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When light meet bytes: Intel debuts crucial optical tech that will boost AI performance — OCI chiplet can move up to 4Tbps and consume nearly 70% less power than rivals
Intel has unveiled the industry’s first fully integrated bidirectional optical I/O chiplet at the recent Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024. This optical compute interconnect (OCI), showcased by Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions group, supports 64 channels of 32Gbps data transmission in both directions over up to 100 meters of fiber…
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“We have won the war on floppy disks” — Japanese government says it has finally eradicated ancient hardware
In a major milestone for modernization, Japan’s government has eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems. The achievement comes two or three decades after the technology’s prime, and marks a pivotal milestone in Japan’s ongoing campaign to digitize and streamline government operations. By mid-June, the Digital Agency…
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Some of the newest Intel processors could be hit by dangerous new security flaw — Raptor Lake and Alder Lake both affected
Experts have discovered a new way to run side-channel attacks on some of the latest processors from Intel, and warned if users don’t secure their devices, they risk losing sensitive data to cyber-criminals. Security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen detailed an attack they named Indirector, which abuses…
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How proxies differ from VPNs
On the surface, a proxy server and VPN (virtual private network) seem incredibly similar. Both act as a go-between when establishing connections. Primarily, a proxy and VPN accomplish the same things, and that’s to route internet traffic through a remote server and assign a new IP address, one that’s virtually…
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Large language model evaluation: The better together approach
With the GenAI era upon us, the use of large language models (LLMs) has grown exponentially. However, as with any technology in its hype cycle, GenAI practitioners run the risk of neglecting to verify the trust and accuracy of an LLM’s outputs in favor of its quick implementation and use.…
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Millions of iOS apps could have been hit by cyberattack due to this worrying flaw
A key tool used primarily in iOS and macOS app development was vulnerable in a way that opened up millions of Mac apps to supply chain attacks, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers EVA Information Security claim a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects called CocoaPods, carried three vulnerabilities in…
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