A spectre of trust haunted last week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a software-as-a-service provider. Its thesis is that as a cloud supplier, trusted with its customers’ data and applications, Salesforce has had to put a premium on trust from its inception. It…
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XMG has announced price rises for its laptops due to the increased cost of componentsThe laptop maker points out that DDR5 RAM for laptops is now close to 6x the price it was before the memory crisisWe’re also hearing that Micron has pulled the plug on its 2GB modules of GDDR7, and Nvidia’s supply of…
French local authorities are to replace WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams with open source encrypted messaging software as part of a long-term move away from software produced by big US tech companies. Four French local authorities have taken part in a trial of a WhatsApp-style messaging service based on the Matrix open source protocol, which will…
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The UK government has agreed to fully fund the police investigation into criminality associated with the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Yesterday (24 September), Computer Weekly highlighted the national police investigation’s desperate need for extra funds and compared it with the hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money received by law firms representing the…
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A few weeks before I started as TechUK’s head of digital identity, the new prime minister Andy Burnham announced that the government was cancelling its national digital identity scheme. I will admit to a moment of anxiety. What did this mean for the sector I was about to join? Was this the end of digital…
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Nvidia Smooth Motion has been modded onto RTX 3000 series GPUsThe experimental mod allows driver-level frame generation in unsupported gamesNvidia hasn’t officially implemented this and other features on older RTX hardware yetModders continue to find new ways to implement Nvidia’s latest technologies on older hardware, and now it’s been done with Team Green’s driver-level frame…
Meta has said it will be connecting a petabit subsea cable between the US and France by 2029. Called Petal, the subsea cable will span over 4,300 miles and, according to Meta, double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Meta has been collaborating on the buildout of subsea network capacity with Marea in 2018,…
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Borderless Gaming is a tool that’s sold on SteamIt just got an add-on to easily fudge DLSS 5 to work with various PC gamesReviews of the tool have turned rather colorful, as those who still hate DLSS 5 and all it stands for are chipping inYou can’t have missed all the chatter about experimenting with…
Kiteworks has warned users of its products to shut down their managed file transfer (MFT) servers immediately after apparently being alerted to the existence of a highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability. The company, formerly known as Accellion, bills itself as providing a secure control plane for data exchange. However, thanks to the utility of its core…
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An investigative journalist has filed a High Court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert attempt to identify a confidential journalistic source. A High Court judge has granted the journalist, identified as YZL, anonymity to protect the identity of their sources and because of…
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