Month: August 2024
Midjourney is traveling into AI hardware territory – because that’s apparently what you do
Midjourney is famous for being among the better AI image generators, but now the company is looking to get into hardware, too. The company announced the shift in strategy on X (formerly Twitter) by soliciting people to apply to join the new team. There aren’t a lot of details about…
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China leads in up to 89% of tech research, study shows
New research from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) shows that China is now leading the way in 57 out of the 64 technologies assessed by its Critical Technology Tracker, which has now been updated to cover the last 20 years. The tracker measures a country’s performance based on the…
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Major Atlassian flaw hacks systems for crypto mining
Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server used to carry a maximum severity vulnerability that allowed threat actors to remotely run any malicious code. Despite the fix being available for months now, there are many unprotected endpoints out there. As a result, hackers have been observed installing cryptocurrency miners on…
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NASA shuffles Crew-9 team that will bring Starliner crew home
SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission will launch to the International Space Station with only NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, according to an update on Friday. Crew-9 will launch “no earlier” than September 24th, with plans to bring delayed Starliner astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams back to Earth next…
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Judge who owns Tesla stock greenlights X lawsuit against critics
A lawsuit aimed at punishing critics of Elon Musk’s X will go forward, thanks to a ruling from a judge with a financial interest in Musk’s success. On Thursday, Judge Reed O’Connor denied a motion to dismiss X’s lawsuit against Media Matters For America (MMFA). The suit was filed in…
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This is what $1 billion worth of AI GPUs look like — Elon Musk publishes video tour of Cortex, X’s AI training supercluster powered by Nvidia’s now obsolete H100
We love a good look inside a supercomputer, with one of our recent favorites being the glimpse Nvidia gave us of Eos, the ninth fastest supercomputer on the planet. Now, Elon Musk has provided a peek at the massive AI supercluster, newly dubbed Cortex, being used by X (formerly Twitter).…
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