Month: October 2024
Is Verizon down again? Live updates on the service outage
Refresh 2024-10-10T19:03:09.195Z While Down Detector’s outage map for Verizon shows a spike of reports in Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas, Washington, DC, and New York, Verizon’s own tool isn’t reporting issues in all of these cities yet. When inputting Los Angeles, CA, Verizon’s tool answers, “We aren’t aware of any issues in Los Angeles,…
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AMD announces new Ryzen AI Pro 300 series processors, bringing Copilot+ PCs to enterprise users for the first time
AMD has announced the AMD Ryzen AI Pro 300, an enterprise-focused lineup that will bring more powerful AI chips to businesses and organizations to improve collaboration, security, and more. The new lineup will feature three chips for Copilot+ PCs, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375, the AMD Ryzen…
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AMD releases details of 288GB MI355X accelerator: 80% faster than MI325X, 8TB/s memory bandwidth
We already knew a lot about AMD’s next generation accelerator, the Instinct MI325X, from an earlier event in June 2024 – but the company has now revealed more at its AMD Advancing AI event. First, we knew the Instinct MI325X was a minor upgrade from the MI300X, with the same…
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AMD takes the AI networking battle to Nvidia with new DPU launch
AMD has revealed an upgraded data processing unit (DPU) as it looks to stake its claim to power the next generation of AI. The new Pensando Salina DPU is the company’s third-generation release, promises 2x performance, bandwidth and scale compared to the previous generation. AMD says it can support 400G…
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The FBI secretly created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes
The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday. The FBI’s Ethereum-based token, NexFundAI, was created with the help of “cooperating witnesses.” As a result of the investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged three “market makers” and nine…
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FCC chair rejects Trump’s call to revoke CBS license over Harris interview edit
Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel rejected former President Donald Trump’s call to revoke CBS’s broadcast license on Thursday, calling it a familiar threat that “should not be ignored.” Trump called for the license to be revoked after the network shared two different edits of a recent 60 Minutes interview…
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