IT News 3 months ago

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals - A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome we... -

Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals

A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome web browser.

IT News 3 months ago

A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means - The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies ... -

A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means

The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?

IT News 3 months ago

Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules - Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked M... -

Big clouds scramble over EU Data Act and data transfers

Updated: Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked

IT News 3 months ago

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up - With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality ... -

Oracle

Comment: With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality

IT News 3 months ago

Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD review: Bigger, badder, and better - Samsung pushes the limit with the 8TB 9100 Pro, offering th... -

Tom

Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD review: Bigger, badder, and better

Finally, a large capacity high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD.

#pccomponents #storage #ssds

IT News 3 months ago

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside - A lucky online auction bidder has scored an $8,000 PC for j... -

Tom

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside

A Puget Systems engineer confirmed this system probably sold for over $8,000 in 2021.

#gamingpcs #desktops

IT News 3 months ago

The Download: AI’s energy future - This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a d... -

MIT Technology Review

The Download: AI’s energy future

Plus: Meta has been accused of burying research in VR's dangers

#thedownload

IT News 3 months ago

Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable - Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Anal... -

Nvidia

Analysis: Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth?

IT News 3 months ago

Halot X-1 review: A solid step forward for serious hobbyists - Halot's X-1 offers great prints, smart features, and a few ... -

Tom

Halot X-1 review: A solid step forward for serious hobbyists

A bold entry in the resin game that mostly pays off

#3dprinting

IT News 3 months ago

Nvidia’s latest RTX Remix update brings path-traced particles to classic games — major overhaul promises 'tens of thousands' of particles without significant performance reduction - Nvidia’s modding platform for retrofitting classic games wi... -

Tom

Nvidia’s latest RTX Remix update brings path-traced particles to classic games — major overhaul promises

A major RTX Remix update adds fully path-traced fire, smoke, and VFX to classic games, but questions remain about performance on older cards.

#videogames

IT News 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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