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IonQ Secures $54.5M Quantum Computing Contract with U.S. Air Force
📅 - IonQ, a global player in the quantum computing sector, has announced a major collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in a contract valued at $54.5 million. This partnership would mark a significant milestone for the company while underscoring the growing focus on quantum technology by governments, corporations, and academic institutions worldwide.
With $72.8 million in bookings already recorded for the fiscal year and one quarter still remaining, IonQ says it is on track to meet or exceed its projected target of $75 to $95 million in bookings for the year.
Quantum computing, which promises to solve complex problems in healthcare, finance, chemistry, and other [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - US Signal Introduces Infrastructure-as-a-Service, OpenCloud - In response to the volatility in the cloud computing market, including provider shakeups and recent license price hikes, and in an effort to meet the evolving demands of customers, US Signal is proud to lead the open-source cloud hosting market with its innovative OpenCloud product. Unlike other cloud solutions, OpenCloud is based on the powerful open-source project Apache CloudStack. This ensures a level of simplicity, security, and capability that other solutions can't match evolving the Private Cloud from virtualization to a true cloud experience.
"US Signal OpenCloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that revolutionizes the cloud hosting market by providing the performance, [...]
📅 - New OCI Compute Supercluster Instance Powered by AMD Instinct MI300X - The newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance, BM.GPU.MI300X.8, will be powered by AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators with ROCm open software, according to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The OCI Supercluster with AMD MI300X uses the same ultrafast network fabric technology as other accelerators on OCI to handle up to 16,384 GPUs in a single cluster for AI models, which may have hundreds of billions of parameters.
These OCI bare metal instances, which are designed to execute demanding AI workloads like large language model (LLM) inference and training that need for high throughput with leading memory capacity and bandwidth, have already been deployed by businesses like Fireworks AI.
"The [...]
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📅 - ColoBarn Chooses IvedaAI to Enhance Data Center Security Across US Regions - ColoBarn, a company offering colocation services in Arizona and Florida, has chosen to enhance the physical security of its data centers using Iveda's cutting-edge AI technology. ColoBarn says it is reaffirming its commitment to maintaining and improving its security standards with this strategic collaboration.
ColoBarn is using IvedaAI to apply various AI analytics, including as face recognition, license plate identification, intruder detection, and more, to external cameras for all-encompassing security management. Real-time notifications from IvedaAIwould help improve access control for ColoBarn employees and end users alike.
According to estimations, the worldwide data center [...]
📅 - Critical NVIDIA AI Vulnerability Found, Patch Released for Cloud Protection - NVIDIAs popular GPU Container Toolkit has been found to contain a critical security flaw, identified as CVE-2024-0132, that potentially affects more than 35% of cloud environments, according to a report by Wiz Research. This vulnerability poses a substantial risk to both on-premises and cloud-based AI applications that rely onNVIDIAs toolkit to enableGPUaccess in containerized environments.
If exploited, the flaw allows an attacker to escape from a container and gain full access to the underlying host system, potentially compromising the entire infrastructure.
The vulnerability, which was disclosed to NVIDIA on September 1, 2024, is categorized as a container-escape flaw, a type of [...]
📅 - Verizon Sells 6,339 Towers to Vertical Bridge in $3.3B Deal to Boost 5G Expansion - Verizon Communications and Vertical Bridgehave reached a definitive agreement in a landmark deal valued at approximately $3.3 billion. The transaction grants Vertical Bridge the exclusive rights to lease, operate, and manage 6,339 wireless communication towers owned by Verizon subsidiaries, spanning all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The deal is structured as a prepaid lease, providing Verizon with upfront cash proceeds of around $2.8 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon will lease back space on the towers as an anchor tenant through a 10-year agreement with the possibility of extending the lease for up to 50 years. This arrangement also includes provisions for Verizon [...]
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