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BOISE, Idaho — The City of Boise, on their Twitter account, has announced that the city is experiencing network issues, including phone and internet outages, causing many of the city offices and businesses to close early.
Critical services such as the Boise Police Department, the Boise Fire Department and the Boise Airport have uninterrupted service and are not impacted by the network outages.
Due to continued outages within the City of Boise’s network, many city administrative offices are being closed this afternoon. Critical services, such as Boise Police, Boise Fire and the Boise Airport have continued providing uninterrupted services throughout the network outages.
— City of Boise (@CityOfBoise) May 25, 2023
Recreational activities that do not require significant network connectivity remain open, though may have limited services.
This is a developing story.
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Oakland County has plans to create the largest network of 3D printers in the world -- and they're helping small businesses along the way.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - The future of manufacturing may lie in 3D printing and Oakland County is making a massive investment in the technology – with a desire to create the largest 3D printing network in the world.
As manufacturing is changing, a culture shift is coming – moving from traditional manufacturing to 3D printing. According to Forbes in 2021, the 3D printing sector reached $10.6 billion in revenue with a trajectory climbing.
"I was familiar with it as a technology. I was not familiar with how easy it was to utilize," said Tammy Packard, the owner of Unique Short Tree.
Packard took over the business just before the pandemic in 2020. She was familiar with 3D printing but it wasn't until she integrated the tech into her business that she discovered just how much it would change things.
"We take a look at it, we print it, we put it in to see if it fits. If it doesn't, you make the change and we can print it. You’re looking at hours or days not months or years,' Packard said.
Packard got the 3D printer through Project Diamond, an Oakland County initiative that was born during the pandemic and was meant to accelerate digital transformation among Michigan manufacturers and strengthen supply chains for producing PPE. Now it has a new purpose – becoming the world's largest 3D printing network.
"Project Diamond phase 2 is the definition of making things in America," said Board of Commissioners Chair Dave Woodward. "Making certain that our manufacturing sector which built the middle class, is able to flourish regardless of the challenges of the economy on the horizon."
Oakland County and Automation Alley worked together and can now say another $15 million is being invested to help small and medium-sized manufacturers apply additive – or 3D printing -- to their manufacturing.
The money comes from the American Rescue Plan Act and the funding amounts to 250 printers. The county can purchase them and then provide to businesses in Oakland County, some of which are free or with some shared costs.
The goal is to get 40% of small manufacturers in the county to get one.
Intel has launched a field-programmable gate array—Agilex 7 with R-Tile—that features PCIe 5.0 and CXL capabilities for processing networking workloads.
The Agilex FPGA is primarily used in smartNICs that offload the processing of network traffic from the CPU, thus freeing up CPU capacity for other tasks. Intel sees Agilex playing a role in data centers, telecommunications, and financial services, among other high-traffic industries.
Agilex is a rebranding of Intel’s Stratix and Arria FPGA lines that involves renumbering, with Agilex 3 being the low-end and Agilex 9 the high-end. So Agilex 7 is not the seventh generation of the chip but is the second most powerful processor in the family.
With this release, Agilex has undergone quite a change. The previous version was a PCI Express 4.0 product, built on a single chip design at 14nm. This new version supports PCI Express 5.0, and uses a chiplet design that breaks down the silicon into multiple smaller chips on the 7nm process.
Agilex 7 with R-Tile has 116Gbps of transceiver bandwidth, the fastest throughput yet among Intel FPGAs. It also supports hard IP, which means functions like memory controllers and digital signal processors are hard coded into the silicon, rather than soft IP, which is programmed. The IP can’t be modified, but it also performs much faster and reduces design time for developing and deploying products.
The R-Tile is part of the new chiplet design where the chiplets are connected by a high-speed interconnect. R-Tile is a companion chip to the FPGA that specifically supports high-speed PCI Express connections and integrates with CPUs to accelerate high-performance computing workloads.
Agilex 7 also supports CXL 1.1 and eventually 2.0 when it ships. CXL is a high-speed interconnect that allows direct memory-to-memory communication for data sharing without having to go through CPUs and buses. Intel is saying that Agilex 7 builds now support CXL 1.1, and will support selected CLX 2.0 features pending validation, interoperability, and qualification with future CPUs.
