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ZDNET’s key takeaways The Beats Solo Buds are budget earbuds at $80 (and currently on sale for $35 less) Their compact size, fun colors, and 18-hour battery life make them earbuds appealing to Beats devotees Other earbuds offer features these earbuds lack — like active noise cancellation and Bluetooth multipoint — for less money. Woot, an Amazon-owned brand, is taking $35 off the refurbished Beats Solo Buds cutting the price of the earbuds down to…

“In disruptive or destructive attacks, attackers can leverage the often heterogeneous environments in data centers to potentially send malicious commands to every other BMC on the same management segment, forcing all devices to continually reboot in a way that victim operators cannot stop,” the Eclypsium researchers said. “In extreme scenarios, the net impact could be indefinite, unrecoverable downtime until and unless devices are re-provisioned.” BMC vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, including hardcoded credentials, have been of interest…

It uses disaggregated serving to separate the processing and generation phases of large language models (LLMs) on different GPUs, which allows each phase to be optimized independently for its specific needs and ensures maximum GPU resource utilization, the chipmaker explained.   The efficiency gain is made possible as Dynamo has the ability to map the knowledge that inference systems hold in memory from serving prior requests — known as KV cache — across potentially thousands…

Nodar Chernishev/Getty Images Every installation of Windows 11 includes a very long list of preinstalled apps. Some are there because they’re necessary for the operating system to do what it does. Others are there to help Microsoft make more money, because every Windows PC is valuable for its ability to bundle and promote Microsoft’s collection of paid services, including Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Xbox, and Copilot. Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows…

CRM software, also known as customer relationship management software, is a solution that assists businesses in handling the customer side of their operations. It can be used to manage and track customer relationships, trends, marketing efforts, and communication, bringing everything into one centralized platform or system to optimize interactions. Also: The best password managers for businesses: Expert tested Automation is one of the key benefits of CRM software, but depending on the type of solution you opt…

ZDNET’s key takeaways At $130, the Blink Outdoor 4 Floodlight Camera is a practical, battery-powered solution for darker areas around your house that lack wiring and outlets. The AA batteries allow the floodlights to beam at 700 nits of brightness, which is not the most powerful on the market but good enough to see your surroundings. The Blink app is feature-rich, with plenty of camera settings to customize for the best surveillance, but you’ll need…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Kospet Tank M3 Ultra and T3 Ultra 2 are available for just $159.99 each. The watches are have vibrant displays, pass durability standards, and have long battery life. Updates take a long time, and the heart rate sensor measures a bit high. With so many new wearables on the market, most of my time is spent testing watches from the popular brands. But some of the lesser-known brands have some interesting…

“Accelerated by 2 NVIDIA H100 NVL, [HPE Private Cloud AI Developer System] includes an integrated control node, end-to-end AI software that includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise and HPE AI Essentials, and 32TB of integrated storage providing everything a developer needs to prove and scale AI workloads,” Corrado wrote. In addition, HPE Private Cloud AI includes support for new Nvidia GPUs and blueprints that deliver proven and functioning AI workloads like data extraction with a single click, Corrado wrote. HPE…