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Microsoft: Nation-state cyber espionage on rise in 2023

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The bulk of nation-state cyber activity has pivoted away from high-volume destructive attacks towards espionage and influence operations, Microsoft stated in its latest annual Digital Defense Report. Published on 5 October 2023, the report noted that while headline-grabbing attacks from the past year were often focused on destruction or financial gain with ransomware, the data…

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Tenstorrent to Use Samsung’s SF4X for Quasar Low-Cost AI Chiplet

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Tenstorrent this week announced that it had chosen to use Samsung’s SF4X (4 nm-class) process technology for its upcoming low-cost, low-power codenamed Quasar chiplet for machine learning workloads. The chiplets will be made at Samsung’s new fab near Taylor, Texas when it becomes operational in 2024. Tenstorrent’s Quasar chiplet is a new addition to the…

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Foxconn to assemble Apple’s 2023 Mac Pro and MacBook models in Vietnam

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To diversify Apple’s supply chain, Apple’s big contractor Foxconn has secured a new site in Vietnam. According to the South China Morning Post, the manufacturer has signed a lease with Saigon-Bac Giang Industrial Park Corp to occupy a plot of 45 hectares to meet “operational needs and expand production capacity.” Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…

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Seagate Releases Game Drive PCIe 4.0 SSDs for PlayStation 5

2 minutes of reading / Microsoft, Sony, Tech, Western Digital / By

Western Digital’s WD_Black SN850P was the first officially PlayStation 5-licensed SSD to hit the market. Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train with the new Game Drive PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD series, officially licensed for Sony’s current-generation gaming console. Unlike Microsoft, which uses a proprietary SSD expansion card for the Xbox…

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Data-sharing strategy needs business buy-in

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A survey of data scientists for Capital One Software, the software business spun out of Capital One Bank, has found that many struggle to secure funding for self-service initiatives. Forrester Consulting surveyed 150 data science, analytics, cloud infrastructure and data decision-makers at North American companies from May 2023. It reported that a self-service data strategy…

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Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Ofcom’s work uncovered three types of prevailing anti-competitive behaviour and practices within the UK public cloud market, which is what prompted it to refer the sector over to the CMA for a more thorough probe.This behaviour included the charging of egress fees when customers attempt to extricate their data from a public cloud provider’s servers,…

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Microsoft responds to reports of Bing AI chatbot losing its mind

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If you have been following the debut of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot, then you’ve seen just how much work still needs to be done. The Bing AI chatbot is impressive, but deranged, as it has been threatening, gaslighting, and outright lying to participants who have been accepted into the limited preview. Microsoft responded in a…

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Future iPhones might read iMessages aloud in the sender’s voice

2 minutes of reading / AirPods, Apple, Intel, social media, Tech / By

If you want to send a message to someone, you have a few options. For example, you can write, dictate, or send a voice message. Apple wants to go a step beyond as it’s just been granted a patent to make a text message read by the sender’s voice. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign…

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How to move from tech leader to the boardroom

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Many professionals have an ambition to make it to the boardroom in their career. Becoming a board member is an achievement in its own right. It opens up all the excitement and fascination of being right at the heart of business strategy and performance. It brings huge responsibility, challenge and, hopefully, reward.  But for tech…

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