Category: Silicon UK

UK To Spend £36m For AI Supercomputer Upgrade

AIRR supercomputing centre to see Dawn system upgraded with AMD AI chips, new high-performance system, under UK’s AI strategy This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: UK To Spend £36m For AI Supercomputer Upgrade

TikTok Settles California Social Media Lawsuit

TikTok settles lawsuit alleging addictive design, mental harms only hours before jury selection, as case proceeds against Google, Meta This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: TikTok Settles California Social Media Lawsuit

TikTok US Denies Widespread Reports Of Censorship

New US TikTok operator denies widespread claims that content critical of administration is being censored, blaming data centre outage This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: TikTok US Denies Widespread Reports Of Censorship

Report Of High-Level UK China Hack Questioned

Commentators question Telegraph report that China-backed hacking group targeted mobile phones of senior UK officials for several years This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Report Of High-Level UK China Hack Questioned

WhatsApp Faces Increased EU Oversight

EU designates Meta’s WhatsApp as very large online platform, after Channels feature crosses key usage threshold in the region This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: WhatsApp Faces Increased EU Oversight

Samsung To Ship Next-Gen Memory To Nvidia In February

Following delays, Samsung reportedly plans to begin shipping next-gen HBM4 memory chips to Nvidia, AMD in February for use with AI chips This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Samsung To Ship Next-Gen Memory To…

France Lower House Approves Social Media Ban

France’s National Assembly approves key measures in social media ban for under-15s amid international momentum for restrictions This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: France Lower House Approves Social Media Ban

Germany To Strengthen Cyber Countermeasures

Germany plans to enable and deploy stronger cyber-attack countermeasures to take action against foreign powers such as Russia This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Germany To Strengthen Cyber Countermeasures

Microsoft Begins Deploying Next-Gen AI Chip

Microsoft now beginning to deploy new in-house AI chip Maia 200 within its own AI team and to power Copilot, following delays This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Microsoft Begins Deploying Next-Gen AI Chip

Google Pays $68m To Settle Assistant Privacy Claims

Google agrees to pay $68m to settle class action claiming digital assistant recorded private conversations, passed data to advertisers This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Google Pays $68m To Settle Assistant Privacy Claims

EU Probes X Over Grok Images

EU opens new investigation into X, formerly Twitter, after millions of AI-generated sexualised images flood network This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: EU Probes X Over Grok Images

Apple Adds Design To Hardware Chief’s Remit

Apple reportedly adds overall design responsibilities to role of hardware chief John Ternus in latest sign of internal CEO succession planning This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple Adds Design To Hardware Chief’s Remit

Blue Origin Plans High-Speed Satellite Data Network

Aerospace company Blue Origin plans to launch 5,408 satellites for high-speed, enterprise-focused data network TeraWave This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Blue Origin Plans High-Speed Satellite Data Network

Amazon Expected To Cut 14,000 More Corporate Jobs

Amazon reportedly plans second massive round of reductions to corporate jobs as it moves toward target of 30,000 white-collar job cuts This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Amazon Expected To Cut 14,000 More Corporate…

Court Approves Challenge To Mega-Scale London Data Centre

High Court says campaigners’ challenge to large-scale data project west of London can go ahead, after government acknowledges ‘error’ This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Court Approves Challenge To Mega-Scale London Data Centre

Intel Warns Of Supply-Chain Shortages

Intel shares sink after it warns component shortages are hampering growth, predicts worse-than-expected revenues for March quarter This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Intel Warns Of Supply-Chain Shortages

Judge Dismisses Parts Of Apple Privacy Case

Judge in US district court agrees to Apple request to dismiss claims that its actions broke California state law, as other claims go ahead This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Judge Dismisses Parts Of…

Apple Plans Chatbot-Style Siri Release In September

Apple reportedly planning two Google-powered Siri releases this year, one improving app integration, followed by full-scale chatbot rollout This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Apple Plans Chatbot-Style Siri Release In September