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Outlook takes another sick day

2 months 1 week ago
Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed

updated  Microsoft Outlook was down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the more than 11 hours.…

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Russia Blocks Ethical Hacking Legislation Over Security Concerns

2 months 1 week ago
Russia's State Duma rejected legislation that would have legalized ethical hacking, citing national security concerns. Politicians worried that discovering vulnerabilities in software from hostile countries would require sharing those security flaws with foreign companies, potentially enabling strategic exploitation. The bill also failed to explain how existing laws would accommodate white-hat hacking provisions. Russia's Ministry of Digital Development introduced the proposal in 2022, with a first draft in 2023. Individual security researchers currently face prosecution under Russian Criminal Code for unauthorized computer access, while established cybersecurity companies can conduct limited vulnerability research.

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Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

2 months 1 week ago

This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a GB200 NVL72 shared GPU memory configuration. …

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Gemini Can Now Turn Your Photos Into Video With Veo 3

2 months 1 week ago
Google is rolling out photo-to-video generation in its Gemini app today, allowing paid subscribers to upload images and transform them into short AI videos using the company's Veo 3 model. The feature requires a subscription to Google's AI Pro plan at $20 per month for three daily video generations, or the $250 AI Ultra plan for five daily videos. Videos are limited to 720p resolution and eight seconds in length, taking several minutes to generate due to computational requirements.

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