Month: January 2024
Data centers are accounting for more and more electricity – and that’s becoming major issue for firms and governments alike
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has projected global electricity demand from data centers could double by 2026. The increase in energy demand would effectively equate to another Germany or Sweden, says the IEA, highlighting the immense scale of the problem that continues to grow as consumers…
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The most powerful Ryzen Zen 3 processor receives its biggest discount yet
AMD made bank on its Ryzen chipsets on the strength of bored pandemic-era gamers who spent their stimulus checks on new PC builds. Ryzen CPUs offered arguably the best price-to-performance value back then, causing many to go all in on AM4-based systems. AMD has since switched to the next-generation AM5…
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Apple details how third-party app stores and payments will work in Europe
Apple is making major changes to the App Store and other core parts of iOS in Europe in response to new European Union laws. Beginning in March, Apple will allow users within the EU to download apps and make purchases from outside of its App Store. The company is already…
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Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced foundation models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. It also has many databases for model training. There are over 350,000 models hosted on the platform for developers to work with or upload their own…
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The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses’ new AI powers are impressive, and worrying
When I first reviewed the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, I wrote that some of the most intriguing features were the ones I couldn’t try out yet. Of these, the most interesting is what Meta calls “multimodal AI,” the ability for the glasses to respond to queries based on what you’re…
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Billion-dollar financial giant EquiLend hit by cyberattack – some systems offline, major banks and lending firms affected
EquiLend, a global financial technology, data and analytics firm, suffered a cyberattack – possibly ransomware – that forced parts of its digital infrastructure offline. In a press release, EquiLend said that on January 22, 2024, its technicians identified a “technical issue that placed portions of our system offline.” Following an…
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