Apple is rounding out its third batch of developer betas for the current generation, handing out new builds of iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS 15.3, and visionOS 2.3 for testing.Examples of Apple Intelligence at work. The third round of betas for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS 15.3, and visionOS 2.2 follow after the second, which appeared on January 7. The first round arrived on December 16.Subscribe to AppleInsider on YouTube Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Shadow of the ColossusandDemons Soulsremakes developer Bluepoint Games officially joined PlayStation Studios in 2021, at which point Sony revealed that the studios next project would be original content. In the years since then, speculation and rumours about Bluepoints next game have been rampant, though unfortunately, that project has come to a premature end.Reported by Bloomberg, Bluepoints mystery title has been cancelled. Interestingly enough, journalist Jason Schreier claims on BlueSky that the game Bluepoint was working on was a live service God of Warproject, of all things. Alongside it, Days Gonedeveloper Sony Bends new live service open world IP has also been cancelled. Both games join a growing list of prominent failures marking Sonys once-ambitious live service plans.Though some of Sonys several recent games-as-a-service cancellations have gone hand-in-hand with studio closures (from SIE London Studio to Firewalk), the company has assured that Bend and Bluepoint wont meet that same fate.BREAKING: PlayStation has canceled two more live-service games, from subsidiaries Bend and Bluepoint, Bloomberg has learned.Fans have long wondered what Bluepoint has been working on for the last couple of years. I can report it was a live-service God of War game. www.bloomberg.com/news/article Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2025-01-16T23:09:48.705Z

Throughout the games industrys rather disastrous 2024, the notion that seemed to bolster everyone along was that it was going to get back to growth in the subsequent year. Gaming backend provider Metaplay today revealed a new report, which shows just how optimistic the industry is at least on a macro level that this is goingRead More

Large language models (LLMs) have become central to natural language processing (NLP), excelling in tasks such as text generation, comprehension, and reasoning. However, their ability to handle longer input sequences is limited by significant computational challenges, particularly memory overhead during inference caused by key-value (KV) caches. Since memory requirements scale linearly with sequence length, this limits the maximum context window that models can effectively process. Existing solutions, such as sparse attention mechanisms and off-chip storage, attempt to mitigate this issue but often introduce trade-offs, such as increased latency or the risk of losing important information. Addressing memory consumption without compromising model performance remains a critical challenge in scaling LLMs for practical applications.A team of researchers from Tsinghua University, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, UCLA, and TapTap have introduced Tensor Product Attention (TPA), an attention mechanism designed to alleviate the KV cache bottleneck. TPA leverages tensor decompositions to represent queries, keys, and values (QKV) compactly, significantly reducing the KV cache size during inference. By employing contextual low-rank factorization, TPA achieves substantial memory savings while maintaining or improving model performance. Moreover, it integrates seamlessly with Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE), allowing compatibility with widely-used attention-based architectures like LLaMA. This approach enables TPA to serve as a drop-in replacement for multi-head attention (MHA), forming the basis of the Tensor Product Attention Transformer (T6), a sequence modeling architecture that shows notable performance improvements in language modeling tasks.Technical Details and BenefitsTPA introduces a novel approach to factorizing QKV activations dynamically into low-rank components. Unlike static weight factorization techniques like LoRA, TPA generates contextual representations tailored to the input data. Each tokens Q, K, and V components are expressed as a sum of tensor products of latent factors, which are derived through linear projections of the tokens hidden state. This tensor structure facilitates efficient representation and reduces memory usage.A key advantage of TPA is its integration with RoPE. Traditional low-rank methods face challenges with RoPE due to its dependence on relative positional invariance. TPA resolves this by pre-rotating tensor components, enabling efficient caching and inference while preserving positional information.The memory efficiency of TPA is significant. Standard MHA relies on a full-size KV cache proportional to the number of heads and their dimensions, whereas TPA reduces this requirement by caching only the factorized components. This reduction enables the processing of much longer sequences within the same memory constraints, making it particularly effective for applications requiring extended context windows.Results and InsightsThe researchers evaluated TPA on the FineWeb-Edu100B dataset across various language modeling tasks. The Tensor Product Attention Transformer (T6) consistently outperformed baselines, including MHA, Multi-Query Attention (MQA), Grouped Query Attention (GQA), and Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA).In terms of training and validation loss, TPA demonstrated faster convergence and lower final losses compared to its counterparts. For example, in experiments with large-scale models (773M parameters), TPA achieved significantly lower validation losses than MLA and GQA. Additionally, TPA showed superior perplexity results across multiple configurations, highlighting its efficiency and accuracy.Beyond pretraining metrics, TPA performed exceptionally well in downstream tasks such as ARC, BoolQ, HellaSwag, and MMLU. On zero-shot and two-shot prompts, TPA consistently ranked among the best-performing methods, achieving average accuracies of 51.41% and 53.12%, respectively, for medium-sized models. These findings emphasize TPAs capability to generalize across diverse language tasks effectively.ConclusionTensor Product Attention (TPA) addresses the scalability challenges of large language models by introducing a dynamic, low-rank factorization mechanism that reduces the memory footprint of KV caches while maintaining strong performance. Its compatibility with existing architectures and solid results across various benchmarks make it a practical alternative to traditional attention mechanisms. As the need for longer context processing grows in language models, methods like TPA provide an efficient path forward, combining memory efficiency with robust performance for real-world applications.Check out the Paper and GitHub Page. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our65k+ ML SubReddit.(Promoted) Aswin Ak+ postsAswin AK is a consulting intern at MarkTechPost. He is pursuing his Dual Degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is passionate about data science and machine learning, bringing a strong academic background and hands-on experience in solving real-life cross-domain challenges. Meet 'Height':The only autonomous project management tool (Sponsored)

