Meta’s new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
If you’re going to build a custom AI accelerator, inference is a good place to start. The clusters are smaller, […]
Month: August 2026
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
A mischief-maker in a Darth Vader suit recently endorsed Flock at a city council meeting, and it has not helped […]
Meta’s proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Meta announced on Wednesday that it has offered to pay about $18 billion to settle the lawsuit against it brought […]
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
MNT is launching the Station, a miniature desktop case for motherboards that come from its Reform open-source laptop. If you […]
GitHub Actions was down yet again
GitHub Actions stumbled again on Wednesday, days after the code host renewed its promises to improve reliability. Wednesday’s problem, as […]
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
The US government disclosed that crims targeted more than 100 internet-exposed water systems during July cyberattacks. That’s the first time […]
Boston Scientific discloses ‘global disruption’ in ongoing cyberattack
Medical device maker Boston Scientific’s global operations have been disrupted by an ongoing cyberattack, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According […]
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
The rising cost of contract prices for memory chips could see DRAM and NAND flash account for more than two-thirds […]
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
X, the social media mouthpiece of free speech absolutist Elon Musk, has reportedly sent legal takedown notices to Nitter and […]
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
Bill Gates thinks that experts underestimate the potential havoc AI will wreak on society and says preparations to ease the […]