February 2025

DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Apple, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, iPhone, machine learning, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…

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Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland

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Fujitsu has been forced to escalate problems with a key IT system used by Airtricity in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) to avoid potentially impacting the energy company’s customers, Computer Weekly has learned. Fears over the billing application developed for SSE Airtricity RoI by Fujitsu have raised alarms in Fujitsu’s leadership. According to a source,…

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AMD exec hints that discrete RDNA 4 GPUs won’t be in gaming laptops anytime soon, leaving Nvidia’s RTX 5000 cards unchallenged

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AMD’s Ben Conrad was interviewed by Notebookcheck.netThe exec was asked about the prospects for RDNA 4 laptops in the futureConrad’s reply was vague, but clearly hints that we shouldn’t expect anything on the RDNA 4 mobile front in the near futureAMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards are coming to desktop PCs soon, in March 2025, but…

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EU law could usher in transformative change to digital ecosystems

7 minutes of reading / Alphabet, Apple, compliance, Computer, digital advertising, Google, Meta, social media, Tech / By

In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…

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Are Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPUs about to arrive? Rumor hints they might be

4 minutes of reading / AI, Tech / By

Maxsun has filed RTX 5060 models with the Eurasian Economic CommissionThose filings could be a hint that a previously rumored Q1 2025 launch is still possibleThey show the RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB and 8GB models, but the RTX 5060 has just an 8GB flavorNvidia’s RTX 5060 models haven’t yet been announced, but a graphics…

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AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU could be on sale soon – but I’m still worried about the price

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Intel, Tech / By

ASRock has listed the unreleased Ryzen 9 X3D CPUs on its websiteThe Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D appear on the list of supported chips for AM5 motherboardsThis preparation work being put in place could be a hint that these processors are inbound soonAMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D could be launching soon, or at least…

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Why is DeepSeek AI suddenly so popular? 

5 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, Google, Meta, Tech / By

OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents,…

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AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…

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