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10 Oct 2024
Government launches cyber standard for local authorities
By Alex ScroxtonLocal government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit
By Alex ScroxtonThreat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them
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10 Oct 2024
Internet Archive web historians target of hacktivist cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe Internet Archive nonprofit digital library and Wayback Machine operator has been attacked by pro-Palestinian hacktivists
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29 Feb 2024
Snowflake CEO Slootman steps down, Ramaswamy takes over
By Eric AvidonSlootman resigns after five years at the helm of the data cloud vendor. Revenues grew fivefold under him and the company went public in a record-setting initial public offering.
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29 Feb 2024
The Sequoia Project, HL7 Partner to Advance FHIR Adoption Nationwide
By Hannah NelsonThe partnership aims to drive alignment between HL7 FHIR Accelerator projects and The Sequoia Project initiatives to accelerate health data interoperability.
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29 Feb 2024
Exclusive Networks provides investor cheer with solid 2023 numbers
By Simon QuickeThe arrows are all pointing upwards as the distributor shares its progress for the past year
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29 Feb 2024
Collibra adds AI governance to data management platform
By Eric AvidonThe data management vendor's new suite adds capabilities aimed at enabling enterprises to safely and securely use AI the same way data governance frameworks apply to data.
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29 Feb 2024
New Resident Training Schedule Reduces Burnout, Improves Wellness
By Veronica SalibA 4+4 block schedule among internal medicine residents was linked to lower burnout rates and improved self-reported outcomes than a 4+1 schedule.
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29 Feb 2024
MGMA Urges HHS to Financially Assist Medical Groups Amid Change Cyberattack
By Jill McKeonThe advocacy group requested guidance, financial resources, and enforcement discretion to help medical groups stay afloat as the Change Healthcare cyberattack outages persist.
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29 Feb 2024
Post-production company to go ‘all-in’ on Deep Green’s heat-reusing datacentre in Devon
By Caroline DonnellyDatacentre startup Deep Green confirms long-standing client Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its workloads to its heat-reusing server farm, located in a leisure centre in Devon
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29 Feb 2024
Government sets out research plans for 2024
By Lis EvenstadDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology highlights cyber security, artificial intelligence and telecoms as areas where it would like to build evidence and bridge knowledge gaps in current research
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29 Feb 2024
SCC adds SOC to bolster security division
By Simon QuickeChannel player SCC views the addition of a security operations centre as a key part of attaining more growth
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29 Feb 2024
Sauber ups connectivity gear with Extreme Networks Wi-Fi 6E
By Joe O’HalloranLeading Formula 1 team deploys wireless network and associated analytics solutions to keep pace with lightning-fast vehicles and productive teams
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29 Feb 2024
Windows 11: Not as big a priority in EMEA compared with North America
By Cliff SaranSurvey shows that IT decision-makers are prioritising desktop productivity and PC refreshes this year, with more in the US prioritising spending on PCs and Windows 11 upgrades
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29 Feb 2024
Oxa hails first commercial deployment of self-driving software
By Joe O’HalloranCulmination of 10 years of software engineering, hardware integration, machine learning and testing in the virtual and real worlds sees connected vehicle technology provider deliver automation in AV Shuttles in Florida, US.
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 24: Nokia, Intel team to boost industrial, enterprise private 5G
By Joe O’HalloranNokia and Intel collaborate on compact solution using virtualised open baseband technology and industrial digitisation platform to optimise efficiency and cost of 5G connectivity at small industrial facilities
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29 Feb 2024
Ericsson, Intel look to double down on Open RAN, AI innovation with Tech Hub
By Joe O’HalloranTech Hub establishes itself as incubator for advancements and new hardware technology exploration, building open, resilient, sustainable and intelligent mobile networks, including recent successful Cloud RAN call using future Xeon processor
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Open Gateway, AI drive future mobile networks
By Joe O’HalloranMobile industry’s flagship event reveals that more than 40 mobile operator networks across five continents have now commercially launched network API services to the developer community to unlock 5G’s full potential
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29 Feb 2024
Post Office CEO’s claim to be ‘working hard’ on Capture investigation in doubt
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office hasn’t even contacted Capture Software users brought to its attention, but CEO claimed, under oath, that the organisation has been ‘working hard’ on the cases for five weeks
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Orange Business and Cisco team to achieve net-zero goals
By Joe O’HalloranNetwork giant and business services division of telco form collaborative partnership to accelerate progress towards greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, covering circular economy best practices
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29 Feb 2024
Police arrested journalists as part of surveillance operation to identify confidential sources
By Bill GoodwinThree police forces took part in surveillance operations between 2011 and 2018 to identify sources that leaked information to journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears
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29 Feb 2024
16% of All Abortions Occur Via Telehealth as Restrictions Tighten
By Anuja VaidyaFollowing the overturning of federal abortion protections, abortions obtained via telehealth, even in states with bans, have grown, new research shows.
