October 8, 2024

Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions 2024-10-08 at 23:46 By Richard Speed Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she’d lived past 36 Today we remember Ada Lovelace Day, famed for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

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TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators 2024-10-08 at 22:31 By Tobias Mann Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 TensorWave on Tuesday secured $43 million in fresh funding to cram its datacenter full of AMD’s Instinct accelerators and bring a new inference platform to market.… This article is

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Using iPhone Mirroring at work? You might have just overshared to your boss 2024-10-08 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons What does IT see but a dating app on your wee little screen If you’re using iPhone Mirroring at work: it’s time to stop, lest you give your employer’s IT department the capability to snoop through

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Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases 2024-10-08 at 21:18 By Richard Speed Hallucinations, made-up facts… and that’s just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate.… This article is an excerpt

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Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not actually free 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Usual customer trial dressed up as disaster relief The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free,

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Zero-Day Alert: Three Critical Ivanti CSA Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Ivanti has warned that three new security vulnerabilities impacting its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The zero-day flaws are being weaponized in conjunction with another flaw in CSA that the company patched last month, the

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Gamers Tricked Into Downloading Lua-Based Malware via Fake Cheating Script Engines 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Users searching for game cheats are being tricked into downloading a Lua-based malware that is capable of establishing persistence on infected systems and delivering additional payloads. “These attacks capitalize on the popularity of Lua gaming engine supplements within the student

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Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer 2024-10-08 at 19:02 By Gavin Bonshor How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan’s most powerful AI supercomputer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards 2024-10-08 at 18:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Deconversion’ can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD The US Department of Energy has awarded shares of an $800 million contract for advanced nuclear fuel deconversion to four companies, but it’s unclear who will be

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Netizens are torturing Google’s AI podcast hosts 2024-10-08 at 17:31 By Richard Currie NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI

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US lawmakers dig into FCC’s $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene 2024-10-08 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn’t go amiss The Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, is investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to revoke an award

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Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren’t going to ‘hit climate goals anyway’ 2024-10-08 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google’s former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn’t let AI’s ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate

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