Sat.Mar 11, 2023

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

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Isaac Alexander, chief content officer at Hype Aviation, left, with Robin Koenig, Hype Aviation founder, at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (Photo courtesy Isaac Alexander.) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation , a news aggregation site that you might think of as Techmeme for aviation, space and defense news.

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Fujitsu announces successor to its Arm-based A64FX data center CPU

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Fujitsu launched its first Arm-based high-performance compute (HPC) CPU in 2019. The bluntly-named A64FX has 48 processor cores clocked around 2GHz and four additional assistant cores. It has 32 GB of onboard HBM2 and many more HPC features including 512-bit scalable vector extensions (SVEs). Almost 160,000 A64FXs power the Fugaku.

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Dancing with the cloud: Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky takes steps to fight homelessness

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. (Photo courtesy of Plymouth Housing) There’s no dancing around the seriousness of the homelessness crisis in Seattle. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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Silicon Valley Bank collapses in biggest American bank failure since 2008 financial crisis

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Silicon Valley Bank failed on Friday after a massive run on deposits, putting almost $175 billion, including money from some of the biggest tech companies, under the control of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation). The bank had been a significant venture capital funding source for technology companies, the New.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Washington raises $300M in its first auction for carbon pollution permits – here’s what it means

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Moving Washington’s transportation system to non-polluting sources is a key focus for the proceeds from the state’s cap-and-invest program. The region will need many more EV charging sites like this one at Seattle’s Shilshole Bay Marina. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The results are in for Washington’s first auction of carbon pollution permits.

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Lessons from WaMu: Historic financial failure offers clues to what’s next for Silicon Valley Bank

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Seattle-based Washington Mutual remains the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. (Bigstock Image) The government takeover and subsequent acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008 could serve as a potential blueprint for the future of Silicon Valley Bank. The economic forces behind the two biggest bank U.S. failures were different, but at this point, the ideal outcome for Silicon Valley Bank could be the same : a purchase by another bank and the protection of depositors. “I think it’s alway

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