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29 Oct 2024
Meta joins others reinventing search with AI
By Esther AjaoThe social media giant has joined other vendors that are trying to reinvent search after the popularization of ChatGPT. The vendors want to challenge Google’s position.
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29 Oct 2024
Cisco launches integrated AI infrastructure ‘Pods’
By Antone GonsalvesIn addition to Pods, Cisco launched its first UCS server dedicated to running AI workloads on GPUs.
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29 Oct 2024
The causes of disillusionment with GenAI
By Esther AjaoThe market has seen virtually unprecedented growth. However, enterprises lack confidence in what the technology can do. Nevertheless, enterprises still want to use it.
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09 Jul 2024
Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024
By Karl FlindersAtos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship
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09 Jul 2024
Text-based remote monitoring app cuts high-cost breast cancer visits
By Anuja VaidyaA study shows that a remote symptom monitoring app providing tailored text messages reduced high-cost healthcare encounters among early-stage breast cancer patients.
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09 Jul 2024
Fewer than half of organisations achieve GenAI efficiency gains
By Cliff SaranResearch finds that many organisations lack the IT infrastructure needed to deploy generative AI applications
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09 Jul 2024
Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup
By Antony AdsheadTony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data
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09 Jul 2024
HSA administrator discloses healthcare data breach
By Jill McKeonIn an SEC filing, HealthEquity disclosed a healthcare data breach that stemmed from unauthorized access to a business partner’s user account.
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09 Jul 2024
DoJ catches over $2.7B in healthcare fraud schemes
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe Department of Justice has charged nearly 200 people, including doctors, in over $2.7B in healthcare fraud schemes.
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09 Jul 2024
Americans embrace hospital-at-home care & associated caregiving tasks
By Anuja VaidyaSurvey results show that more than half of US adults find hospital-at-home care effective and safe, and most said they can perform the caregiving tasks required.
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09 Jul 2024
ENet, Heights Telecom team to deliver advanced Wi-Fi in Guyana
By Joe O’HalloranTelecommunications solutions provider announces strategic partnership with Guyana’s only locally owned comms firm introducing internet service offering ultra-fast internet and advanced Wi-Fi connectivity to customers
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09 Jul 2024
Revamped DSIT to transform digital public services, says government
By Alex ScroxtonThe incoming government sets out preliminary plans to conduct a major revamp and relaunch of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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09 Jul 2024
ENGIE Vianeo, BICS team to add IoT capability to support smart EV charging
By Joe O’HalloranLooking to take advantage of European Union improvements to the availability of electric vehicle stations, charging business of energy company powers up its fleet of chargers with real-time data
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09 Jul 2024
Physician burnout rate has dropped 14.6% since 2021
By Veronica SalibAccording to a news release from the AMA, physician burnout rates are under 50% for the first time in four years.
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09 Jul 2024
GLP-1 drugs reduce the risk of obesity-associated cancers
By Veronica SalibCompared to insulin, GLP-1 drugs were better at preventing 10 of 13 obesity-associated cancers.
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08 Jul 2024
Ransomware hits CDK Global, public sector targets in June
By Arielle WaldmanThe prevalent threat continued to cause disruptions last month as city halls were forced to close and auto dealerships faced downstream effects after an attack against CDK Global.
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08 Jul 2024
Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT
By Alex ScroxtonMore cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning
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08 Jul 2024
Nokia, Google Fiber claim 50G PON first in live fibre trial in US
By Joe O’HalloranTech giant’s development hub for transforming the internet experience expands relationship with comms tech provider on 50G passive optical network trial
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08 Jul 2024
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeIn a week that saw major personnel changes on the benches of the House of Commons, the moves continued across the channel
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08 Jul 2024
Singtel, SK Telecom gear up for 6G future
By Aaron TanBoth telcos will work together to develop advanced network slicing, telco APIs and edge AI infrastructure, among other capabilities, to pave way for 6G deployments
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08 Jul 2024
Sir Alan Bates welcomes MP’s elevation to House of Lords
By Karl FlindersFormer Labour MP has moved to the House of Lords where he will continue campaigning for justice for victims of the Horizon scandal
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08 Jul 2024
Motorola Solutions to open global R&D centre in Ireland
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech giant announces opening of research and development centre in Cork to focus on designing software for established land mobile radio portfolio
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08 Jul 2024
CMS proposes CY 2025 ESRD Prospective Payment System rule
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe CY 2025 ESRD Prospective Payment System rule would increase Medicare payments to facilities by 2.2%, among other policies.
