India flips the switch on three supercomputers • The Register
网页3 天之前 — Fri 27 Sep 2024 // 04:45 UTC. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday dedicated three new supercomputers, and made the machines a symbol of his economic, social, and industry policies. Those emphases mean Modi didn't detail the tech specs of the three "PARAM Rudra" machines – but the orgs that will run them have revealed some info.
NASA seeks suggestions for Astrobee applications • The Register
网页4 天之前 — NASA is looking for ideas on what to do with the Astrobee drones flying around the International Space Station (ISS). The Astrobee robots are free-flying cubes, roughly 32 centimeters (12.5 inches) wide, that prowl around the microgravity environment of the ISS using their cameras to perform inventory or document experiments conducted by the crew.. The trio of robots – Honey, Queen, and ...
Could eBPF have spared us the Crowdstrike incident?
网页4 天之前 — Wilkie is referring to an incident in June, where Red Hat warned its customers of an issue related to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor.The problem paled into insignificance compared to what happened to a few short weeks later, when a CrowdStrike update left 8.5 million Windows computers across the world stuck in a blue screen boot loop.. eBPF allows software to run in a virtual machine (VM) in the ...
Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal
网页2024年9月21日 — Researchers led by optoelectronics professor Peter Kazansky have used an ultra-fast laser to inscribe the human genome in a 5D memory crystal, a storage medium designed to last billions of years. Earth's deoxygenation is expected sooner than that, in about one billion years, and the Sun is expected to swallow our planet in …
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
网页5 天之前 — Tue 24 Sep 2024 // 17:15 UTC. The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don't expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a report released Monday, the GAO said that 51 of the FAA's 138 ATC systems – more than a third – were ...
Vietnam devises formula to grow semiconductor industry
网页6 天之前 — The Vietnamese government claims to have found a magical mathematical formula that will elevate its semiconductor industry to an annual turnover of $100 billion by 2050. The formula, as approved by prime minister Pham Minh Chinh – a bit of a boffin himself, having achieved his bachelor's degree in civil engineering – is C = SET + 1.
Intel has entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery
网页2024年9月22日 — Comment On Monday, Intel's share price surged on word it was spinning out its foundry biz as an independent subsidiary and signing AWS and the DoD as customers.. But while Wall Street celebrated, Chipzilla's road to recovery is far from over and everyone involved, whether they are shareholders, employees, or partners, are going to have to grin and bear it, either until CEO Pat Gelsinger can ...
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
网页Brandon Vigliarolo. Wed 18 Sep 2024 // 21:59 UTC. Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by the European Commission in 2019 for ...
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves latency
网页2024年8月5日 — Sigcomm 2024 Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed MegaTE – a traffic engineering system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network performance to the needs of individual flows. A paper detailing MegaTE was presented today at the Association for Computing …
Online media outstrips TV as source of news in UK - The Register
网页Wed 11 Sep 2024 // 08:31 UTC. TV has lost its crown as the most popular source of news in the UK, according to research from Ofcom. The telecoms and media regulator has found that online news sources are now more widely used than TV news, whose viewership saw a steep decline last year. However, for now the popularity of TV news remains only ...