Month: April 2025

Google has unveiled a new AI processor, the seventh generation of its custom TPU architecture. The chip, known as Ironwood, was reportedly designed for the emerging needs of Google's most powerful Gemini models, like simulated reasoning, which Google prefers to call "thinking." The company claims this chip represents a major shift that will unlock more powerful agentic AI capabilities. Google calls this the "age of inference."

Whenever Google talks about the capabilities of a new Gemini version, it notes that the model's capabilities are tied not only to the code but to Google's infrastructure. Its custom AI hardware is a key element of accelerating inference and expanding context windows. With Ironwood, Google says it has its most scalable and powerful TPU yet, which will allow AI to act on behalf of a user to proactively gather data and generate outputs. This is what Google means when it talks about agentic AI.

Ironwood delivers higher throughput compared to previous Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and Google really plans to pack these chips in. Ironwood is designed to operate in clusters of up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips, which will communicate directly with each other through a newly enhanced Inter-Chip Interconnect (ICI).

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Mit sofortiger Wirkung löst das US-Justizministerium eine Arbeitsgruppe auf, die zuvor in großen Fällen gegen Kryptounternehmen ermittelt hat. (Kryptowährung, Politik)

A rare spot of good news today: For the second year in a row, US roads got a little safer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published its early estimate of road deaths in 2024; 39,345 people lost their lives, which is a 3.8 percent decrease from the 40,901 deaths that occurred on US roads in 2023.

The problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.

There's no single cause, and studies have identified multiple contributing factors: empty roads designed to practically encourage speeding, little to no enforcement of traffic laws by the police, a general sense of fatalism in the face of public health restrictions that few Americans had ever contemplated in recent times, and car companies making big trucks and SUVs with high hoods, which are much more deadly to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users in a crash.

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A rare spot of good news today: For the second year in a row, US roads got a little safer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published its early estimate of road deaths in 2024; 39,345 people lost their lives, which is a 3.8 percent decrease from the 40,901 deaths that occurred on US roads in 2023.

The problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.

There's no single cause, and studies have identified multiple contributing factors: empty roads designed to practically encourage speeding, little to no enforcement of traffic laws by the police, a general sense of fatalism in the face of public health restrictions that few Americans had ever contemplated in recent times, and car companies making big trucks and SUVs with high hoods, which are much more deadly to pedestrians and other vulnerable road users in a crash.

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Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit ein Lötkolben-Set von Fanttik im Angebot. Mit einem Aktionscode kann man mit 20 Prozent Extra-Rabatt zuschlagen. (DIY - Do it yourself, Amazon)

Das niederländische Parlament erwägt einen Löschknopf, der alle Onlinespuren eines Benutzers aus dem Internet tilgt. Die Tücke liegt im Detail. (DSGVO, Datenschutz)

Das FreeDOS-Team hat das MS-DOS-artige Betriebssystem verbessert und optimiert. Es sollte auf Computern laufen, die nach dem Jahr 1978 gebaut wurden. (FreeDOS, Betriebssysteme)

Amazon hat einen universellen Reiseadapter von Tessan mit fünf USB-Anschlüssen und vier Steckern für EU, UK, USA, AUS und mehr im Angebot. (Technik/Hardware)

Ein Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung ist von der künftigen Bundesregierung beschlossen. Aber auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist zurück. (Koalitionsvertrag, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

Frontlicht plus 4K-Kamera: Die Dashcam Varia Vue StVZO soll gestochen scharfe Videos aufzeichnen - ist aber teurer also so manches Fahrrad. (Garmin, RTL)