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Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data

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Microsoft has admitted to Scottish policing bodies that it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted on its hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, despite its systems being deployed throughout the criminal justice sector.  According to correspondence released by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) under freedom of information (FOI) rules, Microsoft is unable to guarantee…

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Digital transformation – the missing government mission?

9 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, digital transformation, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

Unless current election polling proves to be massively mistaken, the UK is on the brink of a Labour government. But what will that mean for long-standing government efforts to deliver a “digital transformation” of the public sector? Computer Weekly has provided useful insight into how the Lib Dems, Conservatives, and Labour view the role of…

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NVIDIA Closes Above $135, Becomes World’s Most Valuable Company

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Thanks to the success of the burgeoning market for AI accelerators, NVIDIA has been on a tear this year. And the only place that’s even more apparent than the company’s rapidly growing revenues is in the company’s stock price and market capitalization. After breaking into the top 5 most valuable companies only earlier this year,…

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RCE flaw and DNS zero-day top list of Patch Tuesday bugs

3 minutes of reading / Cloud, DNS, Microsoft, Tech / By

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) stands out as the most serious issue patched by Microsoft in its June Patch Tuesday update, amid another lighter-than-usual drop comprising just over 50 issues. Tracked as CVE-2024-30080, and attributed to China-based researcher k0shl, the flaw enables a remote, unauthenticated party to execute…

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CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market

6 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The interim findings of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) investigation into Microsoft’s cloud software licensing strategy should be a significant cause for concern for the software giant, experts have warned. However, Microsoft maintains its behaviour is having no impact on its nearest competitors, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. The UK competition watchdog…

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Black Basta ransomware crew may be exploiting Microsoft zero-day

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A vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Service, which was identified and patched three months ago in the March 2024 Patch Tuesday update, appears to have been exploited as a zero-day by the Black Basta ransomware gang prior to being addressed, users have been warned. CVE-2024-26169 drew little attention in March – it was…

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1

7 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, MacBook, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Snap, Tech / By

The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most recent Snapdragon Summit, and making numerous performance disclosures in the intervening months, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus launch is nearly upon us. The…

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Clue in AMD driver suggests Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs could arrive soon to supercharge your next gaming PC

3 minutes of reading / AI, Intel, Microsoft, Tech / By

AMD has just released a new chipset driver that incorporates a feature for the 3D V-Cache spins on its incoming Ryzen 9000 processors.In fact, not only does version 6.05.28.016 of the driver (spotted by leaker Harukaze5719 on X) come with a new take on the 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer – version 1.0.0.9 – which could…

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Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Cloud, Intel, iPhone, Microsoft, Tech / By

Apple kicked off its worldwide developer conference by taking the plunge into generative AI (GenAI) across macOS and iOS, announcing that it’s deeply integrating Apple Intelligence based on ChatGPT into macOS Sequoia. It has introduced what it describes as system-wide Writing Tools built into macOS Sequoia, which enable users to rewrite, proof-read and summarise text…

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Why the iPhone 15 won’t support Apple AI in iOS 18, and why that’s OK

4 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Intel, iPhone, Microsoft, Tech / By

The wait is over. iOS 18 is official, and you can install the first beta on your iPhone right now. The new operating system brings several exciting features to the iPhone, though Apple Intelligence, the suite of AI features Apple built into iOS 18, will be available only later this year.When Apple AI launches, it…

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