With, I think, a massive grain of salt since this info is unverified and direct from the manufacturer...

Huawei’s official presentation claims their Cloudmatrix 385 supercomputer delivers 300 PFLOPS of computing power, 269 TB/s of network bandwidth, and 1,229 TB/s of total memory bandwidth. It also achieves 55 percent model fitting utilization (MFU) during training workloads and offers 2.8 Tbps of inter-card bandwidth, heavily emphasizing its strength in networking.

| Spec            | NVL72 (Nvidia) | CloudMatrix 384 (Huawei) | Better? (%) |
|-----------------|----------------|--------------------------|------------|
| Total compute   | 180 Pflops     | 300 Pflops               | 67%        |
| Total network bw| 130 TB/s       | 269 TB/s                 | 107%       |
| Total mem bw    | 576 TB/s       | 1,229 TB/s               | 113%       |

Nvidia finally has some AI competition as Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics”

Huawei is flexing its networking muscles with its newly unveiled CloudMatrix 384 supercomputer, and it looks like Nvidia could be in trouble.

^{Hassam Nasir (PC Guide)}

Department of Government Efficiency staffers have been given access to government databases containing private information about where people work or live - all with the intention of identifying undocumented immigrants and assisting in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Those databases - at agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Social Security Administration and IRS - contain private information that immigrants of all statuses have submitted about themselves, believing the information would not be used against them.

At HUD, officials are working on a rule that would ban mixed-status households – or those with people who have different immigration or citizenship statuses – from obtaining public housing, unnamed staffers

DOGE, which is being spearheaded by Elon Musk, is combing through HUD data to identify undocumented immigrants and then share that data with the Department of Homeland Security to have people removed from accessing public benefits, even if they live with someone who has legal status.

How DOGE is combing through housing and other data to find migrants for Trump’s deportation plans

Data that DOGE staffers may access include where potential undocumented immigrants may live and work

^{Ariana Baio (The Independent)}

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from rescinding deportation protections and work permits for more than a half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted entrance into the United States under a humanitarian parole program during the Biden presidency.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled, after a hearing last week, that the paroled migrants can stay in the United States as they pursue immigration benefits. In effect, her ruling will prevent the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary, Kristi Noem, from revoking their parole status as part of an administration plan to end the humanitarian program on April 24.

“While [Trump administration officials] are correct that the Secretary’s discretion in this area is broad, their conclusion that the Secretary’s actions are wholly shielded from judicial review is incorrect,” Talwani wrote in in a 41-page order filed in Boston federal court.

In November, Riggs won an election for the state supreme court by a razor-thin 734 votes. But on Friday, the North Carolina supreme court ordered the state board of elections to give certain overseas voters 30 days to prove their eligibility in order to have the votes they cast more than five months ago count.

Riggs has already asked a federal court to intervene and halt the ruling, which could lead to the election results being overturned. She told the Guardian she sees her court challenge as about more than just her seat.

“I worry that this is honing a playbook to be used in the future, that people in power hold on to power by selectively challenging election outcomes that they don’t like,” she said.

‘An existential threat to democracy’: the US judge facing a challenge to her election victory

Allison Riggs won in November – but a court ruling has put ballots in North Carolina under threat. The stakes are high

^{Sam Levine (The Guardian)}

While it is a notch below being a governor or U.S. Senator, the attorney general’s office in Texas has long been a platform for generating publicity and getting into the pipeline for higher office. Every Texas attorney general since 1972 has run for either the U.S. Senate or governor, though not all have won.

Yet, Texas hasn’t seen many open primary battles of attorney general over the last 25 years. Paxton had to go to a runoff election with former Texas Rep. Dan Branch in 2014 to win his first term in office. Before that, you have to go back to 2002, when now Gov. Greg Abbott won his primary unopposed to begin a 12-year run as Texas attorney general. Those are the only two open-seat battles for attorney general since George W. Bush was governor.

Who will replace Ken Paxton as Texas Attorney General?

Ken Paxton's decision to run for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn could set off a crowded GOP primary for Texas Attorney General.

^{Jeremy Wallace (Houston Chronicle)}

https://www.wired.com/story/theres-even-ai-inside-windows-paint-and-notepad-now-heres-how-to-use-it/

crosspostato da: feddit.it/post/16628283

Fin dall’inizio il Titanic fece un’impressione diversa rispetto alle altre navi. Tutto ciò che aveva a che fare con quest’imbarcazione acquisì toni leggendari, e quest’aura non fece che aumentare col passare del tempo e con l’avvicinarsi del completamento dell’imbarcazione e della preparazione del viaggio inaugurale.

