
Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a writer and editor that specialises in public sector, cyber security, and cloud computing. He first joined ITPro as a staff writer in April 2018 and eventually became its Features Editor. Although a regular contributor to other tech sites in the past, these days you will find Keumars on LiveScience, where he runs its Technology section.
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Intel’s ‘Thread Director’ will boost CPU performance on Windows 11
News This technology will be embedded in the next generation of 10nm hybrid Alder Lake desktop processors
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Facebook unveils VR remote working experience, Horizon Workrooms
News Using the Oculus Quest 2, workers can beam their own Sims-style avatar into the ‘metaverse’
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Weekly threat roundup: Blackberry QNX, Cisco VPNs, Fortinet firewalls
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
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LG hails 6G breakthrough with successful outdoor test
News Tech firm claims it has overcome a major hurdle to viable long-range 6G connections
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Qualcomm unveils first 5G and AI-compatible drone platform
News The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform aims to bring together several complex technologies into a single system
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GitHub Discussions is now generally available
News The inclusion of Reddit-like features such as upvoting and discussion pinning aims to improve the user experience
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MoD launches callout for tech to plug cyber security holes
News The £300,000 call for submissions aims to address a landscape that’s “full of legacy systems vulnerable to cyber attack”
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Intel unveils Arc brand with new GPUs arriving in 2022
News The first hardware generation, nicknamed Alchemist, will be based on the Xe microarchitecture
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Cisco acquires Israeli application monitoring startup Epsagon
News Technology and expertise from the cloud monitoring startup will feed into Cisco’s full-stack observability strategy
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Windows 11 will introduce ‘focus sessions’ to help with remote work distractions
News This tool pairs tasks on a to-do list with Spotify playlists to allow workers to concentrate while working from home or in the office
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Microsoft tests experimental “Super Duper Secure Mode” for Edge browser
News Developers will strip back buggy performance-boosting tech to make room for additional security features
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Thales to offload railway signalling division to focus on cyber security
News Hitachi set to acquire the transport business for approximately £1.4 billion
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Google bundles Android and web authentication APIs under one banner
News Google Identity Services' SDK includes 'Sign in with Google' and 'One Tap' security tokens
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Rishi Sunak: Teams and Zoom are bad for relationship building
News The chancellor says young workers should return to the workplace if they want to develop their careers
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What's behind the explosion in zero-day exploits?
In-depth Projections show the industry will detect almost three times as many exploits in 2021 as were found last year
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Starlink to establish Isle of Man base station to achieve full UK coverage
News Elon Musk’s satellite internet service will reach remote regions that aren’t yet covered by 5G or full-fibre networks
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Amazon faces £637 million fine over GDPR violations
News If confirmed, the penalty would be almost 15-times larger than the current record fine
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Intel unveils Xeon W-3300 Ice Lake CPUs for workstations
News The family of five W-3300 processors support up to 4TB of eight-channel DDR4 memory
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Microsoft warns of dangerous ‘BazaCall’ call centre ransomware scam
News Human operators are tricking victims into manually downloading malware onto their systems
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Amazon to retire iconic EC2-Classic network
News Customers will have until 2022 to migrate from the 15-year-old network to VPC
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Data breach costs surge to record high in 2021
News The cost in the UK was above the global average, but the US is home to the most expensive data breaches
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Hackers turning to 'exotic' languages for next-gen malware, report warns
News Coding languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang are allowing malware authors to avoid signature detection and add layers of obfuscation
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Intel's four-year roadmap kicks off with Amazon, Qualcomm chip deals
News Intel confirms first foundry customers as it sets out a 2025 target for recovery
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Faulty Windows 10 update breaks printing with smart cards
News Microsoft’s 2021 printing woes continue after several vulnerabilities were found in the Print Spooler component
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