Day: June 7, 2018

HPE: Exafloppers need to be ‘memory-centric’ as world cannot afford internode data slinging

Got to keep the purse-strings tight on that power budget, innit? Analysis HPE Advanced Technologies veep Mike Vildibill has told El Reg that power budget limitations will end the current supercomputer model of having multiple independent nodes passing chunks of data between them.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Ikea-Sonos Symfonisk speaker will bring the sweet sound of Swedish furniture – CNET

No Allen wrench required. …read more Source:: CNet


Read Google’s AI ethics memo: “We are not developing AI for use in weapons” – CNET

CEO Sundar Pichai says the company will still work with the military, though. …read more Source:: CNet


More enterprises are going ‘all-in’ with select cloud providers (Cloud TV)

Don’t look now but more enterprises are going “all-in” with select cloud providers. Will enterprises repeat the same lock-in mistakes made in the big enterprise software era …read more Source:: ZDNet


Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Adobe Flash gets emergency patch for zero-day exploit

The internet’s screen door gets kicked open once again Adobe has kicked out an out-of-band update for a security vulnerability in Flash – after learning the bug was being actively exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack PCs.… …read more Source:: Register


Net Neutrality Will Be Repealed Monday Unless Congress Takes Action

With net neutrality rules scheduled to be repealed on Monday, Senate Democrats are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule a vote that could preserve the broadband regulations. From a report: The US Senate voted on May 16 to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules, but a House vote —…


Galaxy Note 9 may fix the Note 8’s most annoying flaw, leak shows – CNET

These fan-made renders (apparently) show the Samsung phone from every angle. …read more Source:: CNet


Vaporwave For The Parallel Port

FM synthesis is the sound of the 1980s, it’s the sound of shopping malls and Macintosh Plus. It’s the sound of the Motorola DynaTAC, busts of Helios, and the sound of vaporwave サ閲ユ. The chips most responsible for this sound is the OPL2 and OPL3, tiny little FM synthesizers on a chip, produced by Yamaha, and…


Japan’s asteroid-hunting robot Hayabusa2 has its prey within its sights

Landing, roving, cratering. What could possibly go wrong? Hopefully, nothing Boffins at Japan’s space agency, JAXA, announced Thursday that their asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 was within sight of its target, Ryugu, with arrival scheduled within the month.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Waymo is setting its sights on Europe, according to CEO John Krafcik – Roadshow

Waymo’s CEO John Krafcik dished on the company’s plans for Europe in a conference in Italy. …read more Source:: CNet