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08 Jul 2024
HC3 warns sector of critical MOVEit cybersecurity vulnerabilities
By Jill McKeonHealthcare organizations should prioritize patching two critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer platform.
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08 Jul 2024
Medicare Advantage, individual markets did well financially in 2023
By Kelsey WaddillAs plans continue to recover from the pandemic, Medicare Advantage plans continued their strong performance, financially, in 2023.
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08 Jul 2024
Eli Lilly to acquire Morphic Holding Inc. in a $3.2 billion deal
By Veronica SalibIf the acquisition goes through, it will support and enhance Eli Lilly’s inflammatory bowel disease portfolio.
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05 Jul 2024
Nokia, BT Group, Qualcomm claim enhanced 5G Carrier Aggregation first
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider and operator reveal successfull aggregation of 5G Standalone spectrum using 5CC Carrier Aggregation, making the latter the first European operator to achieve this milestone
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05 Jul 2024
Virgin Media adds to Yeovil gigabit broadband estate
By Joe O’HalloranFull-fibre broadband with top speeds of 2Gbps, up to 38 times faster than the current local average, now available to more than 20,000 additional homes in key town in country of Somerset
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05 Jul 2024
Hopes Labour will support tech, improve security and drive innovation
By Simon QuickeWith the dust settling on the election results and a fresh prime minister entering Downing Street, the tech industry is starting to share its hopes for the new government
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05 Jul 2024
MSPs deserve more recognition
By Simon QuickeCEO of Kaseya outlines its mission to improve the position of the managed service provider community
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04 Jul 2024
5G FWA on upward trajectory but global growth patchy
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from GSMA predicts the number of 5G FWA connections across 70 countries will increase by 358% by 2030, representing an increase from 17.3 million connections to 79.2 million
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04 Jul 2024
SonicWall offers MSPs access to increased range of services
By Simon QuickeSecurity player arms partners with access to European-based SOC that will help them deal with EU compliance regulations
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04 Jul 2024
ADNOC, e& plan energy industry’s largest private 5G wireless network
By Joe O’HalloranAbu Dhabi-owned energy and petrochemicals group enters agreement with leading MENA telco to create high-speed network spanning 11,000 square km, enabling AI-driven offerings to reach remote onshore and offshore operations
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04 Jul 2024
UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Scottish biometrics commissioner has called for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based evidence sharing system is fully compliant with data protection laws
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04 Jul 2024
Nokia and Solis plough connectivity path for agribusinesses in Brazil
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider and telecoms infrastructure firm expand private wireless networks supporting agribusinesses in unconnected rural communities across Brazil to drive digital inclusion with real-time information to support farms
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04 Jul 2024
How Qualtrics is driving experience management with AI
By Aaron TanDuring the Sydney leg of its X4 conference, Qualtrics’ top executives dived deeper into its efforts to help organisations improve customer and employee experiences with AI
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04 Jul 2024
LG acquires Athom to advance AI-enabled smart home
By Joe O’HalloranElectronics giant takes large majority stake in smart home platform company to gain deeper insights into customers’ lifestyle and usage patterns and accelerate AI home business
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03 Jul 2024
Cloud malware protection is a path to object cyberstorage
By Tim McCarthyHyperscaler service offerings to detect or eliminate malware add features that analysts call cyberstorage to common object storage, a step toward improving security standards.
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03 Jul 2024
NCA’s Operation Morpheus targets illicit Cobalt Strike use
By Alex ScroxtonInternational law enforcement operation targets cyber criminals using the Cobalt Strike penetration testing framework for dodgy purposes
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03 Jul 2024
Personalized medicine Biohealth Tech Hub awarded $49M
By Shania KennedyThe Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub will use $49 million in federal funding to drive innovation, manufacturing and workforce development in the realm of precision medicine.
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03 Jul 2024
EU moves ahead while U.S. steps back on regulation
By Makenzie HollandThe European Commission found both Meta and Apple to be in violation of the Digital Markets Act.
