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- Nvidia thinks it can make a billion from the cloud
- US failed to get Stuxnet to work on North Koreans
- French open source company met its Waterloo
- Russian troll sues Tsar Putin front company
| Nvidia thinks it can make a billion from the cloud Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:42 AM PDT
It says that demand for big data analysis drives growth in graphics chips. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told reporters a day before the Taipai Computex show that cloud computing is the company’s fastest-growing segment, with revenue increasing at about 60-70 percent a year. Cloud computing allows people to play graphics-heavy games over the Internet, Huang said. He also noted that the company’s GPUs can now be used for a wide variety of applications, such as voice commands like those used by Microsoft's search engine. However he warned that it is going to be a while before people can start playing streamed games at the 4K resolution. While it is possible to stream 4K movies from online services like Netflix to PCs, TVs and set-top boxes, streaming games from the cloud requires many infrastructure changes, said Jen-Hsun Huang said. Nvidia can currently stream 1080p games at 60 frames per second from its Grid online gaming service, but the technology needs to be developed for 4K streaming and a lot of fine-tuning is needed at the server level, Huang said. "It's going to be a while," Huang said. The cloud is not the only area that Nvidia has also been moving into. Lately it signed up for an automotive chip programme with automaker Tesla Motors. |
| US failed to get Stuxnet to work on North Koreans Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:41 AM PDT According to Reuters the National Security Agency led an effort in parallel to the one that went after Iran’s nuclear programme. It developed a similar set of malware that would activate itself only when it encountered Korean language settings on the computers it infected. Like Iran, North Korea used centrifuges obtained from the Pakistani scientist, A.Q. Khan, who led his own country’s nuclear weapons effort. The P-2 centrifuges used by Iran were controlled by supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems from Siemens, with control software running on the Windows operating system. But North Korea’s government tightly controls access to computers and to the Internet meant that the NSA had fewer ways to introduce malware into the computer systems at the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center, 90 kilometers north of Pyongyang. It may already have moved past performing uranium enrichment and on to producing plutonium, which would not require centrifuges. Either way Stuxnet completely failed to stop the North Koreans in their tracks, unlike the Iranians. |
| French open source company met its Waterloo Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:41 AM PDT
Mandriva offered a Linux operating system for PCs that was doing well in some developing nations and the company was just about to make a profit when it was sunk by employee lawsuits forced it into bankruptcy. The company had generated a mere €553,000 in revenue in 2013, with revenue falling for years,. Croset confirmed that wasn’t enough revenue, so he had to dismiss some sales staff. Revenues started to climb again when the laid-off workers sued the company and won. The company was ordered to pay these employees hundreds of thousands of euros and ordered to pay “provisory execution,” meaning immediately, even though the appeals process was not complete, Croset tells us. After so many years of struggle, the shareholders didn’t want to put up more money to save Mandriva, and the company was forced into bankruptcy, Croset said that the labour laws are very generous towards the employees in France, those court decisions forced the company to announce bankruptcy, as the cash available was not sufficient to cover the amounts due and the shareholders did not want to cover them. |
| Russian troll sues Tsar Putin front company Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:40 AM PDT
Lyudmila Savchuk's case is centred on her employer's failure to provide any labour contract or other paperwork supporting her hiring and eventual dismissal. Savchuk was fired after speaking to the media about her employer, Internet Research, which she described as part of Russia's "troll factory" which keeps Tsar Putin's power base. Internet Research changed its name to the Internet Research Agency, which in the spring merged with a firm called New Technologies, whose official registration documents identify it as a construction company. "The 'troll factory' operates based on very weird schemes, but all those firms are connected to each other, even though they are separate legal entities," Savchuk was quoted as saying. Since she was fired, Savchuk has been organising a public movement against online trolling called Informatsionny Mir – a name that can be translated both as "Information World" and "Information Peace." The aim of the case is to force the Troll Factory to hand over its paperwork. Savchuk said she was hired in December after responding to a job advert. She said she had been asked to work 12-hour shifts posting pro-Putin political comments on various websites for a monthly salary of $778, which was paid in cash until her dismissal in March. |
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