Would this big change be enough to get you to buy an Apple Vision Pro?

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In a recent newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman detailed Apple’s purported plans to give the Vision Pro a major gaming boost. The strategy reportedly involves coopting Sony to turn its PlayStation VR2 (PSVR) controllers into Vision Pro controllers.The main purpose of the PSVR controllers is to support more precise gaming controls on a device that…

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI video generator leaked, and it looks insane

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Christmas celebration is underway, with the AI company working its way through 12 days of announcements. Not all of them will be big reveals, though OpenAI has 12 daily livestreams scheduled for the event. With 10 left, we’re in for two weeks of ChatGPT-related novelties, and I’m sure one of them will be…

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I’ve never taken Intel’s GPU competition seriously, but the Arc B580 has left me no choice

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Intel’s Battlemage Arc B580 GPU just scored higher than the RTX 4060 in Vulkan testingAMD’s RX 7600 loses to both Nvidia and Intel GPUs in Vulkan testsThe new GPU will launch on December 13, for $249 / £249 / around AU$439It’s easy to place AMD and Nvidia as leaders within the GPU market, with the…

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Justifying ECC upgrade: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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“We all want to do this,” says Conor Riordan, chair of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG),” describing the transition to cloud-based ERP with SAP Rise. “We all want to get to the end point. We just can’t get there as fast as SAP wants us to go.” Computer Weekly met up with…

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Met Police challenged on claim LFR supported by ‘majority of Lewisham residents’

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The Metropolitan Police has claimed its live facial-recognition (LFR) deployments in Lewisham are supported by the majority of residents and local councillors, but a community impact assessment (CIA) obtained by Computer Weekly shows there has been minimal direct consultation with residents, while elected officials continue to express concern. In August 2024, Lewisham councillors complained there…

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Government agencies urged to use encrypted messaging after Chinese Salt Typhoon hack

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US government agencies have been urged to use end-to-end encrypted messaging services, including WhatsApp, Signal and FaceTime, following disclosures that China has breached US telephone networks in a hacking operation that undermines US national security.In a letter to the US Department of Defence (DOD), two prominent senators warned the DOD is placing security at risk…

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AMD Strix Halo leak suggests chips are imminent, but gives me a couple of reasons to worry about the flagship laptop CPU

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One of AMD’s incoming Strix Halo chips has been spotted in a benchmark for the first time, and this is the flagship APU in fact, indicating that as rumors suggest, these Ryzen laptop processors are nearing release.VideoCardz noticed the Geekbench result for a 16-core (Zen 5) Strix Halo chip with Radeon 8060S integrated graphics.The APU…

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Podcast: Storage and AI training, inference, and agentic AI

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In this podcast, we look at storage and artificial intelligence (AI) with Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for AI with Hitachi Vantara. He talks about the performance demands on storage that AI processing brings, but also highlights the extreme context switching it can result in as enterprises are forced to pivot between training and inferencing…

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What do the Home Secretary’s policing reforms mean for the future of the Police Digital Service?

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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has become a landing zone for Whitehall’s various digital functions since the new government came to power in July 2024. Responsibility for running the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has transferred from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, but it seems…

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Apple seeds iOS 18.2 RC 2 ahead of this week’s official release

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A few days after the first RC of iOS 18.2, Apple just launched iOS 18.2 RC 2 ahead of this week’s official release. In addition to general stability improvements, Apple is continuing to build new Apple Intelligence features.These are the top features available with iOS 18.2 RC: Image Playground: Users can create playful images in seconds,…

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