Tag: cost

  • Hacker News: The AI Bubble Is Bursting

    Source URL: https://matduggan.com/the-ai-bubble-is-bursting/ Source: Hacker News Title: The AI Bubble Is Bursting Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a critical perspective on the recent changes in AI services offered by major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It highlights concerns over forced integration of AI features, lack of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…

  • Schneier on Security: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/biden-signs-new-cybersecurity-order.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order Feedly Summary: President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details: The core of the executive order is an array of mandates…

  • Hacker News: Solving Fine Grained Authorization with Incremental Computation

    Source URL: https://www.feldera.com/blog/fine-grained-authorization Source: Hacker News Title: Solving Fine Grained Authorization with Incremental Computation Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses the implementation and performance optimization of Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) access control models, emphasizing the use of incremental computation to improve authorization checks in large systems. It showcases the benefits…

  • Hacker News: Looking at some claims that quantum computers won’t work

    Source URL: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-flight.html Source: Hacker News Title: Looking at some claims that quantum computers won’t work Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the ongoing debate about the necessity and feasibility of upgrading to post-quantum cryptography, particularly in light of arguments against the effectiveness of quantum computers. It highlights both…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-talk-cyber-in-business-terms-to-win-allies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2025. We’re starting off the year at the top with boards of directors, and how talking about cybersecurity in business terms can help us better convey…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/1658230/microsoft-research-ai-systems-cannot-be-made-fully-secure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft researchers highlights the inherent security vulnerabilities of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Despite defensive measures, the researchers assert that AI products will remain susceptible to…

  • Cloud Blog: GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/rearchitected-gke-hpa-improves-scaling-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing the fastest and most reliable Kubernetes platform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Today, we are excited to announce an improved Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), the Kubernetes feature that automatically updates workload resources…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/ Source: The Register Title: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer Feedly Summary: €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed…

  • Hacker News: Scaling to users requires Synapse Pro

    Source URL: https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/ Source: Hacker News Title: Scaling to users requires Synapse Pro Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the differences between Synapse Pro and the community version of Synapse for Matrix deployments, emphasizing Synapse Pro’s architecture tailored for high-scale applications. It outlines significant performance improvements through the use…