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Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks
AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.…
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'
Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.…
Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.…
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer
hands on Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what if you could install several different apps at the same time by creating a custom group?…
Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M
Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …
Google's $32B deal for Wiz gets the all-clear from Uncle Sam
Google's second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32 billion deal, which ranks as Google's largest-ever acquisition.…
Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers
America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.…
When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade
Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 "Excalibur" is here, and all you need to do is draw it from the stone master its installer.…
AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system
AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration of its next-gen GPUs and processors.…
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
Around two fifths of North America's SAP users have yet to begin migrating to S/4HANA with just two years until mainstream support ends for legacy systems.…
AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security
AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.…
Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes
Nation-state goons and cybercrime rings are experimenting with Gemini to develop a "Thinking Robot" malware module that can rewrite its own code to avoid detection, and build an AI agent that tracks enemies' behavior, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group.…
Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding
The Rust Foundation has launched a Maintainers Fund to support developers sustaining the language, addressing a long-standing challenge in open source software.…
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open source database with its lakehouse system.…
M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump
Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.…
Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction
A survey of datacenter professionals reveals that supply chain constraints and power availability are hampering the industry's efforts to scale datacenter capacity.…
Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees
Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report.…
UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support
The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of thousands of Windows 7 laptops with Windows 10 – which officially reached end of support last month.…
Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
US president Donald Trump on Tuesday decided who he wants to lead NASA, despite having ruled out the same person six months ago.…
Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now
Server-maker and designer Supermicro has promised to improve performance, after missing its guided revenue and revealing its margins aren’t strong.…