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  • The Register: February’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/patch_tuesday_february_2025/ Source: The Register Title: February’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes Feedly Summary: Don’t relax just yet: Redmond has made some certificate-handling changes that could trip unprepared admins Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s February patch collection is mercifully smaller than January’s mega-dump. But don’t get too relaxed – some deserve close attention,…

  • Slashdot: Google To Spend $75 Billion on AI Push

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1156248/google-to-spend-75-billion-on-ai-push?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google To Spend $75 Billion on AI Push Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alphabet’s significant increase in capital expenditures aimed at enhancing its AI infrastructure underscores a competitive arms race among major tech companies like Microsoft and Meta. This trend highlights the growing significance of investing…

  • 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…

  • The Register: Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/linux_kernel_tweak/ Source: The Register Title: Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say Feedly Summary: Not bad for 30 lines of code Hardware keeps getting faster, but it’s still worth taking a step back periodically and revisiting your code. You might just uncover a little tweak that wrings…

  • The Register: What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/build_bigger_ai_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? Feedly Summary: We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Feature Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they’ve also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

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    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…

  • The Register: TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in ‘volume production’ by 2026

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/tsmc_says_16nm_chips_volume_2026/ Source: The Register Title: TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in ‘volume production’ by 2026 Feedly Summary: You’ve got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips TSMC is bumping capital expenditure in 2025 to between $38 billion and $42 billion in anticipation of scooping up more…

  • Cloud Blog: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/a3-ultra-with-nvidia-h200-gpus-are-ga-on-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: The last few weeks of 2024 were exhilarating as we worked to bring you multiple advancements in AI infrastructure, including the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU, A3 Ultra VMs powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs, support for up…

  • Hacker News: 400x faster embeddings models using static embeddings

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/static-embeddings Source: Hacker News Title: 400x faster embeddings models using static embeddings Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This blog post discusses a new method to train static embedding models significantly faster than existing state-of-the-art models. These models are suited for various applications, including on-device and in-browser execution, and edge…

  • Wired: Why ‘Beating China’ In AI Brings Its Own Risks

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-beating-china-in-ai-brings-its-own-risks/ Source: Wired Title: Why ‘Beating China’ In AI Brings Its Own Risks Feedly Summary: The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses new export restrictions by…