French court refuses to expedite trial of Sky ECC cryptophone distributor Thomas Herdman

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Five judges will hear a case against 30 people accused of being involved in the distribution of encrypted mobile phones used by organised criminal groups at a special criminal court expected to take place in spring 2026 in Paris. French appeal court judges last week rejected a petition by Thomas Herdman, 64, a Canadian businessman…

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CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

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Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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AMD RDNA 4 GPU rumors flood forth, including possible name change to RX 9070 – because bigger is better, compared to Nvidia’s RTX 5070?

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AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUsPrevious rumors suggested these would be the RX 8000 seriesPerformance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevineRumors around AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this past weekend, and we’ve learned that these RDNA 4 graphics cards may…

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NVIDIA is helping Apple build a faster and better AI experience

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Apple and NVIDIA shared details of a collaboration to improve the performance of LLMs with a new text generation technique for AI. Cupertino writes: Accelerating LLM inference is an important ML research problem, as auto-regressive token generation is computationally expensive and relatively slow, and improving inference efficiency can reduce latency for users. In addition to…

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Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond

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As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s.  Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…

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Having ChatGPT talk to me about Mac apps is the AI computing future I want

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While we wait for OpenAI’s next big thing — presumably ChatGPT’s GPT-5 model (or whatever it’s called) — we might get to see and use another big upgrade for genAI products. AI agents are programs that let you manage and control Mac or Windows apps using written ChatGPT prompts and voice.That’s the future of AI…

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The Data Bill: It’s time to cyber up

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In the latest deliberations on the Data Use and Access Bill in the House of Lords, I set out two amendments to offer well overdue updating to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. In preparing for committee stage of the bill I remain incredibly grateful to everyone involved with the CyberUp campaign, their analysis…

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This is Google’s answer to ChatGPT o1 reasoning AI

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OpenAI has dominated the AI news cycle for the past couple of weeks thanks to its clever “12 Days” announcements. That didn’t stop Google from trying to distract us from ChatGPT with its surprising mid-December AI announcements. The Gemini 2.0 model, Google’s first Gemini AI agents, Gemini-powered AR glasses, and the Android XR platform were…

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Latest attempt to override UK’s outdated hacking law stalls

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Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…

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