AMD announced its latest RDNA 4 graphics cards at CES 2025 this week, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070, both targeting the midrange graphics card segment, as was widely expected.There isn’t much that we know about the two new cards yet, other than the new numbering scheme is intended to…
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The first thing worth knowing about the first ever ransomware locker is that its use was apparently motivated by revenge rather than outright criminality. The second thing worth knowing is that there was not a Russian speaker in sight. In fact, its author, Joseph Popp, grew up in Ohio and was educated at Harvard University.…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has hit the headlines and the datacentres, but with it comes a range of performance and operating considerations that impact storage as much as any other IT discipline. In this review, we look at the key demands of AI processing on data storage, the type of storage AI requires, and the suitability…
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This year signalled a worrying time for diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector as many firms began rolling back their initiatives and efforts. This lack of commitment led many notable diversity organisations to dial back their own efforts, not wanting to contribute to allowing firms to pretend to be making a difference rather…
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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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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…
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…
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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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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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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