AI chip startup Etched closes $300m funding round, doubles its valuation to $10.3bn

Nvidia has introduced its next-generation Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, positioning it as a key building block for the next wave of “gigascale” AI factories designed to connect millions of GPUs while reducing power consumption and operational costs. The networking platform is part of Nvidia’s broader Rubin architecture, which integrates six major components—including the Vera CPU,…

Luxury SUVs are often associated with high purchase prices and equally expensive running costs. While premium interiors and advanced technology are easy to find, impressive fuel economy usually isn’t, especially once you move beyond mainstream options and start exploring the luxury segment. One small Japanese luxury SUV bucks that trend. It combines the upscale cabin…

“Instead of operating two separate DNS systems, customers use one API, one audit trail, one dashboard, and one policy engine for every DNS query—whether it is for a public website or an internal application,” Somoza said. Policy first. The resolver sits ahead of every lookup, not behind it. “Architecturally, Cloudflare Gateway becomes the resolver that customers…

This visualization looks at the token “Trump” in GPT-2 Small’s static embedding table, before attention or context is applied. The top plot is a t-SNE projection of 32,070 alphabetic tokens with at least two characters. The two graphs below compare Trump’s nearest neighbours under two representations of the same embedding: Discretized: each coordinate is thresholded…

Once upon a time, there were actual arguments as to whether CIOs should be business people, not technology people. With any luck, these arguments were stomped out back here: “The case against the ‘business-savvy CIO’” — which drove the arguments for this false dichotomy into the ground back in 2018. Some complications have arisen in…

Right on the heels of Microsoft releasing a record number of security patches, a researcher has published exploit code that can enable low-privilege Windows accounts to make sensitive changes to administrator accounts. The exploit, which multiple researchers say works, is sending Microsoft scrambling, yet again, to patch a zero-day released by an anonymous researcher who…