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02 Dec 2024
User group chair recommends long-term SAP Rise strategy
By Cliff SaranIndependent UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair describes upgrade as a marathon, not a sprint, but says SAP Rise is also inevitable
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02 Dec 2024
AWS launches automated service for incident response
By Rob WrightAWS Security Incident Response, which launched ahead of the re:Inforce 2024 conference this week, can automatically triage and remediate events detected in AWS GuardDuty.
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02 Dec 2024
Couchbase unveils suite of services for developing AI
By Eric AvidonThe new services includes access to LLMs and unstructured data transformation aimed at enabling customers to build AI tools.
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02 Aug 2024
AbbVie acquires Cerevel Therapeutics for $45 per share
By Veronica SalibAbbVie is expanding its neuroscience portfolio through its acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics.
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02 Aug 2024
How CrowdStrike is leveraging AI to empower security teams
By Aaron TanCrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev explains how the company’s multi-agent AI architecture can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges
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01 Aug 2024
Police hunt scammers after takedown of Russian Coms fraud platform
By Bill GoodwinThe National Crime Agency has arrested four people after taking down a phone number spoofing platform used by criminals to defraud hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with more arrests to follow
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01 Aug 2024
Warren slams legal challenges to FTC noncompete ban
By Makenzie HollandAs the FTC noncompete ban faces legal challenges, some in Congress including Sen. Elizabeth Warren are supporting the FTC's authority to create such a rule.
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01 Aug 2024
InfoSec community sounds off on CrowdStrike outage, next steps
By Arielle WaldmanSecurity experts offered their thoughts on the recent IT outage, praising CrowdStrike's response time but saying the outage highlights issues in the software updating process.
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01 Aug 2024
Clumio CEO Rick Underwood: Backup remains company focus
By Tim McCarthyRick Underwood, appointed CEO at Clumio in June, sees data management and machine learning technologies as key for the company's backup software outside GenAI hype in this Q&A.
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01 Aug 2024
New Snowflake service enables secure AI, ML deployment
By Eric AvidonSnowpark Container Services aims to provide the vendor's users with a secure environment for deploying and managing models and applications without having to move their data.
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01 Aug 2024
Enterprises struggle to find business value with GenAI
By Antone GonsalvesEnterprises chase an impractical immediate payback from GenAI and miss opportunities to use less expensive machine learning to solve problems, experts say.
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01 Aug 2024
Ubotica claims further breakthroughs in live Earth satellite intelligence
By Joe O’HalloranSpace-based artificial intelligence company claims paradigm shift for Earth observation with Live Earth Intelligence, said to revolutionise capabilities and cost efficiency in space sector
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
By Alex ScroxtonA US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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01 Aug 2024
Businesses fail to deliver consistently positive customer experience
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from a leading global business school’s publishing arm finds that even though 94% of business leaders think good customer experience is important for business success, just 38% believe they can deliver it
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01 Aug 2024
Google Cloud's BigQuery gets AI injection, Looker to follow
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant's latest analytics and data management moves include the general availability of Gemini in BigQuery and the imminent availability of Gemini in Looker.
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01 Aug 2024
New features make Google's Spanner a database for AI
By Eric AvidonThe introduction of graph processing, vector search and full-text search optimize Spanner for developing and managing modern applications and models, including GenAI.
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01 Aug 2024
ChatGPT shows potential for clinical knowledge review
By Shania KennedyChatGPT could help clinicians more effectively review medical literature by prioritizing and summarizing research abstracts from journals related to their specialties.
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01 Aug 2024
Slow weeks of summer an ideal time for training
By Simon QuickeThe next few weeks could present opportunities for the development of personal skills across the channel
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01 Aug 2024
SupportLogic acquires xFind for customer service experience AI
By Don FluckingerStartup SupportLogic buys xFind to add generative AI to its service analytics platform, and in the process takes on much larger competition such as Qualtrics, Medallia and Verint.
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01 Aug 2024
Altair, LG extend connected vehicle infotainment tech lifespans
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration between computational intelligence company and CE giant said to have seen complex fatigue analysis reduce development time for vehicle infotainment components by more than 20%
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01 Aug 2024
Sequoia Project launches pharmacy interoperability workgroup
By Hannah NelsonThe Sequoia Project has launched a workgroup in collaboration with Surescripts that aims to close pharmacy interoperability gaps and drive patient-centered care.
