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Nvidia out? DeepSeek pairs with banned Chinese tech giant to deliver unbelievably low pricing on AI inference which could cause Nvidia’s house of cards to come crashing
DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud service They are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UK The pricing is much lower than offered by Azure and AWS who have started trialing DeepSeek DeepSeek recently massively unsettled global markets with…
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How to combat exfiltration-based extortion attacks
The vast majority of cyberattacks are conducted solely to disrupt organizations, but one type of attack has more than just an organization-wide effect; it also has a personal impact. Conducted primarily by ransomware threat groups, data exfiltration-based extortion is becoming far more prominent -in fact, a notorious Russian ransomware group…
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IoT’s botnet problem is up 500% – three things admins must do now
Botnet activity on connected devices is up 500% thanks to default passwords, outdated software, and inadequate security protections creating backdoors into enterprise networks. Now, even entry-level hackers with off-the-shelf tools are getting in on the act. In November, researchers discovered a new and dangerous botnet, Matrix, made from open source…
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Want to rent a $300,000 AMD MI300A supercomputer for free for seven days? Gigabyte wants to hear from you ASAP
Gigabyte G383 R80 supercomputer costs $304,207 Distributors and users without a clear project are not eligible Get up to two weeks free trial via email Gigabyte, through its subsidiary Giga Computing, is offering qualified individuals and organizations the opportunity to test one of the world’s most advanced supercomputers, the Gigabyte…
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SUPERb: Chinese researchers just designed and built a flying robot that looks like a precursor to Matrix’s laser-focused Sentinels
[embedded content] LiDAR helps SUPER to detect and avoid even the thinnest obstacles The drone can track moving targets in dense forests SUPER’s real-time spatial mapping allows it to operate effectively even in low-light conditions A team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong has designed and tested an…
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AMD patches high severity security flaw affecting Zen chips
AMD advisory warns about a new high-severity security flaw The bug affects Zen 1 to Zen 4 CPUs Abuse could lead to the loss of SEV-based protection of a confidential guest Chipmaking giant AMD has confirmed it recently patched a high-severity vulnerability affecting its Zen 1 to Zen 4 CPUs.…
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