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29 Feb 2024
MA Payment Reductions May Impact Value of Healthcare for Beneficiaries
By Victoria BaileyThe value of healthcare for beneficiaries, including supplemental benefits and premiums, could be negatively impacted if CMS finalizes the Advance Notice policies.
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29 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Models Predict Mortality Among Dementia Patients
By Shania KennedyNew machine learning tools accurately predicted patient mortality at one, five, three, and 10 years across eight dementia subtypes.
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28 Feb 2024
New Nvidia, GitHub AI coding assistants expand devs' options
By Beth PariseauGitHub Copilot Enterprise and StarCoder2 LLMs, both released this week, will add to an array of AI coding assistants. But caution, especially with security, is still warranted.
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28 Feb 2024
Google unfazed by advertiser criticism of third-party cookie plan
By Don FluckingerGoogle is working with U.K. regulators on its plan to phase out third-party cookies this year, despite pushback from an advertisers group. Meanwhile, bots are affecting ad traffic.
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28 Feb 2024
Biden aims to protect data, calls for U.S. data privacy law
By Makenzie HollandPresident Joe Biden is aiming to stop the sale of Americans' sensitive data to countries of concern, while also pushing for a U.S. data privacy law.
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28 Feb 2024
New version of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware hits victims
By Alex ScroxtonAn updated version of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware has been spotted in the wild amid a series of attacks on American healthcare providers, prompting a new alert from the authorities
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28 Feb 2024
Alphv/BlackCat attacking hospitals following FBI takedown
By Alexander CulafiThe ransomware attacks against hospitals and the healthcare sector come after law enforcement agencies, led by the FBI, disrupted Alphv/BlackCat's network in December.
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28 Feb 2024
75% of third-party breaches target software, IT supply chains
By Alex ScroxtonData drawn from SecurityScorecard’s telemetry reveals how supply chain breaches are becoming a weapon of choice for threat actors
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28 Feb 2024
Users love their cyber teams, but find them frustrating
By Alex ScroxtonDespite strong support for security teams, a good number of ordinary workers see them as obstructive to business goals, and would like to see them operate more transparently
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28 Feb 2024
IR35 reforms: PAC concerned HMRC’s ‘tough’ enforcement is harming contractors
By Caroline DonnellyThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised red flags over how HMRC is policing the IR35 rules out of concern its actions might be putting public and private sector organisations off hiring contractors
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28 Feb 2024
Intel, Nvidia aim latest systems-on-a-chip at AI workstations
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's RTX 500 and RTX 1000 GPUs are for the lightest mobile workstations. Intel's Core Ultra with a built-in GPU can handle many AI-powered tasks on the workhorse computers.
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28 Feb 2024
Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration
By Marc Ambasna-JonesMicrosoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI
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28 Feb 2024
IT leaders spend on cutting-edge to refactor legacy tech
By Cliff SaranOrganisations carry around a huge amount of technical debt, which holds back innovation and limits application architectural decisions
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28 Feb 2024
Regenstrief Updates LOINC with 800 Concepts for Health Data Exchange
By Hannah NelsonLOINC release 2.77 reflects Regenstrief Institute’s work with partners like HL7 International and CMS to advance health data exchange across the care continuum.
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28 Feb 2024
Rimini Street Custom offers expanded third-party support
By Jim O'DonnellRimini Custom pushes beyond Rimini Street's usual support of SAP, Oracle and Salesforce systems by customizing packages specific to a customer's enterprise applications.
