Tag: offs

  • Cloud Blog: Tailor your search engine with AI-powered hybrid search in Spanner

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/hybrid-search-in-spanner-combine-full-text-and-vector-search/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tailor your search engine with AI-powered hybrid search in Spanner Feedly Summary: Search is at the heart of how we interact with the digital ecosystem, from online shopping to finding critical information. Enter generative AI, and user expectations are higher than ever. For applications to meet diverse user…

  • Slashdot: Yahoo Cybersecurity Team Sees Layoffs, Outsourcing of ‘Red Team,’ Under New CTO

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/12/210234/yahoo-cybersecurity-team-sees-layoffs-outsourcing-of-red-team-under-new-cto?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Yahoo Cybersecurity Team Sees Layoffs, Outsourcing of ‘Red Team,’ Under New CTO Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Yahoo’s recent layoffs of around 25% from its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, highlight significant shifts within the company regarding its cybersecurity strategies. This major reduction, including the…

  • Cloud Blog: How Vertex AI’s vector search helps unlock high-performance gen AI apps

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-fast-and-scalable-ai-applications-with-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Vertex AI’s vector search helps unlock high-performance gen AI apps Feedly Summary: Think about your favorite apps – the ones that deliver instant results from massive amounts of data. They’re likely powered by vector search, the same technology that fuels generative AI. Vector search is crucial for…

  • Hacker News: Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x

    Source URL: https://dstack.ai/blog/h100-mi300x-inference-benchmark/ Source: Hacker News Title: Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a detailed benchmarking analysis comparing NVIDIA’s H100 GPU and AMD’s MI300x, with a focus on their memory capabilities and implications for LLM (Large Language Model) inference performance. It…

  • The Register: Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/microsoft_preps_big_guns_for/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs Feedly Summary: IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer’s checkbook Canalys Forums EMEA 2024 When Microsoft needs to make a market, it turns to the channel – a nebulous term used for resellers, distributors…

  • Hacker News: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

    Source URL: https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a viral tweet by Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch regarding an algorithm that identifies “Ghost Engineers,” software engineers who perform minimally at tech companies, thus exposing a…

  • Hacker News: I Didn’t Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don’t Either

    Source URL: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-google-cloud-run Source: Hacker News Title: I Didn’t Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don’t Either Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The author discusses their transition from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run, highlighting the latter’s cost-effectiveness, simplicity, scalability, and limitations of Kubernetes. This insight is particularly useful for professionals in cloud…

  • CSA: Can AI Balance Security and Usability Effectively?

    Source URL: https://www.zscaler.com/cxorevolutionaries/insights/bringing-security-vs-usability-pendulum-stop Source: CSA Title: Can AI Balance Security and Usability Effectively? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the fundamental challenge of balancing security and user experience in cybersecurity, positing that artificial intelligence (AI) can be employed to achieve this equilibrium. It emphasizes a shift towards AI-powered, adaptive security…

  • Hacker News: Transactional Object Storage?

    Source URL: https://blog.mbrt.dev/posts/transactional-object-storage/ Source: Hacker News Title: Transactional Object Storage? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the challenges and solutions in developing a portable and cost-effective database solution using object storage services like AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. By reinventing aspects of traditional databases, the author outlines a…