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Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build massive AI cloud computer
Enlarge / Nvidia and Microsoft are teaming up on an AI cloud supercomputer. (credit: Nvidia) On Wednesday, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a “massive” cloud computer focused on AI. It will reportedly use tens of thousands of high-end Nvidia GPUs for applications like deep learning and large language models. The companies aim...
Amazon begins layoffs of up to 10,000 jobs, blames “uncertain” economy
Enlarge / An Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation smart speaker. (credit: Getty Images | Gado ) Amazon has started a round of layoffs that reportedly could cut about 10,000 jobs. Layoffs began yesterday in the Amazon hardware division that makes products including Echo, Alexa, Fire, and Kindle devices. “We notified impacted employees yesterday, and will...
ISP deploys fiber service with a wrinkle—the users themselves own each network
Enlarge / Horizontal boring equipment installing fiber in Los Altos Hills, California. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Our recent article about Silicon Valley residents who formed a co-op Internet service provider might have people wondering what it would take to get the same thing in their hometowns. The most obvious obstacle is price—in Los...
Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Criticized Him
Mr. Musk, who is rapidly transforming the social media company, also has cut its contractor work force.
FTX’s In-House Performance Coach Is Just as Surprised as You Are
George K. Lerner, a psychiatrist who has worked at the collapsed crypto exchange FTX since last year, said he had no knowledge of wrongdoing at the firm.
State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nation-state hackers based in China recently infected a certificate authority and several government and defense agencies with a potent malware cocktail for burrowing inside a network and stealing sensitive information, researchers said on Tuesday. The successful compromise of the unnamed certificate authority is potentially serious, because these entities are trusted by...
Researchers break security guarantees of TTE networking used in spacecraft
Enlarge / People look inside an Orion spacecraft simulator, which is used to train for docking to the Gateway space station, at the Johnson Space Center’s System Engineering Simulator facility in Houston. (credit: Getty Images) Wednesday’s scheduled launch by NASA of the Artemis I mission will be the first integrated test of the agency’s SLS...
“Project Volterra” review: Microsoft’s $600 Arm PC that almost doesn’t suck
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Windows Dev Kit 2023 is meant to get the Arm version of Windows into the hands of more developers. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft has released two new systems based on Qualcomm’s Arm processors lately. The first, a 5G version of the Surface Pro 9, has mostly been panned by reviewers, with software...
(BPRW) FPL Supports the Black Men Talk Tech’s Pitch Competition
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI – Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) served as one of the lead sponsors of the Black Men Talk Tech’s Pitch Competition, part of the 4th Annual Unicorn Ambition Conference. The Conference was held in Miami in October.