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01 Aug 2024
Scottish government to roll out digital evidence sharing
By Lis EvenstadFollowing a controversial pilot scheme, Scotland is investing £33m in deploying digital evidence sharing technology nationally
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01 Aug 2024
Community care neglected in national digital transformation efforts
By Lis EvenstadDigital technologies could help the government’s ambition of delivering care at home for longer, but community services suffer from a lack of basic technologies and access to funding, according to the King’s Fund
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01 Aug 2024
Rising IoT market spurs cellular antenna shipments
By Joe O’HalloranBerg Insight’s research into the cellular internet of things antenna market suggests there will be a rise in the market over next four years, and notes the challenge of deploying complex technology
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01 Aug 2024
Meta’s Zuckerberg looks ahead to AI-generated adverts
By Cliff SaranFacebook’s parent company is driving artificial intelligence across its advertising platform, supported by open source development
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01 Aug 2024
Telehealth offsets primary care visit declines but not equally
By Anuja VaidyaTelehealth's ability to offset primary care visit declines varied across patient characteristics, with some groups still experiencing large drops in visit volumes.
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01 Aug 2024
Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature
By Madeline BennettThe Natural History Museum said it expects to collect and analyse 20 terabytes of species data in year one with help from AWS
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01 Aug 2024
FDA issues public warning on lead levels in cinnamon
By Veronica SalibThe FDA has issued a warning to retailers and consumers regarding elevated lead levels in ground cinnamon.
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01 Aug 2024
Vizient estimates a 3.81% inflation in drug prices in 2025
By Veronica SalibVizient's summer 2024 Pharmacy Market Outlook predicts a drug inflation rate of 3.81% in 2025.
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01 Aug 2024
Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud
By Alex ScroxtonA Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud
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01 Aug 2024
BroadbandOne boosts IoT with expanded of next-gen TaaS
By Joe O’HalloranTelco as a service claims to offer revolution deploying 5G 28GHz and LMDS 29-31GHz spectrum infrastructure with 357 FCC-approved mmWave licences
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31 Jul 2024
API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation
By Aaron TanAkamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit
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31 Jul 2024
Perplexity AI revenue share model appeases publishers
By Esther AjaoPublishers earn a share of the startup's revenue when their work is referenced. They also have access to the vendor's LLM API and developer support. But writers are not included.
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31 Jul 2024
U.S. top science chief says federal AI R&D spending lagging
By Makenzie HollandWhile the U.S. spends billions on broader R&D efforts annually, the Office of Science and Technology Policy is advocating for increased funding for AI research.
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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft confirms DDoS attack disrupted cloud services
By Arielle WaldmanMicrosoft suffered a DDoS attack on Tuesday that caused massive outages for customers around the world.
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31 Jul 2024
Ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit
By Jill McKeonBlood donation nonprofit OneBlood is operating at a "significantly reduced capacity" due to a ransomware attack affecting its software system.
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31 Jul 2024
Campaigners call for evidence to reform UK cyber laws
By Alex ScroxtonThe CyberUp Campaign for reform of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act launches an industry survey inviting cyber experts to share their views on how the outdated law hinders legitimate work
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31 Jul 2024
Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems
By Bill GoodwinBusiness process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial
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31 Jul 2024
Poor connectivity holding back rural Britain
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from leading UK operator warns the nation is sleepwalking into a countryside crisis, with 4.6 million rural residents considering moving to a town or city in the next 12 months
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31 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service confirms resignation of second director in two weeks
By Caroline DonnellyCompanies House filing states the Police Digital Service has said goodbye to non-executive director Allan Fairley, with a representative from the company confirming his departure is for ‘conflict of interest’ reasons
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTo increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
Darktrace and Veracode enhancing partner programmes
By Simon QuickeSecurity vendor responds to channel feedback and rolls out enhanced options to support collaboration and encourage skills development
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31 Jul 2024
SysGroup backing artificial intelligence
By Simon QuickeFirm shares FY numbers and indicates it is committed to investing in artificial intelligence to position itself as an expert provider to the SME community
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31 Jul 2024
Salesforce, Box integrate document AI into Slack
By Don FluckingerAs Salesforce prepares to roll out its own generative AI tools for Slack this fall, Box adds AI for joint users, who can use GenAI on their Box content in Slack channels.
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31 Jul 2024
Astronomer adds DBT Core support to data orchestration suite
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest Astro platform update integrates the open source transformation tool to help users better prepare information for analytics and AI models and applications.
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31 Jul 2024
FDA accepts NDA for Vertex’s non-opioid pain drug
By Veronica SalibVertex Pharmaceuticals revealed that the FDA has accepted its NDA for suzetrigine, a non-opioid pain inhibitor.
