Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price Meta intends to charge content creators as much as 47.5 percent of revenue from the sale of digital assets that touch its Meta Quest Store and virtual-reality serv…
Lees meerGreenwashing or serious commitment? Intel has committed to being net zero for greenhouse gas emissions across its global operations by 2040, and has set itself interim milestones for 2030 including 100 percent renewable electricity use and to identi…
Lees meerBetter support for top ML frameworks means stronger chip competition Good news for those who like their AI chips big: Cerebras Systems has expanded support for the popular open-source PyTorch and TensorFlow machine-learning frameworks on the Wafer-S…
Lees meerJulia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin When faced with climate models coded in Fortran in the 1960s and 70s, MIT decided there wasn't any more cobbling together left for the ancient code, so they decided to toss it out and …
Lees meerYears of extended delays and changes for late 2022-planned system Intel is expected to provide next-gen CPUs and GPUs for what will become one of the world's fastest supercomputers later this year, but when the United States' long-delayed Aurora pro…
Lees meerAddresses 'top reported issues'.. apart from that whole C++ thing Microsoft has made available an updated preview of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, addressing what it described as the "top reported issues" in preview 9.…
Lees meerTightening of IP laws to prevent poaching seen by Beijing as 'provocative smear' Trouble is brewing over moves by Taiwan to prevent China from gaining access to its chip technology, as the island nation proposes tougher laws to deter the leaking of …
Lees meerKeksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says A prolific threat group known for deploying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and cryptomining attacks is running a new botnet that is built using the Linux-based Gaf…
Lees meerRunning a multi-user Windows environment and Git? Time to patch After a hefty Patch Tuesday comes news of an update for Git to deal with a vulnerability for the source shack when run on Microsoft's Windows.…
Lees meerAims to develop next generation cyberinfrastructure, amongst other things The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is building out a new high performance compute cluster for AI applications based on Dell hardware with AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPU a…
Lees meerCryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary The wiki community held a vote as to whether the Wikimedia Foundation should continue to accept cryptocurrency donations, the result of …
Lees meerData from embedded sensors, from in the sea to in space, could be used with ML to detect next-gen weapons The US Northern Command, the military command group designated to protect North America from attack, has lobbied Congress for $29.8m to expand …
Lees meerSODIMM fans rejoice – the familiar form factor returns with a speedier CPU The Raspberry Pi gang will soon ship some new hardware in a form factor to delight builders still mourning the Compute Module 3. Behold the Compute Module 4S.…
Lees meerInitial boom in data vizualization, but CEO Mike Capone says it needs to 'play nice' to win in new segment Interview It's never a zero-sum game, according to Mike Capone, CEO of data visualization software specialist Qlik. For the sake of the compa…
Lees meerAnyone who tells you Linux is hard to use wasn't paying attention – and here's why Column I've used pretty much every desktop out there, and the Linux desktop is still the best of the best.…
Lees meerSoftware was supposed to eat the world, but it's scarcely snacking on today's monstrous silicon Column When I first saw an image of the 'wafer-scale engine' from AI hardware startup Cerebras, my mind rejected it. The company's current product is ab…
Lees meerPlus: Watchdog approves Fitbit's algorithm for detecting a dodgy ticker While Apple engineers continue adding health-related features to its smartwatch range, its blood-pressure monitoring system won't be ready until 2024 at the earliest, it is repo…
Lees meerPlans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE Investment firm KKR has acquired Barracuda Networks from private equity firm Thoma Bravo.…
Lees meerSixty per cent of current facilities are near Tokyo – a risky concentration Japan's government has secured expressions of interest from over 100 regional centers willing to host new datacenters, as part of an effort to make the nation's computing in…
Lees meerApril bundle addresses 100-plus vulnerabilities including 10 critical RCEs Microsoft's massive April Patch Tuesday includes one bug that has already been exploited in the wild and a second that has been publicly disclosed.…
Lees meerArgonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside Intel sees quantum computing as the next step beyond today's CPUs and GPUs, and this week took a step ahead in delivering such a system.…
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