buy will likely pay more to refresh their kit.…