Katyanna Quach
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?
Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator → Read More
Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites
Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have dropped offline due to cooling issues as the nation experiences a record-breaking heatwave. When the mercury hit 40.3C (104.5F) in eastern England, the highest ever registered by a country not used to these conditions, datacenters couldn't take the heat. Selected machines were powered off to avoid long-term damage, causing… → Read More
OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief
Could it be a trap? → Read More
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams
$2.5m-a-year CEO set to take a pay cut, so that's all right, then → Read More
They've only gone and bloody done it! SpaceX sends two fellas off to the space station
Bob and Doug are first all-American crew in US-built craft blasting off from American soil in 9 years → Read More
After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts
'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment' → Read More
Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much → Read More
Pablo Escobar's big bro and former accountant sues Apple for $2.6bn over FaceTime bug
The vulnerability allegedly leaked his location, making him a target for hitmen → Read More
Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Bad weather delays historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch
Lift-off postponed to Saturday as rain and clouds move in → Read More
Coronavirus masks are thwarting facial recognition systems. So, of course, people are building training sets from your lockdown-wear selfies
Plus: A peek inside Nvidia's Ampere architecture, and more → Read More
Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip
Tech is perhaps five years away form actual deployment, we're told → Read More
Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter
Pic Astronomers scanning the sky for potentially hazardous space rocks have discovered a first – a presumed trojan asteroid around Jupiter that is looking increasingly like a comet. The cosmic enigma was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which employs two telescopes in Hawaii to snap wide-field images. If the conditions are favorable, the system is able to… → Read More
HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan
Biz says it'll be a proper as-a-service outfit by 2022, which means changes to support, supplies, locations → Read More
NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman
Boffin immortalized, praised for her 'leadership and vision' → Read More
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs
This big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs' → Read More
It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella... Facebook teaches its online tat bazaar to auto-identify stuff for sale
Remember when AI was going to solve the world's major problems? → Read More
Hey, what kind of silicon may power next-gen space probes? We hope your answer includes 'AI acceleration'
Xilinx touts 'industry-first' 20nm FPGA for infinity and beyond → Read More
Car crash: Uber axes another 3,000 jobs, closes 40 offices as it struggles with the coronavirus pandemic
That's a total of 6,700 employees let go this month – so far → Read More
Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain
Plus: Zuck wants machines to spot bad memes on Facebook → Read More
If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam
Export of semiconductors built using US tools banned without license → Read More