Ars Technica

Ars Technica The Wikimedia Foundation reported a 50% jump in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, which it attributed to automated bots scraping data to train large language models. These bots account for only 35% of total pageviews, but 65% of the costliest requests to its core infrastructure. The resulting traffic surges […]

Ars Technica Researchers working with the ML Energy Initiative are trying to reduce AI power consumption without impacting performance. To alter the internal workings of AI models, the researchers leveraged techniques to reduce a model’s parameters and optimization to reduce the amount of memory needed by the remaining parameters. To optimize how datacenters run AI […]

On Monday, the U.S. 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 U.S. allies, while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Ars Technica After the U.S. expanded the range of Chinese businesses prohibited from accessing foreign products containing even a single chip manufactured in the U.S., China’s Ministry of Commerce has responded with a ban on exports of “dual-use items” involving gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the U.S., effective immediately. These rare-earth metals are […]

Ars Technica Software developer Niantic said it is using first-person scans from users of its mobile games, including Pokémon Go, and its Scaniverse app to develop a “large geospatial model” for navigating the physical world. The company said that its Visual Positioning System “uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and […]

Ars Technica A recent patch removed around a dozen names from Linux kernel’s MAINTAINERS file, accompanied by a comment from Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Harrison that the entries were removed “due to various compliance requirements.” The removed entries had Russian names or .ru email addresses, and sanctions against Russia and Russian companies were the compliance […]

Startup NetworkOcean wants to sink GPUs into San Francisco Bay.

Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.