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The times of the “Air Gap” – of physically cutting off production from the Internet – are definitely over. The digitisation of industrial plants represents a leap in productivity, but at the same time opens doors that were previously tightly closed. However, many companies are making a cardinal mistake: they are attempting
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Generative artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technological novelty and has become a standard working tool. Deployments of language models (LLMs) in companies already number in the thousands, and their purpose is clear: to drive productivity, automate processes and foster creativity. We treat them as versatile assistants, entrusting them
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“The biggest disruption in decades” is how Gartner analysts describe the situation in the virtualisation market. These are strong words that perfectly capture the mood in IT departments around the world. Following the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, the industry was rocked by reports of drastic licence price increases, often
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Speculation is growing in Cupertino about succession plans. According to reports in the Financial Times, Tim Cook, who has led Apple for 14 years and recently turned 65, could step down as early as next year. Although neither Cook nor Apple are commenting on these revelations, the board of directors
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Competition in the x86 processor market is gathering pace, with AMD consistently consolidating its position at Intel‘s expense. Although Intel continues to dominate, controlling around 70 per cent of the market, the latest Mercury Research analysis confirms that AMD has effectively secured close to 30 per cent share for
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The regulatory front against Google in Europe has just gained strength. The regional court in Berlin (Landgericht Berlin) has ruled that the conglomerate must pay a total of €572 million in damages to two German price comparison sites for abusing its dominant position. This is the next chapter in a
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Intel has made a significant adjustment to its server processor roadmap, opting to strategically simplify its offerings. The company has confirmed that the upcoming Xeon 7 family of chips, known by the codename Diamond Rapids, will not be offered in previously planned, more budget variants with eight memory channels. Instead,
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European IT leaders’ trust in global cloud providers is waning. Geopolitical tensions are prompting as many as 61 per cent of CIOs in Western Europe to seek alternatives from local or regional providers, according to a Gartner survey. Furthermore, 53 per cent of respondents believe that geopolitics will limit their
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Logitech, one of the leading manufacturers of peripherals, has joined the growing list of victims of cybercrime group Clop. The company has confirmed that it was the victim of a hack enabled by a zero-day vulnerability in software provided by an external company. The incident is part of a wider
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OpenAI ‘s introduction of the new GPT-5.1 last week was just a prelude. Now the company has published a key ‘prompting guide’ that signals a strategic shift: from suggestion generation to direct task execution in development environments. This material, aimed at developers, aims not only to facilitate the migration
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Traditional data centres are failing to meet the demands of the new era. According to Lenovo’s ‘Data Centre of the Future’ study, almost half (46%) of IT managers in EMEA admit that their current infrastructure does not support power and CO2 reduction goals. This gap becomes critical in the
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The PC market has been waiting for such a strong boost for years. We have found it, or at least that is what the major players claim. The terms ‘AI PC‘ and ‘NPU’ are being conjugated in all cases and the marketing departments of the giants are promising a new