Seagate’s IronWolf Pro lineup of hard drives for network-attached storage units has consistently offered good value for money, particularly at the highest capacity points. I purchased two 22TB IronWolf Pro drives for production deployment late last year. As part of the burn-in testing prior to actual deployment, they were put through our evaluation routine for…
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Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence and generative AI at all levels of the company, from servers and Azure down to individual Windows PCs. And that big bet is about to become a lot more visible on Windows machines in the future, as Microsoft has instructed Windows OEMs to change their keyboard layouts to…
Over the course of 2023, there has been a concerted effort by the UK government and law enforcement to push more digital offerings into policing, including hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, various facial-recognition technologies and integrated record management systems. However, Computer Weekly’s coverage reflects the contentious nature of many of these deployments, which are often plagued…
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In the realm of business applications, the underlying complexities of the western economic crisis and war in Ukraine and the Middle East were obscured in 2023 by the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It would be eccentric, indeed churlish, to downplay the significance of GenAI, and so the first four articles selected here are, indeed, about…
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As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI itself also took centre…
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It’s been a rocky year for Microsoft Surface fans. After the Surface Hub, Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Laptop Go, and Surface Go received relatively minor updates, the community was shocked when Panos Panay, the father of the Surface lineup, announced that he was leaving Microsoft after a 20-year career and heading to Amazon.Panay will be replacing Amazon’s outgoing Dave…
After a year that has seen no end of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services, Redmond has delivered an early Christmas bonus to cyber security teams on the last Patch Tuesday of 2023, in the form of one of the lightest updates in recent memory, with just 34 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed.…
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It seems that Intel is not going to bring a new feature introduced with Raptor Lake Refresh (14th-gen) CPUs – one that can boost frame rates on supported games – to previous silicon generations.This comes from Hardware Unboxed, the YouTube channel that performed some testing on Intel’s new APO (Application Performance Optimization) in which the…
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After so long spent doing virtual calls with customers during Covid, Microsoft’s president of identity and network access, Joy Chik, is happy to be on the road again, so much so that since flying into the UK a couple of days before our meeting in London, she has filled her diary with customer meetings despite…
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Update:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has replied to a tweet on X (formerly Twitter) to confirm that the leaks are not real. His response, a simple “nah” lines up with many of the beliefs on the Reddit thread that the leak was fake.Original story:The newest update to OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language model, GPT-4.5, might have just…
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