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Google suddenly says it will purge the worst Android apps in the Play Store

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Starting August 31, 2024, Google Play Store will make it harder for low-quality apps to become available for Android users. In a new support document, Google wants to ensure a better minimum quality for an application to be available in its store.As noted by AndroidAuthority, Google says, “Apps should provide a stable, responsive, and engaging…

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Massive global Windows PC failure is crippling thousands of businesses

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Update: CrowdStrike announced a workaround to take Windows machines from the recovery boot loop. The steps are at the end of the story.The Blue Screen of Death is impacting thousands of Windows machines today, as a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is forcing those machines into a recovery boot loop, so they can’t start…

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iPhone SE 4 rumored to have the same rear panel as the iPhone 16

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From potentially being canceled to launching in 2025, the upcoming iPhone SE 4 looks like it could be a massive success. According to Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital (via MacRumors), this model could use the “exactly the same” backplate manufacturing process as the upcoming iPhone 16.This could mean many things, including a proper camera upgrade…

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Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

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Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which covers the East Midlands city of some 264,000 people, has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements. Within that, the council is focusing on 54 areas where…

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Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance

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Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are new and different to those we’ve seen previously in the enterprise. They range from intensely compute-intensive training to day-to-day inferencing and RAG referencing that barely tickles CPU and storage input/output (I/O). So, across the various genres of AI workload, the I/O profile and impacts upon storage can vary dramatically. In…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

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Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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AMD’s next-gen driver progress makes us hopeful RDNA 4 GPUs could arrive sooner than we thought

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AMD’s graphics driver for its incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards is apparently more or less ready for action, or at least the Linux flavor is.Phoronix.com reports that ‘GFX12’ (RDNA 4) graphics driver support is in “good shape” and that AMD is enabling the driver right ‘out of the box’ (by default) with the latest patches…

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CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

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On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…

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Microsoft invented a system that encrypts physical text so people can’t read over your shoulder

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Microsoft is working to create a physical encrypting system that can encrypt and decrypt a document in real-time based on where the user’s eyes are looking. The technique is described in a new patent, which explains that it modifies letters in the text portion of the original document to help encrypt the content and keep…

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