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For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.
This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine.
Before ~1800, almost every parent lost a child; now it’s such an uncommon experience that people have forgotten and want to ban vaccines.
AWS is deepening its partnership with Nvidia by adopting "NVLink Fusion" in its upcoming Trainium4 AI chips. "The NVLink technology creates speedy connections between different kinds of chips and is one of Nvidia's crown jewels," notes Reuters. From the report: Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board. The technology will help AWS build bigger AI servers that can recognize and communicate with one another faster, a critical factor in training large AI models, in which thousands of machines must be strung together. As part of the Nvidia partnership, customers will have access to what AWS is calling AI Factories, exclusive AI infrastructure inside their own data centers for greater speed and readiness.
Separately, Amazon said it is rolling out new servers based on a chip called Trainium3. The new servers, available on Tuesday, each contain 144 chips and have more than four times the computing power of AWS's previous generation of AI, while using 40% less power, Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute and machine learning services, told Reuters. Brown did not give absolute figures on power or performance, but said AWS aims to compete with rivals -- including Nvidia -- based on price. "Together, Nvidia and AWS are creating the compute fabric for the AI industrial revolution - bringing advanced AI to every company, in every country, and accelerating the world's path to intelligence," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement.
Separately, Amazon said it is rolling out new servers based on a chip called Trainium3. The new servers, available on Tuesday, each contain 144 chips and have more than four times the computing power of AWS's previous generation of AI, while using 40% less power, Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute and machine learning services, told Reuters. Brown did not give absolute figures on power or performance, but said AWS aims to compete with rivals -- including Nvidia -- based on price. "Together, Nvidia and AWS are creating the compute fabric for the AI industrial revolution - bringing advanced AI to every company, in every country, and accelerating the world's path to intelligence," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The popular open-source SmartTube YouTube client for Android TV was compromised after an attacker gained access to the developer's signing keys, leading to a malicious update being pushed to users. The compromise became known when multiple users reported that Play Protect, Android's built-in antivirus module, blocked SmartTube on their devices and warned them of a risk.
The developer of SmartTube, Yuriy Yuliskov, admitted that his digital keys were compromised late last week, leading to the injection of malware into the app. Yuliskov revoked the old signature and said he would soon publish a new version with a separate app ID, urging users to move to that one instead. [...] A user who reverse-engineered the compromised SmartTube version number 30.51 found that it includes a hidden native library named libalphasdk.so [VirusTotal]. This library does not exist in the public source code, so it is being injected into release builds.
[...] The library runs silently in the background without user interaction, fingerprints the host device, registers it with a remote backend, and periodically sends metrics and retrieves configuration via an encrypted communications channel. All this happens without any visible indication to the user. While there's no evidence of malicious activity such as account theft or participation in DDoS botnets, the risk of enabling such activities at any time is high.
The developer of SmartTube, Yuriy Yuliskov, admitted that his digital keys were compromised late last week, leading to the injection of malware into the app. Yuliskov revoked the old signature and said he would soon publish a new version with a separate app ID, urging users to move to that one instead. [...] A user who reverse-engineered the compromised SmartTube version number 30.51 found that it includes a hidden native library named libalphasdk.so [VirusTotal]. This library does not exist in the public source code, so it is being injected into release builds.
[...] The library runs silently in the background without user interaction, fingerprints the host device, registers it with a remote backend, and periodically sends metrics and retrieves configuration via an encrypted communications channel. All this happens without any visible indication to the user. While there's no evidence of malicious activity such as account theft or participation in DDoS botnets, the risk of enabling such activities at any time is high.
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If sovereignty or on-prem AI matters, the new AI Factories could be for you
re:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters.…
Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security
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MOSKOU (ANP/AFP) - Rusland en de Verenigde Staten hebben geen compromis bereikt over vrede in Oekraïne, en "vrede is niet dichterbij, maar ook niet verder weg". Dat zei Kremlin-functionaris Joeri Oesjakov na afloop van gesprekken die de Russische president Vladimir Poetin in Moskou voerde met de Amerikaanse gezant Steve Witkoff en Jared Kushner, de schoonzoon van president Trump.
Tijdens het urenlange overleg werd gesproken over een Amerikaans plan om een einde te maken aan de oorlog in Oekraïne. De VS hebben daar een voorzet voor gedaan waar sindsdien aan is geschaafd, onder meer omdat van Europese landen en uit Oekraïne kritiek kwam dat het plan te veel toegaf aan de Russen.
Oesjakov merkte op dat de partijen er niet in zijn geslaagd een compromis te bereiken over een van de moeilijkste kwesties: territoriale geschillen tussen Oekraïne en Rusland. "Maar er zijn wel enkele Amerikaanse oplossingen te bespreken", aldus Oesjakov, zonder die oplossingen te benoemen.
Moscow described the talks with Witkoff and Kushner as “constructive,” but said more work was needed before any peace deal could be reached.
M1, Lithuania's first music radio station, launched in 1989 and long shaped youth culture and pop trends. By 2025, radio's influence had faded and M1's fragmented visual identity no longer reflected its ambitions. The rebrand aimed to restore relevance, reconnect with younger audiences, and unify three channels ? M1, M1+ and M1 Dance ? under one coherent system. The original, iconic 1989 logo was revived and refined, forming the basis for a custom alphabet that gives the brand a distinctive typographic voice across broadcast, digital, and live applications. Colour was used to clearly differentiate each channel: M1 in vibrant blue for contemporary hits, M1+ in black for enduring classics, and M1 Dance in pink for high-energy content. The result is a flexible, integrated identity that leverages M1's heritage while positioning it as a modern cultural platform.