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Taiwanese tech site Benchlife reported that Nvidia has delayed its rumored RTX 5080 Super, a 24GB card tipped for a January 2027 launch. Benchlife said the release date 'remains unclear' and the 'probability is extremely high' that it will not debut in January. TechSpot's October 2026 data shows the RTX 5080 up 39% month-on-month in the US, where it sells for $2,200, or 120% over MSRP.

BBC File on 4 Investigates has found that four data centres in the UK are already looking at gas-fired power stations to meet their electricity needs. If run at full capacity, they would need 1.3 gigawatts and could emit an estimated 4.1 million tonnes of carbon a year, more than Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton combined. Ofgem's Nathan MacWhinnie said the grid is at capacity in many places, and some developers have been told they could wait up to 10 years for a connection.

Revolut says it has cut its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent in under a year by making self-hosted models its default instead of commercial services like Claude. Ops and infrastructure lead David Abitbol said coding time improved 60 percent for roughly 2,000 engineers. Running GLM 5.1 at $0.30 per million input/output tokens cost about a tenth of OpenAI's Codex or Anthropic's Claude Code, Abitbol said.

Openreach has warned firms across the UK that they have less than 100 days to switch to digital services before the Public Switched Telephone Network is switched off, with a final deadline of 31 January next year and no extension. Around a million copper-based lines remain active, 300,000 of them at business premises. Openreach raised rental prices for WLR and legacy ISDN services by an extra 40%, effectively doubling 2025 rates.

The National Cyber Security Centre said AI-powered malware is 'highly likely' to feature in a ransomware attack on Britain's critical national infrastructure between now and 2028. Its pessimistic scenario sees China having 'likely played a role' in supplying AI tools that let attackers hide their activities. A four-week pilot called Project DROMOS uncovered hundreds of potential security issues, while Cyber Shield, backed by £60 million, will roll out over five years.

Twenty-nine NHS trusts listed as benefiting from Palantir's Federated Data Platform said in Freedom of Information responses that they were not using it, according to campaign group Medact. That is about 21 percent of the 137 trusts NHS England lists as realising benefits, while the government must decide in December whether to keep the £330 million deal. Palantir says the software has helped deliver 100,000 additional operations.

The National Cyber Security Centre said on Tuesday it was working with British firms hit by hackers who raised freezer temperatures across Europe. Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden reported refrigeration problems on Monday, with some temperatures reaching 50C (122F). Chichester said the national impact was minimal, while NCSC chief executive Richard Horne called the attacks the 'foothills' of a wider threat.

Checkout failures put an estimated £1.7 billion in annual UK sales at risk, the article says, because store outages often go unseen by central IT dashboards. Payment hardware sits in isolated, encrypted subnets for security, so standard monitoring tools lose sight of transactions. Cited research puts shopper patience at about seven minutes, yet the average payment disruption takes over sixty minutes to resolve.

The Institute for Driverless Transport (IfDT), an independent UK research body, says authorities must answer key questions on robotaxis before heading further. Its research, based on more than 30 conversations with councils, operators and unions, asks whether Britain will depend on autonomous vehicle suppliers that could withdraw. Co-founder James Hutt said the issues reach into jobs and national resilience.

Greenhouse surveyed over 1,100 job seekers in the UK and Ireland for its 2026 Future of Hiring Report, finding younger applicants more aware of AI screening challenges than those over 60. The report says 81% of applicants are rejected without speaking to anyone at the company, and 42% sat through an AI interview in the past 12 months. Sharawn Tipton, Greenhouse's Chief People Officer, said applications go 'into a black hole' as employers sift through AI-polished CVs.

Nvidia's networking revenues exceeded Cisco's total revenue in Q2, reaching $17.5 billion compared to Cisco's $17.3 billion. Jensen Huang began building this status in 2019 by acquiring Mellanox for $6.9 billion to create integrated compute and networking architectures. Analyst Sameh Boujelbene stated that this tight integration optimizes AI workloads and speeds time to market for customers.