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Galaxy S23 Ultra barely beat Apple’s cheap iPhone SE in a gaming test

The Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and Ultra will start shipping this week to buyers who preorder the handset. The phones rock impressive hardware that should deliver great performance. We’re looking at a custom Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip across the board, plus faster storage and faster RAM. But the Galaxy S23 isn’t the fastest…

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Red Cross issues rules of engagement for hackers in conflicts

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has created the first ever “rules of engagement” for civilian hackers operating in conflict zones. The ICRC said that while civilian hackers operating in armed conflicts is nothing new, the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine has pushed their involvement to “unprecedented proportions”. It warned in…

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Microsoft: Nation-state cyber espionage on rise in 2023

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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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