Security
Nvidia has notified customers that its new AI chips in the Blackwell series will be at least three months late, according to The Information. The B200 chip was shown off in March, but a serious design flaw found recently needs to be fixed before they are rolled out widely, according to the site’s sources. According to The…
One of the most enticing uses for generative AI is to help you write. Anyone can get writing help from Microsoft’s Copilot genAI tool via the free Copilot web or mobile app. But Copilot becomes especially useful when it’s integrated with various Microsoft 365 apps. As you compose, edit, or view a document in Word,…
According to Bickley, anything related to an antitrust probe is “more hype than substance at this point, because, first, semiconductors are the most volatile sector in the stock market. [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang knows full well that this wave that they’re riding at the end of the day will crest, and it will crash, and…
Hiring in the technology sector and the broader tech workforce took a step back in July with an overall slowdown in job growth, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report today and an analysis of that data. The tech industry shed an estimated 9,162 jobs last month, according to CompTIA, the nonprofit association…
Microsoft’s latest outage on Tuesday might have been amplified by its own unforced errors, the company said in an incident report. “While the initial trigger event was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial investigations suggest that an error in the implementation of our defenses amplified the impact of the…
Homomorphic encryption is a phrase that might never make it to everybody’s lips, but the technology will become part of what we do each day, thanks to Apple, Swift and the need for artificial intelligence (AI) in the cloud. It’s a privacy-protecting technology that lets you secure data in the cloud, work on that data…