Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.… #theregister #IT

Meet your new colleague – the Machine Learning Admin

: IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff

Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it’s found more efficient ways to do so.… #theregister #IT

Tencent says it has enough GPUs to train AI models for years

: Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less

AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster Interview  After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.… #theregister #IT

TensorWave CEO: AMD GPUs now ready for AI training

Interview: Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant Comment  Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redunda… #theregister #IT

GAO finds billions in govt savings, all without Elon

Comment: More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant

Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.… #theregister #IT

Cyber-attack halts Nucor metal production operations

: Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence

Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.… #theregister #IT

Intuitive Machines blames data, lighting for tipped lander

: Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky

RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.… #theregister #IT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 starts trickling quietly out

: GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English

The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says Cheaper, open source LLMs will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.… #theregister #IT

Future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce

: Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts

Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to… #theregister #IT

DHS pulls $2.4B Leidos CISA deal after rival calls foul

: Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated

Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes Intel is wooing external chip customers for its 14A process node to justify the high costs involved, and aims for the foundry division to break even by 2027 - as part of ongoing effort to shake off the struggles of recent years.… #theregister #IT

Intel needs external customers to make 14A pay off

: Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes