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Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s Katyanna Quach Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 23:36 UTC Share Copy HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) supercomputer using AMD and Nvidia's latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast. That system running today, code-named Cheyenne, is four years old, and now its government-funded lab wants a bigger and faster super to forecast natural disasters unfolding on Earth. Uncle Sam shopped ...

Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare? Richard Speed Thu 28 Jan 2021 // 18:22 UTC Share Copy Unless the venerable language has finally breathed its last – which is more than a little unlikely – the Perl.com domain was hijacked yesterday. A warning went up on the perl.org infrastructure weblog overnight notifying users that perl.com now directed to a parking site and advised against visiting "as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past." Seems a bit of a harsh description of Perl. We at El Reg are big fans aft...

Freshest flagship delivers, and looks good doing it Matthew Hughes Thu 28 Jan 2021 // 10:26 UTC Share Copy Review The Samsung Galaxy S21 is not a particularly ambitious phone. There’s nothing novel or provocative about it. It’s a flagship, yes. But it’s also a fairly conservative one, faithfully sticking to the paths trodden by its predecessors. That sounds like a complaint, but believe me, it isn’t. Although Samsung repressed its playful side when designing the S21, we’re left with a phone that’s got more polish than a B&Q warehouse, and delivers everythin...

Third time's a charm? Suebell number three filed by Euroconsumers members Katyanna Quach Tue 26 Jan 2021 // 07:27 UTC Share Copy Apple may have to cough up €60m ($73m, £53m) after Altroconsumo, an Italian consumers rights group, filed a class-action lawsuit railing against Cupertino's practice of throttling the performance of its older smartphones. Altroconsumo, backed by parent consumer group Euroconsumers, claims Apple's iOS deliberately slowed down apps running on iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S and 6S Plus models to drive people into buying newer and better gear. The right...

Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars Katyanna Quach Mon 25 Jan 2021 // 06:54 UTC Share Copy In Brief Google last week locked the work account of the co-lead of its AI ethics unit, Margaret Mitchell, as she investigated the controversial ousting of her colleague Timnit Gebru. Late last year, Gebru, a prominent AI ethics expert, was pushed out of Google, which led to a substantial public and internal backlash against her treatment. Now Gebru’s colleague Mitchell has found herself frozen out of her...