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HPE’s AI and supercomputing journey continues with new Cray and Slingshot hardware
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is once again flexing its high performance computing muscles with three new pieces of Cray Supercomputing hardware and a new Slingshot interconnect. The launch is being tipped as an end-to-end portfolio for high performance computing setups and includes a compute blade, accelerator blade, storage system, and interconnect. All of this is supplemented by new software that…
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The demise of the floppy disk continues: Months after Japan ‘won the war’ on the legacy storage medium, San Francisco announces plans to spend millions overhauling its metro rail technology
Officials from the San Francisco transportation department have announced they will be replacing their floppy disk-based train control system, jumping on the bandwagon to do away with the legacy storage platform. The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which is responsible for overseeing San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail network, signed a new $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to overhaul its…
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Microsoft’s Recall delayed once again as roll-out fiasco continues
Microsoft has delayed the roll-out of its controversial Windows Recall feature for a third time as security concerns continue to plague its public release. Recall, slated to be exclusively available for the new Copilot+ PC ecosystem, captures screenshots locally on the device to enable users to search back through their activities. But confusion arising due to unclear messaging on how…
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OpenAI continues to burn money – Computerworld
The latest financing round — led by Thrive Capital, a US venture capital firm that plans to invest $1 billion — brought in $6.6 billion and pushed the company’s valuation to $157 billion. At the same time, OpenAI is warning investors away from rivals like Anthropic, xAI and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Microsoft…
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AI hallucinations, accuracy still top concerns for UK tech leaders as adoption continues
Business leaders are wary of generative AI, according to new research from KPMG, with many citing major concerns about its impact on business performance. Six-in-ten tech leaders told KPMG that the accuracy of results and the potential for hallucinations are their biggest concern when adopting generative AI tools. Boards are also worried about errors in the underlying data and information…
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British Library issues £400,000 tender as rebuild continues after 2023 cyber attack
The British Library is still in the process of recovering from the cyber attack it suffered towards the end of last year, and has announced a new £400,000 tender looking for security contractors to help it rebuild its infrastructure. In October 2023, the British Library fell victim to a devastating ransomware attack which forced the institution to abandon many of…
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The saga of the National Public Data Social Security number leak continues
Now, Krebs On Security reports a roughly identical website to NPD called recordscheck.net was found to be hosting an archive containing site logins as well as source code for some of the site’s tools in plaintext. That would’ve been enough information to access the same consumer records as NPD. The now-removed file contained email data belonging to NPD founder Salvatore…
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Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
Sonos laid off approximately 100 employees this morning, a source familiar with the situation tells The Verge. Those affected — I’m told the marketing division took a significant hit — abruptly lost access to the company’s internal network. Sonos is also in the process of winding down some of its customer support offices, including one in Amsterdam that will close…
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