Refresh 2025-01-29T19:02:00.354Z Another thing I appreciate about the RTX 5080 is that even though on paper its TDP is 360W, a 40W increase over the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super’s 320W, I never saw it really approach that much power draw.The most it ever got was about 335W. By comparison, the RTX 4090 pushes…
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The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has published new information revealing how threat actors, among them nation state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) operations working on behalf of the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, attempted to abuse its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Google said that government actors from at least 20 countries…
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The start of 2025 heralds a difficult time for many Western nations, with the outlook for the public sector particularly bleak. Demographic shifts are boosting demand for public services just as tax revenues plateau and the labour force starts to contract. The result? Governments are under pressure to do more with fewer resources. Many of…
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The mounting environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems can be significantly reduced if businesses “choose the right model” for their use cases and implement sustainable practices throughout its lifecycle, according to Capgemini Research Institute.Capgemini’s Developing sustainable GenAI report noted that, for the latest generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models, the training alone is roughly…
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Chinese startup DeepSeek took the world by storm this month, and especially in the past few days, with its ChatGPT rivals. The latest is called DeepSeek R1, with DeepSeek published research showing the reasoning model can match ChatGPT o1, OpenAI’s only public reasoning AI model.There’s a big difference between the two. The Chinese developer created…
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Nvidia has said it isn’t ‘expected’ that cable melting issues will happen with the RTX 5090The company reminded us about the changes made to the 16-pin power connector after the RTX 4090 ran into issuesHowever, a California-based repair shop has flagged up separately that it still fixes melted RTX 4090s on a ‘daily’ basisNvidia has…
An AMD exec has explained why RDNA 4 GPUs won’t launch until MarchThe reason is to ensure the drivers are fully honed and FSR 4 is more widely supportedOn top of that, there’s a mention of making sure plenty of RX 9070 stock is on handAMD has provided a reason why the launch of its…
I’m a long-distance runner, always training for the next half-marathon or marathon race. That involves running dozens of miles every week to build up endurance and ensure I have a fighting chance on race day to cross the finish line. I also happen to wear sunglasses at all times, the photochromatic type that darkens progressively…
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Purported Nvidia RTX 5080 Geekbench results have been sharedThey suggest roughly a 20% gen-on-gen uplift compared to the RTX 4080However, the RTX 5080 appears to come up short compared to the older RTX 4090With the RTX 5090 now reviewed and fully evaluated – as an undoubtedly powerful GPU, albeit to the point of overkill in…
The UK government has expressed “reservations” about legislative proposals from Lord Tim Clement-Jones to improve the scrutiny of algorithmic decision-making tools in the public sector, arguing the concerns raised by his bill are already covered by its own proposed data reforms and the existing Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS). Introduced as a private members’ bill…
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