Nvidia APU rumored to equal RTX 4070 laptop GPU in performanceLaptops are already being made with the APU, including from AlienwareThe Arm-based APU could outgun AMD’s Strix Halo by miles for efficiencyNvidia’s apparent plan to make an Arm-based CPU for PCs – in conjunction with MediaTek – raised some eyebrows, certainly, and now we’re hearing…
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has just burnt out on an MSI X870 motherboardThe user on Reddit reports an error code of ‘00’, indicative of a CPU issueThere’s currently no confirmation from AMD on whether this is an issue on its endThe AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been the recipient of much acclaim thanks to the…
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Intel’s top-selling CPU is a lowly number 13 in Amazon rankingsTeam Blue is doing better in the Newegg CPU chart, but still not wellThis may reflect fallout from Intel’s recent fumbles with chip instability and the rocky Arrow Lake launchAMD is totally cleaning up in the world of desktop processors, with Intel lagging way behind…
As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s. Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…
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It’s 2025, and we still have to deal with CAPTCHAs on the web, the online browsing disruption we never wanted and can’t get rid of. Then again, CAPTCHAs are there to protect websites from abuse by malicious actors. With that in mind, it’s pretty obvious why sites continue to use them.However, with the upcoming wave…
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Nvidia is said to be halting production of mid-to-higher-end Lovelace GPUsThat means the RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070, 4070 Super, and 4070 Ti SuperNext-gen successors are expected to arrive soon for those GPUsNvidia is rumored to be winding down production of most of the firm’s RTX 4000 GPUs, ahead of the launch of next-gen RTX…
I have this distinct memory of looking at a Samsung billboard in Times Square and telling someone that I should soon buy one of those new phones, not because they appealed to me but because I didn’t want to be left behind.It was the summer of 2006, about a year before the first-generation iPhone came…
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Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in the UK cloud infrastructure services market. The CMA is not ploughing a lonely furrow: regulators across the world – from Spain and Denmark to South Africa and (if reports…
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A new wearable tech company is entering the fray. Halliday, a new startup, is set to shake up the wearable tech scene by combining smart AI features with stylish glasses that call upon the nostalgia of vintage designs. The company is showing off the glasses at CES this week, calling them the world’s first proactive…
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