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Content producers are churning out data in unprecedented volumes, with high-definition images and 4K/8K video content consuming an enormous amount of storage space. Creators typically need to store several versions of their projects, including the initial raw files, edited versions, and the published format.
Catering to this need, Western Digital has launched a new external SSD, the SanDisk Desk Drive, which comes in 4 and 8TB capacities.
External SSDs can operate at incredibly high speeds compared to their HDD counterparts, which means that content creators can not only store, but also edit their photos and videos directly from the drive itself, decreasing the time spent on transferring files, accelerating work efficiency while ensuring that the data is securely stored.
16TB versions planned
“As digital content creation continues to soar, there is an increasing need for high-performing and high-capacity storage solutions to help manage and preserve it. Expanding our SSD portfolio is the first step in offering creators backup solutions that deliver the speed and flexibility they need to unlock their creativity,” says Susan Park, Vice President, Consumer Solutions, Western Digital.
The SanDisk Desk Drive boasts read speeds up to 1000 MB/s, and fast backup capabilities using Apple Time Machine or the included downloadable Acronis True Image for Western Digital backup software. The device also sports a modern Red Dot award-winning design.
Retailing at $379.99/£359.99 and $699.99/£663.99 for the 4TB and 8TB versions respectively, these devices can be purchased now from the Western Digital Store and other retailers.
Western Digital doesn’t intend to stop at 8TB however. Susan Park says, “By next year, we expect to double the capacity of the SanDisk Desk Drive from 8TB to 16TB on a single desktop SSD.”
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Imagine heading out of your office to grab some lunch and stumbling upon a truck with a guy casually sitting on a toilet in the middle of a transparent cargo space. Well, that’s what happened to me and my colleagues yesterday, May 09, 2024, in London.
The bizarre scene isn’t part of a movie, a pranks, or a bet gone wrong. It’s actually a provocative act of guerrilla marketing from one of the best VPN providers on the market. “How much are you willing to share?” That’s Surfshark‘s message, written in giant letters on the side of the truck standing in front of us.
Surfshark chose London to question people’s tendency to jeopardize our privacy in today’s digital landscape. Most of us are ready to post the most sensitive and private moments of our lives on social media platforms for a handful of likes. Contradictorily, though, we have precise boundaries when it comes to the offline world—but perhaps that shouldn’t be the case.
A data privacy paradox
A VPN, short for virtual private network, is security software that aims to boost anonymity online to hide activity. As such, it’s part of Surfshark’s daily routine to monitor all the different issues related to online privacy.
The firm has been vocal about data breaches for a long time. For example, Surfshark’s research team put together a Data Breach Map that records incidents that have occurred over the past 20 years. The numbers are shocking: approximately 6.5 billion unique user accounts were compromised.
“Data leaks persist as an ongoing global threat. Since 2004, a total of 17.2B accounts have been breached, and approximately 6.5B of them have unique email addresses. That means a single email address is breached around 3 times on a global scale,” says Lina Survila, a spokesperson at Surfshark.
This data is scary, but not completely new. The usage of VPNs, antivirus software, and similar tools proves that increasingly more people are aware of these online risks.
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However, it’s still not enough to stop people from using data-hungry services like Meta or Google, or sharing personal information on the internet daily. Even children cannot escape adults’ sharenting activities, which is the morbid fascination of broadcasting their childhood online. How many parents would install a public camera in their kids’ bedrooms in real life?
This friction between people’s attitudes towards privacy in the offline and online world is known as the data privacy paradox. Surfshark’s experiment seeks to make people question why they are comfortable sharing intimate data on their social accounts, but not this intimate (and most natural) act.
“The campaign aims to raise a discussion on online privacy—just like you wouldn’t want the walls of your loo to be transparent, you shouldn’t want your data to be easily accessible by third (and potentially malicious) parties,” Survila told me. “We want people to take their privacy seriously by being careful when sharing data online and using proper cybersecurity tools (like a VPN and antivirus) when browsing the internet.”