The best high-end prebuilt PCs command premium prices, but that doesn't mean you can't find great deals that will still save you a lot of money. Right now, Dell is offering an Alienware Aurora R16 GeForce RTX 4090 gaming PC for $3,699.99 after a $1,000 off instant discount. GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards are actually going back up in price again, and getting a standalone card will run you at least $2,000 from a legitimate vendor, which means building your own DIY PC may not be as cost effective as you'd think. Plus, you have the advantage of an all-inclusive warranty with a prebuilt PC.Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 4090 Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i9-14900KF RTX 4090 Gaming PCThis Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC is equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 4TB NVMe SSD. The 14th gen Intel Core i9-14900KF is the best Intel gaming CPU you can get right now, and it's also a productivity beast. The chip is known to run pretty hot, but fortunately it's cooled by a robust 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler. The entire system is powered by an 1,000W 80PLUS Platinum power supply.The RTX 4090 is likewise the most powerful GPU on the market. No other video card, either from NVIDIA or from AMD, comes close. In his RTX 4090 review, Chris Coke writes "The RTX 4090 may be huge and expensive, but holy smokes if it doesnt blow the competition out of the water... Until the rest of the pack can catch up, between its impressive hardware specs and its DLSS 3 AI wizardry, even the $1,599 price doesnt seem unreasonable for the unrivaled frame rates that this card can crank out." You'll be able to run any game in 4K with ultra settings and ray tracing enabled and still pump out high framerates, even the newest, most demanding titles like Black Myth: Wukong or Warhammer Space Marine 2.The 4090 is also the consumer card of choice for AI thanks to its 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM.A note on RTX 5000 series GPUsNVIDIA's newest generation of GPUs are set to be released starting the end of January. The RTX 5090 will undoubtedly be a more powerful card, but you'd have to be willing to pay a lot more money for that kind of power. Retail price is set to be $2,000 for the Founder's Edition at launch, but availability will definitely be an issue. The RTX 5080 will launch at a retail price of $999 but again there may be availability issues. We'll be sure to bench this card soon, but it will have less VRAM than the 4090 (16GB vs 24GB) and probably won't quite replace the 4090 as the dominant number two card.A note on Alienware's newest "R16" desktop chassisThe R16 is Alienware's 2024 desktop PC design. It's 40% smaller in volume compared to previous iterations. It features a simple yet proven airflow pattern; air is drawn in through the side intake vents over the GPU area and a 120mm fan at the front of the case, and exhausts by way of a 120mm rear fan and two 120mm top fans. A 240mm radiator for the all-in-one liquid cooling system is mounted to these top fans. Some configurations don't actually include the liquid cooling system, but we rarely include them in this roundup. That's because Alienware's liquid cooling solution is far superior to their stock air cooling and is easily worth the price premium. Note that Dell announced a new Area 51 chassis during CES 2025, but it looks very similar in appearance and design to the R16 chassis.Why Should You Trust IGN's Deals Team?IGN's deals team has a combined 30+ years of experience finding the best discounts in gaming, tech, and just about every other category. We don't try to trick our readers into buying things they don't need at prices that aren't worth buying something at. Our ultimate goal is to surface the best possible deals from brands we trust and our editorial team has personal experience with. You can check out our deals standards here for more information on our process, or keep up with the latest deals we find on IGN's Deals account on Twitter.Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.

