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ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech news stories from Boston Dynamic's new robot to Sony's OLED-beating Micro-LED TV tech

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support This week in the world of tech: Boston Dynamics unveiled a new robot, and while it terrified us, the barrage of negative Humane AI Pin reviews showed us that maybe the artificial intelligence uprising is perhaps further aware than we initially feared. But maybe you’ve missed these or other major tech stories from this past week. No worries, because we’re here to help with a round-up of the eight biggest tech news stories from the last seven days. There’s a lot to catch up on, so let’s get into it. 8. The Humane AI Pin came… and flopped (Image credit: Humane) Reviews for the first Humane AI pin came out this week, and they weren’t great – with the wearable being universally labeled as “unreliable.” Marques Brownlee released a video on his YouTube channel calling the AI gadget “the worst product i've ever reviewed... for now,” Mrwhosetheboss said "It's not good," Bloomberg said “"The design and interface are fatal...

Obscure $10 billion chip firm you never heard of finally delivers crucial tech for AI future — Astera Labs showcased its Aries 6 PCIe retimer board as it targets future Nvidia HGX boards

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Astera Labs, a relatively unknown semiconductor company with a $10 billion market value, recently showed off its new Aries 6 PCIe retimer board, which it is now sampling to leading AI and cloud infrastructure providers. Due to the high-speed data transfer within the PCIe interface, the signals can suffer from degradation, especially over longer distances or due to interference. A PCIe retimer helps maintain the data signal integrity over the PCIe interface by cleaning, reshaping, and retransmitting the data signals. The Aries 6 retimers, the first in Astera Labs' PCIe 6.x portfolio, offer robust, low power, and efficient PCIe 6.x and CXL 3.x connectivity, squarely aimed at catering to the networking requirements of next-generation GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, and CXL memory controllers. 3x the reach Based on Intel's Retimer Supplemental Specification, the new Aries 6 retimers build upon the company’s widely deployed PCIe 5.0 retimer portfo...

Why trust is job #1 for new financial regulatory compliance

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Over the next couple of years, banking and insurance organizations will be busily preparing for and adapting to new security and operational resiliency regulations. These new rules represent an evolution in the expectations being placed on the sector in an increasingly technologically-driven age. Additionally, regulations in some jurisdictions will apply also to third-parties providing critical services to financial services firms. So what is happening around the world? World perspective In the EU the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) provides “financial entities” with a harmonized set of rules for managing risks associated with IT, data and digital operations. As with the SEC’s new rules, DORA also makes boards of directors ultimately accountable for the success or failure of firms’ technical cybersecurity strategies, making this a central business consideration. By March 2025, financial services firms in the UK will need to ensure th...

The importance of the Vulnerability Operations Centre for cybersecurity

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Traditional cybersecurity is laser-focused on incident detection and response. In other words, it’s built around a Security Operations Centre (SOC). That’s no bad thing in itself. Read between the lines, however, and that assumes we’re waiting on the threats to come to us. With cyber adversaries evolving their tactics through AI, automated ransomware campaigns, and other advanced persistent threats (APTs), adopting advanced, proactive measures has never been more critical. Except that your SOC team is already drowning in vulnerabilities and knee-jerk remediations. How can they even begin to manage this? Today’s ever worsening threat landscape calls for a strategic pivot towards the establishment of a Vulnerability Operations Centre (VOC) to rethink the foundational challenges of vulnerability management and cyber resilience. The Strategic Imperative of the VOC Traditional strategies are necessary but painfully insufficient. As an industry, we’...