With our latest campaign in London, we want to challenge your thinking about online privacy! Why do people share their personal data online without a second thought, but they don’t share other intimate aspects of their daily lives? #PrivacyFirst👉 https://t.co/tBjTqX2nZ6 pic.twitter.com/ENiElj58hTMay 9, 2024
To spread its message, the company drove around a single transparent truck with a toilet across various locations in London throughout the day. While Tower Bridge served as its main stop, Surfshark also visited busy office areas, including TechRadar, and stopped for approximately half an hour at each location.
Surfshark’s choice to execute its awareness campaign in London doesn’t happen in a vacuum, either. The UK has witnessed a considerable rise in data breach incidents since 2004, jumping to #7 of the most affected nations worldwide according to Surfshark. The firm has estimated that a staggering one billion personal records have been exposed during this period.
“On average, each email address is leaked with three additional data points, amplifying personal information exposure risk,” the provider explained, adding that 238 million leaked passwords have also left 74% of breached Brits users vulnerable to potential account takeover.
“We believed it was essential to draw attention to these alarming statistics. London’s dynamic atmosphere provided an ideal backdrop for initiating crucial conversations about privacy and challenging the status quo,” Survila told me.
The campaign received lots of attention on the streets, in fact, with people shouting in amazement and snapping pictures.
“Our ultimate aim is for individuals to reconsider their attitudes towards privacy,” Lina Survila, Surfshark’s spokesperson. (Image credit: Surfshark)
This isn’t the first time Surfshark took to the street with a provocative stunt to stir the public’s consciences on privacy-related matters. The team installed a 2.5-meter-tall pink pipe spilling a thick green slime in front of the new German home of the “Big Five” tech giants in Munich in October last year. “Your data is leaking. Protect your online data,” was the message.
“Despite minor differences, both campaigns share the core objective of making the concept of privacy, or the lack of it, more tangible,” Survila told me.
While the team doesn’t intend to replicate the transparent loo campaign in other cities, Survila reiterates Surfshark’s beliefs in leveraging shock value to effectively convey important ideas.
She said: “We’re planning a few more privacy-focused campaigns in London and New York, so stay tuned for updates!”
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A security guard firm was found leaking data that could lead to identity theft, physical breaches, theft, and even terrorism.
The news comes from cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who found an online database containing more than 1.2 million documents. The database did not have any sort of protection and could be accessed by anyone who knew where to look, WebsitePlanet reported.
Subsequent investigation uncovered that the database belonged to a UK-based company called Amberstone Security Ltd, a firm offering technology and physical security services.
Physical threats
In the database, the researcher found personally identifiable information (PII) and face photographs of thousands of security guards. Furthermore, he found images of security credentials, as well as license cards, issued by the Security Industry Authority (SIA). The database also contained incident reports, as well as names and birthdates of potential criminals.
Speaking with SIA, the researcher was told that the cards did not have any biometrics on them, hinting that with this database, a criminal could easily reproduce the cards, and thus impersonate security personnel. “This could potentially lead to a physical security breach, theft, vandalism, or — as a worse-case scenario — acts of terrorism,” the report states.
The researcher also found files on the development of an app called Guarded on Duty, which lets security guards log in and verify their current jobs by uploading images of their badges. Furthermore, he found APK files, which threat actors could use to infect the Android apps with malware.
After making the discovery, Fowler reached out to Amberstone Security, which confirmed locking down the database.
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The company also shifted the blame to an unnamed third party: “Thank you for bringing this to our attention, this is deeply concerning,” a company representative told the researcher. “I am investigating this with the supplier who developed and hosts the platform. Please rest assured that we take data security seriously, and this will be investigated thoroughly”.
Ulefone is set to launch the Armor Pad 3 Pro, a rugged tablet featuring what it claims is the world’s largest-ever tablet battery, reportedly a staggering 33,280mAh.
Launching on May 13, this device boasts triple the battery life of Apple‘s iPad Pro, promising to deliver exceptional energy efficiency at a budget-friendly price tag.
