IT News 5 months ago

Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200 - Nvidia is claiming the top spot in GPU performance in a ran... -

Tom

Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200

Big increases in performance when running a range of popular open source models.

#pccomponents #gpus

IT News 5 months ago

Slot an 8TB WD Black SN850X into your PC now that it's at one of its lowest-ever prices of $539 — Install all your favorite games on one drive - Pop a massive 8TB drive into your PC and not worry about st... -

Tom

Slot an 8TB WD Black SN850X into your PC now that it

Install ALL the games

#pccomponents #storage #ssds

IT News 5 months ago

Uncle Sam indicts alleged ransomware kingpin tied to $18B in damages - Prosecutors claim Ukrainian ran LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ops – $11M bounty on ... -

US indicts alleged ransomware boss tied to $18B in damages

: Prosecutors claim Ukrainian ran LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ops – $11M bounty on his head

IT News 5 months ago

Rackintosh Plus Is the Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For - For all its friendly countenance and award-winning industrial design, there’s one ... -

Hackaday

Rackintosh Plus Is The Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For

For all its friendly countenance and award-winning industrial design, there’s one thing the venerable Macintosh Plus can’t do: fit into...

#retrocomputing #macintoshplus #19-inchrack #machacks #1u

IT News 5 months ago

How to make graphical Python apps the EasyGUI way - Amidst a forest of GUI framework choices, EasyGUI takes its... -

Tom

How to make graphical Python apps the EasyGUI way

Easy does it!

#programming #software #python

IT News 5 months ago

Get paid like a prime minister to tame Home Office IT chaos - Department dangles £160K salary for CDIO to wrangle legacy systems, failed projects, and ... -

Get paid like a prime minister to tame Home Office IT chaos

: Department dangles £160K salary for CDIO to wrangle legacy systems, failed projects, and £1.8B budget

IT News 5 months ago

The new iPhone 17 already feels two years old - AI is now what makes a phone feel smart. In side-by-side tests, Google’s latest Pixel han... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/11/apple-phone-17-ai-ios-google-pixel/

IT News 5 months ago

Intel confirms Arrow Lake refresh set for 2026, Nova Lake later that year — company admits there are 'holes to fill on the desktop front,' says it is 'confident in the roadmap' - Intel has confirmed it will launch a refresh of its Arrow L... -

Tom

Intel confirms Arrow Lake refresh set for 2026, Nova Lake later that year — company admits there are

Though the next-generation chip launch looks set to extend into 2027, too.

#pccomponents #cpus

IT News 5 months ago

Flu jab email mishap exposes hundreds of students' personal data - One parent expressed concern for their child's safety A clumsy data breach has affected h... -

Hundreds of teens

: One parent expressed concern for their child's safety

IT News 5 months ago

Johnson, Cummings met Thiel months before Palantir won NHS pandemic role - Meeting with former UK prime minister and his chief advisor withheld from official record... -

Johnson met Thiel months before Palantir

: Meeting with former UK prime minister and his chief advisor withheld from official records, according to leaked documents

IT News 5 months ago

Nvidia Rubin CPX forms one half of new, "disaggregated" AI inference architecture — approach splits work between compute- and bandwidth-optimized chips for best performance - Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU will be Nvidia's complement to the u... -

Tom

Nvidia Rubin CPX forms one half of new,

Nvidia

#semiconductors

IT News 5 months ago

KDE Linux and FreeBSD hit alpha and – surprise – fan fave Pop_OS nearly at beta - It's the season of FOSS fruitfulness as juicy goodness falls from the branch The Northern... -

Pop_OS beta close to popping and KDE Linux, FreeBSD at alpha

: It's the season of FOSS fruitfulness as juicy goodness falls from the branch

IT News 5 months ago

A Look at Not an Android Emulator - Recently, Linux has been rising in desktop popularity in no small part to the work... -

Hackaday

A Look At Not An Android Emulator

Recently, Linux has been rising in desktop popularity in no small part to the work on WINE and Proton. But for some, the year of the Linux desktop ...

#translationlayer #androidhacks #linuxhacks #smartphone #android

IT News 5 months ago

Cybercrooks ripped the wheels off at Jaguar Land Rover. Here's how not to get taken for a ride - Are you sure you know who has access to your systems? Feature  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is... -

Key lessons from Jaguar Land Rover

Feature: Are you sure you know who has access to your systems?

IT News 5 months ago

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement - Government wants to assess would-be immigrants' language skills remotely Plans for an £81... -

UK Home Office delays £816M English test contract

: Government wants to assess would-be immigrants' language skills remotely

IT News 5 months ago

UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime - Management software stumbles at start of term, leaving staff unable to track attendance o... -

UK schools supplier Bromcom gets an F for Azure uptime

: Management software stumbles at start of term, leaving staff unable to track attendance or reach parents

IT News 5 months ago

Arm bets on CPU-based AI with Lumex chips for smartphones - Four-tier core design debuts amid NPU debate Arm has lifted the lid on its latest mobile ... -

Arm bets on CPU-based AI with Lumex chips for smartphones

: Four-tier core design debuts amid NPU debate

IT News 5 months ago

The Magic of the Hall Effect Sensor - Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of ... -

Hackaday

The Magic Of The Hall Effect Sensor

Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one salvaged from an o...

#halleffectsensor #halleffect #air-wired #parts

IT News 5 months ago

AI pricing is currently in a state of ‘pandemonium’ says Gartner - If you can find the T&Cs, which are often hidden, you may spot hidden costs and nasti... -

AI pricing currently in a state of ‘pandemonium’ - Gartner

: If you can find the T&Cs, which are often hidden, you may spot hidden costs and nasties galore

IT News 5 months ago

Maurice Brings Immersive Audio Recording to the Masses - Immersive audio is the new hotness in the recording world. Once upon a time, mono ... -

Hackaday

Maurice Brings Immersive Audio Recording To The Masses

Immersive audio is the new hotness in the recording world. Once upon a time, mono was good enough. Then someone realized humans have two ears, and ...

#microphonearray #audiorecording #immersiveaudio #microphone #mischacks #xlr