Kaspersky still has a cult following in the US
Some users will not pull the plug
Despite US scare stories and a government ban, a group of dedicated Kaspersky software followers is refusing to uninstall the software.
OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Still the leader for now
OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,
Spectre issues were never completely fixed
Patches falling short
Six years after disclosing the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws, boffins still voice concerns about incomplete fixes.
Vole finds ways to trap phishers
Automatically waste their time
The software king of the world, Microsoft has been using its Azure cloud platform "to hunt phishers at scale" and waste their time.
Expensive AMD server chip going cheap in eBay
70.38 per cent off the official price
TechRadar has found shedloads of AMD’s EPYC “Bergamo” 9754 server-grade processor from the EPYC 9004 series going dirt cheap on eBay.
Intel Core Ultra 200H "Arrow Lake" mobile CPUs leaked
Additional LPE cores for all SKUs
An Intel leak has tipped up showing a complete spec sheet of Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200H processors.
Apple insiders admit that it is two years behind on AI
Not so cutting edge, after all
While Tame Apple Press claims that the fruity cargo cult is at the cutting edge of AI development, its staff knows it is two years behind everyone else.
Nvidia boss warns x86 is becoming fragmented
Welcome’s AMD and Intel cooperation
Like a leather-jacketed balloon waiting to burst, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that x86’s architecture is in danger of fragmentation, and he welcomes AMD and Intel working closer together to prevent this.
MSI releases Nvidia MGX-based AI servers
Aimed at AI data centres
MSI has lifted the kimono on its Nvidia MGX-based AI servers which are being pitched to handle scalable, energy-efficient AI workloads in modern data centres.
Chinese want Intel chips checked for backdoors
Security issues
The Cybersecurity Association of China (CSAC) said Intel chips flogged in China should be subject to a security review.