Новости за 16.02.2024

Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash

Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work

Japan's Rakuten Mobile says it plans to offer a satellite-based mobile service that will support standard smartphones starting from 2026, although the satellites to provide this capability have yet to be launched.…

Project hails from its original motherland of Russia

Russian developer Maxim Dounin has announced a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy, aimed at avoiding the corporate control of owner F5.…

121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

Who knows where they'll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though

Quantum technology outfit IonQ has cut the ribbon on its Seattle manufacturing facility, claimed as the first factory for quantum systems on US soil. The move comes shortly after a report claimed that investors have halved the venture capital funding going to quantum companies.…

Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too

The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation

FOSDEM 2024  There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort.…

Expert weighs in after Brianna Ghey murder amid worrying rates of child cybercrime

Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times

NASA has concluded its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) with a test onboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft after it departed from the International Space Station (ISS).…

3 in 5 workers getting strict orders to return to office and something is going to give

Ganja believe it? The customer couldn't when their box went up in smoke

iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision

What's the wurst that could happen?

Microsoft has promised to splash €3.2 billion (£2.7 billion, $3.4 billion) on AI infrastructure and datacenters in Germany over the next two years.…

Calls for collaborators willing to play buzzword bingo on project – 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, blockhain, Web3, and plenty more besides

$10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029

Will cough up less than two days of annual profit in settlement – and California calls this a win

Premium punters in the illustrious company of Hezbollah, Iranian militias, sanctioned Russian banks

Headaches, eyestrain, lack of killer apps cited as some seek refunds

The 14-day return-for-full-refund-no-questions-asked deadline for early adopters of Apple’s Vision Pro “spatial computing” headset is approaching, and some buyers are openly sharing their decision to return the $3,499 device.…

OpenAI meanwhile teases experimental text-to-vid system Sora

Google on Thursday introduced Gemini 1.5, a multi-modal model family for text, image, and audio interaction said to best rival models in benchmarks.…

Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

Beijing, now Moscow.… Who else is hiding in broadband gateways?

The US government today said it disrupted a botnet that Russia's GRU military intelligence unit used for phishing expeditions, spying, credential harvesting, and data theft against American and foreign governments and other strategic targets.…