Apple is rumored to be planning to rent Macs, as well as iPhones and other devices, to consumers’Apple Upgrade’ will allow you to pay via a subscription (with financing handled by Klarna), and buy the device eventually if you wishThis is seemingly Apple’s way of sidestepping the RAM crisis and keeping Mac sales going, as…
A recent report suggests Nvidia has informed its partners of GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory kit price increasesThis means retailers may increase the prices for RTX GPUs using GDDR6 and GDDR7 memoryThe potential price hike and one user’s dual-GPU setup both highlight the importance of hardware preservationThe RAM crisis continues to impact PC manufacturers, with rising…
As frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models become capable of reasoning across increasingly complex environments, the gap between discovering a vulnerability and exploiting it continues to shrink. For security and risk management leaders, this means the race is no longer simply about patching vulnerabilities faster – it is about making better security decisions faster. AI is…
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On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends – experts, parliamentarians, IT leaders and suppliers – for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades. What’s changed the most for you since then? In 1990, a lecturer stood before a room…
CW@60: From the absurd to the obvious – the day we laughed at the future Read More »
The ongoing RAM crisis is projected to continue through 2028Samsung says memory shortages are expected to worsen in 2027Deloitte reports the big three RAM manufacturers are anticipated to have a combined capital expenditure that will nearly quadruple between 2024 and 2027The RAM crisis isn’t letting up, with shortages continuing to impact PC hardware manufacturers. Unfortunately,…
Multiple US states are repealing or enacting moratoriums on sales tax exemptions for data centersEstimates on lost tax revenue are far below the billions of dollars some states have missed out onOngoing data center constructions may not be subject, but costs are expected to increase for new or planned projectsIn a blow to US firms…
Samsung tells analysts global memory supply shortage will persist through 2028 and grow more severe in 2027 than in 2026This while posting its third consecutive record quarter: ₩171.5 trillion in revenue, ₩89.5 trillion in operating profit, and a 52% operating marginSamsung is locking 60 to 70% of capacity into five-year supply agreements with price floorsSamsung…
Samsung warns RAM-pocalypse could last until 2028 — as its profits continue to rise Read More »
As enterprises transition generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) from pilot projects to production systems, attention is shifting from training large language models (LLMs) to managing the growing cost and complexity of inference. According to a report from Core42, the next competitive advantage in enterprise AI will come not from deploying the biggest models on the most…
Why the next AI race will be won at the inference layer Read More »
An average of £3,000 was lost by people as a result of financial investment fraud via social media platforms, according to a TSB survey. The warning comes as more people use unregulated advice via tech platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). The findings also revealed that over half of people who followed financial advice from social…
Nearly 60% of people regretted taking social media financial advice Read More »
When Labour MP Jess Asato first saw the fake images of herself circulating online, the experience was both unsettling and violating. The hyper-realistic deepfakes, created without her consent using xAI’s Grok platform, looked unmistakably like her – a digital theft of her identity. Now, she’s fighting back with a groundbreaking legal case that could reshape…
Why sexualisation of women by Grok’s GenAI is a data privacy issue Read More »