This week Apple TV+ is celebrating two big moments: the return of Severance plus Silos season 2 finale. But now some not-so-positive news has emerged: comedy Dick Turpin has been unexpectedly canceled.Dick Turpin canceled at Apple TV+ after star pulls outThe Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a comedy series that first debuted on Apple TV+ in early 2024.Its first season was generally well received by critics, and while audience response seemed muted, Apple picked it up for a second season.But recently, The Sun reported that season 2 had been abruptly canceled well into production.Now, a new report details why.Rod McPhee writes for The Sun:Noel Fieldings multi-million pound comedy The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin has been axed mid-production after he failed to come to work. The Great British Bake Offand Never Mind the Buzzcocks star played the lead role of the legendary highwayman in the show which had its first series onAppleTV+ lastspring.While the phrase failed to come to work surely evokes lot of interested viewership, reading further reveals the story is not so simple.The article explains: Creatives, cast and crew this week received the devastatingnewsthis week, and were simply told it was down to the illness of a key cast member.Fieldings reported illness seems to have led him to pull out of the series. And without its central star, Apple TV+ had little choice but to cancel the show.Of course, there are plenty of questions raised by this story that we dont have answers for. Why, for example, could Dick Turpins shooting not have been delayed to a later date? Why did the series need to be canceled?We may never know. But fans of the shows first season will now likely never see it return.Are you disappointed by Dick Turpin being canceled? Let us know in the comments.Best Apple TV and Home accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

"To bypass the Moon would be a mistake."Distract, Divert, DefundCongress is none too pleased after SpaceX CEO and unelected official Elon Musk declared that the "Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars."AsPolitico reports, lawmakers who control NASA's budget are prepared to fight back against Musk's apparent plan to kibosh the space agency's forthcoming lunar landing in favor of his long-running Martian dreams.Though Musk previously criticized the lunar mission as a "jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program," the soon-to-be head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hasn't mentioned specifically that Artemis is massively over-budget and behind schedule to boot.Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who was briefly considered a contender for the Democratic vice presidential nod, suggested that investment continues to make the program worthwhile."We have put a lot of time, effort, and money into Artemis," the Arizona representative told the magazine, "and I think we should allow NASA to complete that mission."Rep. Brian Babin, a Texas Republican who leads the House's space committee, agreed from across the aisle."To bypass the Moon would be a mistake," Babin reckoned in an interview withPolitico.Curious SilenceThus far, president-elect Donald Trump hasn't joined the fray over NASA's Moon mission, which launched its first uncrewed craft in 2022 and is slated to put human boots on lunar soil this decade for the first time in more 50 years.After pushing NASA to get back to the Moon by 2024 during his first presidency, Trump hasshown interest in the space agency going to Mars since kindling his on-off bromance with Musk.Given the real estate mogul's propensity to agree with either whoever spoke to him most recently or whoever fawns over him the most, there's little doubt that Musk could sway the president-elect to go forth with his Martian pet project over the costly lunar mission.Should that be the case, however, Congress won't likely go down without a fight."There would be a lot of congressional resistance," Casey Drier, the head of space policy at the nonprofit Planetary Society, told Politico.Never one to back down from a battle, Musk has, asPolitico notes, threatened to primary any Republicans who oppose Trump's cabinet nominations and there's no reason he couldn't exert similar pressure on his Mars-over-Moon agenda.More on Musk's politicking: MAGA Figures Turn on Elon Musk for Not Hating Immigrants EnoughShare This Article

