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Samy Bengio, who has worked for Google as an AI scientist for 14 years, is leaving the company after the recent riot over diversity and censorship.   A shareholder of Alphabet, meanwhile, is asking for better protection for whistleblowers. Bengio gave his notice a few weeks after two of his colleagues were fired. He is the highest-ranking AI employee to leave the company, believed to be in the wake of an internal battle over Google's scientists' independence. Samy Bengio has been with the tech giant for fourteen years, in the Google Brain department focuses on deep learning and artificial intelligence. Google has confirmed the resignation. The man is leaving amid ongoing controversy within Google's AI department. It started in December when the company fired Timnit Gebru, a promi...

Periscope, the Livestream platform of Twitter messaging service, will cease to exist today.   The app never enjoyed much popularity and became obsolete when Twitter integrated its own live broadcast option. Twitter already announced the imminent end for Periscope in December last year. "There are fewer and fewer users, which means that it is no longer financially viable to keep the service," the company said at the time. The app was still available for download since then, but users could no longer create a new account. In the meantime, Periscope has been completely removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Twitter bought Periscope in 2015. The basic functions have now been integrated into the Live function of Twitter, which is accessible via the camera icon in a ne...

With the third generation of EPYC processors, AMD is marketing nineteen variants for servers. Several major tech players have already confirmed that they will be using the new processors.   AMD immediately launches the EPYC 7003 series. The series is the successor to the 7002 series and, following the consumer series that appeared last fall, is based on the Zen 3 architecture that promises, among other things, 19 percent more instructions per clock. The processor manufacturer targets three domains: high-performance computing (HPC), cloud players and enterprise, including I / O and memory throughput and better performance for transactional database processing, among other things. The 19 different server chips have 8 to 64 cores with 16 to 128 threads, respectively. In that range, f...

A judge in the United States has given the green light to a class-action lawsuit against Google over tracking in Chrome's incognito mode.   As a result, the case can continue in the name of thousands of users. Google had asked the judge to dismiss the class action class-action lawsuit, but it failed, Bloomberg writes. The lawsuit, which was started in June last year by three users, is claiming $ 5 billion in damages, almost $ 5,000 per user. The case revolves around Chrome's private mode, which would still forward user data to the company even after turning off tracking. This includes Google Analytics, Google Ad manager and a few other apps. The tech giant itself defends itself against the allegations. In a press release, Google says Incognito Mode in Chrome allows you to surf wi...

The Belgian chemical multinational UCB and Microsoft have entered into an agreement to search more efficiently for new drugs together.   The two companies report this in a press release. UCB and Microsoft are already collaborating in the global quest for antivirals, with Microsoft technology's computing power helping scientists work faster. That collaboration is now being expanded to a strategic multi-year collaboration where Microsoft will provide cloud services and artificial intelligence. In this way, UCB wants to find drugs more quickly, including for conditions other than covid-19.

Microsoft is sending out a great update to fix a problem in Windows 10. In some cases, connecting to a WPA3 network may cause the system to crash.   Update KB5001028 addresses a bug that recently crept into Windows 10 (from version 1909). This ensures that the operating system gets a blue crash screen (BSOD) when connecting to a WPA3 WiFi network. It concerns error 0x7E in nwifi.sys. So the problem is not common, but it needs to be addressed. Microsoft warns that it can happen more often after you first disconnect from a network, or when your device wakes up from sleep or hibernation. The problem does not occur with WPA2, which most WiFi networks still use today. WPA3 is more secure, but it is still relatively young and therefore not yet supported. According to Microsoft, the bug...