takyon writes:The Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has exceeded 1.1 exaFLOPS (Rmax), leading the June 2022 TOP500 list as the world's fastest supercomputer and the first truly "exascale" system.Frontier uses 9,408 64-core Epyc 7A53 CPUs and 37,632 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. It has 4.6 petabytes each of DDR4 and High Bandwidth Memory.Frontier also reached #2 on the June 2022 Green500 list at 52.227 gigaFLOPS/Watt, behind the smaller Frontier Test & Development System:
canopic jug writes:Digital librarian, Karen Coyle, has written about controlled digital lending (warning for PDF), where an artificial scarcity is applied to digital artifacts to limit concurrent access similar to the limitations that a finite number of objects exhibit in libraries' physical collections. This concept raises a lot of questions about not just copyright and digital versus physical, but also about reading in general. Some authors and publisher associations have already begun to object to controlled digital lending. However, few set aside misinformation and misdirection to allow for a proper, in-depth discussion of the issues.
Tech Review is running a piece on a new/recent approach to self driving, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/27/1052826/ai-reinforcement-learning-self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-wayve-waabi-cruise/
Rich writes:A digital certificate that expired after 10 years is causing a major outage in German retail payment handling. The involved Verifone H5000 card reader was introduced in 2012 but is still widely in use. Acceptance points have been advised to not power off their devices, because on startup, the failing certificate locks out the device even from updates. The vendor is trying to come up with a solution, which will likely involve USB sticks for local updates.Report in English: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-05-27/aaefes-esso-credit-card-outage-6146620.htmlDetails in German (with screenshots): https://www.borncity.com/blog/2022/05/27/strung-der-verifone-h5000-ec-kartenlesegerte-einige-insights-zur-zertifikateproblematik/While in the past, many issues could be fixed by cleverly scraping together remaining data, this is one of the first nationwide occurrences of a new class of security-related bugs that actively lock out any solution attempt. What is your experience in this field?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
canopic jug and owl write in with news about some classic software:Hacker Tavis Ormandy has ported IBM's Lotus 1-2-3 to GNU/Linux and writes in his blog about how he did it. It's 100% usable even if the DOS emulation version still looks a little better.