Technology
Meta debuts newest Llama AI model with help from Nvidia and cloud partners
Meta on Tuesday announced the latest version of its Llama artificial intelligence model, dubbed Llama 3.1. The newest Llama technology comes in three different versions, with one variant being the biggest and most capable AI model from Meta to date. Like previous versions of Llama, the newest model continues to be open source, which means […]
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Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
\Trade fair visitors walk past a Google logo at the Google stand at Hannover Messe 2024. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images After years of delay, Google says it will no longer cancel and replace third-party cookies — a practice long used by advertisers — for its internet browser Chrome. Cookies are small […]
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Republican representatives call on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify
Passengers seen waiting after a major disruption in Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services caused widespread flight cancellations and delays at T3 IGI Airport in New Delhi, India, on July 19, 2024. Vipin Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images Republican representatives on Monday called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify in front of the House Committee […]
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Tesla reports second-quarter earnings on Tuesday and investors want a robotaxi update
Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024. Source: Tesla Inc. Tesla will report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. The company’s vehicle deliveries report on July 2 was better than analysts feared, but still represented a decline from the previous year. The earnings call on […]
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CrowdStrike shares tumble as fallout from global tech outage continues
George Kurtz, president CEO and Co-Founder at CrowdStrike speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 21, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters CrowdStrike shares slipped as much as 13% on Monday morning, as the cybersecurity software company continued to help clients across industries recover from an outage that took millions of […]
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Autonomous AI workers that talk to each other will arrive in 2025, Capgemini predicts
Photo Of Robot Examining Invoice With Magnifying Glass. Andreypopov | Istock | Getty Images Artificial intelligence-powered agents will be able to work together and solve tasks in a so-called “multi-agent AI” system by 2025, according to technology services giant Capgemini. Such a system would entail a collection of agents that work together to solve tasks […]
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The CrowdStrike fail and next global IT meltdown already in the making
When computer screens went blue worldwide on Friday, flights were grounded, hotel check-ins became impossible, and freight deliveries were brought to a stand-still. Businesses resorted to paper and pen. And initial suspicions landed on some sort of cyberterrorist attack. The reality, however, was much more mundane: a botched software update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. “In […]
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The Crowdstrike outage and global software’s single-point failure problem
The frequency of large-scale attacks on corporate enterprise IT is increasing. That’s not unusual or unexpected as companies spend heavily on cyber defense in an asymmetric war against hackers who can string together a few lines of code and wreak havoc. But the largest IT outage ever on Friday, resulting from a CrowdStrike software bug […]
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CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
A general view from Dusseldorf Airport as passengers gather and wait due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cyber security services to US technology company Microsoft, on July 19, 2024 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Hesham Elsherif | Anadolu | Getty Images Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, […]
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Xiaomi launches first flip phone at just over $800, with a $70 portable printer
Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi on Friday launched its first flip phone alongside an upgraded version of its foldable. Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Xiaomi on Friday launched its first flip phone with the ability to print pictures instantly using a separately sold portable printer. The Mix Flip starts at 5,999 yuan ($825), the company announced. Preorders […]
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