Artificial intelligence (AI) and a UK-based quantum computer by 2035 to help drive innovation featured among the announcements made by the chancellor of the exchequer in his Autumn Statement today. Along with setting out economic priorities and the headline tax cuts announced, the government is also exploring the use of AI and other cutting-edge technologies,…
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Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs for laptops are set to arrive in December, and the company just demonstrated the integrated graphics on one of these Core Ultra processors running a big-name game nice and smoothly – with a little help from Intel’s DLSS rival, that is.The demo witnessed the Meteor Lake processor (presumably a top-end model,…
Arm Holdings has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi Ltd, reinforcing a partnership that began in 2008. This strategic investment is designed to support development of Raspberry Pi’s low-cost low-power Arm-based platforms aimed at edge computing and IoT applications, leveraging Raspberry Pi’s ability to deliver affordable, high-performance computing globally.; “Arm and Raspberry Pi share…
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AMD has sent word over this morning that the company is extending the product lifecycle for their previous-generation EYPC 7003 “Milan” family of server CPUs. The company will now be offering the Zen 3-based CPUs through at least 2026, and as part of that extension plan, has already launched a further 6 SKUs. With these…
Private sector IT buyers will see a long-term boost to their budgets after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, announced that a policy allowing the cost of IT equipment to be written off against tax will be made permanent. The so-called “full expensing” policy was first announced as a short-term incentive in the Budget…
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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is expected to take over the jobs of three-quarters of current financial services executives, according to a survey. Following a survey of around 500 executives at major banks and insurance companies, FintechOS’s Generative artificial intelligence: the technology polarising the financial services industry report revealed that 73% of executives believe GenAI will “eventually”…
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As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver,…
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North Korea-backed threat actors are increasingly targeting software supply chains to attack organisations on a global basis, and becoming far more adept at doing so, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned in a joint advisory with South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS). This is the first time the NCSC has ever issued…
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The Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, or DPDI, is set to reshape the UK’s data protection framework. It proposes changes to laws like the UK GDPR and DPA 2018, mostly retaining the existing framework with some adjustments. The Bill is intended to be a tailored, agile, British alternative to complex European law.…
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Hidden deep in Seagate’s financial report released late last month was a brief roadmap update for the company’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. As noted in the latest update, Seagate is now planning to begin mass production of its 32 TB HAMR in early 2024, which is a slight delay from what the company announced…
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