Google, Desarrollo País of Chile, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT), have announced Humboldt, a subsea cable route linking Australia, French Polynesia, and Chile, strengthening the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity across the Pacific.
Global sales of electric vehicles have been predicted to hit 17.5 million units this year, meaning growth of 27.1% year-on-year, with the technology analyst firm Canalys adding that in 2023, sales grew by 29% and reached 13.7 million units.
It's an old joke that the cloud is "just someone else's server", and while that's a fun simplification, the reality is that AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and the rest really do run physical server hardware in physical data centres. If you've ever managed your own server hardware you might be curious what one of the public cloud servers looks like. Thanks to AMD, iTWire got to see.
Global PC shipments have shown a small increase in the fourth quarter of 2023, two technology analyst companies say, adding that the market appears to have bottomed out, with growth expected in 2024.
Security firm Volexity says it has discovered active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN, with the two flaws being chained to allow an unauthenticated remote control exploit.
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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire
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