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Millions of iCloud users in the United Kingdom may be in line for a payout after a three billion pound class action lawsuit against Apple cleared a major legal hurdle. A UK tribunal has given the case the green light, with plaintiffs arguing Apple used its dominance over iCloud storage to squeeze out competition and overcharge customers. Apple disputes the claim.
On the hardware front, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has quietly revealed a rack-scale server that packs eighty one thousand nine hundred twenty CPU cores and up to one point two eight petabytes of RAM into a single forty two unit rack. The system runs on AMD's yet-to-be-announced Venice processors, and if the specs hold, Venice may be the fastest x86 chip ever produced. That is a remarkable density milestone.
And in Washington, the White House has signed executive orders aimed at delivering a commercially relevant quantum computer by two thousand twenty eight. The move signals federal urgency around quantum capability, though skeptics note that the gap between political timelines and engineering reality in this field has historically been wide. The clock is now officially ticking.
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