Microsoft to Offer Extended Security Updates for Windows 10
According to YooCare, on December 6, Microsoft announced that it will offer three years of paid Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for companies that need to use Windows 10 beyond the end of its lifecycle.Devices enrolled in the ESU program will receive monthly security updates to keep those Windows 10 PCs secure.The ESUs for Windows 10 will include critical and/or important security updates. The ESU does not cover new features, customer-requested non-security updates, or design change requests, and technical support outside of the ESU itself is not available. It is important to note that ESUs will be available for purchase by individual consumers, although ESU pricing has not been announced at this time. Additionally any Windows 10 PCs logged into a cloud PC running Windows 11 (via Microsoft 365) will automatically receive these ESU updates for free, which also applies to any Windows 10 instance in an Azure virtual desktop.
Google Launches Generative AI Model Gemini
On December 6, Google announced the launch of a new generation of generative AI model Gemini, Gemini support for multimodal content generation, including text, code, images, video, audio, etc., the model can be subdivided into Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro and Gemini Nano three models, the model volume and computing power in order to reduce. According to Google, Gemini Ultra exceeds GPT-4 in many aspects and has broad compatibility. Gemini will be deployed and applied in the near future, Google Bard has already enabled the optimized version of Gemini Pro, Gemini Nano will also be landed on Google Pixel 8 Pro cell phone later, and Chrome, Google search and advertising and other businesses will deploy Gemini. In addition, Google plans to release Google Bard Advanced early next year, which will have a built-in Gemini Ultra model.
Apple Introduces MLX Deep Learning Framework
On December 6, Apple introduced the MLX deep learning framework optimized for the Apple Silicon chip, which offers APIs that align with mainstream development tools, support for deferred computation, a dynamic design and a combination of hardware and software, researcher-friendliness, and the advantage of unified memory, and which has been published on Github so that developers can The framework has been released on Github, allowing developers to simplify the process of designing and deploying models for Mac, iPad, and iPhone researchers.
Beeper Launches iMessage App for Android
Beeper, a startup team, recently launched Beeper Mini, an iMessage app for Android, which is now available on the Google Play Store. According to Beeper’s description, Beeper Mini can bypass Apple’s device detection in some ways and send iMessage messages directly to other devices, instead of forwarding the user’s messages to Apple’s device for intermediary as similar apps have done in the past.Beeper also emphasized that Beeper Mini Beeper also emphasized that Beeper Mini does not have access to any of the user’s data or messages and that this implementation is legally compliant.
Micron Announces 3500 OEM SSD
On December 5, Micron Technology Inc. launched the 3500 series of NVMe SSDs for the OEM market, with the same specifications as the previously announced Arrow T500, an E25 host + 232-layer TLC particles. The 3500 PCIe 4.0 OEM SSDs offer sequential read speeds of 7,000 MB/s, sequential write speeds of 7,000 MB/s, random read speeds of 1,150k IOPS, random write speeds of 1,150k IOPS, and a total of 1,200 TBW for 2TB. 2TB.