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7 Of The Most Overlooked Stores With Electronics Deals You Should Check Out

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Piranka/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether it’s a single-person apartment or a two-story family home, the modern household is run by electronics. Modems and routers keep us connected, phones and computers are essential for communication, and TVs, game systems, and music players provide endless entertainment. Home electronics are more…

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Interview: Ashwin Ballal, CIO, Freshworks

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Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal hasn’t taken the typical digital leadership journey. Having completed a PhD in material science and engineering, he started in business-focused operations, working in marketing, engineering, product and operations. His shift into IT came much later, almost to the extent that he could be seen as an accidental CIO. “My career wasn’t…

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‘Makes me want to unplug every mic and speaker’: PC users panic as professional discovers speaker that can hack any PC over Bluetooth

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A cybersecurity researcher has discovered a major vulnerability in a popular PC speakerThe Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speakers can reportedly be used to hack users’ PCs via BluetoothCreative won’t provide a patch as it’s not viewed as a vulnerability, but a temporary third-party fix is availableDiscovering potential PC vulnerabilities is undoubtedly of high importance…

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US mortgage provider moves beyond ‘superficial AI integrations’

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Pennymac Financial Services has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools as part of its plan to “change how mortgages are made”. The US mortgage lender is expanding its current deal with AWS to include the tech giant’s GenAI offerings. The arrangement has seen Pennymac develop a natural language virtual assistant using…

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DDR5 RAM could take ‘about two years to return to normal levels’ predicts AMD exec — and rumored Lenovo price hikes mean you might want to buy a laptop soon

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AMD’s David McAfee expects DDR5 RAM prices to ‘recover slowly in the future’However, the exec added that DDR5 won’t return to ‘normal’ pricing levels for some two yearsMeanwhile chatter from the rumor mill claims Lenovo is going to implement another sizeable round of price hikes with its PCsAn AMD exec has told us that DDR5…

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Intel explains how its Wildcat Lake CPU is ‘reimagining’ affordable laptops — and I’m keener than ever to see these notebooks hit the shelves

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Intel has detailed how it’s designed Wildcat Lake laptops to be affordableThis isn’t only about the Wildcat Lake processor itself, but the supporting componentsThese have been implemented in a cost-friendly way, leveraging phone chips and design elements, helping to further reduce the cost of productionIntel is talking up how laptops based on its new Wildcat…

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NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove

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Almost a third (30%) of English hospital trusts using Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) are carrying out fewer patient operations than before they started using it, according to data obtained from the NHS by campaigning group Foxglove. The findings, revealed via freedom of information (FOI) requests, challenge claims by the UK government and Palantir that FDP…

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Old Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs are being quietly resurrected to help solve the RAM crisis — but don’t worry, SK Hynix has revealed a new masterplan that could see its memory production ‘triple by around 2034’

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The Nvidia RTX 3060 and 3050 are apparently making a comebackA graphics card maker in Asia has new models planned as budget alternatives, and this practice could spread to other regionsMeanwhile, we’re hearing that SK Hynix plans to accelerate development of its memory chip production capacity and triple it by 2034The RAM crisis appears to…

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Gemini now costs less than ChatGPT Go — and Google just doubled the storage

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Google has cut the price of Gemini AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month Subscribers now get 400GB of Google storage instead of 200GB Here’s how Gemini AI Plus compares with OpenAI’s $8 ChatGPT Go planGoogle just slashed the price of its Google AI Plus plan to $4.99/month (£4.99 /AU$7.99), down from $7.99, and…

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MPs call for UK government to back sovereign IT

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MPs are calling on the government to reduce the UK’s dependency on big technology companies amid concerns that the state is over-reliant on overseas suppliers, posing national security and economic risks. An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB), backed by 20 MPs, calls for the government to publish a digital security strategy…

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