The UK’s critical infrastructure has faced 200 cyber attacks, three-quarters of which were linked to hostile nation-state actors, in the past year, the head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said today. Over the past year, hostile nation states were responsible for cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure (CNI) – which includes hospitals, electricity,…
Apple’s CEO has warned that “price increases are unavoidable” for its productsThat means more expensive Macs, iPhones and iPads for startersPrice hikes will likely be substantial, and there are concerns that product lines could be adjusted as seen recently with the Mac mini – is the entry-level MacBook Neo to suffer the same fate?CEO Tim…
Nelson Duann is a VP at Silicon Motion, a maker of SSD controllersIn an interview, Duann made it clear that the strategy of Chinese memory chip makers is different to foreign suppliersThey are obliged by the government to support the local market, and that could be bad news for theories about these chip makers helping…
The “clear and present danger or hot air” framing surrounding Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model sets up the wrong argument. What Mythos represents is a tempo shift in how vulnerabilities are found, chained, and exploited. Anthropic says Mythos can identify and exploit zero-days across major operating systems and browsers at a level serious enough…
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A memory expert has predicted big RAM price hikes this yearThey say we could see hikes of 40% to 50% in Q3, and further 30% to 40% rises in Q4They predict that 2027 is also going to be painful, with a 40% to 45% increase year-on-yearThere’s more fuel to the fire for the theory that…
In the run up to the troubled Fifa World Cup 2026 in Canada, Mexico and the US, national headlines have been dominated not by cyber security, but by border security, with tighter entry and Visa restrictions in the US leaving teams, players and officials in a bind, with some banned from entering the country altogether.…
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Price hikes on Asus products will be much reduced in the second half of 2026This is over in Taiwan, but should be reflected to an extent globallyThere’s also a report that SK Hynix, a big memory chip maker, is set to slow AI memory production in favor of conventional RAMThere’s been a pretty relentless string…
While two-thirds (64%) of UK finance firms are planning to increase overall expenditure, 91% said they will spend more on tech, with emerging tech now topping growth priorities. Emerging tech investment is the top growth priority for UK finance firms for the first time in the 10 year’s Lloyds Bank has carried out its Financial…
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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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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…
