As Apple plans to release iOS 17.5 soon, the company just seeded the RC version to developers. With the Release Candidate build, Apple is adding the recently announced 2024 Pride wallpapers to it.Apple says these wallpapers “bring bold, symbolic color to Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. Signaling hope, strength, and fellowship to LGBTQ+ communities, the…
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Users of the Dropbox Sign document-signing service – until recently known as HelloSign – have been alerted to a data breach affecting their information after an undisclosed threat actor hacked into its systems. Dropbox first became aware that someone had attained unauthorised access to the Dropbox Sign production environment on 24 April – suggesting they…
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The iOS 17.5 beta cycle just started, and this might be Apple’s last iOS 17 update for iPhone users before it unveils iOS 18 during the WWDC 2024 keynote on June 10. That said, this roundup includes everything new so far that has been added to the iPhone in Apple’s iOS 17.5 beta.Exclusive EU featuresAs…
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Francessca Vasquez has worked in the IT industry for 25 year in a number of well-known firms including Oracle and Salesforce. In her current role, she looks after professional services and the GenAI innovation centre at AWS. For Vasquez, innovation with technology is about digital disruption. She says: “I’ve really spent my time trying to…
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The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology package introduced a plethora of enhancements to the FSR technology on Radeon RX 6000 and 7000-series graphics cards last September. But perfection has no limits, so this week, the company is rolling out its FSR 3.1 technology, which improves upscaling quality, decouples frame generation from AMD’s upscaling, and makes…
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Security services and technology have again maintained the number one priority for IT spending across the EMEA region, according to this year’s Technology spending intentions research from TechTarget and ESG, to the extent that it’s also leading investment in areas beyond merely cyber, including networking, infrastructure, applications (DevSecOps) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). With 48%…
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When Sam Altman was asked about the GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, the CEO said OpenAI had other products to release before then. The text-to-video Sora service might be one of them, a product that OpenAI will release publicly this year.We already knew about Sora when Altman addressed those GPT-5 questions. What we weren’t familiar with was…
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AMD has announced its next-gen upscaling box of tricks to make frame rates smoother with PC games at GDC 2024.This is FSR 3.1, and it sounds like a big step forward – and not just for the quality of the upscaling tech, since there’s a surprise in tow for Nvidia (and Intel Arc) GPU owners.The…
Microsoft has just announced DirectSR, a new application programming interface (API) designed in partnership with major GPU manufacturers that will allow game developers to enable “seamless integration of Super Resolution into a new generation of PC games.” Programmer Joshue Tucker notes in the official blog post that “DirectSR is the missing link developers have been…
