Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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Cloud computing underpins countless applications, services, and company initiatives. However, the environmental footprint of these activities has started to come under scrutiny. Today’s IT leaders find themselves at a crossroads. On one hand they must embrace innovation – which includes using AI, machine learning, and big data analytics – to propel their organisations forward. And…
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When Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line for his emotional win in the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, there would have been a good few fist pumps from the IT team at his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team. While fans focus on the race engineers that helped get the Mercedes car back to the…
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Over the past couple of years, Frore Systems has demonstrated several ways that its AirJet solid-state active cooling systems can be used to improve cooling in fanless devices like laptops, tablets, SSDs, and edge computing devices. But there are a subset of those applications that need their cooling options to also be waterproof, and Frore…
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Edge computing is no longer a mere concept; it’s a reality that’s reshaping industries and transforming how we approach mobile network infrastructure. The global edge computing market is projected to grow to a whopping $317bn by 2026, despite being valued at only $16bn in 2023. This growth promises to completely revolutionise mobile networks, enabling faster…
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A new leak has revealed an upcoming mobile APU from AMD – codenamed ‘Sound Wave’ – along with a few other details on AMD’s future processor selection. Could these become the best processors on the laptop market?The leak, hailing from user gamma0burst on Korean blogging site Tistory, features several heavily redacted images, meaning we don’t…
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The United States Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundires announced on Monday that the US will be awarding GlobalFoundries with $1.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The latest domestic chip fab to receive money under the act, GlobalFoundries’s funding will be spent to upgrade company’s New York and Vermont fabs as well…
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Analyst Forrester has urged IT decision-makers to curb their enthusiasm when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) to avoid being caught out by a shortfall in semiconductors. In its Surviving the global chip shortage report, Forrester recommended that IT leaders moderate their AI ambitions. “Moderation seems like heresy in the current AI-drenched tech environment, but…
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As part of its 2024 CES announcements, ASUS officially unveiled a number of NUCs based on Intel’s Meteor Lake platform. The company had earlier released the NUC 13 Rugged – the first NUC product that had not been inherited from Intel’s existing lineup – based on Alder Lake-N processors. The new NUCs fall under the…
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Arm Holdings has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd, reinforcing a partnership that began in 2008. This strategic investment is designed to support development of Raspberry Pi’s low-cost low-power Arm-based platforms aimed at edge computing and IoT applications, leveraging Raspberry Pi’s ability to deliver affordable, high-performance computing globally.; “Arm and Raspberry Pi share…
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