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CMA puts in place fair ranking measures on Google Search

Under the UK’s digital markets competition regime, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Google will be required to improve transparency and fairness in how search results are ranked. It said that businesses have noted that current ranking practices are neither fair nor transparent. The CMA said businesses also found that changes made by…

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‘New normal’: the memory price crisis will get worse before it gets better, as Xbox says it expects prices to double again in 2027, Lenovo suggests they may never come down — and Micron hints Apple’s to blame for the whole thing by being too ‘aggressive’

Lenovo has said that RAM prices will likely “never” fall back to pre-crisis levelsThe company also predicted a “new normal” for memory pricing from 2030 onwardsMicrosoft expects the cost of memory to double in just over a yearIf you were hoping we might get to the weekend without any more bad news on the RAM…

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Scientists create a ‘new type of pixel’ that can display and scan light — and sci-fi fans are comparing it to the terrifying ‘telescreens’ from 1984

A new type of pixel is capable of both controlling and analyzing lightIt’s based on the Fourier mathematical toolWe’ll have to wait some time to get this in our gadget screensScreens that double up as cameras could be packed into future gadgets, as researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed a new type of…

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Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify

Cyber resilience has become a board-level priority for organisations across the Gulf as regional tensions, increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) reshape enterprise risk strategies. According to Yahya Kassab, senior director and general manager for Gulf and Saudi Arabia at Commvault, recent geopolitical developments have acted as a wake-up…

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Interview: Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer, Sanofi

Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer (CDO) at biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi, recognises that the CDO role often means different things in different companies. At Sanofi, it was decided that the role would be an all-encompassing position, overseeing business applications, infrastructure, cyber security, data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital services. There are also professionals in Frenehard’s team…

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‘Basically a free $400 upgrade’: Redditor lucks out as dead Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU is reportedly replaced by an RTX 5070 Ti

A Redditor reports that their RTX 5070 (which they were gifted) diedPNY replaced the faulty graphics card with an RTX 5070 TiThese kinds of upgrades can happen with returns if you get very lucky, and others on Reddit have similar tales to shareIf your graphics card goes kaput, that’s obviously regarded as bad news —…

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‘DDR5 prices fall sharply across US, China and Europe’: TrendForce report sparks fresh hope over RAM crisis, but I wouldn’t get carried away here

A new report from TrendForce gives us some optimistic nuggets of info about the RAM crisisIt appears that retail prices are dropping in the US, Europe, and especially over in China right nowThe bigger picture hasn’t changed much, though, according to memory chip makers, but we can still hope this is the start of a…

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‘We’ll continue to see volatility and cost increases through the rest of 2026’: Framework warns on RAM crisis, while GPU prices also get hiked

Asus RX 9070 XT GPUs have been hit with a sudden price hike in the USFramework has warned that while memory costs have stabilized in some areas, this is likely just a temporary reprieveThe laptop maker predicts that “We’ll continue to see volatility and cost increases through the rest of 2026.”There’s been a fresh round…

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‘Slowly but surely’ — latest Intel drivers make Crimson Desert playable on Arc GPUs, but there’s still work to be done

Crimson Desert is now playable on Intel Arc GPUs, seemingly after Intel’s latest driver updateThe game previously wouldn’t launch on any Intel GPU, due to Pearl Abyss omitting compatibilityVisual glitches are evident, but an official future update from Pearl Abyss or Intel should fix themPearl Abyss’ Crimson Desert has provided a joyful experience to a…

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‘This was one of the rarest GPUs we’ve seen destroyed’: repair shop receives $5K Nvidia RTX 5090 that the owner practiced soldering skills on

Someone bought an MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z, which is a $5,000 GPUThey then practiced their soldering skills on the board, and broke the graphics cardWhy? It’s surely because they wanted to implement a hardware mod that allows for an extreme BIOS to be run on the GPUMSI’s RTX 5090 Lightning Z is a rare…

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