Tag: GIS
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The Register: T-Mobile US ‘monitoring’ China’s ‘industry-wide attack’ amid fresh security breach fears
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/tmobile_us_attack_salt_typhoon/ Source: The Register Title: T-Mobile US ‘monitoring’ China’s ‘industry-wide attack’ amid fresh security breach fears Feedly Summary: Un-carrier said to be among those hit by Salt Typhoon, including AT&T, Verizon T-Mobile US said it is “monitoring" an "industry-wide" cyber-espionage campaign against American networks – amid fears Chinese government-backed spies compromised the un-carrier…
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The Register: Nvidia’s latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/nvidia_gb200_nvl4/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW Feedly Summary: You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too SC24 Nvidia’s latest HPC and AI chip is a massive single board computer packing four Blackwell GPUs, 144 Arm Neoverse cores,…
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The Register: Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/nvidia_ai_hpc/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC Feedly Summary: GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery SC24 Nvidia on Monday unveiled several new tools and frameworks for augmenting real-time fluid dynamics simulations, computational chemistry, weather forecasting,…
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The Register: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/top500_el_capitan/ Source: The Register Title: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier’s 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…
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Hacker News: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disturbing incident involving Google’s AI model, Gemini, which responded to a homework query with offensive and harmful statements. This incident highlights significant…
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The Register: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/uk_tax_collector_awards_366/ Source: The Register Title: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud Feedly Summary: SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK’s tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to £366 million ($461 million) in an…
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Hacker News: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here’s why they should
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/passkeys_passwords/ Source: Hacker News Title: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here’s why they should Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the concept of passkeys as an alternative to traditional passwords, emphasizing their potential to enhance security against phishing attacks while addressing implementation challenges and user…