January 2024

Santander bank added 4,500 tech staff last year

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Spanish banking giant Santander has increased its IT workforce to 27,500 globally after adding 4,500 in 2023 to support its digital transformation, which has seen 95% of systems moved to the cloud. New recruits include experts in cloud, cyber security, data, DevSecOps, artificial intelligence, software development, enterprise architecture and product management. The recruitment campaign, which…

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Netflix isn’t making a visionOS app for the Apple Vision Pro

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At least one streaming service seems to be skeptical about Apple’s Vision Pro spatial computer. On Wednesday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Netflix has no plans to make a native visionOS app for the upcoming mixed-reality headset.Not only is Netflix choosing not to design an app for the Vision Pro, but the company won’t even…

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Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super could be almost equal to the RTX 4080 and a seriously good GPU… but with one potential catch

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Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti Super is the next refreshed graphics card in the firm’s trio of revamped Super editions, releasing next week, and we’ve just caught sight of some leaked benchmarks.Benchleaks is the source of many benchmark leaks (you’d never guess) on X (formerly Twitter), and has unearthed OpenCL and Vulkan scores from Geekbench 6…

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The Intel CES 2024 Pat Gelsinger Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 5pm PT/01:00 UTC)

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This evening is the biggest PC-related keynote of CES 2024, Intel’s “prime” keynote with CEO Pat Gelsinger. Part of Intel’s “AI everywhere starts with Intel” campaign for the show, Gelsinger is expected to talk about the role AI will play in the future of consumer technology, along with the economic implications. 07:58PM EST – Thanks…

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RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?

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Update: We’ve heard from Nvidia and the company makes the point that the rumors aired by the YouTube leaker do not represent the full picture of RTX 4070 Super sales. Scan Computers in the UK is one retailer that offers up a different view to MLID’s sources, with CEO Elan Raja noting that: “The RTX…

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Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post, and…

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Nvidia RTX 4080 Super and 4070 Ti Super go on sale early – but new benchmark leak might make you think twice about buying the latter GPU

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Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super, the final two refreshes for Lovelace to follow the RTX 4070 Super, somehow went on sale early at Amazon – plus we’ve had a benchmark leaked for the latter.VideoCardz reported that both of these inbound GPUs popped up with product listings for Zotac graphics cards that…

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Nvidia RTX 4090 scams keep popping up – and the latest one is a shameless ‘FrankenGPU’ rip-off bought on Amazon

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Scammers duping PC gamers with fake RTX 4090 graphics cards isn’t anything new, but what is new is that we’ve seen a couple of these in January 2024 now, when the incidents are normally a more scattered affair – and the latest one was in the US.Tom’s Hardware reported that a hardware repair expert on…

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How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry

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The ongoing hearings in the UK Post Office’s Horizon software scandal drilled down into an area rarely addressed in detail by the courts or inquiries – the topic of legal disclosure of documents and evidence. With the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and an accompanying documentary bringing home the real human cost of…

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Russia hacked ex-MI6 chief’s emails – what they reveal is more Dad’s Army than deep state

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Reporting by: Bill Goodwin, Duncan Campbell, Crina Boros IT support: Matthew Fowler. Interactive graphics: Sophie Hill A Russian hacking operation claimed to have uncovered a conspiracy among the pro-Brexit British establishment, but the paranoia-fuelled septuagenarians the hackers targeted are more Dad’s Army than the “deep state”. Leaked private emails reveal how a former head of…

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