It has been described in various evocative ways across popular culture, reflecting its vastness and potential for discovery. But, as the industrialisation of space starts to become a reality, Scotland finds itself at the vanguard of a flourishing sector. As a global leader in the manufacture of CubeSats (a class of small satellite), backed by…
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Microsoft and CrowdStrike have defended themselves against a series of accusations by Delta, saying the US airline, which was particularly badly hit during the 19 July software outage, rejected their offers of help and had only itself to blame for cancelling thousands of flights, including some scheduled to deliver American athletes to the Paris Olympics.…
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Intel’s next-gen flagship for Arrow Lake desktop processors will tone down its top boost speed to 5.7GHz, which is appreciably slower than the current Core i9-14900K, or that’s the latest from the grapevine.So, as ever, treat this with some caution, but as VideoCardz noticed, the rumor aired by regular leaker OneRaichu on X – not…
Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a CrowdStrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…
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AMD is already working on Zen 7 processors, which will be two generations after next-gen Zen 5 CPUs.It’s pretty eye-opening to hear that development is already underway for a processor family three whole generations into the future, but of course, this is just the very initial stages of design for Zen 7, no doubt. (Sketched…
Your Instagram app is about to get another healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it) dose of generative AI. Meta wants to let anyone create AI avatars that have the ability to chat with users. If the concept sounds familiar, it’s because we’re looking at Meta’s version of OpenAI’s custom GPTs. Also,…
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It looks like Intel is going to raise the limits for temperatures with its next-gen desktop processors, which could be a sign of confidence in the stability of Arrow Lake – a hopeful hint of things to come, with any luck, in terms of the current worries around Core i9 stability.Before we go leaping off…
On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…
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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…
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