Microsoft has issued fixes addressing a total of 89 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) – 92 including third-party disclosures – to mark the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024, including four critical issues and a number of flaws that could be considered zero-days. Out of these issues, one meets the full traditional definition of a…
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Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
We’re still ten months away from the iPhone 17 announcement. Still, several rumors exist about this upcoming lineup. Unlike past years, it seems Apple will ditch the Plus model in favor of an ultrathin but underpowered iPhone 17 Air/Slim. While new leaks and reports are starting to give us an idea about how this device…
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In case you missed it, Apple released iOS 18.1 late last month. The update introduced a new security feature that will make it tougher for law enforcement agencies to use forensic tools to access pertinent data. Originally discovered by 404media, the latest iOS update now reboots an iPhone if it hasn’t been unlocked in four…
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Boosting employee productivity is regarded as one of the big wins when deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, a survey has reported. However, in the next 24 months, a greater focus will be placed on functional and industry use cases. The study from IDC, based on a poll of 3,476 people, reported that 43% believe…
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To make data archives that last is an urgent task. That’s the message of the European Commission’s eArchiving initiative, which has just announced version 2.0 of its architecture and that its funding has been renewed for another two years. Under the tutelage of the commission, the initiative will define processes – using open formats and…
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With the M4 Mac mini now available, we have discovered more about Apple’s entry-level desktop. While reviews have already shown that this is one of the best computers Apple has ever made, there’s another reason to consider the entry-level model when buying a new Mac.For $599 (we’re not considering the education price, which is even…
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Lawyers representing a former boxer charged with serious drug trafficking offences are challenging the legality of the US government’s use of intercepted messages obtained by a European police hacking operation against the world’s largest cryptophone network. The former heavyweight boxer from Montenegro, Goran Gogic, faces charges over his alleged involvement in the import of large…
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Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as a way for Red Hat and its parent IBM to lower the barrier to entry for organisations that want to run machine learning workloads without the need to deploy servers…
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The latest machine on IBM’s quantum computing roadmap, Heron, has been given a hardware and software boost as the company pushes towards its goal of error correction. Error correction is seen as the holy grail for quantum computing, which would open the gates to commercial adoption. This may be many years away, but IBM Heron offers…
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