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“Stick them on disk”: Plucky UK firm wants humble hard drives to win data war against tape, optical disks and cloud storage — and it plans to do so by getting rid of RAID and slowing down spinning disks to a full stop

Disk Archive Corporation has announced it can boast more than 350 customers in the broadcast and media industry as it continues on its near-20-year crusade to promote its unique approach to data storage. The UK-based company, founded in 2008, believes its Alternative to Linear Tape-Open (ALTO) chassis appliance is far…

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AMD is betting on strategic partners to one-up Nvidia — with 50-year-old Ethernet being at the heart of an alliance looking to promote a wider, more balanced ecosystem

Broadcom’s next-generation PCIe switches will support AMD‘s socket-to-socket Infinity Fabric technology (also known as xGMI) – the company’s standard for boosting data transfer speeds between CPUs in a system.  The Infinity Fabric interconnect, which is normally used in EPYC servers, can handle package-to-package connectivity, and behave as PCIe Gen5 for…

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Google is rapidly turning into a formidable opponent to BFF Nvidia — the TPU v5p AI chip powering its hypercomputer is faster and has more memory and bandwidth than ever before, beating even the mighty H100

Google accompanied the recent launch of its Gemini AI models with the latest version of its flagship tensor processing unit (TPU) for AI training and inference, in what appears to be an attempt to take on Nvidia’s own market-leading GPUs. TPU v5p – Google’s most powerful custom-designed AI accelerator –…

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Forget cloud services, this blisteringly fast NAS device keeps all your files to hand, and supports up to 164TB of storage – enough for over 33 million standard resolution photos

IceWhale Technology, the creator of the ZimaBoard, has just successfully concluded its latest Kickstarter campaign for new personal cloud storage device. Available in standard and Pro versions, the ZimaCube is a compact, private, and secure alternative to traditional cloud storage options, offering users complete control over their data. Unlike traditional…

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This growing malware threat actor is set to unleash a surge of attacks, experts warn

We’re about to witness a significant surge in the deployment of DarkGate and NetSupport, security experts are warning. Researchers from Proofpoint claim to have observed a brand new threat actor, dubbed “BattleRoyal”. This threat actor mounted at least 20 email campaigns in the months between September and November this year,…

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Chameleon Android malware disables fingerprint unlock feature to steal your PIN

The dreaded Chameleon Android malware has been upgraded to give attackers the ability to disable the fingerprint unlock feature and steal people’s PIN codes, according to cybersecurity researchers from ThreatFabric. As per the researchers, Chameleon is similar to other banking malware out there, abusing the Android Accessibility Service to steal…

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