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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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Alphabet (Google) has submitted a settlement proposal to the European Commission regarding its adtech business, in an attempt to avert the spectre of forced divestment. This is in response to September’s €2.95 billion fine and the tough stance of regulators, who suggested selling parts of the company as
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Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest manufacturer of memory chips, is sharply raising prices for key components used in data centres. According to sources familiar with the matter, the prices of some DDR5 memory modules, which are essential for AI infrastructure, rose by as much as 60% in November compared
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The AI boom is generating a massive demand for computing power, but its biggest bottleneck is proving to be access to electricity. Analysts at UBS Securities point out that this hunger for power is likely to set off a ‘boom cycle’ for the energy storage sector over the next five
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled the next generation of its supercomputing solutions yesterday (13 November), making a clear strategic bet. In an era of resource-intensive AI models that redefine data centres, HPE is unifying its HPE Cray architecture to meet both new workloads and traditional scientific simulation (HPC). This is a
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IBM has stepped up its efforts in the race to build a usable quantum computer with the unveiling of its new Quantum Nighthawk processor. The goal is clearly defined and strategically differentiated from the competition: the company wants to achieve a ‘measurable quantum advantage’ (Quantum Advantage) by the end of
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AMD shares gained 7% on Wednesday, increasing the company’s capitalisation by more than $26 billion. The reason for investors’ enthusiasm was the bold new strategic goal announced during the analyst day: to reach $100 billion in annual revenue from the data centre segment. This is a direct challenge thrown
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Seagate Technology, a global leader in storage solutions, has launched two 30TB drives: the IronWolf® Pro and Seagate Exos M. Both models, available from ACTION S.A.’s Action Enterprise Division, are based on innovative technologies and have been developed with other application areas in mind – from enterprise NAS systems
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The legal dispute between OpenAI and The New York Times is escalating, shifting the burden from general accusations of copyright infringement to the thorny ground of user privacy. On Wednesday, lawyers for the creators of ChatGPT asked a federal judge in New York to block the injunction. It obliges the