The great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can’t secure enough on-prem compute themselves. Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win READ MORE Or so claims AWS chief Andy Jassy, who…
The Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with development led by former members of the Atom team at GitHub. Zed version 1.0 has been released (click to enlarge) Nathan Sobo, CEO and co-founder of Zed Industries, said that Zed is neither done nor perfect, but has “reached a tipping point where most…
French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday that the minor, suspected of using the online alias “breach3d” and not named because French law protects minors, faces two computer…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012. The domain name system as we know it came into being thanks to RFC 920, penned by internet pioneers Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds, which suggested creating .gov, .edu,…
If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is warning anyone running it in headless mode, or through GitHub Actions, to review their workflows. The update to Gemini CLI and the run-gemini-cli GitHub Action, published last week but largely unnoticed until one of…
If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica’s latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis. The networking vendor this week began taking orders for its DS6000 family of switches, which are aimed primarily at high-performance computing applications like AI training and inference. The switches will be offered in…
Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as discretionary household budgets come under pressure from inflation, with demand for new devices expected to fall for the rest of this year. Phone makers were already feeling the effects…
China’s “hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control,” according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division. This ecosystem includes private technology companies operating at the behest of the PRC’s intelligence agencies while allowing Beijing to maintain plausible deniability. “Motivated by profit, this network of private companies and contractors in China cast a…
Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it’ll change the landscape, if KnowBe4’s latest phishing trends report is accurate. The cybersecurity and phishing awareness outfit released the seventh edition of its Phishing Threat Trends report on Thursday, and it appears that…
Updated Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google’s decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Jake Archibald, Mozilla web developer relations lead, articulated the org’s concerns in a GitHub discussion of the…