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Nvidia RTX 4090 scams keep popping up – and the latest one is a shameless ‘FrankenGPU’ rip-off bought on Amazon

Scammers duping PC gamers with fake RTX 4090 graphics cards isn’t anything new, but what is new is that we’ve seen a couple of these in January 2024 now, when the incidents are normally a more scattered affair – and the latest one was in the US.Tom’s Hardware reported that a hardware repair expert on…

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How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry

The ongoing hearings in the UK Post Office’s Horizon software scandal drilled down into an area rarely addressed in detail by the courts or inquiries – the topic of legal disclosure of documents and evidence. With the ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and an accompanying documentary bringing home the real human cost of…

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Russia hacked ex-MI6 chief’s emails – what they reveal is more Dad’s Army than deep state

Reporting by: Bill Goodwin, Duncan Campbell, Crina Boros IT support: Matthew Fowler. Interactive graphics: Sophie Hill A Russian hacking operation claimed to have uncovered a conspiracy among the pro-Brexit British establishment, but the paranoia-fuelled septuagenarians the hackers targeted are more Dad’s Army than the “deep state”. Leaked private emails reveal how a former head of…

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Human-centric technology vision changes IT procurement

Accenture’s 2024 Technology vision report has introduced a term to the CIO vocabulary – human-centric technologies. These are artificial intelligence-based systems, which are built in a way that makes them easier to interact with and can be seamlessly embedded across every aspect of people’s lives. The report’s authors stated: “We are moving toward a world…

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You can still buy the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 despite the ban: The blood oxygen feature is gone

That was fast; the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 were banned again after a short reprieve. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit paused the initial import ban. It then decided not to extend a stay on the ban. As a result, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra…

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Galaxy S24’s most amazing AI feature could come to the iPhone soon

Yesterday, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24 lineup, focusing on AI features. Although the South Korean company is the one to be praised, several functions rely on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Google’s software capabilities introduced during last year’s Google Pixel 8 event.One of the most exciting features highlighted during the keynote, Circle to…

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Some of Galaxy S24’s Galaxy AI features might cost money at the end of 2025

I wondered months ago whether the Galaxy S24’s built-in AI would be available for free or if the buyer would have to pay for it, either as a subscription or in the form of a price hike for the phone itself. As ChatGPT has shown, AI features can’t be free. If you want the best…

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AMD reveals a full stack of shiny new Ryzen laptop processors, supercharged with AI

Hot on the heels of a catty attack from Intel, AMD has just announced the next lineup of Ryzen processors that we’ll be seeing in next year’s best laptops – a whopping nine new chips, all bearing the Ryzen 8040 name and equipped with AMD’s ‘XDNA’ AI technology.The new processors, codenamed ‘Hawk Point’, are already…

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ASUS Unveils NUC 14 Pro and Pro Plus Meteor Lake Mini-PCs

As part of its 2024 CES announcements, ASUS officially unveiled a number of NUCs based on Intel’s Meteor Lake platform. The company had earlier released the NUC 13 Rugged – the first NUC product that had not been inherited from Intel’s existing lineup – based on Alder Lake-N processors. The new NUCs fall under the…

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AMD’s new driver finally fixes a nasty bug where some RDNA 3 GPUs guzzle too much power

AMD’s latest graphics driver release has apparently resolved a longstanding problem with RDNA 3 desktop graphics cards using way too much power at idle, and unnecessarily running up bills a bit with certain PC setups – those running high refresh rate (or resolution) monitors, or multiple displays.This is according to testing carried out by our…

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