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31 Oct 2024
Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims
The Post Office scandal, regarded as the UK’s widest miscarriage of justice, destroyed the financial wellbeing of former subpostmasters, took away their liberty and inflicted grief on their relationships
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31 Oct 2024
China-based APTs waged 5-year campaign on Sophos firewalls
For years, several advanced persistent threat groups tied to the Chinese government targeted Sophos firewall products with custom malware and zero-day exploits.
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31 Oct 2024
DWP appoints Helen Wylie as its new chief digital and information officer
Wylie steps up from chief technology officer to replace her departing boss, Rich Corbridge, to take over one of the largest IT estates in Europe
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30 Jan 2024
Discontinued Treatment for GHD Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
Human growth hormone injections derived from cadaver pituitary glands were linked to non-contagious, transmittable Alzheimer’s disease in patients with GHD.
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30 Jan 2024
Pre-Horizon users contacting lawyers as more Post Office IT horror stories emerge
Lawyer says there is no reason to believe the Post Office treated unexplained shortfalls on systems prior to Horizon any differently to the way it dealt with unexplained Horizon shortfalls
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30 Jan 2024
UK 5G providers up service game across the board
Latest UK mobile performance review reveals how competition among UK mobile network operators continued to heat up in the second half of 2023, leading to performance and availability seeing significant improvement
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30 Jan 2024
After Slowdown, ACO Participation in Shared Savings Program Grows
ACO participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program grows to 480 participants, while 245 organizations are in two Innovation Center models.
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30 Jan 2024
No Surprises Act Prevented 10M Surprise Medical Bills, But IDR Use Grows
An estimated 670,000 commercial claims were submitted to the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process last year.
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30 Jan 2024
PJ&A Data Breach Fallout Continues, 4M Additional Individuals Impacted
Concentra Health Services reported a nearly 4 million-record data breach to HHS stemming from a previously disclosed data breach at Perry Johnson & Associates, a medical transcription company.
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30 Jan 2024
Machine Learning, ‘Liquid Biopsy’ to Bolster Early Cancer Detection
Researchers leveraging a machine learning-based “fragmentomics” approach may be able to detect cancer sooner using smaller blood samples than traditional methods.
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30 Jan 2024
Patient-Provider Communication About Dementia Left Wanting
Social stigma, among other barriers, get in the way of patient-provider communication about dementia, but there are key strategies to overcome that.
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29 Jan 2024
ServiceNow, IBM set partner programs for AI transformation
Technology providers reach out to service providers that can help them deliver business change, digital workflows and emerging technologies to enterprise customers.
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29 Jan 2024
Citizen Lab details ongoing battle against spyware vendors
At the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit, Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak discusses spyware proliferation from commercial vendors such as NSO Group, Cytrox and Quadream.
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29 Jan 2024
Juniper adds data center networks to Mist AI
Juniper's Mist AI update will include using the Marvis virtual network assistant to obtain information on data center cabling, configurations and connectivity issues.
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29 Jan 2024
In Congress, remote work policy debate hides facts
U.S. House Republicans criticize the Interior Department's remote work policy, saying it lowers productivity. Selective omissions of data challenge these claims.
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29 Jan 2024
Credit Karma preps 'Zero-touch' Argo Rollouts
The Intuit subsidiary is in the process of moving to a homegrown event-driven progressive delivery platform and has already contributed some related code upstream.
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29 Jan 2024
Russian IT sector still under serious pressure
Russian IT sector faces challenges on multiple fronts as Western sanctions widen
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29 Jan 2024
Proposed changes to investment thresholds highlights lack of funding diversity
The government is introducing a law to raise the income threshold for potential angel investors, potentially making it harder for people from underrepresented groups to fund startups
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29 Jan 2024
Channel must be able to support cloud repatriation shift
Citrix shines a light on a growing trend as strategies are reconsidered in the face of security and cost concerns
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29 Jan 2024
Podcast: Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism
The data annotation and labeling vendor, which has faced criticism for its practices in Africa despite its social good mission, is out with a new platform to reduce model failure.