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31 Jul 2024
Government consults on lifting planning barriers to datacentre developments
By Caroline DonnellyThe government is inviting feedback on its plans to rejig the UK planning system to make it more supportive of datacentre developments
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31 Jul 2024
Extreme Networks teams with Intel to drive AI-centric product innovation
By Joe O’HalloranCloud networking provider forms a ‘co-innovation alliance’ with chip giant’s Connectivity Analytics Program to enhance native generative artificial intelligence solution to further drive AI-centric innovations in the networking space
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31 Jul 2024
Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2024
By Clare McDonaldTell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2024 list of the 50 most influential women in UK technology
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31 Jul 2024
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
By Gerard O'DwyerDatacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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31 Jul 2024
Private equity hospitals better off than non-investment hospitals
By Jacqueline LaPointeHospitals acquired by private equity firms tend to be more financially stable compared to comparable non-private equity hospitals, according to a new study.
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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft set to spend more than $13bn on AI and cloud datacentres
By Cliff SaranArtificial intelligence is driving the Microsoft business, with the company investing in infrastructure to support AI inference workloads as demand picks up
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31 Jul 2024
Breach costs soar as record ransomware payment made
By Alex ScroxtonIBM publishes data on the spiralling costs of cyber attacks and data breaches, while researchers identify what appears to be the largest ransomware payment ever made
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31 Jul 2024
FDA approves colorectal cancer blood test
By Veronica SalibGuardant Health Inc. gained FDA approval for its Shield blood test to detect colorectal cancer in adults 45 and older.
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30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
By Pratima HarigunaniTraffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India
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30 Jul 2024
Julia White, Scott Russell to leave SAP executive board
By Jim O'DonnellTwo executive board members will depart SAP in a move that the company says is both to streamline the structure of the board and to focus on its AI-first strategy.
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30 Jul 2024
Researcher: CrowdStrike blunder could benefit open source
By Antone GonsalvesEnterprises with the IT talent might turn to open-source software as a backup for commercial products to mitigate damage from a CrowdStrike-like IT outage, researcher said.
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30 Jul 2024
Workday, Salesforce to integrate data with AI by year's end
By Patrick ThibodeauWorkday, the first SaaS provider in the Salesforce Zero Copy Partner Network, will integrate data with Salesforce, allowing AI-driven queries across HR, financial and CRM platforms.
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30 Jul 2024
Nvidia targets metaverse with OpenUSD NIM microservices
By Esther AjaoThe vendor introduces new generative AI models that will be available as microservices. The new models show that the metaverse is still a part of Nvidia's strategy.
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30 Jul 2024
Court reverses Appian's $2B espionage win against Pegasystems
By Bridget BotelhoTwo years ago, Appian was awarded damages in its lawsuit against Pegasystems, which it accused of spying. A court of appeals has reversed that decision.
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30 Jul 2024
Apple gives developers access to iOS 18 with AI, new Siri
By Esther AjaoThe beta release includes AI-generated summaries for apps like mail, messages and voicemail. It does not include the ChatGPT integration or Image Playground.
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30 Jul 2024
Average cost of a healthcare data breach sits at $9.77M
By Jill McKeonHealthcare data breach costs fell by 10.6% in 2024 but remain higher than in any other industry, IBM found in its yearly report.
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30 Jul 2024
Generative AI poised to upend legal sector
By Don FluckingerSome industries might be wary of generative AI, but not legal. We find out how -- and why -- attorneys are embracing it in this Q&A with eDiscovery AI's founder, Jim Sullivan.
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft, SecOps pros weigh kernel access post-CrowdStrike
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft will explore alternatives to direct kernel access for partners following the CrowdStrike outage. But some IT pros worry that change could do more harm than good.
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30 Jul 2024
How to stop AI costs from soaring
By Cliff SaranGenerative AI promises to improve business efficiency, but Gartner has found many projects are failing to get beyond pilot roll-outs
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30 Jul 2024
Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people
By Bill GoodwinUK government identifies Chinese state-linked hackers as likely to have been behind attack on the Electoral Commission
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Ransomware gangs exploiting VMware ESXi flaw
By Arielle WaldmanVMware ESXi has proven to be a popular target for ransomware threat actors and a challenge for enterprises to patch.
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30 Jul 2024
UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up
By Cliff SaranThe Competition and Markets Authority is looking at whether Alphabet’s $2bn investment in AI startup Anthropic is anti-competitive
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30 Jul 2024
Core British Library services to return for new academic year
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library’s recovery from a devastating ransomware attack that laid waste to its IT systems continues - with hopes that some of its most popular services will be running again in September
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30 Jul 2024
Lemongrass taking advantage of SAP cloud moves
By Simon QuickeVendor’s encouragement to customers to adopt its Rise technology has opened up opportunities for its channel
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30 Jul 2024
ADP and Khipu Networks partner to offer data protection
By Simon QuickeThe two managed service providers will work together to get data resilience options in front of more Khipu customers
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30 Jul 2024
Wildanet accelerates Cornwall full-fibre deployment
By Joe O’HalloranCornish altnet teams with Nokia and Xantaro to transform connectivity for rural and hard-to-reach areas in south-west England
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30 Jul 2024
New mRNA vaccine initiative targets avian influenza (H5N1)
By Alivia Kaylor, MScA new initiative led by WHO and MPP aims to develop mRNA vaccines for avian influenza (H5N1), boosting global pandemic preparedness.
