An attacker does not need to write to your memory to change what is inside it. Reading it hard, fast and always in the same place is enough. That is the whole idea behind Rowhammer, a physical defect ...
Every time you ask something of a chatbot, a semantic search engine or a shop’s recommender, there is no keyword matching going on underneath. Your sentence has been turned into a vector: a list...
Training a large language model does not stall for lack of compute. In a training cluster thousands of graphics cards spend a good part of their time waiting for each other, and the culprit is almost ...
On 28 April 2025, at 12:33 in the afternoon, the Iberian peninsula went dark. It was not a neighbourhood outage or a one-hour cut: it was the complete collapse of the electricity system of continental...
A 51.2 Tbps network switch, the kind that fills any AI training hall, burns more energy moving bits from one chip to another than deciding where they should go. And the cost is not in the switching, b...
From 2 kW per rack to 130 kW: why air stopped being enough and how 45 °C water became critical infrastructure for AI....
There is an icon that showed up this year in the default chat app of millions of phones and that almost nobody looks at twice: a small padlock with the word “Encrypted” next to it. Behind ...
In October 2026 anyone can produce at home a photograph of a place that does not exist, a video of a politician saying what he never said, or the image of a document with an impeccable seal. The indus...
For twenty years, every generation of Wi-Fi has been sold with the same number: megabits per second. 802.11n promised 600 Mbps, 802.11ac reached 3.5 Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 landed around 9.6 and Wi-Fi 7 sat in ...
When we upload a file to the cloud, the server typically has to open it to process it. To search for a word in a document, to train a model, or to calculate an average, the machine needs to read the d...
For nearly two decades, consumer wireless audio has lived inside an architecture designed for something else: Bluetooth Classic, conceived in the early 2000s to replace the cable on a hands-free heads...
A working satellite crosses the sky at 7.6 kilometres per second. Beside it, with no engine, no battery and nobody at the controls, travels a fragment of the upper stage of a rocket launched thirty ye...