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India's tech juggernaut hits a wall - Asian Tech Roundup
17+ hour, 7+ min ago (675+ words) Computing UK India's tech juggernaut hits a wall - Asian Tech Roundup Plus: Back-and-forth in Beijing over US AI chip exports Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the woes afflicting India's mighty…...
Glass-based chips bring lightspeed to the datacentre
18+ hour, 13+ min ago (565+ words) Modern AI applications - particularly the training and inference of large language models (LLMs) - are driving classical semiconductor architectures towards their physical limits. In recent years, raw compute performance dominated the conversation. Now, however, bandwidth, signal loss and energy per bit…...
Announcing the winners of the AI and Software Development Awards 2026
19+ hour, 14+ min ago (248+ words) In a night to remember we celebrated the inaugural Computing AI and Software Development Awards at London's historic Guildhall. Congratulations to all the incredible winners of the Computing AI and Software Development Awards! The awards are an evolution of the…...
Q&A with Nationwide Building Society, AI and Software Development Awards finalist
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (294+ words) This year's winners will be announced at a live awards ceremony on Thursday, 14th May in London. Nationwide is a finalist in Best Software Automation Project category. We caught up with Sitaram Gopal Cherukuthota, Head of IT Automation, Nationwide, to learn…...
Foxconn confirms cyberattack amid claims of stolen Apple and Nvidia data
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (497+ words) Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has confirmed that several of its North American facilities were hit by a cyberattack, after a ransomware gang claimed responsibility for breaching the company and stealing sensitive corporate data. The company said its cybersecurity teams had…...
ICCL launches open source tool to reduce LLM hallucinations
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (387+ words) The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations. The non-profit says Verity is the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool to combine seven layers of checking to minimise fabricated facts, invented…...
One Advanced: Powering the world of work
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (288+ words) Computing UK One Advanced: Powering the world of work 'AI only delivers meaningful value when it is grounded in robust, governed data" One Advanced is a leading provider of mission'critical software and services, trusted by organisations across the UK to…...
Criminals have already used AI to create a zero-day exploit
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (555+ words) Researchers at Google say they have uncovered the first known case of hackers using AI to develop a zero-day cyber exploit. The finding, revealed by the company's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), involved malicious code designed to exploit an undisclosed vulnerability…...
CPUs are back: The AI future does not belong to the GPU alone
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (991+ words) The sharp rise in Intel's share price in April 2026 is more than a short-term market reaction: it may signal a structural shift in the AI market - away from a heavy GPU/TPU focus towards an architecture in which CPUs once…...
Linux security concerns deepen after 'Dirty Frag' discovery
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (603+ words) A second serious flaw affecting the Linux kernel has been disclosed within weeks, prompting calls for emergency defensive measures from kernel developers. The newly revealed vulnerability, nicknamed "Dirty Frag," allows attackers with low-level access to an affected system to gain…...