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Thanks to IBM, the US now has the world’s most powerful supercomputer
The newest instrument in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s scientific arsenal is a mammoth, liquid-cooled supercomputer sprawled over an eighth of an acre that is being hailed as the fastest in the world. The machine, which goes by Summit, made its official debut today. It was built by IBM Corp. at a cost of $200 ...
Facebook’s privacy woes continue as bug exposes up to 14M users’ private posts
Facebook Inc. disclosed on Thursday that an engineering error has mixed up the sharing settings of 14 million users, potentially exposing countless private posts. The incident lasted from May 18 to May 27. It occurred while Facebook was working to implement a new way for users to spotlight “featured items” on their profiles. The plan was to ...
Google launches new dedicated cloud instances for sensitive workloads
Adding to the roster of infrastructure options on its public cloud, Google Inc. today introduced sole-tenant nodes, new instances that offer dedicated hardware for sensitive workloads. The regular virtual machines on the company’s platform are multitenant, meaning they run on servers typically used by multiple different customers at once. Google’s new sole-tenant nodes, in contrast, ...
Report: Google could be hit with an up to $11B antitrust fine from the EU
The European Union may be gearing up to hit Google Inc. with a massive, multibillion-dollar fine as part of an antitrust probe focused on Android. The information comes courtesy of reports published in the Financial Times and Politico late Wednesday. The latter publication cited multiple people with “direct knowledge” of the investigation as saying that the ...
US will lift the crippling sanctions on China’s ZTE and fine it $1B
The U.S. is set to lift the crippling sanctions it has placed on ZTE Corp. as part of a newly struck deal that will include a $1 billion penalty against the Chinese electronics company and sweeping leadership changes. “At about 6 a.m. this morning, we executed a definitive agreement with ZTE,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ...
LinkedIn taps Microsoft’s Bing for new Commute Time feature targeting job seekers
LinkedIn is becoming increasingly integrated with the other platforms and services in parent company Microsoft Corp.’s portfolio. The latest example of this arrived this morning in the form of Commute Time, a new feature in the social network’s widely used job search tool. It relies on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s Google Maps alternative, to give users information on ...
PagerDuty’s incident response platform can now learn from operations teams
PagerDuty Inc. today unveiled new automation features for its incident response platform that can learn from the administrators who use them. The platform, which has been adopted by Google Inc., Comcast Corp. and other large companies, is designed to help customers better deal with urgent incidents such as a data center outage. Organizations can configure ...
With new chips, AMD ratchets up competition with Intel and Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted two new chips, one for the enterprise and another targeting consumers, that will each one-up the competition in their respective markets. The company made the announcements at the Computex computing trade conference in Taipei. The event had earlier seen the introduction of new chips from Nvidia Corp. and Intel ...
Microsoft has deployed an underwater data center off the Scottish coast
Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick. The 40-foot-long capsule (pictured) holds 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. According Microsoft, the hardware inside is cooled by specialized radiators that use technology originally developed ...
BlackRock leads $93M round into scale-out storage startup Qumulo
Qumulo Inc., a fast-growing storage startup that counts three of the world’s five largest companies as customers, today announced that it has nabbed a sizable $93 million funding round to keep expanding. The investment saw the participation of several high-profile backers. Wall Street giant BlackRock Inc. led the round with participation from the Goldman Sachs ...
