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Gates Retreats From 'Doomsday' Climate View, Prioritizes Aid To Poorest Countries

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Bill Gates is retreating from his earlier warnings about climate change. The Microsoft co-founder now argues that what he called the "doomsday view of climate change" has caused the climate community to focus too heavily on near-term emissions goals and divert resources from addressing poverty and disease in the world's poorest countries. In a blog post, Gates wrote that climate change will have serious consequences but will not lead to humanity's demise. He acknowledges that some climate advocates will call him a hypocrite given his own carbon footprint and his 2021 book warning that climate change could be as deadly as COVID-19 by mid-century and five times as deadly by 2100. The poorest countries receive less than 1% of rich countries' budgets at their highest level and that this share is shrinking as wealthy nations cut aid and low-income countries struggle with debt, he wrote. Rising temperatures are now inevitable and that the current consensus suggests Earth's average temperature will be between two and three degrees Celsius higher than 1850 levels by 2100.

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Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure

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A report from cyber-insurer At-Bay fingers Cisco and Citrix VPNs as most likely to lead to ransomware trouble

Organizations using Cisco and Citrix VPN devices were nearly seven times as likely to suffer a ransomware infection over a 15-month period, according to At-Bay, a provider of cyber insurance and a vendor of managed detection and response products.…

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As Rackscale GPU Systems Boom, Big Green Is Emphatically Red, White, And Blue

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Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang paced the stage at the company’s GTC Washington DC event dressed in his standard black leather jacket over a black T-shirt, with black pants and black sneakers, but the messages he delivered during his keynote was decidedly red, white, and blue. …

As Rackscale GPU Systems Boom, Big Green Is Emphatically Red, White, And Blue was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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