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IT Sustainability Think Tank: The energy challenge of AI datacentres in 2024 and beyond

/ 2 minutes of reading / AI, All, edge computing

The rise of generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping industries, but it’s also creating an unprecedented demand for energy. Datacentres supporting AI workloads are expanding at a breakneck pace to meet the needs of increasingly complex large language models (LLMs). However, this growth comes at a cost: by 2027, 40% of AI datacentres will face operational…

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Latest Nvidia RTX 5000 power usage rumors make me scared that my PSU will be nowhere near enough for the RTX 5080

/ 4 minutes of reading / AI, All

Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are rumored to have increased power usageRTX 5090 may demand 575W, slightly less than some previous rumorsRTX 5080 could hit 360W, which unfortunately is slightly up from past speculationNvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 are expected to be revealed at CES 2025 – likely alongside RTX 5070 models, too – and…

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Nvidia RTX 5050 to 5090 laptop GPUs spotted, suggesting next-gen graphics cards are ready for rumored CES 2025 launch

/ 4 minutes of reading / AI, All, Tech

Nvidia’s RTX 5000 laptop GPUs have been sighted in the PCI ID repository, hinting they’re imminentRTX 5050 to 5090 Max-Q models are listed, but there’s some confusion relating to the chips usedAD108M is present in the graphics cards lower than the RTX 5080, which surely must be a mistakeNvidia’s next-gen laptop GPUs have been spotted…

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French court refuses to expedite trial of Sky ECC cryptophone distributor Thomas Herdman

/ 7 minutes of reading / All

Five judges will hear a case against 30 people accused of being involved in the distribution of encrypted mobile phones used by organised criminal groups at a special criminal court expected to take place in spring 2026 in Paris. French appeal court judges last week rejected a petition by Thomas Herdman, 64, a Canadian businessman…

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 appears to leak ahead of possible CES 2025 announcement

/ 4 minutes of reading / AI, All, MSI

Images purporting to be of the MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5080 appear online – but are quickly deletedThe images, if legitimate, support rumors that the RTX 5080 graphics card will be the first to launch after CES 2025The pictures also appear to confirm some of the specs for the upcoming GPUThe Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080…

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CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

/ 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Innovation, insight and influence: the CISO playbook for 2025 and beyond

/ 5 minutes of reading / AI, All, automation, machine learning, Microsoft

As 2024 comes to a close and we reach the midpoint of a decade that might generously be described as having so far been ‘turbulent’, I’d like to inject a note of positivity regarding the outlook for the second half of the 2020s.  Before you dismiss me as naïve or irrationally optimistic, please hear me…

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iOS 19 will reportedly work on every iPhone that supports iOS 18

/ 3 minutes of reading / AI, All, Apple, ChatGPT, Intel, iPad, iPhone, Tech

Reports in the past few weeks claimed that Apple’s main focus remains Apple Intelligence. The company was working on the now-released iOS 18.2, which brings ChatGPT integration to the iPhone and iPad, and iOS 18.4, which will deliver a smarter Siri.Those reports said work on iOS 19 had been delayed. Therefore, some iOS 19 Apple…

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