Nope, Sony isn’t quite done with Blu-ray yet. Barely two months after announcing that it’s exiting the recordable Blu-ray business, Sony has revealed something of a surprise: its first new Blu-ray player in roughly five years. Just keep your expectations in check as far as features go. Slated to go on sale in Japan during the …
Investigatory Powers Tribunal hearing held behind closed doors as press and civil society groups argue for open hearings By Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly Published: 14 Mar 2025 18:15 The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has held a day-long secret hearing into an appeal brought by Apple against a government notice requiring it to provide law enforcement …
During the third global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Paris, dozens of governments and companies outlined their commitments to making the technology open, sustainable and work for “public interest”, but AI experts believe there is a clear tension in the direction of travel. Speaking with Computer Weekly, AI Action Summit attendees highlighted how AI is …
The rise of DeepSeek has prompted the usual well-documented concerns around AI, but also raised worries about its potential links to the Chinese state. The Security Think Tank considers the steps security leaders can take to counter threats posed by nation state industrial espionage? By Elisabeth Mackay, PA Consulting Published: 14 Mar 2025 Over 80% of …
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Competition in the cloud market is a hot topic, but are things heading in the right direction? By Nicky Stewart Published: 14 Mar 2025 A cloud market characterised by openness, interoperability, and fairness has to be the aspiration for Europe, but we are currently far from that. I fear policymakers may feel that efforts to …
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Subpostmaster federation is calling on former Post Office crown branch staff to come forward if they experienced problems with ECCO+ By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 14 Mar 2025 11:48 The government minister in charge of the Post Office has asked for evidence of problems caused by a third Post Office …
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If you’re one of the unlucky Chromecast owners whose “untrusted” device stopped working earlier this week, here’s some good news: a fix is on the way. As reported by 9to5Google, Google has issued a fix that should restore service to the stymied Chromecast streamers, including the second-generation Chromecast (pictured above) and the Chromecast Audio. “We’re …
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips have helped lead the market for laptops with epically long battery life, but they’ve had a key weakness: games. To help address this, Qualcomm said Thursday that it will enable the hit multiplayer game Fortnite to run on Snapdragon, as well as Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat software. The latter service is probably the …
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Image: Foundry Windows 11 appears to be experiencing problems with Nvidia GPUs, according to Neowin. Windows Insiders on the Canary channel are reporting issues launching apps, apparently due to an incompatibility with DirectX 9 and crashing D3D9 DLL files. Anything that relies on or utilizes DirectX 9 is affected, including apps, games, PowerPoint presentations, browsers, …
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This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → In this week’s Media Briefing, Digiday’s executive editor of news Seb Joseph talks to publishers to find out what they think about Scope3, the ad platform AppNexus …