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Apple / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET “May you live in interesting times” is a phrase often attributed as a Chinese curse. In reality, the phrase can be traced back to Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, who was the British ambassador to China in 1936. In his 1949 book, Diplomat in Peace and War, he attributes the phrase to something a friend told him. The friend apparently told him of the so-called Chinese curse before Ambassador Knatchbull-Hugessen took…

Samsung Samsung just announced three new gaming monitors to join its impressive lineup, and they come with a sweet deal: a $300 gift card from Best Buy if you pre-order now.  If you’ve been looking for a new gaming monitor, Samsung’s got you covered with two new models and a refresh of its 49-inch curved monitor. The $300 gift card pre-order sale applies to the 27-inch Odyssey OLED G8, the 27-inch Odyssey 3D, and the…

Looking back, the rapid adoption of SaaS and cloud applications led to a WAN transformation and the emergence of SD-WAN via direct internet access, Sambi asserted. “Then, to enhance application performance, enterprises built colocation-based cloud on-ramps, which, while improving latency, introduced complexity and costs. This evolution led to a proliferation of security stacks, with a mix of security service edge (SSE) and self-managed appliances, creating an inconsistent security posture,” Sambi wrote. “Consequently, enterprise connectivity has…

“By embedding FortiAI across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, including new agentic AI capabilities, we’re empowering our customers to reduce the workload on their security and network analysts while improving the efficiency, speed, and accuracy of their security and networking operations,” said Michael Xie, founder, president, and chief technology officer at Fortinet, in a statement. “In parallel, we’ve added coverage across the Fabric eco-system to enable customers to monitor and control the use of GenAI-enabled…

Building on WireGuard’s foundation At the heart of Tailscale’s technology is WireGuard, a modern VPN protocol that offers significant security and performance advantages over legacy solutions.  WireGuard is an open-source technology built in a way that minimizes the attack surface while providing greater performance than older VPN approaches. While WireGuard provides the secure cryptographic foundation, Tailscale builds the control and management layer on top. “WireGuard provides the fundamental, really secure cryptography primitive that gets the…

UALink’s primary target for now is to provide an alternative to Nvdia’s high-bandwidth, low-latency, direct interconnect technology for CPU, GPU-to-GPU connectivity, NVLink. NVLink is primarily used in InfiniBand-based networks. Given the spec’s Ethernet heritage, UALink is seen in most circles as working hand-in-hand with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to help expand the massive Ethernet community with AI technology reinforcements. Many members of the UALink group are also developing UEC specifications which are aimed at developing…

The gain in performance while using the same amount of power also results in the chip being more cost-effective as it delivers more capacity per watt, Amin Vahdat, VP of machine learning, systems, and Cloud AI, wrote in a blog post. Ironwood pod can also scale to up to  9,216 chips, compared to its predecessors TPU v5p and TPU v4 which support up to 8,960 and 4,896 chips respectively. Ironwood also offers 6x the bandwidth…