AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can slash AWS customers’ EBS bills by adding greater granularity to their cloud block storage deployments. According…
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Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…
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AMD FSR 4 will supposedly be a ‘drop in’ replacement for FSR 3.1In theory, that means all FSR 3.1 games should support the newer techThis is just a rumor, though it chimes with hints AMD has already droppedAMD could have a whole bunch of games lined up for FSR 4 support, its frame rate boosting…
I have always considered the AppleCare+ warranty one of the best investments when buying a new Apple product. This coverage gives me peace of mind when using my iPhone without a case because I know Apple will replace it if I accidentally damage it.While I didn’t add AppleCare+ when I bought my M1 Pro MacBook…
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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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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’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…
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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DeepSeek quickly rose to the top of the App Store these days, becoming the most downloaded iPhone app and dethroning ChatGPT. That’s not a surprise if you’ve followed the genAI space for the past couple of years. AI apps can go viral, and the Chinese app did that after news spread that DeepSeek R1 is…
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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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