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  • Hacker News: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’

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    Source URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ Source: Hacker News Title: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study from UC Irvine critically evaluates Google’s reCAPTCHA v2, highlighting its inefficacy in preventing bot traffic while raising significant privacy concerns. The findings indicate that reCAPTCHA…

  • Cloud Blog: Networking support for AI workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/cross-cloud-network-solutions-support-for-ai-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Networking support for AI workloads Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we strive to make it easy to deploy AI models onto our infrastructure. In this blog we explore how the Cross-Cloud Network solution supports your AI workloads. Managed and Unmanaged AI options Google Cloud provides both managed (Vertex…

  • The Register: Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/openreach_tests_out_50gbps_broadband/ Source: The Register Title: Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon Feedly Summary: Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a…

  • The Register: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/los_alamos_lab_to_research/ Source: The Register Title: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Feedly Summary: Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to…

  • Hacker News: How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs

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    Source URL: https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/ Source: Hacker News Title: How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the performance optimization of large language models (LLMs) on tensor processing units (TPUs), addressing issues related to scaling and efficiency. It emphasizes the importance…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting started with Swift’s Alliance Connect Virtual on Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/deploying-swifts-alliance-connect-virtual-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting started with Swift’s Alliance Connect Virtual on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: The ability to deploy Swift’s Alliance Connect Virtual in Google Cloud allows financial institutions to leverage the scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure while maintaining the security and reliability standards required for financial transactions. By…

  • Hacker News: Better AI Is a Matter of Timing

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    Source URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-time Source: Hacker News Title: Better AI Is a Matter of Timing Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses innovations in clock technology for AI workloads, highlighting SiTime’s new MEMS-based Super-TCXO clock. This advancement aims to provide enhanced synchronization, energy savings, and improved efficiency in data centers, particularly…

  • The Register: Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/01/intel_ai_datacenter/ Source: The Register Title: Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter Feedly Summary: But it still has a chance at the edge and the PC Comment Any hope Intel may have had of challenging rivals Nvidia and AMD for a slice of the AI accelerator market dissolved on…

  • Cloud Blog: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-a4-vms-powered-by-nvidia-b200-gpu-aka-blackwell/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview Feedly Summary: Modern AI workloads require powerful accelerators and high-speed interconnects to run sophisticated model architectures on an ever-growing diverse range of model sizes and modalities. In addition to large-scale training, these complex models…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ben Thompson

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/ben-thompson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ben Thompson Feedly Summary: H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around. Again, just to emphasize this point,…