Those vendors then moved on to selling whole systems, with newcomers such as SambaNova Systems starting out with that premise. Now, the action is proceeding to a new phase, where vendors are partnering with cloud operators to challenge the entrenched place of Nvidia as the vendor of choice in cloud AI. Cerebras on Thursday announced a partnership with cloud operator Cirrascale to allow users to rent capacity on Cerebras’s CS-2 AI machine running in Cirrascale cloud data centers....

But the turn to secrecy may have prompted some participants in the AI world to step in and fill the void of disclosure. Also: The best AI chatbots to try On Tuesday, AI pioneer Cerebras Systems, makers of a dedicated AI computer, and the world’s largest computer chip, published as open-source several versions of generative AI programs to use without restriction. The programs are “trained” by Cerebras, meaning brought to optimal performance using the company’s powerful supercomputer, thereby reducing some of the work that outside researchers have to do....

While Red Hat has extended a hand to disillusioned CentOS users with new free versions of RHEL for developers and small teams, other users are still looking for alternatives. That’s where AlmaLinux comes in. Also: Best Linux Foundation classes AlmaLinux is a binary compatible community RHEL server Linux fork. CloudLinux is backing AlmaLinux with a $1 million annual sponsorship. CloudLinux promises this first release based on RHEL 8.x will be supported until at least 2029....

Also: How to turn your old Fire tablet into an Echo Show You should buy an Apple iPad if… 1. Your tablet doubles as your computer Though a tablet tends to be the perfect mix between a phone or a computer, if you’re looking for one that offers the power of a small computer with the portability of a tablet, then the iPad is the better choice. The 2022 iPad Pro in particular is the not only the fastest iPad to date, thanks to the M2 chip, but you can also choose from storage options of 125GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB or 2TB, and it supports the hover feature of the Apple Pencil (2nd generation)....

Suddenly, it’s as if the very biggest people-flyers want to show how much they care about every single customer, especially the most stressed, the most harrassed and the most troubled. Also: This tiny travel adapter replaces a whole bag of phone and laptop chargers for me This change of heart – or, perhaps, merely the finding of a heart – began with United Airlines. The airline suddenly realized it could use technology to give parents the one thing they all wanted....

Membership Rewards points vary in value, and can be deposited directly into Business Checking accounts. According to Amex, Business Checking members can deposit 10,000 points into their account and it will equate to $80. Business Checking members who are also Business Platinum cardholders, however, can deposit 10,000 points for a $100 value, and they can deposit up to 1,000,000 points in a calendar year. Following that limit, they will receive the standard conversion of 10,000 points for $80....

On Thursday, members of Anonymous announced on Twitter that they would be launching attacks against the Russian government. The hacktivists defaced some local government websites in Russia and temporarily took down others, including the website of Russian news outlet RT. The group claimed on Friday that it would leak login credentials for the Russian Ministry of Defense website. The actions came hours after Yegor Aushev, co-founder of a Kyiv-based cybersecurity company, told Reuters that he was asked by a senior Ukrainian Defense Ministry official to publish a call for help within the hacking community....

That’s perhaps inevitable, as the 2022 edition of the 13-inch MacBook Pro is, essentially, a speed bump that does little more than drop the new M2 chip into the same 13-inch laptop design that’s been in use for several years. And, in many respects, the MacBook Air is now the more attractive of the two laptops. The one real advantage of the MacBook Pro is that its fan-assisted cooling system allows its processor to run at full speed for longer than the passive cooling of the MacBook Air....

“Apple and Google have developed a vice-like grip over how we use mobile phones and we’re concerned that it’s causing millions of people across the UK to lose out,” said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA). The CMA had provisionally found that Apple and Google were able to use their market dominance to create “largely self-contained ecosystems” through iOS and the App Store and Android and Google Play....

The recent survey of 400 IT leaders, commissioned by Insight and conducted by IDG, finds “modernization efforts to-date are already generating measurable improvements in service quality, user experience, and cost-efficiency,” the survey’s authors state. So what is “modernization” in a 2022 context? Just few years back, it meant pulling away from mainframes and midrange-class servers to Windows and Linux (and Unix). Then it became moving from Windows/Linux server collections to cloud-based services....

