Azure Boost is a revolutionary accelerator system designed by Microsoft that offloads server virtualization
processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built software and hardware.
This offloading frees up CPU resources for virtual machines, resulting in improved performance and a secure
foundation for your cloud workloads.
So far, most attention to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software
development is on generating code. But we believe there is as much, if not more,
value in understanding existing code - particularly long-lived, large, and complex
legacy systems.
The term “interrupt” brings to mind a signal that originates in the hardware and which is handled
in the kernel; even software interrupts are a kernel concept. But there is, it seems, a use case
for enabling user-space processes to send interrupts directly to each other.
At its core, Mehta began, the user-space interrupts (or simply “user interrupts”) feature is a
fast way to do event signaling. It delivers signals directly to user space, bypassing the kernel
to achieve lower latency.
OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls
“reasoning” and problem-solving capabilities over previous large language models (LLMs). Formally named “OpenAI o1,” the model
family will initially launch in two forms, o1-preview and o1-mini, available today for ChatGPT Plus and certain API users.
But now, a team of Stanford University scientists has finally found an agent that can reversibly make skin transparent
without damaging it. This agent was tartrazine, a popular yellow-orange food dye called FD&C Yellow 5 that is notably
used for coloring Doritos.
We are introducing a new metric – real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness —- as part of the RETINAS initiative to help reduce
emissions and achieve net zero emissions across our value chain in 2030. This new metric allows us to measure server resource usage
(e.g., compute, storage) and efficiency in our large-scale data center server fleet in near real-time.
Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) offers efficient and reliable first-class privacy constructs embedded in Meta infrastructure to
address complex privacy issues. For example, we built Policy Zones that apply across our infrastructure to address restrictions on
data, such as using it only for allowed purposes, providing strong guarantees for limiting the purposes of its processing.