The Armor Pad 3 Pro has a 10.36-inch, 2000 x 1200 (2K) 60Hz display with 500 nits of peak brightness, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It’s powered by MediaTek’s MT8788 SoC, alongside 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM (plus 8GB of virtual RAM) and 256GB UFS 2.2 storage, expandable to 2TB via a microSD card.
Over two months of standby time
Running Android 13, the tablet has a 32MP front-facing camera and a 50MP rear camera. The device’s back panel features two 1,100-lumen camping lights controlled by a dedicated button on the left-side frame. It also offers stereo front-facing speakers.
The Armor Pad 3 Pro offers an HDMI port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, LTE connectivity (dual SIM), and NFC. It is also IP68/IP69K and MIL-STD-810H-certified for water, dust, and shocks.
The highlight is, naturally enough, the device’s massive battery, which can be fast-charged through the USB-C port at up to 66W. The battery is designed to deliver a standby time of 1,812 hours (over two months!), a talk time of 181 hours, and 18 hours of video playback. That’s quite a leap from the original Armor Pad Pro, which had a 7650mAh battery that offered a standby time of 414 hours and a talk time of 41 hours.
Ulefone offers a series of add-ons for the tablet, including a rotating stand, a multi-function bag, and an external Bluetooth speaker, all sold separately.
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Priced at $559.99 with free worldwide shipping, the Armor Pad 3 Pro can be pre-ordered through AliExpress.
HighPoint has unveiled the industry’s first 8-Channel PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Switch and NVMe RAID product lines.
Powered by Broadcom’s PEX89048 IC, these are designed to cater to high-demand, data-intensive applications and integrate Broadcom’s Gen5 PCIe switching technology to utilize x16 lanes of Gen5 host bandwidth, direct from the CPU, across Intel and AMD platforms.
HighPoint says this unique architecture enables each AIC/Adapter to maximize transfer performance for up to 8 independent device channels, and support as many as 32 NVMe devices via backplane connectivity.
Synthetic Hierarchy
The Rocket 1600 series NVMe Switch uses native inbox drivers, meaning that a 2PB solution is possible using Solidigm 61.44TB SSDs, providing they already work with the system in question.
HighPoint’s PCIe Gen5 NVMe AICs high-performance switching architecture integrates Broadcom’s 48-Channel PEX89048 switch IC to provide x16 lanes of dedicated PCIe Gen5 upstream bandwidth, ensuring x4 lanes of downstream bandwidth are available for each NVMe device channel. HighPoint says “The innovative hardware architecture enables our Gen5 NVMe product series to deliver up to 64GB/s of transfer bandwidth, minimize latency, facilitate consistent, robust I/O throughput.”
The PCIe Gen5 and Gen4 Switching Architecture employs a technique known as a “Synthetic Hierarchy” to isolate the host system’s operating system from any PCIe physical changes. It enables the AIC/Adapter to directly manage resource allocation to the downstream PCIe channels and provide true hot-swap /hot-plug capability.
The NVMe Switch Series consists of the Rocket 1628A, which is a PCIe Gen5 x16 to 4-MCIOx8 NVMe switch adapter, the Rocket 1608A, a PCIe Gen5 x16 to 8-M.2×4 NVMe switch AIC, and the Rocket 1528D, a PCIe Gen4 x16 to 4-SlimSASx8 NVMe switch adapter.
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HighPoint’s RocketRAID 7600 PCIe Gen5 NVMe RAID AICs and Adapters are built on the foundation of the Rocket 1600 Switch series, and provide RAID capabilities using HighPoint’s drivers, which are compatible with qualified NVMe drives from the company’s ecosystem partners. The Rocket 7600 Series AICs/Adapters can directly support up to eight M.2 or U.2/U.3/E3.S NVMe SSDs.
The NVMe RAID Series includes the Rocket 7628A, a PCIe Gen5 x16 to 4-MCIOx8 NVMe RAID adapter, the Rocket 7608A which is a PCIe Gen5 x16 to 8-M.2×4 NVMe RAID AIC, and the Rocket 7528D, a PCIe Gen4 x16 to 4-SlimSASx8 NVMe RAID adapter.
