Minister of Earth Sciences Kiran Rijiju reportedly troubled by French IT company Atos. The reason for this is being said to be the delay in the delivery of two supercomputers by the French company. Indian Weather Forecasting Institute. According to a report by news agency PTI Ministry of Earth Sciences Last year, Atos Group had ordered two supercomputers worth $100 million from French firm Avidyne to enhance the computing capabilities of its institutions – the National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and the National Weather Service (NCMRWF). Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
“I am more worried because the target we had set was December. The Union Cabinet had already approved purchasing supercomputers. We have only four petaflop capacity. We want to install up to 18 petaflop capacity,” Rijiju told PTI in a video interview.
He said the French company is in some financial trouble and wants the government to make payments to its subsidiary.
Minister says he is ‘worried’ about the delay
Rijiju said he was worried about the delay as the company had gone beyond the deadline. “But I think we’ll sort it out soon,” he said. He said the government wanted to be “very correct in its position legally”.
The minister said, “We are ready to release the money because we want the machine immediately. The only problem is that the amount is not small. So if we pay now, if the company goes bankrupt or something happens, who will save.”
Rijiju further said that the government is taking some steps to speed up the delivery of supercomputers, but did not elaborate. “But I hope the French government will also intervene because we have a good understanding and very good relations with the French government.
“Since this is a high-cost instrument, we want to ensure that the transaction is done in a lawful and fair manner,” he said.
Rijiju said, “Outwardly, everything is ready. It is only a problem with the main company. They want us to make payments to their subsidiary. We will make payments only to the company with which we have entered into the MoU.”
Supercomputing systems based on Avidyne’s Bullsequana XH2000 are said to have a combined power capacity of up to 21.3 petaflops.
Supercomputer in IITM
Pune-based IITM’s supercomputer will provide 13 petaflop computing power for atmosphere and climate research. As per PTI report, it will integrate 3,000 CPU nodes using AMD EPYC 7643 processor and 26 GPU nodes through NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. The system will benefit from the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform with in-network computing, 3PB all flash and 29PB disk-based DDN EXAScaler ES400NVX2 storage, and Micron high-technology memory.
The existing computing facility at NCMRWF is 2.8 petaflops and at IITM is 4 petaflops respectively.

Bobby Kotickformer head of Activision Blizzard is reportedly considering buying tiktokBecause the app may be banned in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick has spoken ByteDanceThe company that owns TikTok is talking about buying this app, which could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
This comes as US lawmakers are introducing a new bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok within six months or block it from being available in US app stores. President Joe Biden has said that he will approve the bill if it is passed in Congress.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick, head of OpenAI, Sam Altmandiscussed teaming up to buy TikTok at a dinner last week.
Kotick’s interest in TikTok comes after the demise of his 30-year-dominant Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. The company faced a lawsuit saying it allowed sexual harassment and discrimination under Kotick’s leadership. The Wall Street Journal also said that Kotick knew about the bad behavior and did not tell everything to the board. Kotick was accused of harassment, but Activision Blizzard said the report was “misleading”.
Lawmakers are concerned about data privacy and TikTok’s ties to China. US President Biden, whose administration has already banned the app on state devices, has expressed his support for banning the app in the US. However, former President Donald Trump, who once wanted to ban TikTok, has changed his mind and said the ban would help TikTok’s rivals like Facebook and YouTube.
As the bill against TikTok is gaining support, the app has asked its US users to speak out for it, and has sent messages to users asking them to call their representatives. The bill, which passed a committee last week, is expected to be approved when the House votes on it on Wednesday. If it passes, it will go to the Senate, and then the bill will be signed by the US President. Former Activision boss reportedly wants to buy TikTok

AppleThe city of Denver lost US$3.76 million due to the Find My app. compensation and damages. In 2022, city police mistakenly raid and ransack an elderly woman’s home in search of a stolen truck and guns.
According to a CNN report, denver police They were trying to recover a stolen truck loaded with guns, ammo and cash. For this the police used Apple’s Find My technology on others. iPhone To locate the vehicle. However, the police chose the wrong house, out of an area wide enough to catch the thieves.
Due to this wrong raid, 78 year old… ruby johnson Filed a case against the police. As compensation, the city will award Johnson $3.76 million.
Additionally, the responding officers – Detective Gary Staub and Sgt. Gregory Bushey was also prosecuted as an individual. Denver police had previously cleared both men of wrongdoing, but the jury disagreed.

How Apple’s Find My app played a role

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought the case on Johnson’s behalf. The lawsuit notes that the raid was conducted “based on purported location pings from the iPhone’s Find My app that the officers did not understand and for which they had no training.”
According to the complaint, police relied on a “Find My” ping from an iPhone 11 that was probably still in the stolen truck. However, the area identified included portions of six other properties spanning four city blocks.
Johnson’s lawyer said in a statement tim macdonald Said: “We are troubled by the lack of training or policy changes and hope the amount of the punitive damages award will send a strong message that the police department must take seriously the constitutional rights of its residents.”
The ACLU and the jury concluded that the two police officers who ordered the raid had no reason to choose Johnson’s home as a target.
Additionally, the officers must pay approximately $1.25 million each in punitive and compensatory damages. A clerk at the Denver District Court said the city has not yet filed an appeal of the decision.