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28 Feb 2024
SambaNova Systems intros Samba-1 generative AI model
By Esther AjaoThe new model is aimed at enterprises wanting to use generative models without compromising privacy. It also uses the best open source model for a given application.
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28 Feb 2024
Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations
By Eric AvidonThe data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem.
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28 Feb 2024
Cohesity Gaia enables GenAI content creation using backups
By Tim McCarthyA new generative AI capability in the Cohesity Data Cloud platform enables content creation from backup data and aims to eliminate data warehouses for common enterprise uses.
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28 Feb 2024
A Third of Americans Say Racism Is a Major Problem in Healthcare
By Sara HeathPeople with previous experiences of discrimination were more likely to agree that racism is a big problem for healthcare.
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28 Feb 2024
Government urged to take a pro-innovation approach to quantum regulation
By Cliff SaranResponsible innovation, learning from AI and the use of foresight techniques should inform policymaking
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28 Feb 2024
‘Pathetic’ Post Office spat detracts attention and fuels ‘disdain’ for authority
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office chair’s row with the government and Post Office cannot be allowed to deflect attention away from achieving justice and recompense for former subpostmasters
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28 Feb 2024
UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan
By Stephen WithersThe University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap
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28 Feb 2024
Mid-market customers feeling ignored and mis-sold
By Simon QuickeResearch from Microsoft partner Advania has revealed that users are struggling with legacy tech, management headaches and a lack of support from vendors
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28 Feb 2024
Caroline Dinenage signs letter calling for angel law change
By Clare McDonaldThe MP has signed a letter calling for the government to reconsider recently changed laws making it harder for women to be angel investors
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28 Feb 2024
CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike
By Caroline DonnellyThe Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m
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28 Feb 2024
BT launches smart city NB-IoT offer
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading comms provider launches multi-million-pound narrowband internet of things network to pave way for more smart cities and industries, creating cost-efficiency gains and costs savings for public sector
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28 Feb 2024
UnitedHealth Group Scrutinized for Alleged Antitrust Practices
By Kelsey WaddillThe antitrust practices may have not only squashed competition with competitors, but also allowed the major payer to skirt around certain regulations.
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28 Feb 2024
Patient Collection Rate Falls to Nearly 48%
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new analysis shows a sharp decline in the patient collection rate in 2022 and 2023 as providers write off more bad debt from patients with insurance.
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28 Feb 2024
Digital Engagement with RPM Boosts Post-Discharge Care Coordination
By Anuja VaidyaA digital engagement program leveraging an RPM solution helped increase touch points between patients and clinicians following discharge, research reveals.
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28 Feb 2024
Early Prenatal Mental Health Interventions Reduce Postpartum Risks
By Veronica SalibAn NIH-funded study based in Pakistan revealed that prenatal mental health counseling reduced postpartum depression and anxiety risk.
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28 Feb 2024
White House Commits to Ending Hunger, Diet-Related Illness by 2030
By Sara HeathWhite House convened healthcare industry stakeholders and public and private enterprise in its commitment to ending diet-related illness.
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28 Feb 2024
Amgen Opens Its Most Advanced Manufacturing Site in Central Ohio
By Alivia Kaylor, MScOn February 26, Amgen announced the opening of its most advanced manufacturing site located in New Albany, Ohio.
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27 Feb 2024
Westcon-Comstor adds private Cisco listings to AWS Markeplace
By Simon QuickeDistributor moves quickly to flex status as valued partner of public cloud giant
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27 Feb 2024
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
By Aaron TanTeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories
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27 Feb 2024
US tech used in Russian weapons, despite export controls
By Makenzie HollandU.S. export controls aren't keeping technology produced by Intel, AMD, Analog Devices and Texas Instruments from ending up in weapons systems used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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27 Feb 2024
Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns
By Alex ScroxtonMore ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching
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27 Feb 2024
Ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws
By Arielle WaldmanRansomware activity is ramping up against vulnerable ScreenConnect systems as Black Basta and Bl00dy threat actors were observed exploiting the vulnerabilities.
