October 18, 2004

October 18, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

We’re here, because we’re here, because we’re here

It now seems that the US authorities in Iraq are serious in their request for more British troops. We are told that the 1st Battalion the Black Watch is to be sent north to the Iskandariyah area in order to relieve US Marines for an offensive against Fallujah. For a start, the Watch are getting…

October 18, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

ESF Blogging – Some Final Thoughts

And then it was all over, and Alexandra Palace was littered with rainlashed leaflets, and everyone dispersed. What did we learn? First, the size problem. The various Social Forums have tended to measure their success by the number of people and organisations who attend. This was greater than ever before. Obviously, if you want to…

Brood Parasite-Host Coevolution in America Versus Europe: Egg Rejection in Large-Sized Host Species
Thus, I suggest that the higher discrimination capacity shown by large potential North America host species, especially corvids, despite absence of selective pressures by brood parasites in recent history, strongly implies that rejection in these species evolved in response to selection pressures provoked by at least one extinct brood parasite in the New World, either […]
Asda’s owners piled on £1.5bn of liabilities to fund petrol station deal
So ...it owns the freehold but it's agreed to pay ground rent to the vampire 'roo in exchange for cash down?
Top secret Taurus missile meetings leaked online in security lapse
The URL links to conferences included a simple series of consecutive numbers, which would have been easily guessable by hackers, said the team from Netzbegruendung, a group of IT experts affiliated with the Greens Party.
AI Chip Startups Like MatX Storm Silicon Valley - Bloomberg
I really wouldn't bet on transformer LLMs being always and forever the best option!
Cloud giants' data center boom driven by AI innovation
By the close of 2023, the count of hyperscale data centers stood at a formidable 992, swiftly breaching the 1,000 mark in early 2024. Forecasts indicate a doubling of hyperscale data center capacity in the coming years, with a staggering 440 new centers in the pipeline. This expansion is chiefly propelled by the surging computational […]
Nvidia GPU shortage relief: AI server supply chain see shipments accelerate
While cooling components are particularly crucial for AI servers, the supply crunch of Nvidia's H100 GPUs, resulting from insufficient Chip-on-Wafer-on Substrate (CoWoS) capacity, did affect the demand and shipment of cooling solutions for AI servers in 2023, the sources said. However, they stressed the situation has been improving since 2024, with server shipment growth expected […]
Keyboards and screens could see major design shifts as part of changes brought upon by AI PC
no, no, no, not on your nelly no
AMD optimistic about AI-related performance; gaming business unlikely to improve in short term
Fueled by sales growth in products such as Instinct GPU and the fourth-generation Epyc CPU, data center revenue increased by 80%, reaching US$2.3 billion, setting a new record....AMD estimates that the Instinct MI300 series alone generated over US$1 billion in revenue in less than two quarters since its launch in the fourth quarter of 2023...the […]
TSMC sees AI contributing to more than 20% of 2028 revenue
TSMC predicts that server AI processors' revenue contribution will more than double in 2024, accounting for around 11% to 13% of TSMC's total revenue. Over the next five years, server AI processor revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 50%, reaching over 20% of TSMC's revenue by 2028.
Kristi Noem doubles down on Puppygate — can MAGA's endless trolling go any lower? | Salon.com
It once seemed like a dark joke to say that Trump would eventually resort to kicking puppies to get a rise out of people...Noem skipped that step entirely and went straight to shooting them. That's not to say that shock value is only a tool for the mediocre. Plenty of people, from the Dadaists to […]