Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician [Tue Nov 14 2023]

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Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician

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Aurora dawns late: Half-baked entry secures second in supercomputer stakes

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HPE and Nvidia offer 'turnkey' supercomputer for AI training

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YMTC accuses Micron of 'freeriding' on its 3D NAND patents

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Amazon's retail wing tops list of take-down demands from Europe under new DSA law

Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems though

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Fujitsu says it can optimize CPU and GPU use to minimize execution time

Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on

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Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks

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Royal Mail cybersecurity still a bit of a mess, infosec bods claim

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Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies

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RIP: Frank Borman, NASA commander of first Moon mission

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48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax

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Foxconn launches its first satellites on a SpaceX rideshare, to advance Microsoft space plan

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