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03 Jul 2024
Former Post Office chair 'regrets' keeping critical Horizon report secret
By Bryan GlickTim Parker, chairman of the Post Office from 2015 to 2022, admits he should not have accepted legal advice to prevent release of a review that could have supported victims of the Horizon scandal
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03 Jul 2024
UK must push forward greater use of open tech
By Cliff SaranOpenUK is calling on policymakers to put more effort into building the UK’s open source capabilities
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03 Jul 2024
Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 announce long-term network-sharing agreement
By Joe O’HalloranNetwork-sharing agreement aims to transform experience for tens of millions of customers across the UK and rebalance the mobile market by creating a third scaled network operator
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03 Jul 2024
Logicalis: Sustainability still a top customer concern
By Simon QuickeEven with the tougher economic climate, the commitment by customers to greening their business and working with those with a similar mission remains solid
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03 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service employees arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct
By Caroline DonnellyThe Police Digital Service has confirmed an internal review of its processes will be undertaken in the wake of staff arrests
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03 Jul 2024
BT tops UK fixed broadband customer experience rankings
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from network quality of experience testing and monitoring firm pinpoints UK’s largest leading broadband provider as offering best quality of experience
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03 Jul 2024
North America surge drives global 5G connections to two-billion mark
By Joe O’HalloranFirst quarter of 2024 sees 185 million new top-end mobile additions, with total now projected to hit 7.7 billion by 2028
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03 Jul 2024
6M affected by data breach at life insurance software vendor
By Jill McKeonThe data of more than six million individuals was jeopardized when Infosys McCamish Systems suffered a ransomware attack last Fall.
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03 Jul 2024
Telehealth abortions without in-person ultrasound is safe, effective
By Anuja VaidyaResearch highlights the safety and efficacy of telehealth abortions, where patients do not receive an in-person ultrasound and get their medications via the mail.
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03 Jul 2024
Biden, Sanders push for lower prescription drug costs for GLP-1 medications
By Alivia Kaylor, MScBiden and Sanders intensified efforts to lower prescription drug prices, spotlighting the high costs of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy.
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03 Jul 2024
Pediatric mortality rates increased across the US
By Veronica SalibYouth mortality rates in the US are much higher than in other countries and have increased since 2013.
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03 Jul 2024
Tech leaders recognised for social, cultural and economic innovations
By Computer Weekly StaffTechUK President's Awards highlight the contribution of the IT community to improving society through digital innovation
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02 Jul 2024
SCOTUS ruling shifts H-1B visa landscape
By Patrick ThibodeauThe H-1B visa program could face more legal challenges and pressure for congressional reform following a Supreme Court ruling that limits federal agencies' regulatory power.
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02 Jul 2024
Supreme Court rulings like Chevron hinder regulation
By Makenzie HollandThe Supreme Court's recent decisions including Chevron will limit federal agencies' regulatory power over businesses.
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02 Jul 2024
EXA Infrastructure, SOCAR Fiber plan for Red Sea route diversity
By Joe O’HalloranEuropean dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider, connecting North America and Asia via the Middle East, inks deal with secure electronic communication infrastructure company for terrestrial fibre optic route
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02 Jul 2024
NGMN unveils roadmap for more energy-efficient networks
By Joe O’HalloranForum founded by leading mobile network operators for all partners in the mobile industry releases guidance and recommendations supported on energy-saving techniques to help enhance energy-saving methods
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02 Jul 2024
Geotab, BYD Trucks Europe gear up IoT for sustainable fleet management
By Joe O’HalloranGeotab and BYD Trucks Europe collaborate to provide fleet management solution across Europe within end-to-end connectivity to ensure data privacy and security in the region
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02 Jul 2024
Westcon-Comstor and e92plus widen portfolios
By Simon QuickeDistributors are expanding and signing fresh relationships to get more options in front of their respective partner bases
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02 Jul 2024
Dassault Systèmes and Mistral AI team to accelerate edge AI generative economy
By Joe O’HalloranLeading provider of engineering design systems and artificial intelligence firm form partnership combining industrial ecosystem and frontier AI to industries in a trusted environment, to deliver secure, scalable, AI-driven services
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02 Jul 2024
WHO releases clinical guidelines for tobacco cessation
By Veronica SalibThe guidelines outline several evidence-based recommendations and highlight adoption, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation strategies.
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02 Jul 2024
Databricks launches generative AI tools, including assistant
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's assistant and automatically generated metadata descriptions together enable users to work with data using natural language and receive accurate outputs in response.
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02 Jul 2024
How IAG is tapping data streaming
By Stephen WithersThe insurance group is using Kafka’s data streaming capabilities to integrate disparate data sources and provide real-time data services to support its business
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02 Jul 2024
Nordic banks pursue AI in battle with digital competitors
By Gerard O'DwyerTraditional Nordic banks are raising their investments in artificial intelligence to help them retain market share in increasingly populated sector
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02 Jul 2024
Medicare home health payments to dip 1.7% in CY 2025
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new proposed rule would decrease Medicare home health payments by 1.7%, or $280M, next calendar year as CMS finalizes a permanent behavior adjustment.
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02 Jul 2024
OCR reaches third-ever ransomware settlement
By Jill McKeonHeritage Valley Health System will pay $950,000 and implement a corrective action plan as part of OCR’s third settlement involving ransomware.
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02 Jul 2024
Home heart hospital linked to enhanced outcomes, lower costs
By Anuja VaidyaHospital-level care provided at home reduced hospitalizations, lengths of stay, and costs among high-need cardiovascular disease patients, research shows.
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02 Jul 2024
Interview: Nvidia on AI workloads and their impacts on data storage
By Antony AdsheadWe talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about data challenges in artificial intelligence, key practical tips for AI projects, and demands on storage of training, inferencing, RAG and checkpointing
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02 Jul 2024
FDA assures safety of commercial milk supply from H5N1 HPAI
By Veronica SalibAfter conducting a study to simulate commercial milk processing, the FDA is assuring the public that the commercial milk supply is safe from H5N1 HPAI.
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02 Jul 2024
Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN
By Aaron TanKyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud
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01 Jul 2024
Patient experience scores rebound after pandemic dip
By Sara HeathDespite patient experience improvements, patient satisfaction scores still vary by race and age.
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01 Jul 2024
SK Hynix's $75B investment in AI chips shows a growing trend
By Esther AjaoThe South Korea-based chipmaker responds to the growing demand for AI memory chips with a big investment through 2028. Meanwhile, memory chipmakers step up production.
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01 Jul 2024
Critical OpenSSH vulnerability could affect millions of servers
By Arielle WaldmanExploitation against CVE-2024-6387, which Qualys nicknamed 'regreSSHion,' could let attackers bypass security measures and gain root access to vulnerable servers.
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01 Jul 2024
Telefónica, Nokia offer ‘unique’ private 5G networks service in Spain
By Joe O’HalloranPartnership to see companies – especially those in industrial and logistics sectors – able to implement up to 100 digitisation services in cloud, private mobile networks and edge computing with 5G connectivity
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01 Jul 2024
Gartner flags missed opportunities for enterprises to make cost-effective green IT gains
By Caroline DonnellyMarket watcher Gartner claims most cost-effective sustainable IT initiatives are being underused by enterprises
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01 Jul 2024
Diana project provides Nato tech dividend to Finland
By Gerard O'DwyerFinnish tech sector to receive a boost following the country’s decision to join Nato
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01 Jul 2024
Northamber expands into Ireland
By Billy MacInnesAcquisition of distributor Renaissance Contingency Services gives the firm an Irish presence
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01 Jul 2024
Canon Business Centre SOS expands geographic reach
By Simon QuickePartner able to provide more coverage for the print vendor in Hampshire and the South coast following acquisition
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01 Jul 2024
FDA grants marketing authorization for point-of-care hepatitis C test
By Veronica SalibCepheid is now authorized to market the Xpert HCV tests and GeneXpert Xpress system for point-of-care hepatitis C testing.
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01 Jul 2024
Insight acquires consultancy NWT
By Simon QuickeChannel player keeps M&A activity going with move for UK firm with strong vertical market experience
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01 Jul 2024
HHS, FBI warn healthcare sector of social engineering scheme
By Jill McKeonThreat actors have been using phishing schemes to steal login credentials and divert automated clearinghouse payments, HHS and the FBI warned in a joint cybersecurity advisory.
