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Behind the Plot To Break Nvidia's Grip on AI By Targeting Software

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 18:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia earned its $2.2 trillion market cap by producing AI chips that have become the lifeblood powering the new era of generative AI developers from startups to Microsoft, OpenAI and Google parent Alphabet. Almost as important to its hardware is the company's nearly 20 years' worth of computer code, which helps make competition with the company nearly impossible. More than 4 million global developers rely on Nvidia's CUDA software platform to build AI and other apps. Now a coalition of tech companies that includes Qualcomm, Google and Intel, plans to loosen Nvidia's chokehold by going after the chip giant's secret weapon: the software that keeps developers tied to Nvidia chips. They are part of an expanding group of financiers and companies hacking away at Nvidia's dominance in AI. "We're actually showing developers how you migrate out from an Nvidia platform," Vinesh Sukumar, Qualcomm's head of AI and machine learning, said in an interview with Reuters. Starting with a piece of technology developed by Intel called OneAPI, the UXL Foundation, a consortium of tech companies, plans to build a suite of software and tools that will be able to power multiple types of AI accelerator chips, executives involved with the group told Reuters. The open-source project aims to make computer code run on any machine, regardless of what chip and hardware powers it. "It's about specifically - in the context of machine learning frameworks - how do we create an open ecosystem, and promote productivity and choice in hardware," Google's director and chief technologist of high-performance computing, Bill Hugo, told Reuters in an interview. Google is one of the founding members of UXL and helps determine the technical direction of the project, Hugo said. UXL's technical steering committee is preparing to nail down technical specifications in the first half of this year. Engineers plan to refine the technical details to a "mature" state by the end of the year, executives said. These executives stressed the need to build a solid foundation to include contributions from multiple companies that can also be deployed on any chip or hardware.

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Over 170K users hit by poisoned Python package ruse

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 18:00
Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server

More than 170,000 users have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with "successful exploitation of multiple victims."…

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Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 17:30
If you're seeing AI-generated results in Google Search and you didn't opt in, be careful what you click

Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack.…

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Atlas VPN To Shut Down, Transfers Paid Subscribers To NordVPN

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 17:10
Atlas VPN informed customers on Monday that it will discontinue its services on April 24, citing technological demands, market competition, and escalating costs as key factors in the decision. The company said it will transfer its paid subscribers to its sister company, NordVPN, for the remainder of their subscription period to ensure uninterrupted VPN services.

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AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 17:00
LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity

Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.…

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Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From Justice Department Lawsuit

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 16:41
Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last week. From a report: At least three proposed class actions have been filed since Friday in California and New Jersey federal courts by iPhone owners who claim Apple inflated the cost of its products through anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuits, seeking to represent millions of consumers, mirror the Justice Department's claims that Apple violated U.S. antitrust law by suppressing technology for messaging apps, digital wallets and other items that would have increased competition in the market for smartphones.

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Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy`

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 16:30
'Look at what we're accusing TikTok of, and then go look at Facebook and Google...'

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all.…

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ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 16:00
Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware

ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory.…

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UK Blames China for Massive Breach of Voter Data

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 16:00
The U.K. government has blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K. voters. From a report: In a statement to lawmakers in Parliament on Monday, U.K. deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden attributed the 2021 data breach at the Electoral Commission to hackers working for the Chinese government. Dowden told lawmakers that the U.K. government "will not hesitate to take swift and robust actions wherever the Chinese government threatens the United Kingdom's interests." It's the first time the United Kingdom has attributed the breach since the cyberattack was first disclosed in 2023. The Electoral Commission, which maintains copies of the U.K. register of citizens eligible to vote, said at the time hackers took the names and addresses of an estimated 40 million U.K. citizens, including those who were registered to vote between 2014 and 2022 and overseas voters. The data breach began as early as 2021 but wasn't detected until a year later. In a statement Monday, the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it is "highly likely" that the Chinese hackers accessed and exfiltrated emails and data from the electoral register during the hack.