Jan 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data ProtectionAustrian privacy non-profit None of Your Business (noyb) has filed complaints accusing companies like TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi of violating data protection regulations in the European Union by unlawfully transferring users' data to China.The advocacy group is seeking an immediate suspension of such transfers, stating the companies in question cannot shield user data from being potentially accessed by the Chinese government. The complaints have been filed in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands."Given that China is an authoritarian surveillance state, it is crystal clear that China doesn't offer the same level of data protection as the E.U.," Kleanthi Sardeli, data protection lawyer at noyb, said. "Transferring Europeans' personal data is clearly unlawful and must be terminated immediately."Noyb noted that the companies have no choice but to comply with Chinese authorities' requests for access to data, and that Beijing lacks an independent data protection authority to raise issues related to government surveillance.It also said none of the companies responded to its access requests under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to seek clarity on the nature of data transfers, and if they are transmitted to China or any other country outside of the E.U."According to their privacy policy, AliExpress, SHEIN, TikTok, and Xiaomi transfer data to China," noyb said. "Temu and WeChat mention transfers to third countries. According to Temu and WeChat's corporate structure, this most likely includes China."The development comes as ByteDance-owned TikTok is preparing to shut down its app in the U.S. starting January 19, 2025, when a federal ban on the social media platform is scheduled to come into effect. In recent months, noyb has filed GDPR-related complaints against Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla for tracking users without consent through Privacy Sandbox, Xandr, and Firefox, respectively.FTC Takes Actions Against General Motors and GoDaddyThe complaints also coincide with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banning automaker General Motors from disclosing data that it collects from drivers, including geolocations and driver behavior information, to consumer reporting agencies for five years for sharing such data without their affirmative consent.According to a New York Times investigation in March 2024, the information was shared with two data brokers, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk, that worked with the insurance industry to generate risk profiles and increase auto insurance rates for some drivers. In a statement, General Motors said it had already discontinued the "Smart Driver" data collection program in April 2024 "due to customer feedback." The company said customers could access and delete their personal information through a U.S. Consumer Privacy Request Form on its website.The FTC has also ordered website hosting provider GoDaddy to implement a comprehensive information security program to overhaul its "unreasonable security practices" that led to multiple customer data breaches between 2019 and 2022. GoDaddy has not admitted to any wrongdoing, nor has it been fined."GoDaddy has failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and monitor its website-hosting environments for security threats, and misled customers about the extent of its data security protections on its website hosting services," the FTC said.The agency pointed out that GoDaddy failed to properly manage its assets and inventory; patch its software; assess risks to its hosting services; use multi-factor authentication; log security-related events; monitor for security threats; segment its network; and secure connections to services providing access to consumer data.The consumer protection agency has since also announced amendments to online privacy safeguards for children under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) that require obtaining verifiable parental consent prior to processing their data for advertising purposes or sharing it with third-parties.Furthermore, the rule imposes new data retention policies, necessitating that companies only retain children's information "for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill a specific purpose for which it was collected." "By requiring parents to opt in to targeted advertising practices, this final rule prohibits platforms and service providers from sharing and monetizing children's data without active permission," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career. Summary / Role Purpose The SimAI platform is a SaaS AI-based technology that brings unprecedented speed, innovation and accessibility to simulation. It is based on proprietary Deep Learning algorithms at the forefront of AI state of the art. With Ansys SimAI, users can train AI models using simulation results and then can reliably predict the performance of complex problems in minutes instead of hours or days. It empowers users to take faster decisions, make faster iterations and ultimately faster innovation. The Senior Devops Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and scaling the SimAI SaaS platform. The Senior Devops Engineer will use next-generation tools (kubernetes, aws, pulumi, terraform, python, bash). The Senior Devops Engineer uses problem-solving skills that will help us tackle complex issues centered around:scaling GPU and CPU computing resources as well as servicescreating new monitoring and alerting capabilitiessupporting SimAI R&D team efficiently and robustly deploy new services coming from state-of-the-art AI researchTo do this, The Senior Devops Engineer will collaborate with a team of experts who are, together, building the future of computer-assisted system design. In our team, autonomy is key. The Senior Devops Engineer will be tasked with end-to-end tasks from problem definition to implementation.Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesPerform complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including cloud deployment and maintenance, as well as distributed system maintenance and scalingUse best practices and evangelize through RFCs and mentoringHelp scale our processes (release, development environments, CI/CD pipelines)Root cause investigation, automated release testing, production incident solvingWork independently with minimal supervision, occasional planning and mentoring responsibilitiesMinimum Education/Certification Requirements and ExperienceSoftware development certification3 years experience, including managing complex platforms that leverage the kubernetes technologyAdvanced troubleshooting skillsPreferred Qualifications and SkillsCurious to learn and test new technologiesDistributed systems design and operation (kubernetes, pulumi, rabbitmq, redis)Scripting (bash)Programming (typescript, python)Passion for crafting robust and efficient codeTop-notch communication and interpersonal skillsAbility to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed teamAt Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.Our Commitments:Amaze with innovative products and solutionsMake our customers incredibly successfulAct with integrityEnsure employees thrive and shareholders prosperOur Values:Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's nextCourage: Be courageous, move forward passionatelyGenerosity: Be generous, share, listen, serveAuthenticity: Be you, make us strongerOur Actions:We commit to audacious goalsWe work seamlessly as a teamWe demonstrate masteryWe deliver outstanding resultsINCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive.WELCOME WHATS NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYSAt Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost.At Ansys, its about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. Its about the whats next as much as the mission accomplished. And its about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.CREATING A PLACE WERE PROUD TO BE Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweeks Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, Americas Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (Belgium, China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.).For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.comAnsys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.Apply now Related Jobs See more DevOps and Sysadmin jobs

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