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17 Apr 2025
AI companies claim existing rules can govern agentic AI
AI agents are trained to perform tasks autonomously. Vendors including Meta, OpenAI and others offer platforms for businesses to build their own AI agents.
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17 Apr 2025
Google Cloud storage offerings bolstered for AI apps
Storage for Google Cloud now supports many features akin to AWS' catalog for AI app development, but could lead to cloud lock-in as best practices and strategies emerge.
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17 Apr 2025
Red Hat CIO Marco Bill on Space Mission, AI Goals, and Tech Outlook
In an exclusive interview, Red Hat’s CIO tells InformationWeek the company’s collaboration on a space-bound data center is no mere novelty. He also gives advice to CIOs facing budget restraints in the AI age.
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26 Jul 2024
AI surge spurs shift from cloud to local data control
The rise of AI is driving organisations to move data control locally to prevent external use of their data while maintaining cloud compatibility, says Cloudian CEO
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25 Jul 2024
Micron brings its first PCIe 5.0 SSD to market with 9550
A late entry to the PCIe 5.0 SSD market, the Micron 9550 intends to set itself apart from the veterans in the Gen 5 arena, including Kioxia and Samsung.
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25 Jul 2024
Split court decision on FTC noncompete ban adds uncertainty
While a Texas court preliminarily decided the FTC noncompete ban isn't enforceable, a Pennsylvania court decided it is, leaving businesses without a set direction.
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25 Jul 2024
HHS reorganizes for coordination across health data policy
The HHS reorganization aims to improve coordination for strategy and policy across health data, cybersecurity, AI and technology as digital health transformation progresses.
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25 Jul 2024
VMware alternatives increase, but moving won't be easy
Backup vendors like HPE, Veeam and Rubrik anticipate an exit from VMware and are supporting open source alternatives. But customers will likely stick with the platform they know.
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25 Jul 2024
Pharmacy group sues UHG over Change Healthcare data breach
The National Community Pharmacists Association and dozens of providers sued UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries over losses suffered due to the Change Healthcare data breach.
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25 Jul 2024
Noom CEO on the need for AI in wellness and health
CEO Geoff Cook discusses the benefits of AI in the wellness industry, the need for humans and the possibility of AI technology in remedying the doctor shortage.
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25 Jul 2024
North Korean cyber APT targeting nuclear secrets
Mandiant has upgraded the North Korean threat actor known as Andariel to APT status and warned of coordinated efforts to steal western military IP, including nuclear secrets
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25 Jul 2024
Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?
Microsoft has pointed the finger at EU regulators, blaming them for a ruling that means it needs to offer third parties access to the core Windows OS
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25 Jul 2024
Project Gigabit continues pace with £190m broadband build contracts
UK network provider secures two contracts under UK government’s £5bn gigabit broadband scheme to connect around 108,000 hard-to-reach premises in East and North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
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25 Jul 2024
FTC interim report reveals PBMs' role in rising drug costs
An FTC interim report exposes how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) inflate drug prices, significantly impacting healthcare costs.
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25 Jul 2024
Cash benefits help cut emergency department utilization
The $400 cash benefits cut emergency department overutilization by around 100 visits per 1,000 patients, researchers said.
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25 Jul 2024
AHA cautions against mandatory organ transplant payment model
The American Hospital Association urged the CMS Innovation Center not to implement the proposed Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model.
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25 Jul 2024
Nokia launches FWA devices, streamlines fibre connectivity
Raft of launches from comms tech provider sees subscription-based service based on AI and cloud-based to automate and optimise fibre connection process
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25 Jul 2024
Fortune 500 stands to lose $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
The largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars
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25 Jul 2024
FDA approves first orally disintegrating contraceptive, Femlyv
Femlyv (norethindrone acetate/ethinyl estradiol) has received FDA approval as the first orally disintegrating contraceptive tablet.
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25 Jul 2024
India bolsters digital agriculture and space tech in Budget 2024
India will extend its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector and set up a venture capital fund for space startups, among other tech initiatives in its latest Budget
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24 Jul 2024
Google intros Mistral Codestral as a service on Vertex AI
The cloud provider differentiates its GenAI stance by offering the code-generating LLM as a service on the Vertex AI Model Garden, along with Mistral Large 2.
