November 2024

I want AI to browse the web for me, but definitely not Google Jarvis

The reason I’m so excited about genAI products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Siri becoming personal assistants in the not-too-distant future is for one particular use case. I like genAI’s ability to answer all sorts of questions, even though I know it can hallucinate information. I’m also a fan of what OpenAI has achieved…

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Nano-textured display might be MacBook Pro’s best new feature

Apple will start selling M4 Macs this Friday, December 8. While this seems like the best Mac lineup to date, the Cupertino company outdid itself by adding a never-seen-before feature to its MacBook Pro models: a nano-textured display.This matte screen isn’t entirely new. Apple has been offering it on some of its computers and displays…

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Microsoft and Google in war of words following launch of anti-competitive cloud coalition

Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…

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Emoji reactions from Android users finally show up correctly on iPhones

Apple has taken yet another step in busting down barriers between green and blue bubbles. As spotted by The Verge this week, reactions (called Tapbacks on iOS) sent by Android devices to iPhones now appear on top of the message as intended.As The Verge notes, an Android user reacting to a message sent from an…

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One of the scariest malware threats is now targeting Windows gamers

Windows gamers are the latest target in the Winos4.0 campaign, according to a new threat analysis from security researchers at FortiGuard Labs. The report suggests that the malware is hiding within various gaming-related applications, such as speed boosters and optimization utilities.This particular malware is one that has been known for a while. It was built…

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Galaxy S25’s next-gen Bixby might be able to understand context

Samsung may have been the first to launch an “AI phone” this year, the Galaxy S24 series, which came with Galaxy AI preloaded, but Samsung didn’t offer a vision similar to Apple’s Apple Intelligence at the time. The Galaxy S24 offered plenty of AI features elsewhere at launch, like summarization, translation, and image generation, but…

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Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access

Object storage specialist Scality has launched Ring XP, a tuned-up version of its existing Ring platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) data lake use cases that promises microsecond (µs) storage access times. That tune-up centres on the use of a stripped-down version of S3 object storage application programming interfaces (APIs) – that lack performance-sapping functionality…

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Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…

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IAM best practices for cloud environments to combat cyber attacks

Organisations are constantly looking to identify different use cases to integrate AI into their business processes and accelerate the adoption of generative AI technologies. Companies are also finding ways to build innovative AI solutions to meet this demand. As a result, the usage of cloud infrastructure and, thereby, the global cloud computing footprint continues to…

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Ti suddenly pops up – and RTX 6000 GPUs are mentioned in trademark filings too – but don’t get excited

Nvidia RTX 5000 and 6000 GPUs have been filed at the EECThese filings from a Chinese GPU brand are speculative by natureThey do, however, hint that the RTX 5000 series is close to debutingNvidia’s RTX 5000 GPUs have been spotted in trademark filings, along with RTX 6000 models – which really is getting ahead of…

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