On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI-accelerating GPU… Read More »
Google isn’t alone in eyeballing nuclear power as an energy source for massive datacenters. In September, Ars reported on a plan from Microsoft that would re-open the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania to fulfill some of its power needs. And the US administration is getting into the nuclear act as well, signing… Read More »
Enlarge / The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark logos, which may or may not have an assigned order at the moment. Which one most says “secure” to you? Federal Communications Commission reader comments 25 with The goal of the new US Cyber Trust Mark, coming voluntarily to Internet of Things (IoT) devices by the end of… Read More »
Enlarge / If there’s any single photo that better encapsulates the state of enterprise information security in 2021, we weren’t able to find it. reader comments 54 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story Unnamed sources told Bloomberg that the White House will host a meeting between President Joe Biden and some of… Read More »
reader comments 71 with 43 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday in an attempt to bolster US cybersecurity defenses after a number of devastating hacks, including the Colonial pipeline attack, revealed vulnerabilities across business and government. “Recent cybersecurity incidents… are a sobering reminder that US public and… Read More »