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24 Jul 2024
FTC seeks to shed light on 'surveillance pricing'
The Federal Trade Commission's study of surveillance pricing might lead to defining what kind of consumer data can be used to affect prices of products and services.
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24 Jul 2024
Knime adds new AI governance measures to analytics suite
The vendor's latest update adds connectivity to AI providers to enable GenAI development as well as governance features to address the growing use of GenAI and its inherent risks.
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
CrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
KnowBe4 catches North Korean hacker posing as IT employee
KnowBe4 says it hired a new principal security engineer for its internal AI team, but quickly detected suspicious activity originating from the employee's workstation.
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24 Jul 2024
Soracom unveils IoT connectivity platform with deeply embedded GenAI
Advanced internet of things connectivity provider launches services designed to accelerate deployment of larger and more complex IoT projects by embedding generative artificial intelligence capabilities more deeply in the IoT connectivity stack
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24 Jul 2024
Critical Response Group and Intrado elevate emergency response and situational awareness
Critical incident mapping provider and emergency communication service tech firm partner to enhance response and situational awareness for schools, businesses and other organisations
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24 Jul 2024
Precisely aiding wildfire fight with risk assessment data
The data integrity vendor's specialized database includes added topographical and weather-related information to help organizations prepare for and predict catastrophic fires.
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24 Jul 2024
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
Mimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
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24 Jul 2024
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
Former government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike: Content validation bug led to global outage
CrowdStrike said last week's global outage was caused by a bug in the Falcon platform's content validator, which missed a defective configuration update for its Windows sensor.
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24 Jul 2024
SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness
The SAP CEO said the quiet part out loud while answering a question on the cloud backlog during the company’s most recent earnings call
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24 Jul 2024
Vodafone Spain, MasOrange agree terms to create joint venture
Leading Spanish fixed operators propose deal to create joint venture to deliver ‘highly efficient’ fibre infrastructure for broadband customers
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24 Jul 2024
ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use
The Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford for introducing facial recognition and failing to conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment and obtain the explicit consent of students
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24 Jul 2024
Report reveals a 69% decline in teen birth rates from 2000 to 2022
The National Vital Statistics Reports reveal a 69% drop in teen births from 2000 to 2022, highlighting changes across different racial and ethnic groups.
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24 Jul 2024
The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship
Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at the 152nd Open golf tournament to find out how private 5G, data visualisation and deep learning tools are enhancing the ancient traditions of the sport
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24 Jul 2024
New tech could help 18.6 million more NHS patients get better treatment
Study from a leading UK operator calculates that almost two-fifths of NHS staff believe new digital tools could help the health service reach 3% to 5% more patients, potentially benefiting at least 51,000 more people daily
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24 Jul 2024
Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human
Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees
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24 Jul 2024
UK altnets celebrate further full-fibre milestones
North of England gigabit deployments see Brsk rolling out full-fibre broadband to approximately 30,000 homes and businesses in Runcorn, Cheshire
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update
Enterprises that emerged unscathed from the roll-out of the botched CrowdStrike software update are being urged to view it as a wake-up call rather than a lucky escape
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24 Jul 2024
Wearables linked to ‘pathologic’ heart disease symptom monitoring
AFib patients using wearable devices are more likely to engage in high rates of symptom monitoring and experience anxiety than non-users, a study shows.
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24 Jul 2024
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
Defence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network
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24 Jul 2024
PBM execs defend role amidst bipartisan drug price scrutiny
PBM executives defended their role in a House hearing as lawmakers criticized their influence on high drug prices.
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23 Jul 2024
Meta intros its biggest open source AI model: Llama 3.1 405B
The model is the biggest open source model yet, the tech giant claims. The social media company also upgraded its model context window to 128k and updated its AI assistant.
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
A three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Adtech, regulators react to Google's third-party cookie reversal
Following many delays and an alternative still in development, Google has relented to advertisers on the timing of depreciating third-party cookies.
