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NHS trust dismisses governors who questioned allegations of email tampering

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An NHS trust has dismissed two elected governors who raised questions around alleged email tampering related to a high-profile whistleblowing case.The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) initially suspended the two governors last summer, pending an investigation into their “conduct and behaviours” while in post.UHMBT said its remaining governors have now voted…

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CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will double its cloud spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next 36 months, following the renewal of its controversial three-year hosting deal with the public cloud giant. The CMA’s latest three-year deal with AWS went live on 1 May 2024, and is valued at £437,151, which is…

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NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

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NetApp has refreshed its AFF all-flash storage arrays amid a marketing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and cutting energy waste in the datacentre. Alongside this comes an avowed target of more customers for its block access arrays and the availability of QLC drives across its Storagegrid object storage family, plus some additions in its…

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AMD RDNA 4 graphics cards could be imminent, as huge driver-related hint is dropped

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AMD has rolled out a massive Linux driver update with 24,000 lines of code for Team Red’s incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards.As spotted by Phoronix.com (via TweakTown), a new Linux kernel driver has been implemented for ‘AMD GFX12 Mesa support.’ GFX12 is widely believed to be the codename for the upcoming Radeon RX 8000 GPUs…

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CyberUK 24: UK insurance industry gets tough on ransomware

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The Association of British Insurers (ABI), the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) and the International Underwriting Association (IUA) have joined with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in a coalition aiming to toughen approaches to ransomware payments and bring down the volumes of such payments made by UK organisations. Launched on the opening day of…

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QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace

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Access to hundreds of tape drives in archives that scale to exabytes from anywhere in the world, with all data held in a single namespace. That’s what’s on offer from QStar, which launched its Global ArchiveSpace last month, aiming at access to infrequently accessed data for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and hyperscaler…

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Huge Dell leak shows new Snapdragon X laptops should have superb battery life – and we’ve been told when its successor CPU will arrive

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Qualcomm’s incoming Snapdragon X Elite (and Plus) processors are going to offer a seriously eye-opening level of battery life, a fresh leak suggests – and we’ve got an indication of when the next-gen ARM-based successors to these CPUs will emerge, too.All this comes from a massive Dell leak that VideoCardz picked up, consisting of a…

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Nvidia and MediaTek could be cooking up a powerful laptop CPU to blow away Snapdragon X Elite – or even Apple’s M4

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Qualcomm’s imminent Snapdragon X Elite and Plus CPUs are causing plenty of excitement, but they don’t exist in a vacuum – there are of course rivals in the laptop processor world, and perhaps another one is in the works from some big players.As highlighted on X (formerly Twitter) by analyst Dan Nystedt (via Wccftech), there’s…

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tvOS 17.5 is now available to Apple TV users with these changes

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tvOS 17.5 is now available to everyone with an Apple TV that can run tvOS. While Apple didn’t provide release notes for this operating system update, Cupertino is enhancing the experience on its set-top box while making it more secure. That said, it doesn’t seem tvOS 17.5 brings anything major, as Apple is already preparing…

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Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse

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The Scottish Parliament is introducing legislation to exonerate all subpostmasters convicted based on evidence from the controversial Post Office Horizon system. Mirroring legislation in Westminster, which covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Scottish Parliament will exonerate hundreds of former subpostmasters and branch staff who were convicted based on Horizon system evidence. In the Westminster…

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