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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks
The glory days are over for Cheyenne.
Many rural areas could soon lose cell service
Rural and Indigenous communities are at risk of losing cell
service thanks to a 2019 law intended to strip US telecom networks of
Chinese-made equipment. And while local companies were promised reimbursements
as part of the “rip-and-replace” program, many of them have so far seen little
of the funding, if any at all.
CYBERSECURITY
Hacker Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for REvil Ransomware
Attacks
One ransomware attacker using the REvil variant gets 13
years and seven months in prison for helping execute over 2,500 attacks netting
$700 million worth of ill-gotten gains.
New Mac malware 'Cuckoo' can take screenshots of your
desktop and other creepy actions
The malware, dubbed Cuckoo, was caught being distributed
with a Spotify music downloader.
AI
AI engineers report burnout and rushed rollouts as ‘rat
race’ to stay competitive hits tech industry
- Artificial intelligence engineers at top tech companies told CNBC that the pressure to roll out AI tools at breakneck speed has come to define their jobs.
- They say that much of their work is assigned to appease investors rather than to solve problems for end users, and that they are often chasing OpenAI.
- Burnout is an increasingly common theme as AI workers say their employers are pursuing projects without regard for the technology’s effect on climate change, surveillance and other potential real-world harms.
OPINION
Why you’ll soon have a digital clone of your own
AI isn’t going to replace you at work. You will.
AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific
Publishing
One percent of scientific articles published in 2023 showed
signs of generative AI’s potential involvement, according to a recent analysis.
HISTORY
The BASIC programming language turns 60
Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and
Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.
Cool Technology
The business of wallets
One of the best series of credit card commercials was the
now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as
either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That
always felt a bit on the nose for me given Capital One’s traditional market
focus, but be that as it may, it’s one of my strongest associations with the
word “wallet.”
Porsche Design Honor Magic 6 RSR review: Taking things to a whole new level
This is the best version of the Magic 6 Pro, but it comes
with a $2,000 price tag.
Scaling up: the app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities
Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell
their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go
global.
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