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23 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage shows business continuity still a must
Disaster recovery has centered on cyberattacks the past few years, but the CrowdStrike outage illustrates why companies can't forget about traditional business continuity.
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal
Datadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
Former government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
Google abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Most hospitals face public health data exchange challenges
While electronic public health reporting has grown significantly in recent years, hospitals and physicians continue to report barriers to public health data exchange.
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23 Jul 2024
OIG audit: HHS secretary must improve cloud security controls
HHS-OIG auditors recommended that the HHS Office of the Secretary address gaps in its cloud security controls to better safeguard its cloud information systems.
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23 Jul 2024
Global broadband reliability gets consistently higher
Latest study from Opensignal places UK among the top countries for broadband reliability, reaching third out of 18 markets surveyed, behind only Sweden and Norway
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23 Jul 2024
UK 5G reaches new heights in successful flight trials
UK consortium completes flight trials for airborne next-generation mobile infrastructure designed to offer applications such as restoring networks after disasters where traditional mobile infrastructure has been disrupted
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
The ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
How ACO models can improve to support patient engagement
Greater ACO success will come with more flexible beneficiary communication policies governing the models.
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23 Jul 2024
Roche’s weight-loss drug trials yield positive results
Roche's $2.7B investment in Carmot's GLP-1 drugs shows promising early weight-loss results, positioning it as a strong market contender.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry
Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works
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23 Jul 2024
NTT Data unveils Edge AI platform for industry, manufacturing
Infrastructure and services company claims to be breaking down IT/OT silos with what it says is industry’s first fully managed Edge artificial intelligence offering, enabling advanced AI use cases for industrial and manufacturing applications
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23 Jul 2024
Virgin Media O2 to begin 2G network transition
After announcing that it will be turning off 3G in 2025, operator reveals plans to start moving customers off 2G network, claiming to be the first UK company of its kind to make such a move
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23 Jul 2024
Dragos: New ICS malware FrostyGoop abuses Modbus
Dragos published research Tuesday unveiling an industrial control systems-focused malware it dubbed FrostyGoop that targets Modbus to disrupt critical infrastructure.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital apps effective stopgap for mental healthcare access challenges
Digital mental health apps can improve depression and anxiety symptoms among patients who are waiting to receive mental healthcare services, new research reveals.
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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23 Jul 2024
Nationwide Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats
Nationwide Listeria outbreak in deli meats affects 12 states, causing 28 illnesses and 2 deaths. High-risk groups should avoid deli meats or heat them thoroughly.
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22 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Faulty CrowdStrike update affected 8.5M devices
Microsoft says less than 1% of all Windows machines were affected by a defective CrowdStrike Falcon update on Friday, but the disruption has been widespread.
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22 Jul 2024
Apollo takes off for Converge to break optical networking terabit barrier
Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider taps technology firm to deploy optical network system to enhance network capacity from 800Gbps to 1.2Tbps per channel
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22 Jul 2024
Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
We speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved
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22 Jul 2024
NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation
The UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest
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22 Jul 2024
ChatGPT demonstrates promise for digital pathology
A private, domain-specific version of ChatGPT can accurately respond to digital pathology questions and help clinicians utilize complex histopathology software.
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22 Jul 2024
Nokia, Bharti Airtel claim success in 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial
Global comms tech provider successfully completes first 5G non-standalone Cloud RAN trial with leading Indian telco to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources
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22 Jul 2024
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
Financially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC
With end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration
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22 Jul 2024
BT fined £17.5m for ‘catastrophic’ emergency network outage
UK comms regulator issues fine to country’s leading telco for being underprepared to handle disruption in June 2023, affecting 14,000 emergency calls and lasting 10.5 hours
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22 Jul 2024
AMA updates CPT code set for avian influenza vaccines
The update to the CPT code set includes codes for vaccines protecting patients from the H5N8 strain of avian influenza.
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22 Jul 2024
Openreach accelerates copper broadband Stop Sell
UK’s largest telco continues network transformation making full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses, with more than four million premises currently taking a service
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
Evidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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21 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices
About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational
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19 Jul 2024
Global IT outage forces hospitals to cancel appointments
A global IT outage resulting from a faulty update to CrowdStrike's threat detection platform forced hospitals to cancel non-urgent appointments and surgeries.
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19 Jul 2024
OpenAI goes small with GPT-4o mini
The AI vendor launched a small language model that is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens. It also introduced new compliance tools for ChatGPT Enterprise users.
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19 Jul 2024
Enterprises chasing AI confront a harsh reality
Recent reports from KPMG, McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs indicate that generative AI is immature and carries a high price tag, with no clear path to ROI.
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19 Jul 2024
South Korea, Taiwan, Japan monitor EU's Digital Markets Act
Countries including South Korea and Taiwan are taking a cautious approach to tech regulation and assessing the impact of existing laws like the EU's Digital Markets Act.
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19 Jul 2024
U.S. continuous security clearance vetting hits IT disaster
U.S. continuous security clearances system faces severe delays and budget overruns. The now $1.7B project is years behind schedule, affecting millions of federal workers.
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19 Jul 2024
UK fibre forges forward, but further altnet consolidation likely
Moody's research finds UK roll-out of fibre broadband continues to progress, although take-up remains low compared with Europe
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19 Jul 2024
Defective CrowdStrike update triggers mass IT outage
A faulty update for CrowdStrike's Falcon platform crashed customers' Windows systems, causing outages at airlines, government agencies and other organizations across the globe.
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
The Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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19 Jul 2024
Brightspeed cuts Ribbon on network transformation
US fibre builder modernises network infrastructure using real-time comms provider’s network transformation service, with aim of efficiently managing and upgrading legacy assets while enhancing scalability and innovation
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19 Jul 2024
Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
East Midlands-based council has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements and efficiencies to the way it works
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19 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
An update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected
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19 Jul 2024
Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims
The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts
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19 Jul 2024
LG integrates artificial intelligence into smart factory services
After officially entering the market earlier this year, LG advances smart factory services business by integrating manufacturing data and assets with artificial intelligence and digital transformation
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19 Jul 2024
Having endometriosis can increase ovarian cancer risk 4.2-fold
A study found that having endometriosis can increase the risk of ovarian cancer, especially for those with ovarian endometriomas.
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19 Jul 2024
Antimicrobial-resistant hospital-acquired infections increased 20%
New CDC data indicates that bacterial antimicrobial-resistant hospital-acquired infections increased by 20% during the pandemic.
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18 Jul 2024
DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams
The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages
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18 Jul 2024
Over 60% of hospitals plan to participate in TEFCA
While awareness of TEFCA is rising nationwide, gaps exist across smaller, critical access and independent hospitals, according to an ONC data brief.
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18 Jul 2024
Aviatrix CEO pitches cloud networking to 'underserved buyer'
Doug Merritt has been in the multi-cloud networking business for a year, but still draws on his experience as CEO of Splunk to steer Aviatrix toward a new phase of growth.
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18 Jul 2024
Fin7 helps ransomware gangs with EDR bypass
SentinelOne found the Russia-based cybercriminal group is helping other threat actors, including ransomware gangs, to evade detection with a custom tool named AvNeutralizer.
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18 Jul 2024
Cerabyte brings permanent storage to the U.S.
Cerabyte increased its footprint in the U.S. with two new offices as it looks to go beyond the prototype stage for a potential commercialization in the coming years.
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18 Jul 2024
Judge tosses most of SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds
A judge dismissed many of the charges in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO, Timothy Brown, though some charges remain.
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18 Jul 2024
ONC releases USCDI Version 5 to drive interoperability
United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 5 (USCDI v5) introduces new data classes and data elements to enhance health data interoperability and patient care.
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18 Jul 2024
Amazon CISO discusses the company's cautious approach to AI
At the recent AWS re:Inforce 2024 conference, Amazon CISO CJ Moses spoke about the risks and threats associated with new AI technology and how the cloud giant addresses them.
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18 Jul 2024
Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
Former Durham detective will be required to give evidence to a tribunal investigating allegations that police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phones