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Half of businesses report an increase in state-sponsored cyber threats amid rising geopolitical tension
In the past 12 months, almost half of enterprises in the United Kingdom (47%) were attacked by an “increasing number” of state-sponsored threat actors. This is according to “A Look at Cyber Resilience and Security Across the United Kingdom,” a new research paper published recently by cybersecurity experts Absolute. Surveying…
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Major WTO agreement sees 91 countries agree to not charge for cross-border data transfers
In an important update for cross-border trade, 91 countries have reached a consensus on new ecommerce norms, marking the end of half a decade of back-to-back negotiations. The latest agreement includes an extension of the moratorium on taxing cross-border electronic transmissions and forms part of the World Trade Organization’s Joint…
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Microsoft says millions more devices could have been hit by CrowdStrike outage
Microsoft has acknowledged its initial estimate of 8.5 million devices affected by the recent CrowdStrike software update was likely too low. In response to emerging details surrounding the dodgy update that caused a widespread outage, resulting in grounded flights and disruptions to other major industries, Microsoft is pledging to reduce…
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Ransomware and email attacks are hitting businesses more than ever before
Ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks are hitting businesses more than ever before, a new report by Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) has claimed. The report states ransomware and BEC accounted for almost two-thirds (60%) of engagements, combined. There had been fewer BEC engagements this quarter, compared to…
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What looks like a laptop but ain’t a laptop? Chinese vendor releases innovative phone docking station that gets its inspiration from long lost Asus Transformer project
The idea of a laptop powered by a smartphone isn’t new. The Asus Padfone, part of Asus’s Transformer project, launched in 2012 and allowed users to plug a phone into a tablet and connect it to a keyboard base station. In 2017, Mirabook released a laptop powered by your smartphone,…
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So cheap! You can now buy two liquid-cooled AI workstations with 192GB GDDR6 memory for the price of one Nvidia H100 GPU — hardware startup from AMD chip legend runs on RISC-V and promises to disrupt AI market
Tenstorrent, an AI and RISC-V processor startup led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD‘s Zen architecture, launched its first hardware back in March 2024. Grayskull is a RISC-V alternative to GPUs, and the firm produced two Grayskull-powered DevKits – Grayskull e75 and the more powerful Grayskull…
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