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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

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Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond

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As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s.  Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…

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Watch ChatGPT’s Operator AI agent solve a CAPTCHA like a human

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It’s 2025, and we still have to deal with CAPTCHAs on the web, the online browsing disruption we never wanted and can’t get rid of. Then again, CAPTCHAs are there to protect websites from abuse by malicious actors. With that in mind, it’s pretty obvious why sites continue to use them.However, with the upcoming wave…

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A year later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 still feels unbreakable

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I’ve been using the Apple Watch Ultra 2 since Apple launched it in 2023. A year later, I upgraded to the Black Titanium version. While this new color feels more premium and sleek, I was worried that it might be more prone to scratching. However, I had such a great experience with the Natural Titanium…

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The Data Bill: It’s time to cyber up

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In the latest deliberations on the Data Use and Access Bill in the House of Lords, I set out two amendments to offer well overdue updating to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. In preparing for committee stage of the bill I remain incredibly grateful to everyone involved with the CyberUp campaign, their analysis…

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Nvidia rumored to be winding down production of RTX 4000 GPUs ahead of next-gen launches – which could mean some tempting Black Friday bargains

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Nvidia is said to be halting production of mid-to-higher-end Lovelace GPUsThat means the RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070, 4070 Super, and 4070 Ti SuperNext-gen successors are expected to arrive soon for those GPUsNvidia is rumored to be winding down production of most of the firm’s RTX 4000 GPUs, ahead of the launch of next-gen RTX…

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Here’s why you should start talking to ChatGPT even if AI scares you

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Intel, iPhone, Meta, Nokia, Samsung, Square, Tech / By

I have this distinct memory of looking at a Samsung billboard in Times Square and telling someone that I should soon buy one of those new phones, not because they appealed to me but because I didn’t want to be left behind.It was the summer of 2006, about a year before the first-generation iPhone came…

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Here’s why my Apple Watch Series 10 has been driving me insane lately

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I’m a longtime runner who has completed two marathons. I want to get better, so I won’t stop running for as long as my body will allow. I’m also a longtime Apple Watch user, and the Series 10 is almost the best possible wearable for my needs.Long-distance running should go hand in hand with a…

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Latest attempt to override UK’s outdated hacking law stalls

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Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…

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