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How does AI play a part in a world striving for net-zero?
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to solve some of the thorniest problems facing humanity, including the challenges of climate change. But at the same time, the technology – in particular, generative AI – uses a vast amount of computational power, and consequently a huge amount of energy. This is…
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‘Fastest SSD on the planet’: Crucial’s T705 tops benchmarks as reviewers rave about its performance — but it is far too expensive and a RAID-0 setup may beat it
Crucial’s new T705 SSD certainly looks impressive on paper – it claims to be 25x faster than SATA and nearly 2x faster than Crucial’s fastest Gen4 SSD, with sequential reads/writes up to 14,500/12,700MB/s. The drive, which is available in capacities up to 4TB, is engineered with Micron’s 232-layer TLC NAND3…
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Facebook users are being suspended by hackers with fake Oculus accounts — it sounds crazy, but it’s true
Thousands of Facebook users are being wrongfully suspended after their accounts are compromised by hackers using a sneaky Oculus backdoor. The hackers have been creating Meta accounts linked to the Oculus platform and then linking them to their victims accounts, bypassing two-factor authentication, and giving the hackers full access. The…
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‘Feels like magic!’: Groq’s ultrafast LPU could well be the first LLM-native processor — and its latest demo may well convince Nvidia and AMD to get out their checkbooks
Groq, led by ex-Google engineer and CEO Jonathan Ross, claims to have created the first ever Language Processing Unit (LPU) which it says can deliver the fastest speeds for AI applications. It’s a bold claim, but one that the latest demos more than back up, suggesting it could well become…
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Five Eyes top agencies issue warning that Russian hackers are targeting the cloud — and the human factor is once again to blame
The Five Eyes alliance, formed of intelligence agencies from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, have issued a warning that Russian hacker groups are switching to cloud services as their choice of target. The joint advisory states that instead of attempting to access on-prem infrastructure, threat actors are…
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XLAs: why you need them and how to start implementing them
Experience-level agreements (XLAs, sometimes known as ELAs) are a variation of service-level agreements (SLAs) that focus on the end-user experience. Whether that end-user is your employees, your customers, or both, the way they engage with – and feel about – your solution is critical. XLAs aren’t simply an exercise in…
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