Qualcomm has finally taken the wraps off of its latest and greatest mobile chipset, in the form of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Yes, that’s the real name of the new chipset –- and yes, it’s a direct successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite from last year. Naming aside, the Snapdragon 8 Elite…
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Over the past decade, UK organisations have made significant strides in modernising their technology estate. Often though, when it comes to cloud and AI, many organisations still fall into the same trap: chasing capability without clarity; or implementing technology without fully understanding the business problem it’s meant to tackle. As someone who works daily with…
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The UK government has set itself an ambitious target of becoming an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower, and this is a position it is seeking to secure by championing the developers of homegrown AI tools and technologies. As the government pithily stated in its January 2025 AI opportunities action plan document: “We must be an AI maker, not…
Microsoft plans to invest $30bn between now and 2028 in building out its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and operations in the UK. The software giant has described the move as the largest financial commitment it has ever made in the UK, with around half of its proposed investment set to finance the continued expansion of…
Investigators from Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) have disrupted the network behind the dangerous RaccoonO365 infostealer malware that targeted the usernames and credentials of Office 365 users after being granted a court order in the Southern District of New York. The operation saw a total of 338 websites linked to the popular malware seized and…
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The government wants the UK to lead the way in artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in Europe, and research from Barclays Corporate Banking shows that business leaders recognise the need to invest in AI and emerging technology. This week, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI announced they are building out significant datacentre capacity in the UK.…
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In this podcast, we ask Patrick Smith, EMEA chief technology officer at Pure Storage, about the increased drive towards ensuring data sovereignty. Smith talks about drivers that include geopolitical trade and political uncertainty, new levels of sensitivity over data, and increased regulation and compliance requirements. He also talks about the risks of not addressing the…
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Intel’s rumored to be hiking the price of some older laptop CPUsRaptor Lake chips are going up by 10%, we’re toldThis could be yet more pressure on laptop makers, given recent RAM price rises, all making notebooks more expensiveLaptop prices may increase in the near future, and this time the trouble may be related to…
New in-depth looks at the code for Google’s Gemini app on Wear OS suggest that the company could be looking to alleviate one of its most annoying restrictions. And with Google slowly rolling Gemini out to more products and platforms — it recently started arriving on Google TV — it makes sense for the tech…
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Hints in drivers suggest Intel is working on multi-frame generation for its GPUsThis comes at the same time that Arc B770 GPU rumors are floating around againIt’s a further indication that Intel isn’t abandoning its desktop GPUs after the Nvidia dealNvidia is leading the race in the graphics card market, nailing a lot of the…
