Science & Technology

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Tuesday, December 3 (game #275)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great…

OpenAI spent $80M to $100M training GPT-4; Chinese firm claims it trained its rival AI model for $3 million using just 2,000 GPUs

01.ai trained an AI model for $3 million using 2000 unnamed GPUS “Efficient engineering” allows 01.ai to compete globally, company…

Ryan Gosling’s $20 Casio watch is now even cheaper at Amazon (yes, really)

What do Ryan Gosling, Kristen Stewart, John Mayer, Barack Obama, and Tyler, the Creator have in common? They’re all worth…

AI characters find religion in Minecraft

We usually think about AI in terms of how the models and characters interact with humans. But what happens when…

Nvidia’s closest rival once again obliterates cloud giants in AI performance; Cerebras Inference is 75x faster than AWS, 32x faster than Google on Llama 3.1 405B

Cerebras hits 969 tokens/second on Llama 3.1 405B, 75x faster than AWS Claims industry-low 240ms latency, twice as fast as…

AWS launches security tool to help businesses recover from cyberattacks

AWS Security Incident Response aims to tackle the challenge of addressing various security incidents Looks to lessen strain on cybersecurity…

AWS re:Invent 2024 live – all the news and updates

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of AWS re:Invent 2024! We’re live in Las Vegas and ready for…

Pakistan withdraws plans for VPN ban – but usage may still be at risk

People in Pakistan may still be able to use VPN services without restrictions as the country’s telecom body has decided…

These dangerous Android malware apps have been installed millions of times

Researchers found 15 predatory loan apps on the Play Store These apps promise cheap and quick loans, and then extort…

Undersea cable board launched to combat damage and sabotage

ITU and ICPC announce the launch of a new subsea cable protection board 40 members from around the world will…