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AMD RX 9070 GPU spec and benchmark rumors cast fresh doubt on power usage and performance – but I wouldn’t worry about the latter

AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs have witnessed spillage around their specs and possible performance levelsPower-wise the RX 9070 XT looks a bit hungrier than expected, but the vanilla 9070 is pitched at a more comfortable levelThe benchmarks paint a shakier picture of performance than previous leaks – but there are good reasons not to worry here,…

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OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used ChatGPT to train its AI

Chinese startup DeepSeek stunned the world with its sophisticated DeepSeek R1 reasoning model, which is as good as ChatGPT o1. That’s not a surprising achievement; it’s only a matter of time before other AI models can replicate what OpenAI has done in terms of AI reasoning. Also, OpenAI will soon make o3 available, the successor…

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Intel is taking the budget GPU market by storm

Intel’s upcoming Arc B570 GPU is only 12% slower than B580 according to early benchmarkThe Arc B580 will start at $249 while the B570 will start at $219Intel has taken a great leap in its GPU and gaming focusWhile Nvidia and AMD’s new GPUs may have taken the spotlight over recent weeks with a slew…

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Microsoft just added DeepSeek R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Microsoft refuses to be left behind. On Wednesday, the Redmond company announced that the R1 model from DeepSeek is now available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. This surprisingly sudden move comes despite the fact that OpenAI claims DeepSeek built AI models using its data without permission.“As part of…

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US Treasury incident a clear warning on supply chain security in 2025

A major state-sponsored cyber incident that targeted the United States Department of the Treasury in the weeks prior to Christmas 2024 appears to have begun as the result of a compromise at a third-party tech support supplier, serving as a warning on the precarious security and vulnerable nature of technology supply chains for IT firms…

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Leaked Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU benchmarks are weird

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 laptop GPU shows inconsistent Geekbench 6 performance scoresFails to score higher than the RTX 4080 or 4090 laptop GPUs in VulkanIt hasn’t launched yet, and there aren’t any official drivers availableCES 2025 finally gave us a look at Nvidia’s new RTX 5000 series of graphics cards, and the flagship RTX 5090 GPU’s…

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From front to back: tech vice-president Dan Lake on Notonthehighstreet.com’s tech strategy

The big news from online marketplace Notonthehighstreet.com (NOTHS) in the build-up to peak trading is its new partnership with delivery platform Deliveroo, announced in September. NOTHS is one of the early wave of non-food-specific retail businesses partnering with Deliveroo to add speedy fulfilment options to their offering. Screwfix led the charge in 2023, and others…

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I’ve never taken Intel’s GPU competition seriously, but the Arc B580 has left me no choice

Intel’s Battlemage Arc B580 GPU just scored higher than the RTX 4060 in Vulkan testingAMD’s RX 7600 loses to both Nvidia and Intel GPUs in Vulkan testsThe new GPU will launch on December 13, for $249 / £249 / around AU$439It’s easy to place AMD and Nvidia as leaders within the GPU market, with the…

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TfL cyber attack cost over £30m to date

The September 2024 cyber attack that forced Transport for London (TfL) to suspend multiple services across the capital has cost it more than £30m to date, it has emerged. In a financial update to its board, TfL said that previous forecasts of an operating surplus of £61m had now been slashed to £23m, largely due…

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Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox

Backup software vendor Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backup, support for backups of Proxmox virtualisation environments, and cloud as a target for NAS backups in the latest version – v11 – of its Backup & Replication product. Support for data protection of Microsoft 365 environments brings Nakivo into line with numerous backup suppliers that…

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