The spy who shagged? US intelligence believes Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman who befriended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while her company bought billions of dollars’ worth of his AI chips, was spying for China’s Ministry of State Security. Last spring, a memo that circulated among top Trump’s policymakers said she had been recruited to learn about American AI chips and …
Apple introduced its Action Button back in 2023, replacing the popular mute switch on iPhones. After a good few years’ run, Apple will reportedly ditch the Action Button on iPhone 20. Well, at least according to tipster Instant Digital. This is a major hardware move, considering it pans out. New leak suggests Apple may ditch Action Button on iPhone 20 …
Samsung has never needed much encouragement to poke fun at Apple. With some iPhone Duo owners reporting cracked inner displays, Samsung’s social media teams have had plenty of inspiration. In several countries, Samsung has been turning those reports into jokes starring the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Some involve a fake broken screen, while others simply remind Apple that Samsung has …
ZDNET’s key takeaways An ancient bug is affecting Alpine Linux and a few other Linux distros. It’s about as bad as it can get. You must patch ASAP, and then restart the patched software. The perfect nightmare scenario for a Linux server is when all an attacker needs to do is reach the server’s Secure Shell (SSH) port, waltz right …
In August, Samsung opened the One UI 9 Watch (Wear OS 7) beta program for the Galaxy Watch 8 and the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, the first set of smartwatches to which the brand offered it. Now, almost two and a half months and six beta versions later, the company has ended the beta program and released the stable version …
OPINIONTraditionally, security incident records have served a singular, very important purpose: to document what the organization observed, decided, and did. Closure notes, rule text, false-positive dispositions, and the reason why an alert was dropped are treated by security teams as records contained in the ticket queue. For organizations to reconstruct their decisions and, crucially, be accountable for them later, all …
During reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, training trajectories are generated on the fly by running inference with the current policy model. For training efficiency, it is common to run inference and training in parallel on separate GPU resources in a disaggregated setup. Although the policy model is updated only on the training GPUs, the system must periodically refresh the weights on …
Summary AI tools have flooded Linux with rapid bug reports, enlarging recent release candidates. bpf fixes now outpace new bug reports, a hopeful sign for future trends. Cross your fingers — fixes may outpace reports now, but -rc3 could reverse it. Over the past half-year or so, we’ve been seeing bigger Linux release candidates than before. That sounds like a …
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Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. But this isn’t a case of just another CEO having an extramarital affair. The romantic interest is Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom U.S. officials believe is a Chinese spy who was feeding information back to Beijing. In short, …