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01 Jul 2024
CityFibre, nexfibre gain further gigabit ground in southern England
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading independent provider makes full-fibre available to majority of homes and businesses in West Sussex county town, while growing gigabit broadband wholesaler reveals plans to deliver it to more than 15,000 premises in Buckinghamshire
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01 Jul 2024
CMS rule to address suspect billing in Shared Savings Program
By Jacqueline LaPointeA proposed rule from CMS looks to address “significant, anomalous, and highly suspect” billing impacting ACO reconciliation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
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01 Jul 2024
Potential listeria contamination prompts spinach product recall
By Veronica SalibSolata Foods LLC issued a recall on its fresh spinach products sold in New York, citing potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
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01 Jul 2024
Nokia to acquire Infinera in $2.3bn deal
By Joe O’HalloranNokia sees acquisition of open optical networking solutions provider to increase scale in optical networks business
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01 Jul 2024
VMO2 hits high as it completes Shared Rural Network first phase
By Joe O’HalloranGlencoe Mountain Resort in Scotland becomes 227th site to gain improved 4G coverage as part of VMO2 roll-out
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28 Jun 2024
Lenovo expands AI offerings, liquid cooling
By Adam ArmstrongLenovo sets itself apart from others by offering configured AI products to speed deployment and shape direction, while also expanding liquid cooling to lower costs.
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28 Jun 2024
TeamViewer breached by Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard
By Alexander CulafiTeamViewer says a Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard gained accessed to the company's corporate network via compromised employee credentials.
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28 Jun 2024
3 takeaways from first U.S. presidential debate
By Makenzie HollandClimate and taxes became hotly debated topics between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump during Thursday night's debate.
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28 Jun 2024
AWS' Amazon Q adds Connect contact center integration
By Don FluckingerAmazon Connect, AWS' contact center platform, takes aim at solving the customer service agent's biggest problem: app switching during customer calls.
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28 Jun 2024
How FWD is driving its digital strategy
By Aaron TanFWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services
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28 Jun 2024
Trump's liberal green card plan faces skepticism
By Patrick ThibodeauDonald Trump's plan to issue green cards to all college graduates exceeds Hillary Clinton's 2016 proposal and raises skepticism about the likelihood of it ever being adopted.
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28 Jun 2024
How the U.S. can close longstanding racial health equity gaps
By Sara HeathAccess to insurance, better enforcement and more data will be key to addressing the nation's health equity woes.
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28 Jun 2024
Former Fujitsu engineer says Post Office ‘trapped’ him into giving incomplete evidence
By Karl FlindersGareth Jenkins turned his fire on the Post Office on the final day of his marathon evidence session at the Post Office public inquiry
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28 Jun 2024
Sage: SMEs want the channel to be trusted advisors
By Simon QuickeFirm shares research that indicates partners are seen by small and medium-sized customers as the source of digital transformation support
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28 Jun 2024
How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence
By Aaron TanRecorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence
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28 Jun 2024
31% of adults are not getting enough physical activity
By Veronica SalibThe WHO notes that this data indicates a missed opportunity for improving global health and decreasing cancer and heart disease.
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28 Jun 2024
89% of cancer centers reported a systemic chemotherapy drug shortage
By Veronica SalibThe NCCN report found that, although shortages of some drugs declined, most cancer centers still experienced shortages to some extent.
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27 Jun 2024
Data privacy legislation delayed as backlash grows
By Makenzie HollandMultiple stakeholders raised issues with the American Privacy Rights Act, including removal of protections against algorithmic auditing.
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27 Jun 2024
Google targets GenAI accuracy, speed, size, efficiency
By Shaun SutnerThe tech giant advances again in the generative AI competition that has rocked the tech industry over the last two years, with key updates to its Gemini and Imagen models.
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27 Jun 2024
New Relic CEO sets observability strategy for the AI age
By Beth PariseauFormer Proofpoint CEO sets an AI-focused agenda, including an Nvidia partnership launched this week, while denying layoff rumors and speculation about a merger with Sumo Logic.
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27 Jun 2024
Supply chain attacks conducted through Polyfill.io service
By Arielle WaldmanIn February, a Chinese company named Funnell bought the Polyfill.io domain, which sparked concerns in the infosec community about potential supply chain threats.
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27 Jun 2024
UKtech50 winner interview: Alan Bates, Post Office Horizon scandal campaigner
By Lis EvenstadUKtech50 winner Alan Bates talks to Computer Weekly about why the Post Office needs to be modernised, how to deploy an IT system the right way and his plans to write a book