#podcast

Storiaweb

2025-04-15 13:51:33

Podcast ed articolo – La tragedia del Titanic da Storica National Geographic

Fin dall’inizio il Titanic fece un’impressione diversa rispetto alle altre navi. Tutto ciò che aveva a che fare con quest’imbarcazione acquisì toni leggendari, e quest’aura non fece che aumentare col passare del tempo e con l’avvicinarsi del completamento dell’imbarcazione e della preparazione del viaggio inaugurale.

#podcast

Podcast – La tragedia del Titanic

La nave "inaffondabile" fu costruita in due anni, navigò per quattro giorni e mezzo e, dopo essersi scontrata con un iceberg, affondò in due ore e 40 minuti portandosi via più di 1.500 vite

^{Testo: Emilio Calle / Voce: Pia Brugnatelli (National Geographic Storica)}

Fin dall’inizio il Titanic fece un’impressione diversa rispetto alle altre navi. Tutto ciò che aveva a che fare con quest’imbarcazione acquisì toni leggendari, e quest’aura non fece che aumentare col passare del tempo e con l’avvicinarsi del completamento dell’imbarcazione e della preparazione del viaggio inaugurale.

#podcast

Podcast – La tragedia del Titanic

La nave "inaffondabile" fu costruita in due anni, navigò per quattro giorni e mezzo e, dopo essersi scontrata con un iceberg, affondò in due ore e 40 minuti portandosi via più di 1.500 vite

^{Testo: Emilio Calle / Voce: Pia Brugnatelli (National Geographic Storica)}

Rodolfo Lettore legge e interpreta la poesia “Lascia che sia l’anima” di Giuseppe Iannozzi

Crediti:

Testo: Giuseppe Iannozzi
Voce: Rodolfo Lettore
Video: Anna Parascandolo

Rodolfo Lettore legge la poesia di Giuseppe Iannozzi (Videopoesia)

Rodolfo Lettore legge e interpreta la poesia “Lascia che sia l’anima” di Giuseppe Iannozzi Crediti:Testo: Giuseppe IannozziVoce: Rodolfo Lettore Video: Anna Parascandolo LASCIA CH…

^{Iannozzi Giuseppe - scrittore e giornalista}

Signal messages discussing sensitive U.S. military plans were not on CIA director John Ratcliffe's phone when the CIA reviewed them, the CIA's Chief Data Officer has said.

In a court document submitted Monday as part of a lawsuit between nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight and White House officials, Hurley V. Blankenship said that when the CIA reviewed a sensitive Signal group chat on March 31, days after news broke that a journalist had been erroneously added to it, "substantive messages" were not present and instead the chat showed only its group name and administrative settings.

…

Officials on the chat group faced bipartisan criticism including the lawsuit, which alleged breaches of the Federal Records Act and the Administrative Procedure Act by conducting government business on a platform which erases communications.

Signal War Plans Messages Disappear from CIA Director's Phone

Hurley Blankenship, CIA's chief data officer, said "substantive messages" were not present.

^{Kate Plummer (Newsweek)}

Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average

Archived version: archive.is/20250415023022/theg…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years

^{Sarah Butler (The Guardian)}

Meta’s CEO reluctantly made an appearance.

Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand

During the first day of the FTC’s trial seeking to break Meta up, CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s acquisition of Instagram.

^{Alex Heath (The Verge)}

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on

Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption

: When the power went out, they didn’t switch on

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

See no error, hear no error, speak no error

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

: See no error, hear no error, speak no error

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

Trump has suggested that "homegrown" criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.

If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?

That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.

Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.

Legal experts pan Trump's plan to deport U.S. citizens

^{Lawrence Hurley (NBC News)}

Plan comes after Donald Trump reiterated import threats and chipmaker’s CEO dined at US president’s resort

Nvidia to build $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms

^{Lauren Almeida (The Guardian)}

In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.

AI has led to a remarkable shift in internet traffic. Automated traffic (51 percent) is greater than human traffic for the first time in ten years.

AI bots dominate internet traffic - Techzine Global

Generative AI ensures the dominance of bots in internet traffic: 51% is now automated, of which 37% is malicious, according to an Imperva report.

^{Berry Zwets (Techzine)}

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-returns-privacy/

Yet another excuse to keep checking our phones.

Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days

Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven’t unlocked them for three days.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to US

Archived version: archive.is/20250414134042/theg…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

^{Heather Stewart (The Guardian)}

Carriers also asked to stop purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US firms, report says

China reportedly orders its airlines to halt Boeing jet deliveries amid US trade war

^{Lauren Almeida (The Guardian)}