The report sent Arista shares up 8% in late trading. Despite the upbeat report and forecast, CEO Jayshree Ullal told analysts during the company’s conference call Monday evening that disruption of the global supply chain that is affecting its sales of network switches will continue into 2023. “And so despite the supply chain obstacles that we now expect to continue into 2023, we have emerged stronger,” Ullal told analysts. Some progress with suppliers in November yielded to further supply disruption as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 emerged, she said....

Also read: Microsoft’s cloud-connected on-prem database: SQL Server 2022 rolls out in private preview Open source database, the SQL Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself would support open source platforms that compete with its own SQL Server platform was big news. It made sense, though; if it’s something Microsoft’s customers want, and it drives cloud compute and storage revenue, it’s in Microsoft’s interest....

It always worked perfectly well. If I had to take a trip abroad, I’d go to the AT&T website. I’d then buy an international data plan and believe that I wouldn’t use more than the number of GB specified. Your device isn’t eligible. Go away Why would I expect this time to be any different? Yet suddenly the AT&T site decided I’d become inferior. It told me that my device wasn’t eligible for the international plan....

Atlassian’s head of engineering Agnes Ro has experienced this first-hand. Ro has spent the last 15 years working at the software company – initially as a graduate developer, before rising up the ranks to oversee a team of 100 engineers for a department called Foundational Collaboration that sits within Atlassian’s cloud platform. Some of her key responsibilities include delivering common experiences and backend services for Atlassian products, such as rich text editors in JIRA and Confluence, as well as file and storage experiences....

Australia Post CIO Munro Farmer explained that the need to improve parcel tracking was driven by the increase in parcel shipments. “What we saw in 2020 was that four out of five Australian households – so almost 9 million households – were making an online purchase at some point during the year, and included in that number was more than 1.3 million households that purchased in 2020 that hadn’t bought online in 2019,” he said....

On the crypto front, simply because you managed to make money before last week’s crash hit off a decentralised system, does not mean the tax office is not owed something, much like selling property or shares, selling crypto or NFTs can mean tax is due. “Crypto is a popular type of asset and we expect to see more capital gains or capital losses reported in tax returns this year. Remember you can’t offset your crypto losses against your salary and wages,” ATO assistant commissioner Tim Loh said....

The third quarter report shows that 30,393 complaints were made between January and March 2021, 101 fewer complaints than last quarter and 4,004 less than the start of 2020-21 when there was an increase in complaints. On a year-on-year basis, there was a 6.1% drop in complaints. Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton said the drop in overall complaints was a sign of telcos improving their service level. “Everyone knows it is frustrating when it is hard to contact service providers in any industry to get an issue dealt with – so the evident strong improvement in telcos being reachable and available to deliver good customer service is very welcome,” he said....

The following VPNs were studied: Hotspot Shield Elite, Avast SecureLine, Avira Phantom VPN Pro, Cisco VPN, ExpressVPN, F-Secure FREEDOME VPN, VPN Unlimited, Private Internet Access, NordVPN, Pulse VPN, Norton WiFi Privacy, and TunnelBear. The VPNs were evaluated on the basis of four categories: usability, privacy and security, performance, and functionality. All the VPNs were used with their default configurations and protocols. Overall the best performing VPN was Hotspot Shield. Below are more details concerning the tests themselves, as well as the results....

Avaya also reported its third quarter financial results before the bell on Monday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company delivered net income of $43 million, or 43 cents per share. Non-GAAP earnings were 75 cents a share on revenue of $732 million, up 2% from a year ago. Wall Street was expecting the company to report earnings of 70 cents per share on revenue of $729.8 million. Elsewhere on the balance sheet, Avaya said its software and services products accounted for 88% of revenue, with recurring revenue contributing 64%....

Meanwhile, the new SageMaker Training Compiler automatically compiles a user’s Python training code and generates GPU kernels specifically for their model. The training code will use less memory and compute, training models faster. AWS says it can speed up training by up to 50%. AWS also rolled out a preview of SageMaker Serverless Inference, a new inference option that lets users deploy ML models for inference without having to configure or manage the underlying infrastructure....