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Nvidia RTX 3050 6GB spotted at retailer – but the specs don’t calm our fears that this might be a flop of a GPU

Nvidia’s RTX 3050 6GB, a rumored new spin on the budget graphics card from Team Green, has been spotted listed online (not for the first time, we might add).German tech site Computerbase noticed that Austrian retailer E-Tec had an RTX 3050 6GB live on its website, but the product listing has since been taken down.…

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Government ‘dragging it out’ by refusing to share knowledge of Post Office trial ‘delaying tactic’

The government is leaving it up to the statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal to ascertain if and what ministers or senior civil servants knew of the Post Office attempt to have a judge kicked off a multi-million pound court battle against former subpostmasters. In an answer to an urgent question requesting information…

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AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still feeling the effects of many of its customers embarking on cloud cost optimisation strategies, but said the pace of new customers joining its ranks is accelerating. The public cloud giant has posted its fourth quarter and full-year results, which revealed the firm has seen its revenue increase on a…

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UK police facial recognition explained: What you need to know

UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial deployments…

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‘People are now listening,’ Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal was told that the public are now paying attention, as barristers closed its fourth phase. After months of questioning and several delays, the inquiry phase investigating the Post Office’s wrongful prosecutions of its branch managers heard powerful closing submissions. Legal representatives of core participants wrapped…

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Fujitsu UK employees working for HMRC to strike during self-assessment tax period over pay

More than 300 Fujitsu Services UK employees working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are set to strike from 17 January 2024 in a protest over pay, potentially causing mass disruption to the IT systems underpinning the government agency’s self-assessment tax return process. All of the participating employees are members of the Public and Commercial…

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Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year

After nearly two years, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has received a surge in interest driven by the recent ITV drama and documentary, which told the story of the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. A packed hearing this week saw significantly increased numbers of journalists attend, with many new to the…

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AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day

Amazon Web Services (AWS) looks set to make more money on three multi-million pound government contracts that went live on the same day in December 2023 than it has previously amassed through its decade-long involvement with the G-Cloud procurement framework. The public cloud giant signed three 36-month contracts with several different major government departments that…

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NCA director sacked after WhatsApp and email security breaches

A senior director at the National Crime Agency (NCA) lost her job after sending sensitive and secret information over her personal email and on WhatsApp in what was described as a “serious information security” breach. Nikki Holland, former director of investigations at the NCA, was responsible for some of the UK’s most high-profile criminal investigations,…

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RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?

Update: We’ve heard from Nvidia and the company makes the point that the rumors aired by the YouTube leaker do not represent the full picture of RTX 4070 Super sales. Scan Computers in the UK is one retailer that offers up a different view to MLID’s sources, with CEO Elan Raja noting that: “The RTX…

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