If the number of recent organisational closures is anything to go by, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the UK technology sector is struggling. Women Who Code, a charity that supported women in tech, shut its doors in April, citing “factors that have materially impacted our funding sources – funds that were critical to continuing…
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Xing Yang, cloud-native storage tech lead at VMware by Broadcom, started working on storage in Kubernetes in 2017 on projects based around custom resource definitions (CRDs), which allow the orchestration platform to work around an extensible core. Later, she went on to see container…
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AMD’s Ryzen processors are seemingly being slowed down a fair bit during PC gaming sessions by a purported bug in Windows 11, and in some cases, Ryzen 9000 processors are slightly worse off.This comes courtesy of Hardware Unboxed (via VideoCardz) on YouTube, which noticed in its review of the Ryzen 9700X that the results for…
Imagine being in the same room as Google’s high-ranking Android execs discussing Apple’s WWDC announcements. Maybe they were following the live stream online to see what Apple Intelligence is all about and how it threatens Gemini.I bet Googlers were thrilled to see and hear that Apple Intelligence would not match the abilities of Gemini and…
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Among the arms races taking place in the public cloud is one focused on providing the most trusted environment for hosting applications and data. It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director of product management at Google, with responsibilities covering confidential computing and encryption for the Google…
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Unlike watchOS 10, watchOS 11 is a modest update for Apple Watch users. Even though it focuses more on health and wellness, this upcoming software won’t revolutionize the Apple Watch experience. For example, a new Vitals app gives users a way to quickly view these key health metrics and gain better context regarding their health. Training Load…
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AMD’s new Ryzen 9700X and 9600X processors aren’t selling well according to a new nugget of information – though we need to be careful around drawing any conclusions too soon.As you’ll likely recall, these are the first Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000) processors to go on sale from AMD, and they hit the shelves last week.…
Kubernetes and containerised applications are growing rapidly across enterprises. Although Kubernetes has been around for more than 10 years, it’s now predicted to become a mainstream part of IT architecture as organisations look to make more use of cloud-native applications. But take-up of Kubernetes – aka K8s – and storage and data protection in particular,…
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Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 16 series on September 10th, according to some reports and common sense. That’s the typical timeframe for iPhone launch events. Preorders start on the Friday after that event, which is September 13th this year. That makes Septmber 20th the likely release date of Apple’s new iPhone 16 models.While…
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The European Union’s landmark cyber security bill NIS2 is just months away from coming into force. With a compliance deadline of 17 October, the law aims to improve the bloc’s ability to fight rising levels of cyber crime by ensuring all member states follow the same cyber security rules and procedures. Under this directive, each EU member…
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