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upstart writes:Multiple BusyBox Security Bugs Threaten Embedded Linux Devices:

upstart writes:Once mighty conglomerate GE to split into three units:

takyon writes:Samsung Announces LPDDR5X DRAM for Smartphones; 1.3x Faster Than LPDDR5 With Speeds up to 8.5Gbps

upstart writes:Bedtime linked with heart health:

DannyB writes:Ferocious 'penis worms' were the hermit crabs of the ancient seas:

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takyon writes:AMD has announced its "Milan-X" Epyc CPUs, which reuse the same Zen 3 chiplets found in "Milan" Epyc CPUs with up to 64 cores, but with triple the L3 cache using stacked "3D V-Cache" technology designed in partnership with TSMC. This means that some Epyc CPUs will go from having 256 MiB of L3 cache to a whopping 768 MiB (804 MiB of cache when including L1 and L2 cache). 2-socket servers using Milan-X can have over 1.5 gigabytes of L3 cache. The huge amount of additional cache results in average performance gains in "targeted workloads" of around 50% according to AMD. Microsoft found an 80% improvement in some workloads (e.g. computational fluid dynamics) due to the increase in effective memory bandwidth.AMD's next-generation of Instinct high-performance computing GPUs will use a multi-chip module (MCM) design, essentially chiplets for GPUs. The Instinct MI250X includes two "CDNA 2" dies for a total of 220 compute units, compared to 120 compute units for the previous MI100 monolithic GPU. Performance is roughly doubled (FP32 Vector/Matrix, FP16 Matrix, INT8 Matrix), quadrupled (FP64 Vector), or octupled (FP64 Matrix). VRAM has been quadrupled to 128 GB of High Bandwidth Memory. Power consumption of the world's first MCM GPU will be high, as it has a 560 Watt TDP.The Frontier exascale supercomputer will use both Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI200 GPUs.AMD officially confirmed that upcoming Zen 4 "Genoa" Epyc CPUs made on a TSMC "5nm" node will have up to 96 cores. AMD also announced "Bergamo", a 128-core "Zen 4c" Epyc variant, with the 'c' indicating "cloud-optimized". This is a denser, more power-efficient version of Zen 4 with a smaller cache. According to a recent leak, Zen 4c chiplets will have 16 cores instead of 8, will retain hyperthreading, and will be used in future Zen 5 Ryzen desktop CPUs as AMD's answer to Intel's Alder Lake heterogeneous ("big.LITTLE") x86 microarchitecture.Also at Tom's Hardware (Milan-X).Previously: AMD Reveals 'Instinct' for Machine Intelligence

upstart writes:Drinking linked to a decline in brain health from cradle to grave: Harm prevention policies must take the long view, say experts:

upstart writes:New glue sticks easily, holds strongly, and is a gas to pull apart: Research expands number of temporary adhesives:

JoeMerchant writes:Quantum Brilliance was founded in 2019 on the back of research undertaken by its founders at the Australian National University, where they developed techniques to manufacture, scale and control qubits embedded in synthetic diamond.The company has already built a number of "Quantum development kits" in rack units, each with around 5 qubits to work with, and it's placing them with customers already, for benchmarking, integration, co-design opportunities and to let companies start working out where they'll be advantageous once they hit the market in a ~50-qubit "Quantum Accelerator" product form by around 2025. "We think over a decade," says Luo, "we can even produce a quantum system-on-a-chip for mobile devices. Because this is truly material science technology that can achieve that." From their whitepaper, the technical description of their technique is:

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upstart writes:Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'Asteroids' arcade game:

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upstart writes:How space solar panels could power the Earth with 24/7 clean energy:

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takyon writes:Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/01/world-of-warcraft-director-ion-hazzikostas-talks-the-games-future-and-current-soul-searching/

upstart writes:The U.S. Blacklists Makers of Cops' Favorite iPhone Hacking Tool:

upstart writes:Children who don't eat eggs before first birthday more likely to develop egg allergy:

upstart writes:Drinking alcohol won't help you live longer:

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takyon writes:VIA To Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel For $125 Million

upstart writes:Making Aircraft Fuel From Sunlight and Air:

upstart writes:Revolutionary identity verification technique offers robust solution to hacking:

Freeman writes:Apple’s Federighi delivers dramatic speech on dangers of sideloading:

upstart writes:New York City mayor-elect says he'll take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin:

DannyB writes:Bezos’ Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX $2.9 billion lunar lander contract:

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Freeman writes:Intel's Alder Lake big.LITTLE CPU design, tested: It's a barn burner:

upstart writes:Bilingualism Comes Naturally to Our Brains:

upstart writes:Machine learning identifies new brain network signature of major depression: Novel signature could improve understanding of depression and its subtypes, and how to treat them:

upstart writes:University of Adelaide built a robot spider to scan Australia's Naracoorte Caves:

upstart writes:Los Angeles County sheriff doubles down on not enforcing vaccine mandate as he warns of mass exodus:

upstart writes:Babies wanted: Chinese province may offer a year of maternity leave:

takyon writes:Microsoft launches Google Wave

DannyB writes:Astronauts grew green chile on the space station and made themselves space tacos:

hubie writes:Probably not the most profound of results, but this Scientific Reports paper is interesting nonetheless.

driverless writes:Canon have just unveiled their entry for the Worst Idea in Tech competition for 2021, an AI-camera that watches you 24/7 and streams anything it thinks is interesting.Canon Unveils its First Smart Camera set to Transform how Families Photograph:

upstart writes:Pushing renewable power immediately could save trillions in health costs:

upstart writes:Better diabetes treatment: New insulin molecule can self-regulate blood sugar:

upstart writes:Hubble remains in safe mode after latest glitch - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:Talk-to-tilt: head tilting in dogs:

DannyB writes:As teens left Facebook, company planned to lure 6-year-olds, documents show:

DannyB writes:NASA Delays SpaceX Launch Due to "Medical Issue":

upstart writes:Yahoo pulls out of China over 'challenging' business conditions: