One of the cyber security world’s most significant assets, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) system operated by US-based non-profit Mitre appears to be heading for trouble, after it emerged that the contract pathway for Mitre to continue to run the project on behalf of the US authorities is set to lapse on Wednesday 16…
The iPhone 17 series will be unveiled in early September, just like most other iPhone models. Shortly after Apple’s launch event, the new iPhone models will go up for preorder ahead of a release the following week. We’ve come to take this iPhone schedule for granted because Apple runs a tight ship, both when it…
After seeding the second beta of iOS 18.5, Apple follows the testing cycle with beta 3. At this moment, it’s unclear what’s new with this software update. However, Apple added a few tweaks to the first testing version.For example, the company fixed one of the most annoying iPhone changes everyone hates: the new Mail. As tested…
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Saudi Arabia is investing in foreign deeptech startups to get them to come to its country and help it build an industry, because its own sci-tech ecosystem is too immature to meet its ambition of becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art fields of technology. The yawning gap to the goal it set for deeptech to…
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With a large ecosystem of partners in France in both the public and private sectors, Microsoft already has a big stake in the country. But last May, the company announced it will be upping the ante with an investment of €4bn to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. The company said…
Nvidia is expecting a big hit to its business as reports emerge of the White House imposing export restrictions on its H20 GPU (graphics processor unit) in China. The new restrictions appear to have been carried over from the previous administration’s policy to restrict access to AI chips and advanced AI models. The Framework for…
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Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…
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A team at Fudan University has just unveiled a stunning advancement in memory technology. The new tech is an experimental storage device that could redefine what we expect from our hardware. Known as PoX, this next-generation RAM can write data in just 400 picoseconds.For a bit more context, that’s about 25 billion operations per second,…
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I don’t always do it, but I do say “please” and “thank you” when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words in those prompts, including appellatives like “Hey ChatGPT…” After all, that’s the point of sophisticated AI models that understand common speech. You can tell them what you’d like them to…
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars Read More »
DeepSeek’s moment in the spotlight appears to be over, at least for now, as talk of ChatGPT’s image-generation abilities has dominated the AI conversations. Add all the new OpenAI announcements and Google’s various Gemini upgrades, like the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and there’s almost no room left for DeepSeek.But the breakthrough AI chatbot that shocked…
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