Cray puts its supercomputer in the cloud
Now that you can rent a Cray supercomputer as a cloud service, do you actually need it? For most, high-performance computing services make more sense
Machine learning analytics get a boost from GPU Data Frame project
New consortium wants to eliminate a common source of slowdowns in the machine learning pipeline by keeping data processing on the GPU
ActiveState’s Python taps Intel MKL to speed data science and machine learning
The MKL libraries for accelerating math operations debuted in Intel’s own Python distribution, but now other Pythons are following suit
Nvidia GPU Cloud bundles frameworks and tools for AI app dev
Nvidia’s software stack for running machine learning is built to use local resources, the Nvidia DGX-1 GPU system, or GPUs in the cloud
Linux distributions for developers
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Open source SQL database CockroachDB hits 1.0
Cockroach Labs is also offering its enterprise features as open source and trusting enterprises will pay for what they use in production
The privacy threat of IoT device traffic rate metadata
Even though many IoT devices for smart homes encrypt their traffic, a passive network observer – e.g. an ISP, or a neighborhood WiFi eavesdropper – can infer consumer behavior and sensitive details about users from IoT device-associated traffic rate metadata.
IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle
The Hajime malware is competing with the Mirai malware to enslave some IoT devices
New IoT malware targets 100,000 IP cameras via known flaw
Over 100,000 internet-connected cameras may be falling prey to a new IoT malware that’s spreading through recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the products.
Honeypot Server Gets Infected with WannaCry Ransomware 6 Times in 90 Minutes
The WannaCry ransomware — also known as WCry, Wana Decrypt0r, WannaCrypt, and WanaCrypt0r — infected a honeypot server made to look like a vulnerable Windows computer six times in the span of 90 minutes