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30 Jul 2024
Paid medical chatbots better at health literacy than free ones
By Sara HeathBoth paid and free medical chatbots offer middling health literacy, but asking for a lower reading level might help.
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30 Jul 2024
GP digital tools could cause patients harm, says report
By Lis EvenstadInvestigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body finds some online tools used in general practices could cause risk to patient safety and impact GP workload
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30 Jul 2024
Providers offer 4 key payment reforms to support practices
By Jacqueline LaPointeAMA and other provider trade groups have urged Congressional leaders to reform physician payment in light of recent Medicare cuts.
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30 Jul 2024
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
By Karl FlindersHundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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30 Jul 2024
Wildfire smoke drives premature deaths, urgent innovative response
By Alivia Kaylor, MScWildfire smoke causes thousands of premature deaths annually, necessitating urgent investments in innovations to mitigate its impact.
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30 Jul 2024
Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon mobile platform
By Joe O’HalloranChip giant’s next-generation mobile platform ‘leading the global transition’ from 4G to 5G to empower communities and industries alike with features such as on-device generative AI
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30 Jul 2024
APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS
By Aaron TanAccenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS
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29 Jul 2024
SCC gains security recognition from Microsoft
By Simon QuickeChannel player SCC receives approval from Microsoft for its ability to provide managed detection and response services
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29 Jul 2024
AI ‘changing everything’ about customer experience
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from customer experience technology provider reveals the profound effect AI is having in its industry, taking it beyond traditional, manual services to more advanced, technological-driven experiences
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29 Jul 2024
UK government sets up AI action plan unit
New government has ambitious plans to use AI to grow the economy, and has hired a tech entrepreneur to help guide the strategy
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
By Alex ScroxtonHundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
By Alex ScroxtonThe vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
Open RAN investment set to surge over next five years
By Joe O’HalloranResearch into open radio access network market shows rapidly growing and competitive market
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
Abbott issues urgent correction for FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors
By Alivia Kaylor, MScAbbott has identified a defect in certain FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors that may cause incorrect high glucose readings, which could pose health risks for users.
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29 Jul 2024
Exclusive heading back into private hands
By Simon QuickeDistributor’s board and founder back bid to usher in fresh majority shareholder
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29 Jul 2024
NIH study reveals pitfalls of AI in clinical decision-making
By Shania KennedyGPT-4V scored highly on the 'New England Journal of Medicine's' Image Challenge, but made mistakes when tasked with explaining its reasoning and describing medical images.
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
By Simon QuickeDistributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France
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29 Jul 2024
UK government invests £106m in five quantum tech hubs
By Cliff SaranFive university hubs are receiving funding to support the development of quantum applications that can support healthcare and businesses
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29 Jul 2024
Q2 revenues slip as Virgin Media O2 hits financial headwinds
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s second-largest network provider shows results for tough quarter for consumer fixed and mobile and B2B fixed business lines, but forecast advances in network evolution as targeted investments in future growth drivers continue
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28 Jul 2024
Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC
By Aaron TanAt least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner
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26 Jul 2024
Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight
By Eric AvidonThough the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
OpenAI takes on Google with new SearchGPT prototype
By Esther AjaoThe AI engine will provide users with information from the web. The AI vendor is working with publishers such as Newsmax. It will incorporate some features in ChatGPT.
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26 Jul 2024
Researcher says deleted GitHub data can be accessed 'forever'
By Arielle WaldmanTruffle Security researcher Joe Leon warned GitHub users that deleted repository data is never actually deleted, which creates an "enormous attack vector" for threat actors.
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26 Jul 2024
Interview: Abhijit Dubey, global CEO, NTT Data
By Bryan GlickA merger between NTT Data and NTT Ltd has created a $30bn tech services and consulting business. We speak to its new CEO to find out what it has to offer IT leaders
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26 Jul 2024
BitLocker workaround may offer aid for CrowdStrike customers
By Rob WrightCrowdStrike customers grappling with blue screens of death from the recent IT outage may be able to sidestep BitLocker encryption schemes and recover their Windows systems.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike: 97% of Windows sensors back online after outage
By Alexander CulafiWhile most Windows systems are back online after last week's outage, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the vendor remains 'committed to restoring every impacted system.'
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26 Jul 2024
Nexfibre nears 1.3 million premises passed, reveals future build locations
By Joe O’HalloranQuarterly report from joint venture fibre network operator shows just under 1.3 million premises passed by end of June 2024, and next stage of roll-out in 2025 and early 2026 to see high volumes of build
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26 Jul 2024
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK