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AI dominates the news both good and bad. The only reason the US economy hasn’t completely collapsed under Trump is due to the ongoing AI investment frenzy. There is a huge building boom of data centers to train and run AI models. There is a huge frenzy of investment capital funnelling into AI related companies. AI has provided useful results in various areas s...


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There is a lot of opposition to tech companies building data centers in various communities around the world. The objections have to do with the data centers taking all the water and electricity in an area, leaving nothing for the local residents. Then there is the contribution to global warming from the data centers, both from the heat released from all the m...


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The C string library is compact, fast and efficient. However, if not used correctly and carefully, it leads to buffer overrun errors which either cause programs to crash or worse allow arbitrary code to execute. Hackers have found errors in the use of C string functions to be a goldmine in security weaknesses to exploit. The Linux kernel is written in C and us...


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ARM is best known for providing the CPU chips used in smart phones and tablets. Its CPUs are power efficient allowing longer battery life while still providing a lot of processing power. ARM has expanded beyond this market, first into the low power microcontroller market and then more recently into the higher end namely the cloud data centers. When Apple relea...


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