Microsoft has addressed around 140 newly discovered common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its May Patch Tuesday update, but for the first time in a long time, the latest monthly drop contains no zero-day flaws, meaning that none of the issues in scope have been actively exploited or publicly disclosed. But while a less panic-inducing…
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Datacentre capacity has reached 67.7GW globally, with five countries accounting for 69% of that total, and the US alone accounting for 43%, according to the International Datacentre Authority’s (IDCA) Datacentre report 2026. The study based its research on data from organisations such as the International Energy Agency, World Bank, United Nations and International Telecommunications Union,…
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AMD has announced its Q1 results, with booming revenue driven by AIThere’s bad news for the gaming division, though, due to ‘higher memory and component costs, ‘ AMD’s CEO Lisa Su observedAMD’s CFO has forecast ‘gaming revenue to decline by more than 20%’ in the second half of 2026 compared to the first half of…
Christian Klein, SAP’s chief executive officer, led with a picture of a three-eared unicorn during the opening keynote at SAP’s global Sapphire event in Orlando. In the main press statement for the event, he added some context: “For the mission-critical processes of our customers, ‘almost right’ just isn’t good enough. “By uniting SAP Business AI Platform…
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Isomorphic Labs, a company founded by Demis Hassabis, which uses frontier artificial intelligence (AI) for drug design and development, has received investment from the UK government’s Sovereign AI fund. Isomorphic’s work builds on the breakthrough success of DeepMind’s AlphaFold, the AI model co-created by Hassabis that demonstrated in 2016 how AI could beat the Go…
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The RAM crisis has reportedly resulted in a motherboard manufacturer crisis, according to DigitimesDigitimes’ report suggests motherboard shipments have plummeted for four major Taiwanese manufacturersConsumers no longer have the incentive to buy motherboards for new PC builds due to unaffordable RAM kitsThe AI boom and ongoing economic struggles continue to leave the PC hardware market…
Paul Coby has worked as chief information officer (CIO) for some of the UK’s most prominent companies over the past 25 years. He has led major projects at British Airways, John Lewis, chemicals and metals group Johnson Matthey, and, in his current role as group CIO, Persimmon Homes, one of the UK’s largest house builders.…
Nintendo announced the Switch 2’s price will increase in the US, Canada, Europe, and JapanIt will now cost $499.99, effective from September 1, 2026All Switch hardware prices will increase in Japan, including Nintendo Switch Online subscriptionsNintendo has held strong amid the memory crisis, successfully avoiding price hikes for its Switch 2 hardware — but all…
gguy/Shutterstock Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI assistant Claude, is now testing an unreleased version of its frontier AI model: Claude Mythos Preview. It’s currently only available to select tech firms, but findings have shown that it has the potential to create numerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities when it is released to the world. According to Anthropic,…
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Chinese RAM is available on AliExpress and other third-party sellers at slightly cheaper pricesNot all options are cheaper than mainstream RAM kits in the west, thoughThis is not a solution to the RAM crisis, but it’s an alternative some people may want to exploreThe RAM crisis feels relentless for consumers looking to buy PC memory,…
