HWiNFO gets updated to version v8.0
Published in PC Hardware


Ditches Windows XP/Vista support, gets OSD, and new updates

HWiNFO has announced it has reached a milestone with its latest update to version 8.0, which adds fully integrated OSD, ditches Windows XP/Vista support, as well as adds additional product support and bug fixes.

British nuclear power plant in hot water over security blunders
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Potential digital doomsday

The British Sellafield nuclear power plant is facing the music for a catalogue of cyber clangers that could have left the UK's atomic knickers in a twist.

MSI announce SPATIUM M580 FROZR PCIe Gen 5 SSD
Published in PC Hardware


Up to 14.6GB and 12.7 GB/s sequential transfer speeds

MSI has unveiled its latest addition to the SPATIUM SSD lineup, the flagship SPATIUM M580 FROZR. Equipped with a rather large passive heatsink and coming in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, the SPATIUM M580 FROZR has peak sequential read and write speeds of up to 14.6GB/s and 12.7GB/s, respectively.

Open sauce outrage
Published in News
29 March 2024

Open sauce outrage


Tech giants' greedy grasp turns free code into cash cows

Writing for ComputerWorld the open source guru Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has exposed some cheeky companies that are turning the open source community's hard work into their own gold-lined pockets.

AI overlords to rule the roost in US
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A new job for an IT manager

The White House has declared it's time to get a grip on the AI beast and is rolling out the red carpet for a new breed of boffins: Chief AI Officers.

Apple engineer accused of spilling tech secrets to press
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Apple black shirts swoop

The Fruity cargo cult Apple,  has dragged its former minion, Andrew Aude, to court, accusing him of blabbing about more than a handful of the company's secrets.

Baldur's Gate 3 runs on Snapdragon X Elite platform
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Should be close to Radeon 780M GPU in terms of performance

Qualcomm has recently made a bold promise that the new ARM-based platform will run most, if not all Windows games, and now we have a chance to check out Baldur's Gate 3 running at solid 30 FPS at 1080p resolution.

Daft tech smuggler caught at customs
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We don't think you did your sums correctly on this one


In what's surely one of the daftest capers on record, a chap was nabbed trying to ferry 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards into China.

Kaby Lake-G platform arises from the dead
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Chipzilla's zombie chip invoked for mini-PC motherboard

Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package, was declared dead in 2019, yet this hasn't deterred a a plucky company's bringing it back from the dead and plonked it into a mini PC motherboard.

Fujitsu's wants €1.52 billion in UK government contracts
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While showing contrition for jailing Postmasters

Fujitsu's been caught red-handed with plans to snatch up a whopping €1.52 billion in UK government contracts. Despite swearing off new bids in the wake of the Post Office fiasco, they're back at it, eyeing €936 million for public sector deals and €585 million for top-secret national security gigs.