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27 Feb 2024
VulnCheck bug listing to help track new threats quicker
By Alex ScroxtonExploit intelligence firm VulnCheck launches a proprietary Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in hopes of improving end-user access to intel on emerging threats and reaching those that the likes of CISA do not
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27 Feb 2024
Cohesity CEO on customer choice following Veritas merger
By Tim McCarthySanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, talks about his company's recent purchase of Veritas, what customers should expect in the year ahead and if other mergers are possible.
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27 Feb 2024
IBM FlashSystem update focuses on ransomware detection
By Adam ArmstrongIBM FlashSystem builds on the ransomware fight in primary storage by adding AI to its FlashCore Module storage media and to Storage Defender, its data protection SaaS.
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27 Feb 2024
Government should face legal deadlines on paying Post Office victims
By Karl FlindersThe government should face a legal deadline on paying Horizon scandal victims and unfair previous settlements should be reopened, MPs have been told - amid further boardroom controversy at the Post Office
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27 Feb 2024
Birmingham sets aside £25m for Oracle transformation
By Cliff SaranCouncil’s budget report shows that £5.3m is needed to continue support and manual intervention on troubled Oracle system
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27 Feb 2024
Keepit cuts ribbon on London base
By Simon QuickeBackup and recovery player is the second Danish firm to set its sights on growing its position in the UK market in the space of a week
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27 Feb 2024
Majority of UK employees ‘willingly gamble’ with security
By Alex ScroxtonHuman-centric threats originating from employees continue to damage organisations both financially and reputationally, according to a report
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27 Feb 2024
Executive interview: David Wong, Thomson Reuters
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the chief product officer of Thomson Reuters about working with artificial intelligence and embedding Microsoft Copilot for Word
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27 Feb 2024
HSCC Issues Five-Year Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
By Jill McKeonThe five-year plan aims to improve the diagnosis of healthcare cybersecurity from “critical” to “stable” condition by 2029, HSCC said.
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27 Feb 2024
Hycu uses AI to develop APIs for SaaS application backup
By Yann SerraSaaS applications don’t usually come with built-in data protection, but Hycu plans to tackle that gap in the market with AI to generate the connectors needed to backup user data
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27 Feb 2024
AI fuelling cloud infrastructure services growth
By Simon QuickeCanalys’ analysis of the market and year-long prospects indicate that the effects of artificial intelligence technology are already being felt in cloud infrastructure services
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27 Feb 2024
R1 RCM May Go Private After $5.8B Private Equity Offer
By Jacqueline LaPointePrivate equity firm New Mountain Capital has reportedly offered to purchase R1 RCM for about $5.8B, prompting considerations of going private.
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27 Feb 2024
AMA Report Outlines Considerations for AI Integration in Healthcare
By Shania Kennedy“The Emerging Landscape of Augmented Intelligence in Health Care” report provides an overview of risks and opportunities for clinicians looking to adopt AI.
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27 Feb 2024
Is SNAP the Solution to Healthcare’s Medication Adherence Woes?
By Sara HeathResearchers indicated that SNAP benefits made it easier for patients to afford their drugs, eliminating cost-related medication adherence barriers.
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27 Feb 2024
Managers want generative AI, but workers need more help getting to grips with it
By Steve RangerStaff given artificial intelligence guidelines are more likely to experiment with the technology than those who are given none, according to a survey
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27 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Huawei looks to advance 5.5G opportunity
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech giant lays out course it will follow to take advantage of forthcoming next standard in 5G mobile communications offering the prospect of native 10Gbps connectivity, native green technology and native intelligence
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators
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27 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Nigel Richardson, European CIO, PepsiCo
By Mark SamuelsThe food and drinks giant is targeting customer engagement, supply chain improvements and greater sustainability as it works on its digital transformation plans
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft president commits to Azure open platform for AI
By Cliff SaranBrad Smith sets out Microsoft’s ambitions to make Azure the best platform to host foundational AI models, and train and run AI applications
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27 Feb 2024
Cybersecurity Preparedness Tied to Lower Insurance Premium Increases
By Jill McKeonAdoption of the NIST CSF was correlated with lower cyber insurance premium increases, KLAS and partners found in the latest edition of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study.
