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Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

Over 100 models of Dell laptop PCs across the enterprise-centric Latitude and Precision ranges, and many thousands of individual devices, are at risk of compromise through a series of five common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that affect their security firmware and associated Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces (APIs), according to a disclosure from the Cisco…

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AMD RX 7400 arrives, but it’s probably not the budget GPU you’re looking for

AMD has a new RX 7400 GPU outIt’s for PC makers only at the moment, though – and it’s likely to stay that wayHowever, a low-end Battlemage GPU from Intel could be in the worksAMD has quietly released a new low-end desktop graphics card, but it’s not likely to be the solution to your budget…

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AMD’s plans for powerful dedicated NPUs could be great news not just for AI enthusiasts

AMD’s head of client CPUs says it’s looking into dedicated NPU acceleratorsThese would be the equivalent of a discrete GPU, but for AI tasksSuch boards would lessen demand on higher-end GPUs, as they’d no longer be bought for AI work, as they are in some casesAMD is looking to a future where it might not…

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UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…

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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…

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Qualcomm isn’t giving us new Snapdragon chips at Computex

2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…

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NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty

A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs.  PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several years…

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Roundtable: Why did customers sail away from VMware?

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…

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Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer and market leader Nutanix has added the ability to connect with external storage from Pure Storage from its HCI stack. The move is Nutanix’s second overture towards external storage – the first was to Dell PowerFlex last year – and marks a further rupture with a strict hyper-converged infrastructure model The…

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Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. You’d only just need two hands…

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