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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Viktoriia BV/Shutterstock Screenless fitness trackers promise full health tracking without the distraction of a display, and the idea has caught on. Whoop’s screenless fitness bands are gaining traction, and the product category has expanded quickly, with Google, Garmin, Polar, and Amazfit all now offering screenless options of their own. I wear an Oura Ring 5…
Gaming is transforming into a very expensive hobby. You’ve probably heard about all the console price hikes, but few have felt the sting quite like the PC gaming market. RAM prices are increasing, GPU costs are skyrocketing, and even Intel CPUs are becoming more expensive. Sometimes, you have to ask if the price is worthwhile,…
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