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29 Jan 2024
Data Augmentation May Improve LLM Generalization on Clinical Notes
Using large language models in a healthcare domain-informed manner could address dataset shifts and enhance generalizability in AI-driven medical note analysis.
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29 Jan 2024
CityFibre hits £100m revenue milestone in 2023
Trading update shows UK’s largest independent fibre network reaps benefit from adding one million ready-for-service (RFS) homes in 2023, taking total RFS premises to over 3.2 million
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29 Jan 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
Plenty of senior appointments being announced in the past working week, including SecurityBridge, Panzura, F5, UiPath, Delinea and Jetbuilt
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29 Jan 2024
Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives
Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state
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29 Jan 2024
73% of Digital Health Companies Use Standards-Based EHR APIs
While most digital health companies use standards-based EHR APIs for EHR integration, nearly the same number of companies reported the use of proprietary EHR APIs.
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29 Jan 2024
Lords question legality of police facial recognition
Lords committee ‘deeply concerned’ about the rapid expansion of live facial recognition by UK police, which it says is progressing without any real oversight or accountability
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29 Jan 2024
FL Bill Seeks to Reduce Cyber Incident Liability For Entities That Meet Industry Standards
Under the Cybersecurity Incident Liability Act, Florida businesses would not be liable in connection with a cybersecurity incident provided they comply with certain cyber standards.
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29 Jan 2024
MP demands answers from government minister over second faulty Post Office IT system
Kevan Jones MP highlighted evidence of injustices caused by a computer system used in Post Office branches prior to the introduction of the controversial Horizon system.
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29 Jan 2024
UC San Diego Risk Stratification AI Predicts Sepsis, Reduces Mortality
UC San Diego Health’s artificial intelligence tool to predict sepsis infection risk in emergency department patients has reduced mortality by 17 percent.
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29 Jan 2024
State Changes to Telehealth Policy Appear to be Stagnating
Last year, most states only tweaked their telehealth policies and laws, showing progress toward a more flexible telehealth landscape has slowed, per a new report.
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29 Jan 2024
HHS Seeks Stakeholder Input to Improve Medicare Advantage Transparency
The request for information seeks feedback on access to care, provider networks, and competition in the Medicare Advantage program.
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29 Jan 2024
What’s Driving Pediatric Use of Urgent Care & Retail Health?
The number of kids visiting an urgent care or retail health clinic increased from 21% in 2021 to 28 percent in 2022, CDC said.
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26 Jan 2024
Microsoft: Legacy account hacked by Russian APT had no MFA
Microsoft has begun notifying other organizations that have been targeted in recent attacks by Midnight Blizzard, a Russian nation-state actor also known as Cozy Bear and APT29.
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26 Jan 2024
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly
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26 Jan 2024
SAP puts the focus on AI, but cloud is still the key
ERP giant wants to boost its AI capabilities, but there remains work to be done persuading customers to shift to its cloud offerings
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26 Jan 2024
8x8 enhances experience communications as a service suite
XCaaS platform to now include capabilities such as AI-generated post-meeting smart summaries and action items, omnichannel experiences, global workforce support, and deeper technology partner integrations
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26 Jan 2024
M247 shares PTSN switch-off pitch advice
Managed service player M247 has one eye firmly on next year’s PTSN switch-off and is encouraging fellow channel partners to help customers to take migration steps
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26 Jan 2024
AWS introduces SME partner competency
Cloud player reacts to small and medium customer requirements for dedicated support with the launch of a targeted option
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26 Jan 2024
Ford Pro accelerates vehicle insights and control
Commercial division of Ford gasses up connected car offer by expanding suite of telematics productivity solutions to give commercial customers more insight and control over their fleet vehicles
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26 Jan 2024
Akira ransomware gang claims Lush cyber attack
The Akira ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100GB of data from cosmetics manufacturer and retailer Lush
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26 Jan 2024
Lawyers carry on Post Office appeals amid uncertainty over government plan to overturn en masse
Lawyers supporting former subpostmasters said they will continue appealing convictions as normal despite government plan to exonerate hundreds in one go
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26 Jan 2024
UK government consults on age verification tech in alcohol sales
The government has said it wants to allow the use of digital identities and various age-verification technologies in alcohol sales
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26 Jan 2024
Wi-Fi HaLow begins real-world commercial IoT deployments
New Wi-Fi standard to address wide range of IoT applications and offer support for use cases including smart home, smart city, building automation, smart retail, industrial IoT and agriculture technology
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26 Jan 2024
Expert IT witness outsmarted an ‘aggressive’ Post Office to get to truth after inspection ‘madness’
The Post Office’s attempts to protect the Horizon system are well known, in light of the public inquiry and a recent TV drama, but Computer Weekly can reveal how an IT expert was treated during his investigation of Horizon
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26 Jan 2024
Researchers Observe Increase in Emerging Ransomware Groups Targeting Healthcare
Healthcare used to be an off-limits sector for ransomware groups, but emerging ransomware gangs were not afraid to target the sector in 2023, GuidePoint Security observed.
