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St. Cloud police investigating body found near high school

Jul. 1—ST. CLOUD — St. Cloud police are investigating a “suspicious death” after a body was found Monday morning, July 1, near Tech High School. The body was found near 4200 33rd St. S at about 11:09 a.m., according to a police news release. According to the release: St. Cloud Fire was called for a […]

Alibaba Cloud ditches Nvidia’s interconnect in favor of Ethernet — tech giant uses own High Performance Network to connect 15,000 GPUs inside data center

Alibaba Cloud engineer and researcher Ennan Zhai shared his research paper via GitHub, revealing the Cloud provider’s design for its data centers used for LLM training. The PDF document, entitled “Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training,” outlines how Alibaba used Ethernet to allow its 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each […]

Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider increases use of cryptocurrency mining facilities — CoreWeave expands contract as miners pivot to AI

Credit: Shutterstock CoreWeave, an AI hyper-scaler partnered with GPU giant Nvidia, has expanded its existing contract to rent high-performance computing capacity from Core Scientific. Core Scientific is one of the largest owners and operators of cryptocurrency mining services in North America. CoreWeave was once a cryptocurrency mining outfit itself. It pivoted away from that business […]

Exclusive-US probing China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through their U.S. cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing, three sources familiar with the matter said. Authorities at the Commerce Department are running the […]

Exclusive-US probing China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through their U.S. cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing, three sources familiar with the matter said. Authorities at the Commerce Department are running the […]

In a Warmer World, Cloud Brightening Could Backfire, Study Finds

To keep warming in check, some experts have proposed brightening clouds over the ocean to reflect more of the sun’s light. A new study finds that doing this in the north Pacific could, in the future, actually worsen heat in Europe. The churn of ocean water sends sea salt spraying into the air, naturally brightening […]

Does Oracle’s (ORCL) Cloud Strength Make It Worth Buying Now?

As investors navigate the ever-changing technology landscape, the question of whether to invest in Oracle ORCL has become increasingly compelling. ORCL has undergone significant transformations in recent years, transitioning from traditional on-premises solutions to cloud-based offerings. Oracle’s growth prospects hinge significantly on the success of its cloud strategy. Its cloud offerings include infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and […]

Apple quietly released a new operating system that almost nobody noticed — unnamed OS surfaces in Private Cloud Compute blog as Apple goes ballistic on AI

By now you’ll be very familiar with most, if not all, of the artificial intelligence, sorry “Apple Intelligence,” features it announced at its WWDC 2024 – but during the reveal, the company went to great lengths to talk about the steps it was taking to safeguard user privacy. To back up Apple Intelligence, Apple introduced […]

Two new Community OutPosts to open in St. Cloud

ST. CLOUD — Seven years ago, a crime-ridden house on the city’s south side was torn down and replaced by a new Community OutPost, bringing with it a public safety presence, after-school youth services and adult educational programs. That outpost, nicknamed the COP House, has made the neighborhood safer and healthier, according to a survey […]