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Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

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HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential

This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.…

Tobias Mann

Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries

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Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks

A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.…

Jessica Lyons

Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring

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HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing

Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…

Lindsay Clark

Mobile industry warns patchwork cyber regs are driving up costs

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GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer

Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.…

Dan Robinson

Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors

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Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack

There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…

Richard Speed