May 2024

CIO interview: Nic Granger, director of corporate and CFO, North Sea Transition Authority

Nic Granger isn’t your typical digital leader. Having spent time in the past with penguins on the Falklands Islands, she’s now director of corporate and chief financial officer (CFO) at the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), where she’s responsible for finance and technology. While her blended leadership role might seem unusual, Granger says it’s a…

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One More EPYC: AMD Launches Entry-Level Zen 4-based EPYC 4004 Series

Ever since AMD re-emerged as a major competitor within the x86 CPU scene, one of AMD’s top priorities has been to win over customers in the highly lucrative and profitable server market. It’s a strategy that’s paid off well for AMD, as while they’re still the minority player in the space, they’ve continued to whittle…

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Microsoft goes all-in on AI hardware with Copilot Plus PCs

During an AI-focused event at the company’s headquarters on Monday, Microsoft announced a new line of laptops called Copilot Plus PCs. In addition to introducing two of its own Copilot Plus PCs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that its partners Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung are all working on their own laptops with…

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Parliamentary committee criticises big tech response to election threats

Big tech and social media companies have come under fire for their failure to adequately address the risks posed by disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes to the integrity of elections in the UK. A joint Parliamentary committee said today that big tech companies, including X, TikTok, Snap, Meta, Microsoft and Google, had taken an…

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IT strategy: Supporting a distributed workforce

Prior to 2019, many corporate IT departments had evolved a fairly efficient end-user computing strategy, which kept PCs functioning and updated to support the enterprise software requirements of staff. Then along came the pandemic, which broke the entire model for end-user computing. Literally overnight, IT departments had to enable people to work from home in…

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The fall from grace of ex-priest and Post Office boss Paula Vennells

Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells left the organisation with a huge payout and a CBE, but has fallen from grace following the unravelling of a cover-up on her watch. She has since become a household name after ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office Horizon scandal. Vennells joined the Post Office in 2007 and was…

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What if Apple slashed iPhone 15 prices globally instead of just in China? 

Smartphone vendors have struggled in recent years, with one notable exception: Apple. While others saw sales and profits dive amid economic uncertainty, Apple did something unexpected by selling more expensive iPhones without increasing the price.Apple increased the average selling price for the iPhone, taking advantage of the growing popularity of Pro versions of phones like…

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Scarlett Johansson issues blistering statement against OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘Sky’

Well, now we know why OpenAI abruptly removed the “Sky” voice option for ChatGPT, the one that sounded suspiciously like Scarlett Johansson.According to a statement released this afternoon from the actress, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself had actually offered her the opportunity to provide her voice for the chatbot. “He told me that he felt…

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Post Office directors went crawling back to Fujitsu when IBM project got complex, inquiry told

IBM came within a whisker of taking over from Fujitsu as the Post Office’s core system provider, until complexity forced an “anxious” Post Office into a u-turn, the public inquiry has heard. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry hearing, it emerged that although IBM had started work on the £100m project to replace…

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Intel Teases Lunar Lake CPU Ahead of Computex: Most Power Efficient x86 Chip Yet

The next few weeks in the PC industry are going to come fast and furious. Between today and mid-June are multiple conferences and trade-shows, including Microsoft Build and the king of PC trade shows: Computex Taiwan. With all three PC CPU vendors set to present, there’s a lot going on, and a lot of product…

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