February 2025

Nvidia’s rumored CPU could pack integrated GPU to rival RTX 4070 mobile – should AMD and Intel start to worry now?

Nvidia APU rumored to equal RTX 4070 laptop GPU in performanceLaptops are already being made with the APU, including from AlienwareThe Arm-based APU could outgun AMD’s Strix Halo by miles for efficiencyNvidia’s apparent plan to make an Arm-based CPU for PCs – in conjunction with MediaTek – raised some eyebrows, certainly, and now we’re hearing…

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French court refuses to expedite trial of Sky ECC cryptophone distributor Thomas Herdman

Five judges will hear a case against 30 people accused of being involved in the distribution of encrypted mobile phones used by organised criminal groups at a special criminal court expected to take place in spring 2026 in Paris. French appeal court judges last week rejected a petition by Thomas Herdman, 64, a Canadian businessman…

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CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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AMD’s Ryzen chips appear to be wiping the floor with Intel – but the best-selling CPUs right now might surprise you

Intel’s top-selling CPU is a lowly number 13 in Amazon rankingsTeam Blue is doing better in the Newegg CPU chart, but still not wellThis may reflect fallout from Intel’s recent fumbles with chip instability and the rocky Arrow Lake launchAMD is totally cleaning up in the world of desktop processors, with Intel lagging way behind…

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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond

As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s.  Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…

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