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The never Nvidia networking party just got another option

Chip vendors like AMD may be closing the gap with Nvidia on GPU FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and HBM capacity, but without a high-speed interconnect and switch, like NVLink and NVSwitch, their ability to scale that performance remains limited.…

Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars

Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models.…

Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Updated  The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold. …

Outfit was accused of charging for specialist IT labor performed by uncertified folks

A Maryland IT, cloud, and security consultancy will have to pay the US government at least $14.75 million to settle multiple allegations that it issued false invoices between 2018-2023.…

Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill

When Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called.…

Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack

The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may have allowed the export of AI chips to China.…

Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next

World War Fee  Gartner has trimmed its growth forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2025 as an "uncertainty pause" hits net new spending, caused in part by the unpredctability of US President Donald Trump's trade tariff policy.…

Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU

Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers.…

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns

If the US military wouldn't be caught dead building supercomputers using Chinese kit, there's no reason to think the People's Liberation Army would risk using American gear, argues Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.…

Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere

Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper options for datacenter operators dealing with AI workloads.…

Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO

The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness.…

First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters

Meta overlord-for-life Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he plans to build several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters, with the first to come online in 2026.…

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts.…

Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it's able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.…

MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

Opinion  So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon Musk announced, "We have improved @Grok significantly." On Tuesday, July 8, the results of those changes appeared.…

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it

GParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…

Delivers specs in the form of user stories

Amazon Web Services has created what it's calling an "agentic IDE" that it claims avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding.…

Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…

Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?

We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…

Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney

A research paper commissioned by the European Parliament has called for an EU law to pay writers, musicians, and artists whose work has been used to train GenAI models.…