HighPoint says its PCIe Gen5 NVMe AICs will begin shipping globally in Q3 2024.
Ampere Computing unveiled its AmpereOne Family of processors last year, boasting up to 192 single-threaded Ampere cores, which was the highest in the industry.
These chips, designed for cloud efficiency and performance, were Ampere’s first product based on its new custom core leveraging internal IP, signalling a shift in the sector, according to CEO Renée James.
At the time of the launch, James said, “Every few decades of compute there has emerged a driving application or use of performance that sets a new bar of what is required of performance. The current driving uses are AI and connected everything combined with our continued use and desire for streaming media. We cannot continue to use power as a proxy for performance in the data center. At Ampere, we design our products to maximize performance at a sustainable power, so we can continue to drive the future of the industry.”
AmpereOne-3 on its way
Jeff Wittich, chief product officer at Ampere, recently spoke with The Next Platform about future generations of AmpereOne. He told the site that an updated chip, with 12 memory channels and an A2 core with improved performance, would be out later this year in keeping with the company’s roadmap. This chip, which The Next Platform calls AmpereOne-2, will reportedly have a 33 percent increase in DDR5 memory controllers and up to 50 percent more memory bandwidth.
However, what’s coming up beyond that, at some point in 2025, sounds the most exciting.
The Next Platform says the third generation chip, AmpereOne-3 as it is calling it, will have 256 cores and be “etched in 3 nanometer (3N to be precise) processes from TSMC”. It will use a modified A2+ core with a “two-chiplet design on the cores, with 128 cores per chiplet. It could be a four-chiplet design with 64 cores per chiplet.”
The site expects the AmpereOne-3 will support PCI-Express 6.0 I/O controllers and maybe have a dozen DDR5 memory controllers, although there’s some speculation here.
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“We have been moving pretty fast on the on the compute side,” Wittich told the site. “This design has got about a lot of other cloud features in it – things around performance management to get the most out of all of those cores. In each of the chip releases, we are going to be making what would generally be considered generational changes in the CPU core. We are adding a lot in every single generation. So you are going to see more performance, a lot more efficiency, a lot more features like security enhancements, which all happen at the microarchitecture level. But we have done a lot to ensure that you get great performance consistency across all of the AmpereOnes. We are also taking a chiplet approach with this 256-core design, which is another step as well. Chiplets are a pretty big part of our overall strategy.”
The AmpereOne-3 is reportedly being etched at TSMC right now, prior to its launch next year.
Astera Labs, a relatively unknown semiconductor company with a $10 billion market value, recently showed off its new Aries 6 PCIe retimer board, which it is now sampling to leading AI and cloud infrastructure providers.
Due to the high-speed data transfer within the PCIe interface, the signals can suffer from degradation, especially over longer distances or due to interference. A PCIe retimer helps maintain the data signal integrity over the PCIe interface by cleaning, reshaping, and retransmitting the data signals.
The Aries 6 retimers, the first in Astera Labs’ PCIe 6.x portfolio, offer robust, low power, and efficient PCIe 6.x and CXL 3.x connectivity, squarely aimed at catering to the networking requirements of next-generation GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, and CXL memory controllers.
3x the reach
Based on Intel‘s Retimer Supplemental Specification, the new Aries 6 retimers build upon the company’s widely deployed PCIe 5.0 retimer portfolio and reportedly extend reach distance by three times the standard rate.
Casey Morrison, Chief Product Officer, Astera Labs, said, “PCIe 6.x technology’s superior bandwidth is required to handle data-intensive workloads and to maximize utilization of AI accelerators, but the faster speeds introduce new signal integrity issues in hyperscale platforms. Aries Smart DSP Retimers have set the gold standard for addressing critical PCIe/CXL connectivity challenges with a solid track record of robust performance and seamless interoperability. We’re proud that our third generation of Aries Retimers with support for PCIe 6.x, PCIe 5.x, and CXL 3.x have now been sampled to leading AI and cloud platform providers.”
ServeTheHometook a first look at Astera Labs’s new portfolio at Nvidia GTC 2024 (see the photograph above) and observed that the “Aries 6 was linked at PCIe Gen6 x16 speeds at 10-11W of power consumption. That is a big deal since it is lower than Broadcom is claiming with its new retimers.“
Many major AI firms are excited about the imminent arrival of Astera Labs’ new generation Aries Smart DSP Retimers. Raghu Nambiar, Corporate Vice President, Data Center Ecosystems and Solutions, AMD, said, “Our close collaboration with Astera Labs on PCIe technologies ensures our customers’ platforms continue to meet the higher bandwidth connectivity requirements of next-generation AI and HPC workloads,” while Brian Kelleher, Senior Vice President of GPU Engineering, Nvidia, added, “Astera Labs’ new Aries Smart DSP Retimers with support for PCIe 6.2 will help enable higher bandwidth to optimize utilization of our next-generation computing platforms.”
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Hackers recently stole hundreds of thousands of social security numbers from an American consulting firm, with victims across the US possibly affected.
Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA) has filed a new report with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, and sent a breach notification email to affected individuals.
In its filing, the company said that 341,650 individuals have had their sensitive data, and Social Security Numbers (SSN), stolen by unidentified threat actors.
Identities unknown
In the letter, seen by TechCrunch, GMA told the victims that it fell prey to a “sophisticated cyberattack” in May last year. In the attack, the threat actors stole people’s names, birth dates, addresses, and Medicare Health Insurance Claim Numbers, which also contained Social Security Numbers associated with a member.
Furthermore, “some” medical information and/or health insurance information was also stolen. While the attack did happen almost a year ago, it was in early February that GMA was notified that it had resulted in the theft of sensitive, personal data. It is unclear why GMA took so long to conclude its investigation of the breach.
GMA is a consulting firm providing litigation support services in civil litigation matters. The data it held was obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) as part of a civil litigation matter, and then passed over to the company. “We received your information in our provision of services to the DOJ in support of that matter,” GMA said in the letter. “DOJ has advised us that you are not the subject of this investigation or the associated litigation matters. The DOJ informed GMA that this incident does not impact your current Medicare benefits or coverage.”
The identity of the attackers, or their motives, remain unknown. No threat actors have assumed responsibility for the attack just yet. It is also no known if the data was grabbed from a specific litigation process.
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Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia.
Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the creator of Grayskull), Taalas is developing an automated flow for quickly turning any AI model – Transformers, SSMs, Diffusers, MoEs, etc. – into custom silicon. The company claims that the resulting Hardcore Models are 1000x more efficient than their software counterparts.
The startup also says that one of its chips can hold an entire large AI model without requiring external memory, and the efficiency of hard-wired computation enables a single chip to outperform a small GPU data center.
Casting intelligence directly into silicon
“Artificial intelligence is like electrical power – an essential good that will need to be made available to all. Commoditizing AI requires a 1000x improvement in computational power and efficiency, a goal that is unattainable via the current incremental approaches. The path forward is to realize that we should not be simulating intelligence on general purpose computers, but casting intelligence directly into silicon. Implementing deep learning models in silicon is the straightest path to sustainable AI,” said Ljubisa Bajic, Taalas’ CEO.
“We believe the Taalas ‘direct-to-silicon’ foundry unlocks three fundamental breakthroughs: dramatically resetting the cost structure of AI today, viably enabling the next 10-100x growth in model size, and efficiently running powerful models locally on any consumer device. This is perhaps the most important mission in computing today for the future scalability of AI. And we are proud to support this remarkable n-of-1 team as they do it,” said Matt Humphrey, Partner at Quiet Capital which led the two rounds of funding alongside Pierre Lamond, an advisor at Eclipse Ventures.
Taalas says it will be taping out its first large language model chip in the third quarter of 2024, and aiming to make its chips available to the first customers in Q1 2025.
