Annual cybersecurity training isn’t working, so what’s the alternative?

Cybersecurity and compliance training programs are now big business. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the security awareness training market hit $5.6 billion in 2023 and is expected to surpass $10 billion in the next four years. This market boom is no surprise: cyber threats are rampant and large-scale attacks continue making headlines, most recently hitting the … Read more

Cybersecurity training: Prep for IT career with 169-hour bundle

This is the perfect time of year to consider a new career. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals Looking to go into a field that offers lots of job security? Check out The Ultimate Cybersecurity & IT Career Certification Pathway Training Bundle. These courses will prep you for a lucrative IT job. And for a limited … Read more

Garmin Forerunner 165 Review: Better Sensors, Same Great Training

Even the most advanced fitness trackers can’t catch everything. While testing the Garmin Forerunner 165 Music, I got a severe case of food poisoning and spent two days in bed. There’s nothing more irritating than your cheery fitness tracker notifying you that you’ve gotten tons of sleep and your Body Battery is at 100 as … Read more

Samsung is going after Nvidia’s billions with new AI chip — Mach-1 accelerator will combine CPU, GPU and memory to tackle inference tasks but not training

Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own AI accelerator chip, the ‘Mach-1’, in a bid to challenge Nvidia‘s dominance in the AI semiconductor market.  The new chip, which will likely target edge applications with low power consumption requirements, will go into production by the end of this year and make its debut in early … Read more

This popular gaming PC vendor believes it can make AI training much more affordable for small businesses — Maingear partners with Phison to deliver a quad-GPU system using Nvidia’s RTX 6000 Ada

The surge in demand for large-scale generative AI models has led to a significant increase in hardware requirements, making model training costly and inaccessible for many SMBs and educational establishments. High-performance custom PC builder Maingear has partnered with storage giant Phison on a new range of Maingear Pro AI workstations that boast powerful Intel Xeon … Read more

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM.  The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s … Read more

Samsung Daily+ gets FlexIt Health And Wellness Training

Samsung has announced a new partnership with FlexIt for online health and wellness training on Samsung Daily+, this new partnership is designed to make exercise more accessible and also more convenient. The new partnership will bring personal trainer-based fitness training to Samsung Smart TVs through Samsung’s new lifestyle hub which is called Samsing Daily+, there … Read more

Training AI to use System 2 thinking to tackle more complex tasks

Artificial intelligence seems to be on the brink of another significant transformation nearly every week at the moment, and this week is no exception. As developers, businesses and researchers  dive deeper into the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, we’re beginning to see a shift in how these systems tackle complex problems. The … Read more