April 16, 2004

April 16, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

BBC – CRB brands innocent citizens criminals

Our beloved Criminal Records Bureau has apparently owned up to incorrectly listing some 193 persons as convicted criminals, usually by mis-associating applicants with similar names to criminals on the police national computer. This is fairly typical of David Blunkett’s brilliant idea, which famously couldn’t actually check criminal records much and took three months to process…

April 16, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

A Brief Guide to the Non-War so far…

GlobalSecurity.org has a useful list of US Army and Marine operations in Iraq. Here goes: Operations Operation PLANET X (15 May 2003) Operation PENINSULA STRIKE (9 June – 12 June 2003) Operation DESERT SCORPION (15 June 2003 – ?) Operation SCORPION STING Operation SPARTAN SCORPION Operation SIDEWINDER (29 June – 07 July 2003) Operation SODA…

AI server demand fuels DRAM titans battle over HBM
The second advantage of NCF lies in heat dissipation performance. Compared to MR-MUF, which relies on backfill materials, the more critical factor is the metal density during stacking, which provides better thermal conductivity. With more silicon vias, heat dissipation can reach the top layer from the bottom layer
Will Naver's bilateral collaboration with Samsung and Intel on AI work out?
so really they're secondsourcing between the Sammy and Intel Gaudi
SoftBank is said in talks to buy troubled AI chip firm Graphcore
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to acquire Graphcore Ltd., a struggling British semiconductor startup once valued at $2.8 billion, according to people familiar with the deals.
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Workloads, Core-Cloud-Edge - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
IBM POWER10 AI edge inference server. I am sure the few people who want such a thing want it very much!
RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain - The New York Times
The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition...About the same time he learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from […]
Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha
we project significant revenue contributions from our AI cloud optimized programs, well in excess of our prior estimate of a couple of hundred million dollars in fiscal 2025. In fact, as our cloud optimized AI silicon programs reach high-volume production, we expect our overall cloud optimized revenue to exceed $200 million exiting the fourth quarter. […]
Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha
Q1 networking revenue of $3.3 billion grew 46% year-on-year, representing 45% of our semiconductor revenue. This was largely driven by strong demand for our custom AI accelerators at our 2 hyperscale customers...I know we told you in December, our revenue from AI would be 25% of our full year semiconductor revenue. We now expect revenue […]
Broadcom Inc (AVGO) Enabling AI Infrastructure Investor Meeting (Transcript) | Seeking Alpha
the 600W chip is presumably the Google TPU v5p
The ANC treats Anglo American as both national champion and national piñata
Recently, in co-operation with government, they have provided private security to guard railway lines targeted by criminal gangs // that's....quite some degree of erosion of the state.
Collective sensing in electric fish | Nature
that's really interesting, if only there was some way of reading it, especially as even if you circumvent the national firewall we pretend doesn't exist to reach the very bad website it's not there