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27 Feb 2024
Cozy Bear and other APTs changing tack as cloud adoption increases
By Alex ScroxtonA change in APT tactics has been observed resulting from greater adoption of cloud-based services, according to the NCSC
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27 Feb 2024
Privately Insured Adults Are Satisfied With Health Plan Coverage
By Victoria BaileyPrivately insured adults in traditional plans were more satisfied with their health plan coverage than those in high-deductible plans.
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27 Feb 2024
NLP Framework Could Improve Medical Summarization Tools
By Shania KennedyResearchers have developed a framework to fine-tune the natural language processing models used in medical text summarization tools.
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27 Feb 2024
Patient Portals & Open Notes Increase Referral Access by Up to 40%
By Sara HeathPatients who log into their patient portals are 20% more likely to access a referral, while those who look at the portal and open notes are 40% more likely.
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27 Feb 2024
Global telcos team up on large language models
By Aaron TanGlobal Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain
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26 Feb 2024
Microsoft allies with OpenAI rival Mistral AI
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant is investing in the open source startup. The partnership means Mistral's premium models, including its new model, Mistral Large, will be available on Azure.
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26 Feb 2024
Broadcom to sell VMware EUC division to KKR for $3.8B
By Don FluckingerCustomers that pair VMware's hypervisor with Horizon and Workspace One desktops might feel licensing jitters, but the deal could lead to more flexibility.
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26 Feb 2024
New merger guidelines, crackdown affect business strategies
By Makenzie HollandThe FTC and DOJ will be closely scrutinizing mergers and acquisitions heading into 2024 based on new merger guidelines released in December 2023.
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26 Feb 2024
Octopus Deploy reels in Codefresh for GitOps expertise
By Beth PariseauBy joining forces in CI/CD and GitOps, the combined companies look to even the odds with bigger competitors, but this will be a daunting task, experts predict.
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit restores servers following law enforcement takedown
By Alexander CulafiLaw enforcement agencies last week announced a takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang that involved the seizure of servers, websites and decryption keys, as well as two arrests.
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26 Feb 2024
CISA: APT29 targeting cloud accounts for initial access
By Arielle WaldmanU.K. and U.S. government agencies have observed the Russian nation-state group increasingly target dormant and inactive cloud service accounts to gain initial access.
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26 Feb 2024
Government won’t rush to include Post Office Capture convictions in overturning legislation
By Karl FlindersThe government said it does not yet have the 'right body of evidence' to include users of the Post Office's Capture software in Horizon compensation schemes and legislation to overturn convictions
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit bids to save face after NCA takedown
By Alex ScroxtonThe LockBit gang’s ringleader resurfaces with new infrastructure and new victims, claiming to have shrugged off a multinational police sting
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26 Feb 2024
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
By Antony AdsheadThe TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay
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26 Feb 2024
Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP
By Cliff SaranCity council audit committee meeting shows Birmingham City Council plans to follow Oracle best practices
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26 Feb 2024
Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle
By Karl FlindersJanuary saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward
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26 Feb 2024
SC Health System Invests $40M in Epic EHR Platform for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR implementation is set to advance interoperability across the health system, allowing providers to access patient data more easily for care coordination.
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26 Feb 2024
Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making.
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26 Feb 2024
Podcast: 2024 the year of ROI for generative AI
By Shaun SutnerGenerative AI technologies are proliferating rapidly, but vendors and investors are looking to monetize AI models, a pivot from last year's innovative frenzy.
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26 Feb 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
By Simon QuickeMoves this week at Mitel, Auxilion, VeUP, Eco group, Planon, Saidot and VIPRE Security Group
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26 Feb 2024
Ericsson, Telefónica claim to redefine 5G experiences with on-demand slicing
By Joe O’HalloranProof of concept from telco and leading comms tech provide said to provide superior service experience for mobile consumers, enhancing performance of 5G services
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26 Feb 2024
5G, IoT roaming traffic soars in 2023
By Joe O’HalloranData from international communications enabler reveals 156% spike in year-on-year 5G non-standalone roaming for consumer and IoT devices
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26 Feb 2024
HHS Delivers Reports to Congress on HIPAA Compliance, Enforcement
By Jill McKeonOCR stressed the need for additional funding to support its HIPAA compliance and enforcement efforts across the healthcare sector.
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26 Feb 2024
Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists
By Bill GoodwinJournalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom