In 2022, datacentres were estimated to consume about 2% of global energy. By 2026, that number is predicted to double to 4%, equivalent to about 1000 terawatt hours a year, which, according to Gartner, is equivalent to the consumption of a country the size of Japan. Lloyd Jones, vice-president analyst at Gartner, said the company’s…
Rumors about foldable iPads and MacBooks and foldable iPhones have been floating around for years. However, Apple has not released a commercial product yet. Apple keeps selling hundreds of millions of candybar iPhones instead.Meanwhile, Samsung keeps mocking Apple for not making foldable phones. Samsung is also secretly dying to see Apple enter the space, not…
Our first look at the foldable iPhone is coming sooner than expected Read More »
Nine police forces are seeking to replace their common records managements system (RMS) with a cloud-based alternative – but despite upcoming changes to the UK’s data laws, experts say the strong likelihood of a US-based hyperscaler winning the contract presents continued risks. Under the UK’s current data regime, moving sensitive police records to one of…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least for end users. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels commented on S3’s 15th anniversary in…
AWS storage: Key storage options in the Amazon cloud Read More »
OpenAI is expected to announce new genAI products in the not-too-distant future. The next big ChatGPT update might arrive next year. That’s the GPT-5/Orion model that appeared in various reports recently, though it’s unclear what OpenAI will call it. Before that, OpenAI might release the Operator AI agent to control computer apps. While we wait for…
The ChatGPT apps for Mac and Windows are getting even better Read More »
The surging demand for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) workloads is likely to lead to operational constraints in AI datacentres due to energy shortages, according to Gartner. The analyst is predicting that 40% of existing AI datacentres will be affected by power supply issues by 2027, because of how rapidly energy consumption is expected to rise…
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Threat actors – both state-backed and financially motivated – are increasingly taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, to compromise their victims before fixes or patches are made available by the tech industry, according to an advisory published by the Five Eyes cyber agencies, including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the…
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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…
Microsoft fixes 89 CVEs on penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024 Read More »
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)…
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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