Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them exploited in the wild, and three other critical issues for attention – in a relatively large update. Although moderate in their severity, carrying CVSS scores of 7.8 and 6.5 respectively, the two exploited zero-days should…
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The Starmer government lost little time in announcing a consultation on datacentre planning reforms, with more comprehensive, joined-up thinking favoured by industry players speaking to Computer Weekly. Cathal Griffin, chief revenue officer at colocation provider Asanti, affirms a need to “join the dots”, stating that planning reform should look holistically at building permissions, grid connections…
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Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future has revealed details of how it is now able to find – and alert – future victims of the Rhysida ransomware gang before it has a chance to deploy its ransomware locker. Rhysida, perhaps most famous in the UK for the late-2023 attack on the British Library, has been active…
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NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…
Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission. The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers and infringes European Union law, and has accused Microsoft…
A senior CrowdStrike executive has apologised in front of a US government committee for the 19 July outage that caused IT systems around the world to crash and display the feared blue screen of death after the company pushed a faulty update live. The incident, which took place in the early morning in the UK,…
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I’m now on my third day of owning an iPhone 16, but I still haven’t even taken it out of the box.As I said previously, I went with the iPhone 16 Plus this year. I had plenty of reasons to upgrade from my iPhone 14 Pro. Apple Intelligence, the Camera Control button, the larger screen,…
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The CPU market of late has been dominated by Intel and AMD; Qualcomm, with its AI-powered, energy-efficient Snapdragon X-series ARM processors, aim to challenge that.Qualcomm’s current X-series processors have been making waves since their June 2024 launch. Winfuture have exclusively revealed that Qualcomm has been working on its next-gen high-end Snapdragon X2 CPU “SC8480XP”, under…
Microsoft has added a number of features to its Copilot artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled assistant for office productivity, as it builds out its AI strategy for business users. The company has spent the past year fleshing out how AI through Copilot is helping its customers become more productive. In the earnings call for its full year…
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Quantum computing firm Quantinuum has brought forward the date when it believes quantum computers will become commercially viable. A study from McKinsey estimates that 5,000 quantum computers will be operational by 2030 but it may be 2035 before hardware and software is readily available to solve computationally complex problems. Quantinuum’s technical roadmap shows that by…
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