April 2024

Huawei Cloud reveals the dynamic traffic allocation system it uses to cut bandwidth bills 2024-04-10 at 05:46 By Laura Dobberstein Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent Huawei has released details of how it manages its own cloud with a dynamic traffic allocation system optimized by machine learning

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CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2024-04-10 at 04:47 By Matthew Connatser 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

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Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake 2024-04-10 at 04:04 By Matthew Connatser 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

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Microsoft squashes SmartScreen security bypass bug exploited in the wild 2024-04-10 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons 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

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PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts 2024-04-10 at 00:47 By Dan Robinson 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

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Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing 2024-04-10 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn We’re on a highway to ML Google’s cloud business last quarter achieved an annual run rate of $36 billion, more than five times what it was five years ago, announced Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at the Google Cloud Next

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D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives 2024-04-09 at 23:46 By Connor Jones Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users D-Link is telling owners of expired NAS devices to pack them away and replace them with newer kit following the publication of security vulnerabilities that together are now being

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Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus ‘parasite’ 2024-04-09 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help The developer of popular text editor Notepad++ is warning users to beware of a “parasite website” that he says has dubious intentions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Arm CEO warns AI’s power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 2024-04-09 at 22:17 By Matthew Connatser Robot overlords demand more energy Arm CEO Rene Haas cautions that if AI continues to get more powerful without boosts in power efficiency, datacenters could consume extreme amounts of electricity.… This article is an excerpt

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H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse 2024-04-09 at 21:48 By Thomas Claburn It’s the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system In-depth  The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) last October proposed new rules to reform the H-1B visa program

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