Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle [Wed Nov 8 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 8 November 2023 ***************************************************************** Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster ***************************************************************** On-Prem * Quantum computing next (very) cold war? US House reps want to blow billions to outrun China House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D * Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2 * WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered * Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military 'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access * Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector * Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking * Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans * Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President America could drive innovation... or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice * Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs * Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain * Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone * You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says Security * Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically * UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety * Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector Software * Google Bard AI contractors unionize amid anger over 'retaliatory' layoffs Not actually our problem, says Chocolate Factory, but watchdog decides otherwise - again * Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster * Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production * AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company * GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce * SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority * Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise Literally... * While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action * Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025 Offbeat * NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap * 4,000 days of Curiosity: Rover still 'strong' despite worn joints, vision issues Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation' * Italy seizes from Airbnb $836M in alleged unpaid taxes Biz says it's just following EU rules instead * ESA goes back to the future with a space freighter... yes again Repeat performance will be able to return to Earth and might one day carry crew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: