Tag: pro

Geeks, look away: Philips PDS unveils outdoor LED display with 10,000 nits brightness and 7680Hz refresh rate — and yes, I’ve asked and there’s no typo in these numbers

Philips Professional Display Solutions (PPDS) has unveiled its cutting-edge Philips Urban LED 6000 Series, marking the company’s official debut in the outdoor LED display market, which is projected to be worth $29.87 billion by 2032. The Philips Urban LED 6000 Series was unveiled at ISE 2024 in Barcelona and is…

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‘Fall behind its predecessors’: Nvidia’s latest budget AI GPU reportedly reaches China — but faces uphill battle against its own peers and Huawei’s hidden weapon

The US’s trade sanctions have restricted Nvidia from exporting its advanced GPUs like the A100 and H100 to China.  As a workaround, Nvidia developed the A800 and H800 GPUs specifically for Chinese clients, but these were also blocked by updated US controls last October, leading to the creation of the…

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The world’s most controversial domain registrar has a new owner — and apparently it is “forging a new path”

Controversial domain registrar Epik has been acquired by Registered Agents Inc. (RAI) to enhance its offerings of services to small businesses and entrepreneurs. However, Epik is widely known for hosting far-right and neo-Nazi websites such as 8chan and self-labelled ‘free-speech’ social network alternative, Parler. A statement released by the company…

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Meta’s new Code Llama 70B takes aim at Github’s Copilot — it’s far better than the original 5-month old Code Llama but I can’t help but wonder if devs will love it

Meta AI has released a new version of its advanced code generation model, Code Llama 70B. One of the largest open-source AI models for code generation, the new platform is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, making it both significantly faster and more accurate. Code Llama 70B has been trained…

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Bad news for BitLocker users — its encryption can be cracked remarkable easily

If you have a Windows 10 Pro, or Windows 11 Pro device, with a dedicated external Trusted Platform Module (TPM), all of your encrypted data could easily be decrypted and read – all that’s needed is a little brainpower, a $10 Raspberry Pi Pico, and physical access to the target…

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The mysterious case of the 3 million-toothbrushes DDoS attack — was original report a hypothetical scenario that never happened… or is the truth elsewhere?

A tale of three million hacked electric toothbrushes used to launch a DDoS attack has sparked skepticism among cybersecurity experts. The story, which originated from cybersecurity firm Fortinet went viral, raising questions about its authenticity. Last week, Swiss news site Aargauer Zeitung reported that three million manipulated toothbrushes were involved in…

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