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26 Jan 2024
Artificial Intelligence Models May Enhance Immunotherapy Treatments
Research findings from Cleveland Clinic and IBM demonstrated how AI models can better show how immune systems recognize threats, which may improve immunotherapies.
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26 Jan 2024
CBT Reduced Frontal and Parietal Activity in Children with Anxiety
An NIH study tracking brain activity in children with anxiety revealed that cognitive behavioral therapy reduced previously elevated activity in the frontal and parietal lobes.
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26 Jan 2024
Patients Maintain Weight Loss One Year After Discontinuing GLP-1 Drugs
An Epic Research study evaluating the long-term effects of GLP-1 drugs noted that patients maintained weight loss for one year after stopping semaglutide and liraglutide.
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25 Jan 2024
FTC launches inquiry into generative AI partnerships
The FTC has announced that it's looking into the relationships between big tech companies and generative AI companies and their impact on the market.
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25 Jan 2024
Panzura board appoints Waldschmidt as CEO
Dan Waldschmidt replaces Jill Stelfox at the SaaS storage vendor. Stelfox led the company since 2020 and says she's 'actively choosing to be silent right now.'
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25 Jan 2024
Google and Hugging Face unveil AI partnership
The partnership reflects the cloud provider's support of open source and aims to appeal to enterprises looking to move from ideation to implementation of generative AI workloads.
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25 Jan 2024
HPE breached by Russian APT behind Microsoft hack
HPE suspects that Cozy Bear, a Russian state-sponsored threat actor also known as Midnight Blizzard and Nobelium, breached its network twice in 2020.
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25 Jan 2024
Datacentres set to consume third of Ireland’s energy by 2026
Forecast data from International Energy Agency shines light on how booming demand for datacentres is affecting energy usage levels in different geographies
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25 Jan 2024
Telefónica, Nova Labs launch helium mobile hotspots in Mexico
Telco’s customer coverage extended in Mexico City and Oaxaca by using existing SIMs to offload mobile data to dedicated extended network
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25 Jan 2024
Additional spectrum needed for 5G-Advanced, 6G networks
With more advanced mobile infrastructures set to be introduced over the next five years, report suggests wireless industry needs access to more spectrum to support applications such as XR, connected cars and metaverse
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25 Jan 2024
Pennsylvania HIEs, Health IT Vendor Partner on SDOH Referral Tool
Health IT vendor findhelp and Pennsylvania's Consortium of HIEs are creating a platform called PA Navigate that aims to improve SDOH referrals and drive health equity across the state.
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25 Jan 2024
Eli Lilly Gene Therapy Restores Hearing Within 30 Days
Eli Lilly recently announced the success of their gene therapy for genetic hearing loss, noting it had restored hearing in a pediatric patient within 30 days.
