Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images USB Type-C, also known as USB-C, is quickly becoming the connector of choice for a wide range of devices, including computers, peripherals, portable storage drives, and smartphones. It’s compact, reversible, and versatile; you can use it to transfer data, power, and video signals. Thanks to these capabilities, even Thunderbolt, which is a…

The ultra-thin iPhone Air and the three iPhone 17 models Apple unveiled during its press event on Tuesday will be available for preorder on Friday, a schedule that’s familiar to iPhone early adopters. Picking the right iPhone has always been a tough choice, though. One would look at the new specs and features, consider battery…

The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between cloud providers and their customers. However, when this model intersects with service level agreements (SLAs), it introduces layers of complexity. SLAs typically cover metrics like uptime, support response times and service performance, but often overlook critical…

A long-awaited update to the US’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 – which lapses at the end of September amid gathering concerns over compliance gaps and increased risk to end-user organisations – is advancing through Congress in Washington DC. The replacement legislation, now named the Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure…

One of Apple’s most popular products just got an upgrade. This Monday, Apple introduced the all-new AirPods Pro 3. While there are some notable improvements from the previous generation, they aren’t quite as big an upgrade as the first to the second generation. That said, if you’re still rocking Lightning or USB-C AirPods Pro 2…

After a first quarter that saw tech consumers receive $1.24bn from mobile trade-in and upgrade programmes, a 40% increase from the same quarter a year earlier, the US secondary device market has revealed even stronger growth over the past three months of the half-year, returning $1.34bn in value to consumers, according to the latest Assurant…

A report into commercial datacentres’ water usage in England suggests the sector is more efficient and less water-intensive than previously thought, thanks to advances in cooling technologies. The survey, carried out by UK tech trade body TechUK in collaboration with the Environment Agency, set out to assess the environmental resources consumed by the datacentre industry…

For the past five years, much of the enterprise conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) has revolved around access – with access to application programming interfaces (APIs) from hyperscalers, pre-trained models, and plug-and-play integrations promising productivity gains. This phase made sense. Leaders wanted to move quickly, experimenting with AI without the cost of building models from…

Suikaart/Getty Images Apple will open iPhone 17 preorders on Friday, but the four new devices aren’t the only iPhones being sold by Apple. As always, Apple discounted some of the previous-generation phones, which are available online and in Apple retail stores for the usual $100 discount compared to the original prices. The good news is…

Puppet’s 2024 State of DevOps report was subtitled “the evolution of platform engineering”. Platform engineering, it said, can be a “barrier against the chaos of tools, tasks and information” assailing developers – a state of overload, which some would attribute to the lack of discipline in DevOps.   Or, as Paula Kennedy, co-founder of platform…