The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced the appointment of Richard Horne, current chair of PwC UK’s cyber security practice, as its new CEO. Set to replace Lindy Cameron after her three-and-a-half year tenure, Horne is expected to take charge of setting the NCSC’s strategic direction for the “next stage” of its evolution,…
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MediaTek this week has introduced a new lineup of Dimensity Auto Cockpit system-on-chips, covering the entire market spectrum from entry-level to premium. And while automotive chip announcements are admittedly not normally the most interesting of things, this one is going to be an exception to that rule because of whose graphics IP MediaTek is tapping…
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A Gatchapon in Japan has been discovered which dispenses Intel CPUs with an asking price of as little as 500 Yen ($3) with mixed results. The video showcases one curious user on a visit to PC Ones, a computing store located in Osaka, Japan. For just 500 Yen, you’re able to crank the handle and instead…
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Being the first company to ship HBM3E memory has its perks for Micron, as the company has revealed that is has managed to sell out the entire supply of its advanced high-bandwidth memory for 2024, while most of their 2025 production has been allocated, as well. Micron’s HBM3E memory (or how Micron alternatively calls it,…
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Micron this week announced that it had begun sampling of its 256 GB multiplexer combined (MCR) DIMMs, the company’s highest-capacity memory modules to date. These brand-new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are aimed at next-generation servers, particularly those powered by Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Granite Rapids’ processors that are set to support 12 or 24 memory slots per socket.…
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The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT) has introduced a pilot scheme called the AI and Digital Hub, which links up AI and digital innovators and regulators. Backed by almost £2m in government funding, the government hopes to use the initiative to provide AI and digital innovators with access to informal advice to help…
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“Make tape easy.” That’s the rallying call from Fujifilm, which says this is key to getting more organisations to use tape, which has very strong claims to being the cheapest, most energy efficient and best-suited to long-term archiving of all storage media. Fujifilm plans to make tape easy by extending its Kangaroo family of LTO…
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A former consultant at Sellafield has claimed that metadata in letters used against her in a tribunal hearing by the nuclear facility has been interfered with. A tribunal has heard that three letters produced by managers at the vast nuclear complex and submitted as evidence in the employment dispute were “fabricated” and “tampered with”. Alison…
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A report earlier this week claimed that Apple is going to bring new features to its Notes app via iOS 18, including support for voice recordings. Notes is my go-to text editor on iPhone and Mac, and it has been for years. The prospect of getting even more functionality out of the app once iOS…
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AMD could use much slower video RAM than Nvidia when it comes to next-gen graphics cards, a new rumor contends.This one is from regular leaker Kepler on X (formerly Twitter), who posted a very brief snippet to the effect that with RX 8000 graphics cards, AMD will only use GDDR6 VRAM running at 18Gbps –…
