Tag: hardware

  • Cloud Blog: Innovate with Confidential Computing: Attestation, Live Migration on Google Cloud

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/innovate-with-confidential-computing-attestation-live-migration-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Innovate with Confidential Computing: Attestation, Live Migration on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: Since its debut on Google Cloud, Confidential Computing has evolved at an incredible pace, offering customers robust protection for sensitive data processed in the cloud and ensuring higher levels of security and privacy. Driven by the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paul Kedrosky

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/19/paul-kedrosky/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paul Kedrosky Feedly Summary: One analyst recently speculated (via Ed Conard) that, based on Nvidia’s latest datacenter sales figures, AI capex may be ~2% of US GDP in 2025, given a standard multiplier. […] Capital expenditures on AI data centers is likely around 20% of the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to run an LLM on your laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/18/how-to-run-an-llm-on-your-laptop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to run an LLM on your laptop Feedly Summary: How to run an LLM on your laptop I talked to Grace Huckins for this piece from MIT Technology Review on running local models. Apparently she enjoyed my dystopian backup plan! Simon Willison has a plan for…

  • Cloud Blog: Securely deploy ChromeOS Flex – from anywhere

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/securely-deploy-chromeos-flex-from-anywhere/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Securely deploy ChromeOS Flex – from anywhere Feedly Summary: Just three years ago, ChromeOS Flex was born with a mission to breathe new life into existing hardware, offering a modern, sustainable, and secure experience in the process. Today, we’re proud to have over 600 certified devices, and millions…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…

  • Cloud Blog: How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/renault-groups-software-defined-vehicles-built-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Renault Group is using Google’s software-defined vehicle industry solution Feedly Summary: It’s funny to think of Renault Group, the massive European car manufacturer, as a software company, but in many ways, it is. Renault Group subsidiary Ampere Software Technology is dedicated to developing and integrating advanced software…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Firms Rush For Nvidia Chips As US Prepares To Lift Ban

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/0624242/chinese-firms-rush-for-nvidia-chips-as-us-prepares-to-lift-ban?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Firms Rush For Nvidia Chips As US Prepares To Lift Ban Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Nvidia’s intention to resume sales of its H20 AI chips to mainland China, highlighting the significance of these moves in the context of US-China technology relations.…

  • Slashdot: CoreWeave Data Center To Double City’s Power Needs

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/2337208/coreweave-data-center-to-double-citys-power-needs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CoreWeave Data Center To Double City’s Power Needs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The expansion of CoreWeave’s data center in Denton, Texas, highlights the significant strain that AI workloads impose on local power supplies, prompting infrastructure upgrades and raising compliance challenges. This scenario exemplifies the intersection…