Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years By Francisco Pires published 22 June 23 Microsoft announced its very own roadmap towards building a quantum supercomputer, crystallizing its path along the company's years-long research into topological qubits. J
OpenAI Responds to ChatGPT User Account Credentials Found on Dark Web By Francisco Pires published 22 June 23 "Industry best" security practices are in place. But that won't save you from weak passwords and suspicious software installs.
Conversation With ChatGPT Was Enough to Develop Part of a CPU By Francisco Pires published 18 June 23 A team of New York University researchers followed the ChatGPT prompt rabbit hole for long enough to develop a functional 8-bit accumulator-based microprocessor architecture that's part of a CPU.
China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year By Francisco Pires published 16 June 23 China's ByteDance has already ordered around 100,000 Nvidia datacenter accelerators in 2023 — more than the entire Chinese market ordered last year.
Intel Announce 'Tunnel Falls' Quantum Research Chip By Francisco Pires published 16 June 23 Intel announced a new quantum research chip, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Qubit Collaboratory (LQC).
AMD MI300X Guzzles Power, Rated for 750 Watts By Francisco Pires published 15 June 23 With great performance come great power requirements.
Iran's 'Quantum' Computer is Apparently Powered by an Arm Development Board By Francisco Pires published 14 June 23 There's not much quantum to Iran's quantum computing, it seems.
US CHIPS Act Funding Under Attack Following Debt Ceiling Fight By Francisco Pires published 9 June 23 The US CHIPS Act, the measure that oversees the distribution of around $280 billion in funding for semiconductor-related pursuits, may not have as secure a funding guarantee as previously thought.
Acer Subsidiary Scored $74 Million Profit in Russia Despite Sales Ban By Francisco Pires published 9 June 23 A Swiss-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Acer Taiwan sold goods and services to the Russian market after international import restrictions cut short the possibility of shipments from Taiwan.
Optical Data Transmission World Record Broken, 1.8 Petabit per Second By Francisco Pires published 9 June 23 That's roughly double the global network use right now.
US Military Drone AI Simulation Reportedly Turned on Its Human Operator By Francisco Pires published 2 June 23 A military drone AI simulation reportedly resulted in the AI opting to eliminate its human operator or attack communications towers so it could continue its mission unimpeded.
AMD's Reference RX 7600 Card Doesn't Fit Some 6+2-Pin Connectors By Francisco Pires published 26 May 23 A design oversight prevents some power connectors from being fully inserted.
NSA, Microsoft Issue Critical Cyberthreat Report to US Infrastructures Backed by Chinese State-Sponsored Actor By Francisco Pires published 26 May 23 Popular Republic of China (PRC)-linked cybercriminal group Void Typhoon has been the target of a Cybersecurity Advisory bulletin for aiming to compromise critical US communications infrastructure.
Windows 11 Moment 3 Update: Isolated x32 Apps, No RAR Support Yet By Francisco Pires published 24 May 23 Native RAR support is coming to Windows 11, but not in this update.
Nvidia GeForce Driver Promises Doubled Stable Diffusion Performance By Francisco Pires published 24 May 23 NVIDIA today announced the release of its GeForce Game Ready Drivers version 532.03, which promises up to 2x performance improvement in Machine Learning workloads.
Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes By Francisco Pires published 23 May 23 For a storage medium said to be dying, tape is looking pretty good.
Fanless, AirJet Cooling Tech Debuts in Zotac ZBox Mini PC By Francisco Pires published 23 May 23 Zotac has announced the world's first mini-PC cooled by Frore System's proprietary AirJet - a fanless cooling technology that promises to lower cooling solution's footprint and operating noise.
Intel Announces Agilex 7 M-Series FPGAs with R-Tile, PCIe 5.0 and CXL 2.0 Support By Francisco Pires published 22 May 23 Intel today announced its Agilex 7 M-Series FPGAs with R-Tile, bringing the performance of PCIe 5.0 and CXL 2.0 support IP blocks from CPUs to FPGAs for increased performance/watt.
Road to Zettascale: Intel and RIKEN Announce Strategic Partnership By Francisco Pires published 21 May 23 A signed Memoranding of Understanding brings Intel and RIKEN's interests together in the fields of AI, supercomputing, and quantum computing, paving the way for Zettascale.
Key to Crypto: Memristor Made by Inkjet Printer Unlocks True Random Number Generators By Francisco Pires published 21 May 23 KAUST engineers have found a way to create a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) in a printable, inkjet form that promises groundbreaking energy efficiency.
ChatGPT's Evil Twin, BratGPT, is Designed for World Domination By Francisco Pires published 21 May 23 Not all pieces of technology bring with them existential dread or efficiency improvements. Sometimes, tech is meant to be fun; and BratGPT certainly does turn up the grilling heat up to 11.
India Chooses Arm's Neoverse for National Chip Design Push By Francisco Pires published 19 May 23 C-DAC's Aum Arm accelerator promises 96 cores or Arm to beat even supercomputers.
Dark Web ChatGPT Unleashed: Meet DarkBERT By Francisco Pires published 16 May 23 Researchers from South Korea have released a ChatGPT-like large language model (based on the RoBERTa architecture) that's specifically aimed at Dark Web research and threat identification.
Quantum Computing Algorithm Breakthrough Brings Practical Use Closer to Reality By Francisco Pires published 15 May 23 A research team with the RIKEN Quantum Computing Centre in Japan have unlocked a major performance increase relevant in the fields of condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry.
Stanford Researchers Leverage Palladium for Disruptive Memristor Design By Francisco Pires published 11 May 23 Improving performance for personal AI computation may require novel techniques and materials.