Some of the most prominent malware-dropping botnets in operation today, including Bumblebee, IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, SystemBC and Trickbot, have been disrupted in a coordinated law enforcement action orchestrated through the European Union’s (EU’s) Europol agency. Operation Endgame, which enlisted the support of both the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the US’s FBI, as well…
Taxpayers are facing a £1bn bill for the Post Office to replace its controversial Horizon IT system, Computer Weekly has learned – but government experts sent in to assess the funding request have reported that the critical project is currently unachievable. The plan to develop a replacement for Horizon and remove its supplier, Fujitsu, is…
A former student at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) says he was hauled over the coals by the college for having acted responsibly and “with integrity” in reporting a security blunder that left sensitive information about students exposed. Bartek Wytrzyszczewski faced misconduct proceedings after alerting the college to a data breach exposing…
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Just over 18 months ago, Intel launched their significantly revised ATX v3.0 power supply standard, and with it, the 600 Watt-capable 12VHPWR cable to power video cards and other high-drain add-in cards. The release of the standard came with a lot of fanfare and excitement – the industry was preparing for a future where even…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5080 could be the first next-gen Blackwell graphics card out of the gate later this year – and stock of the GPU may be plentiful when it arrives.Those are the latest whispers from YouTube leaker Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), who claims that a decision has been made at Nvidia to launch the…
Demand for high-performance processors for AI training is skyrocketing, and consequently so is the demand for the components that go into these processors. So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most…
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Even before iOS 18 arrives, there are already several shortcuts you can use to get great AI features on your iPhone. And needless to say, ChatGPT GPT-4o is the hottest thing in AI right now.The new GPT-4o experience feels like magic because it brings a faster multimodal update that handles voice, images, and live video.…
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Fujitsu is set to receive a further £180m in taxpayers’ cash to extend its contract to run the controversial Post Office Horizon IT system for a further five years. As revealed by Computer Weekly yesterday (30 May), the project to replace Horizon has hit major problems, and the Post Office has requested £1bn of extra…
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This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry’s 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled…
I said earlier this week that the killer AI feature of iOS 18 might be privacy like nobody industry, but that was before a huge iOS 18 Siri leak dropped, detailing AI features more advanced than what ChatGPT or Gemini can do.If Mark Gurman’s report is accurate, and they usually are, you’ll be able to…
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