Author: ProHoster

By 2030, the global market for AI supercomputers will reach $6,43 billion

Marketing and consulting firm 360iResearch predicts rapid growth in the global market for supercomputers for AI tasks. By such analytics systems they understand specialized platforms with large computing resources for quickly processing huge volumes of data. 360iResearch estimates that the global AI supercomputing industry was worth approximately $2023 billion in 1,90. In 2024, costs are expected to rise to $2,26 billion. […]

Every tenth Telegram user lives in Russia

The monthly audience of the Telegram messenger in Russia in 2023 amounted to more than 85 million people, exceeding the 10 figure by 2022%, Forbes.ru reported, citing MTS data. Although Telegram is still inferior in popularity to leader WhatsApp in Russia, the growth rate of the number of its users exceeds other platforms. Yesterday, Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the global audience […]

US calls for chip production to be located in the Philippines to reduce dependence on China and Taiwan

Now the US authorities are looking for new allies in the Asian region who can locate the production of semiconductor components on their territory, since the concentration of suppliers of such products in China and Taiwan does not suit American officials for geopolitical reasons. The Philippines is proposed to be a new growth point in the region, as announced by the US Secretary of Commerce. Image source: IntelSource: 3dnews.ru

Vulnerability in Android 14 exploitable via Bluetooth LE

The developers of the GrapheneOS project, which develops a secure fork of the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) codebase, have identified a vulnerability in the Bluetooth stack of the Android 14 platform, which could potentially lead to remote code execution. The problem is caused by accessing an already freed memory area (use-after-free) in the audio processing code transmitted via Bluetooth LE. The vulnerability was discovered due to the integration of additional protection into the hardened_malloc call, […]

Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple developed Speedometer 3.0 browser performance test

Six years since the last release, an updated tool for testing the performance and responsiveness of web browsers is presented - Speedometer 3.0, prepared jointly by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Apple. The key task of the test suite is to estimate delays when simulating user work with typical web applications. Speedometer 3.0 was the first browser performance suite created jointly by competing browser […]

The Chinese Moore Threads MTT S80 video card in games turned out to be slower than the “built-in” AMD Radeon 760M

More than a year ago, the Chinese company Moore Threads surprised gamers with the release of discrete gaming video cards in the MTT S series. The accelerators are equipped with some advanced technologies, for example, support for the PCIe 5.0 interface, which even solutions from AMD, Nvidia and Intel do not have. However, even after a year, the key problem of Chinese gaming video cards is very low performance, which does not stand up to criticism, as confirmed by tests […]

Microsoft told how to completely remove the OneDrive cloud service from some Windows

The Microsoft technical support portal now has instructions on how to disable and remove the OneDrive application from Windows. This service was previously promoted as the main cloud storage in Windows and could not be simply removed. The new step-by-step guide is for those who want to disable, deactivate, or delete OneDrive. Microsoft itself recommends that Windows 10 and 11 users simply “unlink” OneDrive […]

The developer of AI accelerators Graphcore was accused of “absurd behavior” and a lawsuit was filed against him

Cloud provider HyperAI from the Netherlands accused Graphcore of deceit, as the British AI chip developer first abandoned its previous commitments and then completely stated that it had never sold anything to HyperAI. As a HyperAI representative told the Datacenter Dynamics portal, the situation has reached the point of absurdity, so the company went to court. Graphcore, which is experiencing financial difficulties, noted that it does not comment on pending litigation […]

New article: IT results of February 2024: deepfakes, hypocrisy and transformers

In online communities of generative AI enthusiasts, over the past few months there has been a significant increase in the number of complaints about FOMO - fear of missing out. News on various areas of development of “smart” systems shoots out with ever-increasing frequency - and selecting among them the most worthy of the attention of our readers is not at all easy. But we tried! Source: 3dnews.ru

OpenSSH 9.7 release

The release of OpenSSH 9.7 has been published, an open implementation of a client and server for working using the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The proposed version has begun making changes to anticipate the future deprecation of DSA-based keys. OpenSSH 9.7 provides an option to disable DSA at compile time, but the default build with DSA support is retained for now. In the next issue, [...]