Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats [Wed Aug 28 2024]

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Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

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Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD

While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’

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VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud … sometime soon

Claims just two management consoles will emerge

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Copper's reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs

What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack?

Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS

Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf

Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic

More of a storm in a teacup

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A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction

A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds

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Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall

DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft

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IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron

Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity

Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates

Faster than you can read? More like blink and you'll miss the hallucination

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Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier

Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator

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Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts

'The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,' says Facebook founder

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Meta digs deep to strike geothermal power deal for its US datacenters

Teaming up with Sage Geosystems, house of Facbook plans to tap into Earth's fiery underbelly

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Infosys CEO promises jobs to 2,000 graduate recruits it's kept on hold for two years

But they have to show for unpaid training, or lose their jobs-in-waiting

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Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust

Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance

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Volt Typhoon suspected of exploiting Versa SD-WAN bug since June

The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure

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Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects

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Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI

Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star

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The Windows Control Panel joins the ranks of the undead

As users wail, Microsoft tweaks its text to drop the word 'deprecated'

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The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty

The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback

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The elusive dream of cloud portability: Why migrating workloads isn't so simple

Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor

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Blue Origin sets October 13 for first New Glenn EscaPADE to Mars

Must launch to catch the red planet alignment window despite occasional testing 'anomalies'

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Dr Helen Fisher, MRI maven who showed just how love works, dies at 79

It's all about your chemistry

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Judge acquits web dev accused of spreading fake news that led to UK riots

With a warning: Words have power

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