The government wants the UK to lead the way in artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in Europe, and research from Barclays Corporate Banking shows that business leaders recognise the need to invest in AI and emerging technology. This week, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI announced they are building out significant datacentre capacity in the UK.…
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In this podcast, we ask Patrick Smith, EMEA chief technology officer at Pure Storage, about the increased drive towards ensuring data sovereignty. Smith talks about drivers that include geopolitical trade and political uncertainty, new levels of sensitivity over data, and increased regulation and compliance requirements. He also talks about the risks of not addressing the…
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Heightened risk related to data sovereignty is universally acknowledged. Most IT decision makers see that risk increasing as a result of geopolitical instability, and that inadequate preparation could result in costly reputational damage and a loss of customer trust. Those are the key findings of a Pure Storage-sponsored survey in which the University of Technology…
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Intel’s rumored to be hiking the price of some older laptop CPUsRaptor Lake chips are going up by 10%, we’re toldThis could be yet more pressure on laptop makers, given recent RAM price rises, all making notebooks more expensiveLaptop prices may increase in the near future, and this time the trouble may be related to…
Christian de Looper for BGR Qualcomm is finally ready to start competing with Apple’s M-series of chips, nearly five years after the M1 made its debut in 2020. While the Snapdragon X series has been fairly successful in terms of bringing the ARM architecture to Windows, Qualcomm hasn’t yet quite offered a diversified lineup like…
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After 2 October 2025, VMware version 7 will no longer be supported, and organisations will need to consider how they take their server virtualisation strategy forward. Shane O’Rourke, senior director of global VMware support services at Spinnaker Support, said this deadline arrives at the same time as Broadcom’s wider licensing changes. He warned that while…
The AirPods Pro 3 are packed with features. For starters, you’ll get all the features from the previous-generation model. That includes Automatic Switching (which is awesome for those with multiple Apple products), Spatial Audio, head gestures, and more. There are also improved hearing health features. Hearing health features have been huge for the AirPods, which…
New in-depth looks at the code for Google’s Gemini app on Wear OS suggest that the company could be looking to alleviate one of its most annoying restrictions. And with Google slowly rolling Gemini out to more products and platforms — it recently started arriving on Google TV — it makes sense for the tech…
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Hints in drivers suggest Intel is working on multi-frame generation for its GPUsThis comes at the same time that Arc B770 GPU rumors are floating around againIt’s a further indication that Intel isn’t abandoning its desktop GPUs after the Nvidia dealNvidia is leading the race in the graphics card market, nailing a lot of the…
October 2, 2025, marks the end of general support for VMware’s version 7. After that, Broadcom won’t release any new security patches or fixes, and you won’t be able to log vendor support tickets for these versions. You’ll still have access to previously published updates under the self-service policy (although this could change in time,…
