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Nvidia wants to lure you to the Arm side with fresh server bait

GPU giant promises big advancements with Arm-based Grace CPU, says the software is ready

Dylan Martin Fri 17 Jun 2022 // 19:17 UTC

Interview 2023 is shaping up to become a big year for Arm-based server chips, and a significant part of this drive will come from Nvidia, which appears steadfast in its belief in the future of Arm, even if it can't own the company.
Several system vendors are expected to push out servers next year that will use Nvidia's new Arm-based chips. These consist of the Grace Superchip, which combines two of Nvidia's Grace CPUs, and the Grace-Hopper Superchip, which brings together one Grace CPU with one Hopper GPU.
The vendors lining up servers include American companies like Dell Technologies, HPE and Supermicro, as well Lenovo in Hong Kong, Inspur in China, plus ASUS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, and Wiwynn in Taiwan are also on board. The servers will target application areas where high performance is key: AI training and inference, high-performance computing, digital twins, and cloud gaming and graphics.

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Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud

Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Thu 23 Jun 2022 // 00:32 UTC

Broadcom has made its first public comment in weeks about its plans for VMware, should the surprise $61 billion acquisition proceed as planned, and has prioritized retaining VMware's engineers to preserve the virtualization giant's innovation capabilities.
The outline of Broadcom's plans appeared in a Wednesday blog post by Broadcom Software president Tom Krause.

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Nvidia, Siemens tout 'industrial metaverse' to predict the future

Using Pixar-derived tech to make digital twins immersive

Tobias Mann Thu 30 Jun 2022 // 07:35 UTC

Siemens and Nvidia don’t want manufacturers to imagine what the future will hold – they want to build a fancy digital twin that helps them to make predictions about whatever comes next.
During a press conference this week, Siemens CEO Roland Busch painted a picture of a future in which manufacturers are besieged with productivity, labor, and supply chain disruptions.
"The answer to all of these challenges is technology and digitalization," he said. "The point is, we have to make the digital twin as realistic as possible and bring it as close as possible to the real world."

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Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips

Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power

Dylan Martin Thu 23 Jun 2022 // 18:51 UTC

Qualcomm knows that if it wants developers to build and optimize AI applications across its portfolio of silicon, the Snapdragon giant needs to make the experience simpler and, ideally, better than what its rivals have been cooking up in the software stack department.
That's why on Wednesday the fabless chip designer introduced what it's calling the Qualcomm AI Stack, which aims to, among other things, let developers take AI models they've developed for one device type, let's say smartphones, and easily adapt them for another, like PCs. This stack is only for devices powered by Qualcomm's system-on-chips, be they in laptops, cellphones, car entertainment, or something else.
While Qualcomm is best known for its mobile Arm-based Snapdragon chips that power many Android phones, the chip house is hoping to grow into other markets, such as personal computers, the Internet of Things, and automotive. This expansion means Qualcomm is competing with the likes of Apple, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and others, on a much larger battlefield.

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Trio accused of selling $88m of pirated Avaya licenses

Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say

Katyanna Quach Wed 29 Jun 2022 // 03:31 UTC

Three people accused of selling pirate software licenses worth more than $88 million have been charged with fraud.
The software in question is built and sold by US-based Avaya, which provides, among other things, a telephone system called IP Office to small and medium-sized businesses. To add phones and enable features such as voicemail, customers buy the necessary software licenses from an Avaya reseller or distributor. These licenses are generated by the vendor, and once installed, the features are activated.
In charges unsealed on Tuesday, it is alleged Brad Pearce, a 46-year-old long-time Avaya customer service worker, used his system administrator access to generate license keys tens of millions of dollars without permission. Each license could sell for $100 to thousands of dollars.

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Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined

Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison

Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Wed 29 Jun 2022 // 21:23 UTC

Analysis Toxic discussions on open-source GitHub projects tend to involve entitlement, subtle insults, and arrogance, according to an academic study. That contrasts with the toxic behavior – typically bad language, hate speech, and harassment – found on other corners of the web.
Whether that seems obvious or not, it's an interesting point to consider because, for one thing, it means technical and non-technical methods to detect and curb toxic behavior on one part of the internet may not therefore work well on GitHub, and if you're involved in communities on the code-hosting giant, you may find this research useful in combating trolls and unacceptable conduct.
It may also mean systems intended to automatically detect and report toxicity in open-source projects, or at least ones on GitHub, may need to be developed specifically for that task due to their unique nature.

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EndeavourOS Artemis: Arch Linux, but a bit friendlier

The Reg FOSS desk takes the latest release, 22.6, for a spin

Liam Proven in Prague Wed 29 Jun 2022 // 11:39 UTC

EndeavourOS is a rolling-release Linux distro based on Arch Linux. Although the project is relatively new, having started in 2019, it's the successor to an earlier Arch-based distro called Antergos, so it's not quite as immature as its youth might imply. It's a little more vanilla than Antergos was – for instance, it uses the Calamares cross-distro installer.
EndeavourOS hews more closely to its parent distro than, for example, Manjaro, which we looked at very recently. Unlike Manjaro, it doesn't have its own staging repositories or releases. It installs packages directly from the upstream Arch repositories, using the standard Arch package manager pacman. It also bundles yay to easily fetch packages from the Arch User Repository, AUR. The yay command takes the same switches as pacman does, so if you wanted to install, say, Google Chrome, it's as simple as yay -s google-chrome and a few seconds later, it's done.

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GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please

You wanna bug fix and chill?

Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Tue 21 Jun 2022 // 19:27 UTC

Microsoft's GitHub on Tuesday released its Copilot AI programming assistance tool into the wild after a year-long free technical trial.
And now that GitHub Copilot is generally available, developers will have to start paying for it.
Or most of them will. Verified students and maintainers of popular open-source projects may continue using Copilot at no charge.

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Intuit pulls QuickBooks from India, uncomfortably quickly

Walks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Fri 1 Jul 2022 // 02:34 UTC

Accounting software colossus Intuit has decided to pull its QuickBooks product from India.
The decision comes into effect on January 31 2023, after which QuickBooks products and service offerings for accountancy and small business customers will no longer be available in the world's second most populous country.
"After careful consideration, the decision was made that we can no longer continue to deliver and support QuickBooks products that serve the needs of small businesses and accounting professionals across India," reads a notice posted yesterday.

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OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw

Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution

Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Mon 27 Jun 2022 // 23:30 UTC

The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, contains a memory corruption vulnerability that imperils x64 systems with Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512).
OpenSSL 3.0.4 was released on June 21 to address a command-injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-2068) that was not fully addressed with a previous patch (CVE-2022-1292).
But this release itself needs further fixing. OpenSSL 3.0.4 "is susceptible to remote memory corruption which can be triggered trivially by an attacker," according to security researcher Guido Vranken. We're imagining two devices establishing a secure connection between themselves using OpenSSL and this flaw being exploited to run arbitrary malicious code on one of them.

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