What sort of 2024 did AMD experience? This year was quiet in some respects for Team Red – with not much activity in the GPU space, save for one notable exception – but there was more happening on the CPU front, although the introduction of new Zen 5 processors proved controversial.New laptop chips for Copilot+…
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Intel has issued a full and detailed report on Arrow Lake’s subpar performanceFive separate problems were highlighted, four of which are now fixedYou’ll need to update your BIOS and Windows 11 to get those fixesIntel has finished its deep-dive investigation into problems with its Core Ultra 200S processors, and has presented the full results –…
In a blog post on Medium, Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo revealed interesting details about Apple’s future iPhone 18 and M5 Mac releases. According to the analyst, BE Semiconductor will drastically benefit from Apple’s upcoming products as the company has business with Apple’s manufacturers. Kuo says that the iPhone 18 Pro’s wide camera will be upgraded…
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Two amendments to the Data (Access and Use) Bill that would have established a statutory legal defence for security professionals and ethical hackers to protect them from prosecution under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have failed to make it beyond a House of Lords committee hearing after being withdrawn. The 34-year-old CMA broadly defines…
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Retailers have leaked incoming laptops from Asus with RTX 5000 GPUsNvidia RTX 5090, 5080 and 5070 Ti models have been spottedThis is a hint that rumors of a desktop RTX 5070 Ti are on the moneyAsus has some new gaming laptops incoming with Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell mobile GPUs on board – and Intel Arrow Lake…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in the UK cloud infrastructure services market. The CMA is not ploughing a lonely furrow: regulators across the world – from Spain and Denmark to South Africa and (if reports…
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In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool to help jobseekers find roles and make their applications, with ever more people using it. Multiple published surveys have suggested this figure could be as high as 50% of applicants. But while AI is undoubtedly a great support tool, it can create issues if individuals use it to…
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OpenAI ended its “12 Days of ChatGPT” announcements on Friday with a bang. The company unveiled the next-gen reasoning model that will power ChatGPT, which is called o3. A ChatGPT o3-mini will also be available to users.According to OpenAI’s presentation, the o3 models will deliver big performance boosts over their predecessors. OpenAI also revealed that…
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AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUsPrevious rumors suggested these would be the RX 8000 seriesPerformance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevineRumors around AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this past weekend, and we’ve learned that these RDNA 4 graphics cards may…