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25 Jan 2024
Cisco updates AppDynamics with Smart Agents to tackle sprawl
As application architectures becomes more distributed, monitoring becomes increasingly complex – Cisco has a plan for simplification
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25 Jan 2024
Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector
Crowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
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25 Jan 2024
Meteoric growth in VSAT, BGAN, SatPhones and 5G mobile devices
Research finds rapid deployment of non-geostationary orbit networks such as Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb, and soon Amazon’s Kuiper, quickly advancing innovation in the satellite ground segment
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25 Jan 2024
DSIT unveils forum to drive AI adoption in UK businesses
UK government launches AI Opportunity Forum with tech and business chiefs to help firms drive up UK productivity through AI
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25 Jan 2024
Tony Blair Institute calls for creation of NHS Data Trust
The NHS would have a majority stake in the data trust, with additional investment from private sector companies, harnessing anonymised data as a competitive asset, proposes the think thank
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25 Jan 2024
Civil Service must embrace innovation, says Cabinet Office minister
John Glen sets out plans for Civil Service reform, highlighting a focus on technology and innovation, as he plans to ‘crack the productivity puzzle’ in government
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25 Jan 2024
Virgin Media O2 boosts 4G connectivity in Shetland
UK operator delivers enhanced mobile coverage to Scottish island businesses and communities as part of its commitment to £1bn programme building and upgrading six masts over the next few months
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25 Jan 2024
Kerv looks for growth with fresh backer
Managed services player Kerv targets more mid-market activity after changing private equity backers
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25 Jan 2024
Computacenter comes through 2023 strongly
Firm indicates to shareholders that despite it being a tough market, it has grown pre-tax profits
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25 Jan 2024
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Ease Telemental Healthcare Access
The legislation would lift the requirement that Medicare beneficiaries seeking telehealth for mental health conditions first have an in-person visit.
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25 Jan 2024
Survey Reveals Revenue Cycle Management Concerns for 2024
As challenges persist, half of healthcare leaders plan to invest in new revenue cycle management technology in the next 12 to 18 months.
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25 Jan 2024
ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions
A machine learning model outperformed standard tools for predicting death and other serious complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
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25 Jan 2024
Healthcare Workers Urge Health Systems to Address Climate Change
A survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed that approximately 80% of clinicians believe their hospitals should be working to address climate change and its climate impact.
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24 Jan 2024
NCSC says AI will increase ransomware, cyberthreats
While other threats are likely to increase as well, the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warns that threat actors will use AI to continue the influx of ransomware attacks.
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24 Jan 2024
Equinix data centers offer Nvidia AI infrastructure
Equinix data centers will offer Nvidia DGX as a managed service. The platform is also available on public cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
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24 Jan 2024
SAP restructuring focuses on AI, affects 8,000 employees
Amidst strong earnings results, SAP announced a restructuring plan that focuses the company on AI-based growth, with 8,000 employees expected to be reskilled or leave.
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24 Jan 2024
Box acquires no-code document automation tool Crooze
The acquisition gives Box both the talent and the technology Crooze provided for large customers, according to Box's vice president of product strategy.
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24 Jan 2024
SingleStore update adds new tools to fuel GenAI, analytics
The database vendor unveiled Pro Max, a rebranded version of its platform that includes new vector search and change data capture capabilities that enable AI and BI at scale.
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24 Jan 2024
Enforcement remains a concern for EU AI Act
The EU AI Act is approaching finalization, and while there could be enforcement challenges down the road, businesses need to prepare.
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24 Jan 2024
WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
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24 Jan 2024
Tēnaka teams with Orange Business to scale coral reef restoration
Enterprise services arm of global telco looks to allow social business to undertake digital transformation, as well as automate and scale coral reef and marine biodiversity monitoring
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24 Jan 2024
IR35: Contractors call for off-payroll rules to be scrapped in Spring Budget 2024
A survey of 900 contractors by insurance provider Qdos found that two-thirds want the government to consider scrapping the IR35 rules in the next Budget, which is due to take place in March 2024
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24 Jan 2024
Southern Water confirms cyber attack after Black Basta claims
Southern Water, which supplies millions of customers in southeast England, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber attack, although its services appear to be running normally
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24 Jan 2024
Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo
Expansion of university’s Hawk high-performance computing cluster promises to double the performance of some applications
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24 Jan 2024
Pegasystems unveils AI assistant for knowledge management
The workflow automation vendor aims to simplify informational querying processes with an iterative conversational interface that can automatically search all data sources.
