Tag: pro
‘It doesn’t catch fire’: Why China’s “fireproof” sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars
Internal battery firewall stops overheating before fires begin during failure conditions Ampere-hour sodium-ion cells demonstrate complete suppression of thermal runaway reactions Three-part safety system improves stability without reducing energy output performance One of the biggest risks in modern batteries is overheating which can lead to fires, but scientists at the…
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Could Google Gemini surpass ChatGPT as the biggest AI chatbot within a year? If it maintains its current growth trajectory, I wouldn’t bet against it
ChatGPT still dominates AI by far, though its lead is shrinking steadily Gemini’s growth rate outpaces every major AI chatbot competitor Gemini’s rise reflects Google’s aggressive ecosystem integration strategy Google Gemini has reportedly overtaken Perplexity to become the second-largest source of AI chatbot referrals worldwide. The latest Statcounter data for…
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‘Our work shows that Rowhammer, which is well-studied on CPUs, is a serious threat on GPUs as well’: High-end Nvidia hardware targeted by all-new attacks entering a new “territory.”
Rowhammer attacks now extend beyond CPUs into high-performance GPUs GPU memory manipulation enables direct access to CPU memory systems New attacks achieve full system compromise through controlled bit flips Rowhammer has been a known issue on CPU-facing DRAM for more than a decade, but the same weaknesses now apply to…
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Top open source AI platform Flowise hit by maximum-level security issue
Flowise AI platform carried CVSS-10 arbitrary code flaw Vulnerability in CustomMCP node exploited in the wild Up to 15,000 exposed instances urged to update immediately Flowise, a popular open source platform for building custom LLM apps and AI agents, carried a maximum-severity vulnerability which allowed threat actors to run arbitrary…
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Snowflake customers suffer data theft attacks after third-party issue, company confirms ‘unusual activity’
ShinyHunters breached Anodot, stealing Snowflake tokens Attack hit more than a dozen Snowflake customers Group claims data theft and extortion, echoing 2024 campaign A supply chain attack at an analytics company has resulted in more than a dozen Snowflake customers losing their sensitive information. The ShinyHunters extortion group recently broke…
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says ‘AI shift’ makes this a great time to invest in new start-ups
Google wants to “deploy capital in a good way” among early AI startups Hidden gem projects cover areas like data centers in space and quantum computing The company invests in third parties when internal opportunities aren’t mature enough The CEO of Alphabet (parent company to Google) has declared now may…
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