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Quote of the day by Barack Obama: ‘Our new information ecosystem is turbocharging some of humanity’s worst impulses’ — a warning against rampant disinformation
Social media has been a big part of our lives for the best part of two decades, with the platforms we use shifting how we behave – and the way we behave, in turn, reshaping how the platforms are built. There have long been efforts to understand this phenomenon and…
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AMD’s Venice is the first 2nm x86 server chip, but the stack doesn’t fully ship until 2027
AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” offers mammoth 256-core, 512-thread configuration that incorporates up to 1GB of L3 cache and PCI-E 6.0 and 16 DDR5 memory channels under the hood It’s the first time AMD’s EPYC lineup sees high core count CPUs push past the 5GHz barrier AMD is claiming a win…
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AMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can’t buy one until 2027
AMD’s MI400 press release publishes exactly one performance figure 288 TFLOPS of hardware FP64 on the MI430X, a GPU it positions as its go-to for sovereign AI and HPC Unlike the MI455X, which it launched alongside, the MI430X will have researchers and sovereign AI clients waiting longer, with AMD targeting…
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Ukraine turns $200,000 AN-196 Liutyi kamikaze drone into reusable bomber to launch jet-powered missiles
Ukraine converts long-range kamikaze drones into reusable missile-launching platforms Liutyi now carries four missiles instead of sacrificing itself during attacks Germany funds 500 additional Liutyi drones through a $100 million defense package Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom has unveiled a reusable version of its An-196 Liutyi drone at the Farnborough…
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The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn’t mean cloud computing’s days are numbered
Now that AI vendors have us hooked and using generative and agentic tools, pricing models are shifting. Subscriptions are no longer loss-making models designed to attract experimental customers, because they now need to serve a much more important purpose – make back money. How this might look is still largely…
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‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic
Cloudflare is set to make a major change to huge portions of the internet after standing between websites and automated traffic in a bid to protect publishers and hosters. Soon, the company will divide AI-related traffic into one of three categories – search, agent or training – in a bid…
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