Tag: companies

  • The Register: Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/energy_crunch_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters Feedly Summary: But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand Datacenter operators are facing a paradoxical crisis – demand for their services is greater than ever before, just as access to power, environmental concerns,…

  • The Register: After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/opinion_column_cybersec/ Source: The Register Title: After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now Feedly Summary: If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt,…

  • The Register: AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/ai_spending_spree_continues_as/ Source: The Register Title: AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 Feedly Summary: With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis… oh wait The AI datacenter spending splurge looks likely to continue in 2025, with Microsoft alone saying it will invest $80 billion this year on building…

  • The Register: MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/mediatek_chipset_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns Feedly Summary: Manufacturers should have had ample time to apply the fixes MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code…

  • The Register: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/volkswagen_ev_data_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online Feedly Summary: PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security…

  • Slashdot: Are US Computer Networks A ‘Key Battlefield’ in any Future Conflict with China?

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/2023229/are-us-computer-networks-a-key-battlefield-in-any-future-conflict-with-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Are US Computer Networks A ‘Key Battlefield’ in any Future Conflict with China? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The text highlights the alarming advances in cyber capabilities by Chinese hackers, framing them as military operatives targeting critical U.S. infrastructure amid geopolitical tensions. These revelations stress the…

  • Hacker News: Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China

    Source URL: https://content.akamai.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=NjQyLVNLTi00NDkAAAGWBQgHSPFMp0ow2aF67IAbDOB0c1pNppYjWH8ZCkGxrVi4pDs7pT_120NiLvARghhVOBbaIJqps_3Ii2OZlixo3IPjhpR79JsTe-0&trk=comments_comments-list_comment-text Source: Hacker News Title: Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text informs Akamai partners about the decommissioning of its CDN services in China by June 30, 2026, and presents partnerships with Tencent Cloud and Wangsu Science & Technology to…

  • Hacker News: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life

    Source URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/05/agents-ai-chatbots-google-mariner/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text presents a detailed overview of the emerging trend of AI agents, which tech companies believe will revolutionize user interaction with computers. While highlighting their…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow Feedly Summary: I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/what-we-learned-copying-all-the-best-code-assistants/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town’s experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town’s own codemirror-codeium extension) and then…