Agilex 7 is shipping to OEM customers now.
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Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a right-wing social network.
In December, I argued that if we are to judge Musk strictly by his actions as Twitter’s owner, it is accurate to call him a far-right activist. As a public figure, he has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the right’s culture war against progressivism—which he refers to as “the woke mind virus”—and his $44 billion Twitter purchase can easily be seen as an explicitly political act to advance this specific ideology. Now the site itself has unquestionably transformed under his leadership into an alternative social-media platform—one that offers a haven to far-right influencers and advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy theories of the right wing of American politics.
Earlier today, NBC News reported that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is slated to kick off his 2024 presidential campaign in a Twitter Spaces event with Musk. Twitter, quite literally, is a launch pad for right-wing political leaders. Also today, The Daily Wire, the conservative-media juggernaut that is home to Ben Shapiro as well as the political commentators Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles, who are known for arguing against trans rights, announced it would bring its entire slate of podcasts to Twitter starting next week. And earlier this month, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced that he would take his prime-time-show format—a dog-whistling broadcast style known for its fearmongering and bigotry——to Musk’s platform.
Both Carlson and certain Daily Wire hosts have been deplatformed elsewhere—Carlson, of course, only recently lost his sinecure on cable, and Walsh had his popular YouTube channel demonetized over his transphobic commentary. And although they reportedly haven’t brokered official deals with the platform, Carlson and The Daily Wire will likely make use of Twitter’s new subscription features and ad-revenue sharing to monetize their audiences.
This should feel familiar. Twitter is essentially following the playbook of platforms like Rumble, which used to be the go-tos for canceled and deplatformed right-wingers seeking a soft landing and the promise of revenue. Like Rumble, which pivoted from a struggling YouTube alternative into a full-fledged far-right platform in the late 2010s, Twitter appears to be dipping into the well of popular right-wing shock jocks as a way to revive the financially adrift website.
The move makes sense. In just a few months, Musk has actively worked to elevate a particular right-wing, anti-woke ideology. He has reinstated legions of accounts that were previously banned for violating Twitter’s rules and has emboldened trolls, white-nationalist accounts, and January 6 defendants. Musk’s own rhetoric has moved from trolling to dog whistling to outright conspiracy peddling, and it has intensified in recent months, culminating in his recent anti-Semitic remarks about George Soros. A stroll through Musk’s replies on the site reveals the extent to which one of the richest men in the world spends his time replying to far-right influencers and nodding in approval to their racist memes.
A social-media platform will always reflect the values of its owners, and Twitter’s credo is nearly identical to that of the lesser-known alt-tech sites. Despite appearing to cave to the demands of autocratic governments and censoring links to competing platforms, Musk has attempted to position himself as a free-speech absolutist, similar to his right-wing-activist peers. Before shutting down after a failed acquisition by Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), Parler billed itself as the “free-speech social platform.” Truth Social, a website backed in part by Donald Trump, says it encourages “an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.” This language is indistinguishable from the way that Carlson spoke of Musk’s Twitter, arguing that “there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech,” and that the site is “the last big one remaining in the world.” If it acts like a right-wing website and markets itself as a right-wing website, it just might be a right-wing website.
Twitter has so fully assumed the role of a far-right platform that it might be killing its competitors. When Parler shut down in April, its parent company noted that “no reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more.” Left unspoken is the reason: Twitter has become a right-wing echo chamber.
If Musk weren’t too preoccupied lapping up approval from trolls, reactionaries, and Dogecoin enthusiasts—a few of the constituencies left on his site that still seem to adore him—the Parler statement should worry him. Right-wing alt-tech platforms may attract investors and a flood of indignant new users with persecution complexes, but they are, ultimately, bad businesses. That’s precisely because they lack the one thing that fuels far-right discourse: a way to own the libs. A culture war is no fun if there’s no actual conflict, and although some journalists and pundit diehards remain, many of Twitter’s prolific users are posting less and on different platforms. Social-media platforms that cater to the right’s ideology eventually become tired and predictable—the result of the same loud people shaking their fist at digital clouds. History has shown us that there are plenty of ways a social network can die, but the quickest way is boredom.
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