A few weeks before I started as TechUK’s head of digital identity, the new prime minister Andy Burnham announced that the government was cancelling its national digital identity scheme. I will admit to a moment of anxiety. What did this mean for the sector I was about to join? Was this the end of digital…
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Nvidia Smooth Motion has been modded onto RTX 3000 series GPUsThe experimental mod allows driver-level frame generation in unsupported gamesNvidia hasn’t officially implemented this and other features on older RTX hardware yetModders continue to find new ways to implement Nvidia’s latest technologies on older hardware, and now it’s been done with Team Green’s driver-level frame…
Meta has said it will be connecting a petabit subsea cable between the US and France by 2029. Called Petal, the subsea cable will span over 4,300 miles and, according to Meta, double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Meta has been collaborating on the buildout of subsea network capacity with Marea in 2018,…
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Borderless Gaming is a tool that’s sold on SteamIt just got an add-on to easily fudge DLSS 5 to work with various PC gamesReviews of the tool have turned rather colorful, as those who still hate DLSS 5 and all it stands for are chipping inYou can’t have missed all the chatter about experimenting with…
Kiteworks has warned users of its products to shut down their managed file transfer (MFT) servers immediately after apparently being alerted to the existence of a highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability. The company, formerly known as Accellion, bills itself as providing a secure control plane for data exchange. However, thanks to the utility of its core…
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An investigative journalist has filed a High Court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert attempt to identify a confidential journalistic source. A High Court judge has granted the journalist, identified as YZL, anonymity to protect the identity of their sources and because of…
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Picture this: a mid-sized country decides to move its entire public administration onto a single cloud platform provided by one of the world’s largest technology companies. The deal is celebrated as efficient, modern and, above all, competitively priced. Ministers point to it as proof of digital transformation – a step towards better government. Three years…
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Amid a string of high-profile data breaches and cyber incidents linked to advanced, frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, identity specialist Okta broke new ground at its Oktane 2026 conference in Las Vegas, becoming one of the first cyber companies to launch an explicitly defined AI kill switch as part of a series of enhancements to…
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Micron has warned that the RAM shortage will get much worse in 2027 and 2028Then coming to the end of the decade, robots are going to put more strain on memory supplySo-called ‘physical AI’ could need 200GB+ of DRAM and multiple terabytes of storage per unit, Micron predictsMicron just published its latest financial results, complete…
I often need to transcribe audio to turn interviews, voice notes etc into plain text. And I am naturally quite loath to spend money on things I can, in theory, do myself. So for a while I had thought about how I could do it without paying a monthly subscription for the privilege. The obvious…
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