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Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 15:31
Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution

Exclusive The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack.…

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DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Says Apple Is Causing Android Users 'Social Stigma'

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 15:21
FrankOVD shares a report: Here's a paragraph from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple in full: "In addition to degrading the quality of third-party messaging apps, Apple affirmatively undermines the quality of rival smartphones. For example, if an iPhone user messages a non-iPhone user in Apple Messages -- the default messaging app on an iPhone -- then the text appears to the iPhone user as a green bubble and incorporates limited functionality: the conversation is not encrypted, videos are pixelated and grainy, and users cannot edit messages or see typing indicators. "This signals to users that rival smartphones are lower quality because the experience of messaging friends and family who do not own iPhones is worse -- even though Apple, not the rival smartphone, is the cause of that degraded user experience. Many non-iPhone users also experience social stigma, exclusion, and blame for 'breaking' chats where other participants own iPhones. This effect is particularly powerful for certain demographics, like teenagers -- where the iPhone's share is 85 percent, according to one survey. This social pressure reinforces switching costs and drives users to continue buying iPhones -- solidifying Apple's smartphone dominance not because Apple has made its smartphone better, but because it has made communicating with other smartphones worse."

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Mozilla fixes $100,000 Firefox zero-days following two-day hackathon

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 15:00
Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers

Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition.…

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Microsoft Dev's 30-Year-Old Temporary Code Still Lingers in Windows 11

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 14:40
Dave Plummer, a former Microsoft developer, has shared the story behind the Format drive dialog box in Windows, which has remained unchanged for nearly three decades. According to Plummer, the dialog box was created as a temporary solution during the porting of code from Windows 95 to Windows NT, due to differences between the two operating systems. Plummer jotted down all the formatting options on a piece of paper and created a basic UI, intending it to be a placeholder until a more refined version could be developed. However, the intended UI improvement never materialized, and Plummer's temporary solution has persisted through numerous Windows versions, including the latest Windows 11. Plummer also admitted that the 32GB limit on FAT volume size in Windows was an arbitrary decision he made at the time, which has since become a permanent constraint.

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GoFetch security exploit can't be disabled on M1 and M2 Apple chips

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 14:30
For now, cryptographic work should be run on slower Icestorm cores

The GoFetch vulnerability found on Apple M-series and Intel Raptor Lake CPUs has been further unpacked by the researchers who first disclosed it.…

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Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 14:04
They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims

The door plug on Boeing's C-suite has flown off, taking the CEO, board chair, and head of its commercial airplane division with it.…

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The way Apple, Alphabet implemented DMA rules 'seems to be at odds' with law

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 13:32
European Commission says 12-month investigation could lead to fine of up to 10% of global revenue

The European Commission is opening its first official probes under the Digital Markets Act with a focus on curbing the power of tech titans Apple, Meta, and Alphabet via threats of heavy fines.…

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Gelsinger woos Musk as Intel seeks to drum up Foundry Services business

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 13:12
It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days

Intel is keen to get its Foundry Services strategy off the ground and draw in more customers. With this in mind, it's made a move to cultivate Elon Musk and finalized an agreement with Arm intended to make it easier for chip designers to get their products built.…

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Fujitsu's 30-year-old UK customs system just keeps hanging on

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:30
After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick

The UK's tax collector has named the date for migrating from a 30-year-old customs IT system for the fifth time in as many years after planning its replacement for more than a decade.…

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Boeing CEO, Many Other Top Execs To Step Down in Leadership Shakeup at Embattled Plane Maker

Slashdot - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:10
Boeing announced a major leadership overhaul Monday, with CEO Dave Calhoun set to step down at the end of 2024 amid mounting pressure from airlines and regulators over quality and manufacturing issues. Chairman Larry Kellner will also resign and depart the board at Boeing's annual meeting in May, the company said. He will be replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, a Boeing director since 2020. Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is leaving the company effective immediately. Stephanie Pope, who recently became Boeing's Chief Operating Officer after leading Boeing Global Services, will take over Deal's role. The shakeup comes as the aerospace giant faces increasing scrutiny following a series of production flaws and a recent incident involving a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9, where a door plug blew out minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5. Airlines and regulators have been calling for significant changes at Boeing to address these issues and restore confidence in the company's products. The leadership changes appear to be a response to these growing concerns. An excerpt from a letter the CEO wrote to employees, also on Monday: As you all know, the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 accident was a watershed moment for Boeing. We must continue to respond to this accident with humility and complete transparency. We also must inculcate a total commitment to safety and quality at every level of our company. The eyes of the world are on us, and I know we will come through this moment a better company, building on all the learnings we accumulated as we worked together to rebuild Boeing over the last number of years.

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How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes?

TheRegister - Mon, 2024-03-25 11:45
The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo

Logowatch Are you feeling creative? To celebrate ten years of Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is seeking a design for an anniversary logo. Perhaps just the letters A and I crudely taped onto a ship's wheel would do the job?…

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