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24 Jan 2024
Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients
The analysis of Medicaid enrollees showed that Black patients had higher preventable hospitalization rates for heart failure than their White counterparts.
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24 Jan 2024
NY Charges Midwife $300K for Falsifying Vaccine Records
New York State Department of Health issued Nassau County midwife $300K for falsifying vaccine records and administering nearly 12,500 fake immunizations.
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24 Jan 2024
Inside Cisco’s security platform strategy
Raj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform
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24 Jan 2024
Uptime Institute predicts 2024 will see datacentre operators start row back on net-zero commitments
Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Insitute predicts 2024 will mark the start of a testing time for operators when it comes to delivering on their net-zero commitments
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24 Jan 2024
SCC joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Channel player becomes member of a select group of managed service players helping to shape the response to growing security threats
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24 Jan 2024
Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT users must take steps to address a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability without delay
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24 Jan 2024
AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC
The benefits of artificial intelligence to cyber criminals being well-known, the NCSC now assesses it’s likely AI will soon be widely used to enhance ransomware attacks
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24 Jan 2024
Fresh Microsoft benefits packages aim to support partner growth
Vendor outlines three support packages for different stages of channel development
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24 Jan 2024
HHS Unveils Healthcare Cybersecurity Performance Goals
The voluntary cybersecurity performance goals follow HHS’ recently released healthcare cybersecurity concept paper and provide a roadmap for improving security across the sector.
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24 Jan 2024
DE-CIX Dallas achieves peak traffic milestone of 1Tbps
Leading global internet exchange operator achieves new peak traffic record of more through surge due to live-streaming of sports events and the area’s population density and low latency links
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24 Jan 2024
Salesforce’s bug bounty programme paid out $3m in 2023
Ethical hackers disclosed more than 4,000 vulnerabilities to Salesforce last year through its bug bounty programme, and received over $3m in rewards
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24 Jan 2024
Committee chair asks minister to back ‘Mr Bates clause’ in Post Office compensation legislation
Select committee chair wants guarantees on financial redress for subpostmasters that suffered in the Horizon scandal
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24 Jan 2024
Altnets, ISPA present telecoms procurement research
Key UK gigabit target in the balance as report suggests operators can ensure future commercial success built on robust network infrastructure by adopting procurement strategies that supplement in-house operational teams
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24 Jan 2024
NYC Partners with Non-Profit to Relieve $2B in Medical Debt for Residents
New York City residents with low incomes and substantial medical debt will experience one-time debt relief through the partnership.
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24 Jan 2024
Cato claims world’s first SASE-based XDR
Generative AI, detection and response, endpoint protection and new incident response tools headline expansion of core secure access service edge platform beyond networking, threat prevention and data protection
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24 Jan 2024
Mississippi Health System Suffers Ransomware Attack, 253K Individuals Impacted
Ransomware attacks, theft, and unauthorized access were the causes of several recent data breaches reported to HHS recently.
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24 Jan 2024
UnitedHealth Group Saw Revenue and Enrollment Growth in 2023
UnitedHealth Group’s revenue increased by more than $47 billion, with UnitedHealthcare and Optum both seeing growth.
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24 Jan 2024
Precision Medicine Tool May Enhance Pancreatic Cancer Outcome Prediction
Cedars-Sinai’s Molecular Twin Precision Oncology Platform has outperformed the only FDA-approved test to predict pancreatic cancer survival.
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24 Jan 2024
CDC States JN.1 Accounts for Nearly 90% of Circulating COVID Variants
A recent CDC update on respiratory viruses, including influenza and COVID-19, revealed that JN.1 is the most prevalent COVID variant.