This is a sponsored article. All content and opinions expressed within belong to the author. Everybody these days seems to know how important it is to protect their personal info. What they often don’t realize, however, is how exposed they truly are. Data brokers and people search sites exist solely to collect information about you…
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In my personal experience, there are certain institutional barriers to productive and successful delivery of major projects in government. Indeed it may be that the mechanisms that are put in place to reduce the risk of delivery failure and wasted money may in many cases be the very things that are significantly increasing the risk…
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A government review of a local council’s decision to block a US-based company from building a hyperscale datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has concluded the project should proceed. Buckinghamshire Council refused permission in November 2022 for US investment company Affinius Capital to proceed with its plans to redevelop an industrial estate in Court Lane, Iver, Buckinghamshire…
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Retailers have leaked incoming laptops from Asus with RTX 5000 GPUsNvidia RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti models have been spottedThis is a hint that rumors of a desktop RTX 5070 Ti are on the moneyAsus has some new gaming laptops incoming with Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell mobile GPUs on board – and Intel Arrow Lake…
The Post Office has created a new role to bolster its tech leadership team amid an ongoing project to replace the Horizon system supplied by Fujitsu. This comes at a time when the organisation faces tough decisions over the move away from the controversial IT system used in all Post Office branches. Subpostmasters were blamed…
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AMD has reportedly stopped production of the Radeon RX 7900 GREThis is reflected in the mid-range GPU vanishing rapidly off the shelvesAMD is likely preparing the way for new RDNA 4 graphics cardsAMD is ditching the Radeon RX 7900 GRE from its current-gen GPU line-up, if fresh gossip from the grapevine is to be believed.According…
Reports from Chinese media that China has launched an antitrust probe into Nvidia is the latest move in an unfolding trade war with the US. The decision to investigate Nvidia is seen as a response to the US imposing further restrictions on the export of high tech to China. On December 2, the Biden administration put…
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An artificial intelligence (AI) system used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to detect welfare fraud is showing “statistically significant” disparities related to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality, according to the department’s own internal assessment. Released under freedom of information (FoI) rules to the Public Law Project, the 11-page “fairness analysis”…
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In late 2022, LastPass suffered a major security breach that, to this day, is still haunting the company and its customers. Now, a new crypto heist has also been linked to that breach. According to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT (via The Block), around $5.36 million has now been stolen from over 40 victims’ wallets that are…
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Millions of unlawfully retained custody images could still be used for facial-recognition purposes by UK police, says biometric commissioner of England and Wales Tony Eastaugh in wider warning about the rapid expansion of surveillance tools. In 2012, a High Court ruling found the retention of custody images in the Police National Database (PND) to be unlawful on…
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