Someone made a tool for Asus Astral RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUsIt’s designed to prevent a melting connector, shutting down the PC before this happensThis third-party utility – and the response to it – shows the level of paranoia out there when it comes to this issueDo you have a high-end Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and…
MPs are calling on the government to reduce the UK’s dependency on big technology companies amid concerns that the state is over-reliant on overseas suppliers, posing national security and economic risks. An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB), backed by 20 MPs, calls for the government to publish a digital security strategy…
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The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has worked with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind and Faculty – a company recently acquired by Accenture – to improve the planning system. The collaboration on the Augmented Planning Decisions (APD) tool, which uses Google Cloud, is being developed and alpha-tested with local planning authorities in the…
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The Netherlands Court of Audit recently published a blunt assessment of the Dutch central government’s readiness for quantum technology. The verdict was uncomfortable reading for a country that presents itself as a European frontrunner in the field. While the Netherlands has built a thriving quantum research ecosystem and secured an academic leading position, the majority…
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Market data from analyst IDC has shown that SuperMicro has leapfrogged established server makers Lenovo and HPE as the second-largest PC server maker behind Dell. SuperMicro experienced growth of almost 134% for the fourth quarter of 2025 with revenue of $11.7bn, which means it accounts for over 9% of the global server market. Dell was…
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Health workers are urging NHS decision-makers not to sign contracts with controversial US data analytics firm Palantir, citing ethical concerns around human rights and data privacy. In 2023, Palantir won a seven-year, £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform (FDP), a nationwide system intended to connect disparate healthcare data from across the…
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Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools developed by Israeli digital intelligence company Cellebrite will give police investigators the capability to interrogate call records, text messages, images and videos stored on mobile phones and other electronic devices at ultra-high speed. The company has developed AI tools that allow police investigators to interrogate data retrieved from multiple electronic devices,…
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Geopolitical tension and its potential impact on open source was one of the main focus points during the OpenInfra Foundation European summit held in Paris on 16–19 October. When asked about OpenStack’s resilience given the volatile geopolitical climate, Jonathan Bryce, executive director at the OpenInfra Foundation, said: “The thing that I love about open source…
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Computer Weekly’s list of the most influential women in UK technology has been running since 2012, launched to promote a discussion surrounding the role of women in the technology sector during a time when the lack of diversity in tech was only beginning to be considered. When it was launched, the list only featured 25…
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Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
