Significant data breaches at online ticketing platform Ticketmaster and consumer bank Santander appear to be linked to the abuse of unsecured accounts held with cloud data management platform Snowflake, it has emerged over the past few days. The Ticketmaster breach – confirmed on Friday 31 May by parent organisation Live Nation – saw the personal…
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AMD announced the Ryzen AI 300 series mobile processors today at Computex 2024, and it will be here much sooner than many had expected.The new SoCs will feature the most powerful NPU yet released on a mobile platform, far outstripping the one in the AMD Ryzen 8000-series chips announced at CES, and both chips are…
I’m out in Taiwan at Computex 2024, and I’ve just finished watching Qualcomm’s major keynote presentation, led by CEO Cristiano Amon – somewhat comically dressed in a Snapdragon T-shirt and Windows Copilot-branded sneakers. Naturally, the keynote opened with a promo video – proudly labeled as ‘Shot on Snapdragon’, which is perhaps a cheeky dig at…
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For our second keynote of the day for Computex, we have the 4th Musketeer of the great PC powers, Qualcomm. Slated to be the most PC-focused of the four keynotes, company CEO Cristiano Amon will be presenting a keynote entitled “The PC Reborn.” And while Amon is no stranger to giving keynotes, this is slated…
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One of the things I like about the Apple Vision Pro is the spatial computer’s ability to work with your Mac. That is, the computer on your head will overlay the screen of your Mac on top of your surroundings for an augmented reality computing experience. It’ll also improve your privacy, given that the Mac…
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I said earlier this week that the killer AI feature of iOS 18 might be privacy like nobody industry, but that was before a huge iOS 18 Siri leak dropped, detailing AI features more advanced than what ChatGPT or Gemini can do.If Mark Gurman’s report is accurate, and they usually are, you’ll be able to…
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The annual Computex computer expo kicks off in Taepei this weekend. And this year’s show is shaping up to be the most packed in years. Computex rivals CES for the most important PC trade show of the year, and in most years is attended by not only the numerous local Taiwanese firms (Asus, MSI, ASRock,…
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Earlier in May, Microsoft announced the Copilot+ PC, a new category of Windows PC designed for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Yusuf Mehdi, consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, claimed the devices, based on Qualcomm silicon, are capable of 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), have all-day battery life and would provide access to the most…
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I recently realized that I’ll soon chat more with AI like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Apple’s chatbot than I do with humans. This is inevitable as these AI products become more personal, and they’ll be able to do more on my devices than simply answer complex queries.I envision that experience as a system-wide chat with…
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Microsoft has announced that DirectSR has been released, albeit in preview, but this is an important first step for a technology that promises to have major ramifications for PC gamers.Why? Because DirectSR is a big piece of the upscaling puzzle – whereby games can be made to run faster, by having them rendered at a…
