Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them exploited in the wild, and three other critical issues for attention – in a relatively large update. Although moderate in their severity, carrying CVSS scores of 7.8 and 6.5 respectively, the two exploited zero-days should…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5080 graphics card will supposedly be loaded with faster video memory than expected, in a new twist in the tale of rumors being spun around Team Green’s next-gen GPU.Wccftech has heard from sources (engage skeptical mode now) who claim that the RTX 5080 is set to be equipped with 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM…
Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber attack on its systems, but has waited over a week to tell customers that they have been affected. The incident first manifested as a network outage on 20 September, before being confirmed as a cyber…
While Nvidia hasn’t confirmed the release of its rumored new flagship GPU, the company’s recently shared news that CEO Jensen Huang is to deliver the keynote at CES 2025 – that’s 6:30 PM January 6 2025 – could hint at the highly-anticipated debut of the RTX 5090.Rumors have been swirling about the RTX 5090’s specs,…
Internet search giant Google has hit back at the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) suggestion that its operations should be broken up on anti-competition grounds, claiming doing so would have “significant unintended consequences” for consumers and businesses alike. The proposal follows a landmark US court ruling from August 2024 that declared that Google’s parent company,…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5070 is apparently going to be revealed at CES 2025, alongside the rumored RTX 5080 and 5090 next-gen graphics cards.This is a notable change in the way the rumor winds are blowing, as up until now, we’ve been hearing that it’s just the RTX 5080 and 5090 that’ll be the initial Blackwell GPUs…
The Starmer government lost little time in announcing a consultation on datacentre planning reforms, with more comprehensive, joined-up thinking favoured by industry players speaking to Computer Weekly. Cathal Griffin, chief revenue officer at colocation provider Asanti, affirms a need to “join the dots”, stating that planning reform should look holistically at building permissions, grid connections…
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You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…
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The UK and US governments are jointly pledging to collaborate more closely on the issue of children’s safety online, after launching a new online safety working group to share expertise and evidence. The governments say that despite “near universal” smartphone ownership among UK and US teens, there is currently limited research and evidence on the…
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The Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library and operator of the popular Wayback Machine that holds a repository of billions of captures of web pages as they appeared in the past, has come under sustained cyber attack in the form of a significant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its infrastructure, and a major…
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