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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET There have been times when a group text gets out of hand. This can be especially true if there are a lot of people in that group. I’ve been part of group texts with more than 20 members, and I can tell you from experience that it can be frustrating to deal with. Although recent Android releases have finally started grouping notifications, those group notifications can get…

“We use the same physical architecture as anyone with top of rack and then leaf and spine switch,” Dudy Cohen, vice president of product marketing at DriveNets, told Network World. “But what happens between our top of rack, which is the switch that connects NICs (network interface cards) into the servers and the rest of the network is not based on Clos Ethernet architecture, rather on a very specific cell-based protocol. [It’s] the same protocol,…

“We have around 70 Nutanix customers and are currently saying goodbye to VMware,” reports Martin Schor, CEO of Swiss company Axians Amanox AG. There is a great deal of interest on the market in migrating away from VMware, although cost alone is not the reason, he states: “The added value of the technology is the key and Nutanix has a lot to offer here. We are also a Red Hat partner, but see it more…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google unveiled a slew of new AI tools and features at I/O, dropping the term Gemini 95 times and AI 92 times. However, the best announcement of the entire show wasn’t an AI feature; rather, the title went to one of the two hardware products announced — the Android XR glasses. Also: I’m an AI expert, and these 8 announcements at Google I/O impressed me the most For the first time, Google gave…

Bykov noted transparent firewalls have largely appeared to be invisible to all of the other systems. This invisibility creates substantial challenges for network management. “We needed to update our model to support something that isn’t inherently visible from the troubleshooting perspective,” he said. The technical approach to solving this challenge leverages IP Fabric’s networking expertise. When asked how they detect devices that are purposely designed to be stealthy, Bykov said that it’s his team’s experience…

“That’s something we’re going to expand and build on,” Tan said, according to the report, pointing to Intel’s commanding 68% share of the PC chip market and 55% share in data centers. By contrast, the NEX unit — responsible for silicon and software that power telecom gear, 5G infrastructure, and edge computing — has struggled to deliver the kind of strategic advantage Intel needs. According to the report, Tan and his team view it as…

Oura/ZDNET Oura might be a stellar sleep tracker, but it hasn’t always been a reliable activity tracker. Reddit users under the r/ouraring subreddit regularly lament this situation, saying the Oura Ring miscounts steps during activities and workout sessions. One recent Reddit post called the step tracker “wildly inaccurate.”  Also: I took these sleep trackers to bed to find out which is best Oura has seemingly listened to these complaints. The company has announced it is upgrading…

Rawat said, “While Nvidia remains dominant in GPU-driven AI workloads, AMD is making strides to close the gap. Threadripper Pro 9000 CPUs serve as robust complements to high-end GPUs, including Nvidia’s, offering a powerful combined compute platform. Additionally, AMD’s ROCm ecosystem and Radeon AI PRO R9700 enable seamless CPU-GPU integration for AI inference and creative applications, positioning AMD not just as a CPU provider but as a comprehensive platform player in the workstation market.” AMD…