Category: internet news

Ciena will update the SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable - a timely upgrade amid cliffs in the Red Sea

The SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable linking Europe and Asia is undergoing a major functionality upgrade. According to Mobile Europe, thanks to the GeoMesh Extreme and WaveLogic 5 Extreme technologies being implemented by operators Ciena, its throughput will increase from 65 Tbps to 122 Tbps - an important achievement against the backdrop of recent events in the Red Sea. The cable is operated by 16 telecom operators and connects Singapore, Malaysia, […]

VLC has surpassed 5 billion downloads. Development of VLC 4.0

The VideoLAN project has surpassed five billion downloads of the VLC video player, as recorded by the statistics collection system running on the project's servers since February 2005. Approximately 4.4 billion downloads are attributed to the VLC build for the platform. Windows, 369 million - macOS, 245 million - Android, 71 million for iOS, and 6.7 million for the source code archive. The published data […]

The OpenAI project has opened Transformer Debugger, a debugger for machine learning models

The OpenAI project, which develops public projects in the field of artificial intelligence, has published the Transformer Debugger, designed to analyze the activation of structures in machine learning language models when processing certain data. Like traditional debuggers, Transformer Debugger supports step-by-step navigation through model output, tracing, and interception of specific activity. In general, Transformer Debugger allows […]

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, operated via Bluetooth LE

The developers of the GrapheneOS project, which develops a secure fork from the AOSP code base (Android Open Source Project) identified a vulnerability in the platform's Bluetooth stack Android 14, which could potentially lead to remote code execution. The issue is caused by a use-after-free access to memory in the code processing audio transmitted over Bluetooth LE. The vulnerability was identified by integrating 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 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 […]

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