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The cloud’s carbon footprint: Solutions for sustainable computing
Nowadays, almost every business leverages cloud computing—94% to be exact—for its cost-saving, scalability, and collaborative benefits. However, while its advantages are evident, a significant issue remains: Cloud computing emissions contribute 4% of global greenhouse gases. Cloud hyper scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are making big promises to reduce…
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Despite hack and senate complaints, Pentagon says it will continue Microsoft usage
Despite several recent incidents, including a Chinese threat actor compromising the email accounts of a number of high ranking government officials, hosted by Microsoft, the Pentagon has said it will continue to use the company’s services. A letter from two US senators to US Department of Defence CIO John Sherman…
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How the government and workplaces can join forces to combat cybercrime
It’s official – new laws to protect consumers from cyber criminals have finally come into force in the UK. Hailed by the UK Government as ‘world-leading’ legislation putting businesses and consumers on the front foot against cyber criminals, the move has been welcomed by industry as a major step towards…
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World’s first wireless CPU prototype breaks cover and could pave the way for a world of seamless modular computing — but it will still require a physical power connection for now
Tokyo-based semiconductor startup Premo (a Latin word meaning “to be near”) has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first CPU prototype with wireless inter-chip connections. This new chip uses Premo’s proprietary technology, Dualibus, which was developed in collaboration with the Irie and Kadomoto Laboratory at the Graduate School of…
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AMD adds ultra-fast memory to flagship AI Instinct accelerator as it looks forward to next gen CDNA 4 architecture — Instinct MI325X accelerator has 2x memory and 30% more bandwidth compared to Nvidia’s H200
AMD has unveiled new CPU, NPU and GPU architectures aimed at “powering end-to-end AI infrastructure from the data center to PCs”, alongside an expanded AMD Instinct accelerator roadmap and a new Instinct MI325X accelerator, which it says will be available in Q4 2024. The new Instinct MI325X offers 288GB of…
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Security researcher says Azure Tags are security threat — but Microsoft disagrees
Azure Service Tags is vulnerable to a flaw that could let threat actors steal people’s sensitive data, some researchers have claimed – however Microsoft begs to differ. Azure Service Tags is a feature in Microsoft Azure that helps simplify network security management by allowing users to define network access controls…
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