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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
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18 Dec 2024
U.S. approach to misinformation, AI will shift under Trump
President-elect Donald Trump has been vocal in his criticisms of big tech's content censorship power and President Joe Biden's executive order on AI.
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14 Jun 2024
Tensions rise over China's control of critical materials
While there is disagreement in Congress over how to diversify the critical materials supply chain, there is bipartisan agreement that China's dominance needs to be addressed.
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14 Jun 2024
Congress grills Microsoft president over security failures
Microsoft President Brad Smith testifies on a wide range of issues, including Chinese and Russian nation-state attacks, the controversial AI-powered Recall feature and more.
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14 Jun 2024
Security pros grade Apple Intelligence data privacy measures
Apple has built a Private Cloud Compute server to process and then delete data sent from Apple Intelligence running on an iPhone, iPad or Mac. Apple says it won't store any data.
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14 Jun 2024
Nokia unveils software to expand and simplify APIs
Nokia’s Network Exposure Platform aims to expand and simplify the number of network application programming interfaces available to service providers, their partners and customer channels
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14 Jun 2024
Anomalo unveils quality monitoring for unstructured data
The data quality specialist's capabilities will enable customers to monitor unstructured text to ensure the health of data used to inform analytics and AI models and applications.
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14 Jun 2024
Amdocs simplifies eSIM activation with Google Cloud
Communications software provider and cloud giant announce partnership to streamline embedded subscriber identity module onboarding and activation with automated, remote real-time processes
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14 Jun 2024
ONC, HRSA modernize UDS reporting with HL7 FHIR
As part of a joint ONC and HRSA initiative, health centers are using HL7 FHIR standards to streamline UDS reporting and improve data accuracy to inform quality initiatives.
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14 Jun 2024
Epicor acquires Kyklo, adding product info management to ERP
Epicor continues its buying spree with PIM vendor Kyklo, enabling manufacturers and distributors to gain visibility into what customers are buying and why.
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14 Jun 2024
The AI journey must start with the data
MSPs advised to begin conversations with customers at a data level to ensure AI tools will deliver the promised results
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14 Jun 2024
Decision-makers less confident in network investment
Research finds nearly nine in 10 of those responsible for network buying are less confident in investments, and two-thirds believe network technology’s rapid advancements hinder decision-making
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14 Jun 2024
Nurse phone calls enhance home BP telemonitoring for minority groups
Home telemonitoring was more effective in reducing BP among low-income racial minority groups when nurse care management was added, research shows.
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14 Jun 2024
Only 1% of ACA Marketplace plans cover GLP-1 drugs for obesity
Although up to 82% of plans cover GLP-1 medications for diabetes, 1% or less cover GLP-1 drugs for obesity, such as Saxenda, Wegovy, and Zepbound.
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14 Jun 2024
Even plant-based ultra-processed foods are linked to higher CVD risk
A study evaluating the effects of ultra-processed food on CVD outcomes found that even plant-based ultra-processed foods had a negative impact on cardiovascular health.
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14 Jun 2024
Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed
Scotland follows England, Wales and Northern Ireland in exonerating wrongfully convicted subpostmasters en masse
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13 Jun 2024
Microsoft's Recall changes might be too little, too late
Criticism of Microsoft's Recall feature continues even after the software giant announced several updates to address concerns from the infosec community.
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13 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Labour promises to boost digital infrastructure
The Labour Party manifesto for the UK general election promises a new industrial strategy and an overhaul of planning rules to help support the digital and tech sector
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13 Jun 2024
AI’s environmental cost could outweigh sustainability benefits
Artificial intelligence can help organisations manage and mitigate their environmental impacts in a number of ways, but the highly polluting nature of the technology could outweigh its other sustainability benefits if not dealt with
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13 Jun 2024
Carrefour taps BICS to launch eSIM travel data
Global travellers with embedded subscriber identity module-enabled phones now able to purchase data packages from multinational retail corporation over the air
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13 Jun 2024
Vonage, Telstra team to accelerate digital transformation with network APIs
Ericsson-owned cloud communications provider partners with Australian operator to combine network APIs with API platform and 5G network capabilities to enable enterprises to build applications for optimised customer experiences
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13 Jun 2024
Nebula achieves ISO security standard
Firm will use the certification to highlight its services capabilities to customers
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13 Jun 2024
AI adoption held back by user skills shortages
Research from SoftwareOne exposes the problems customers face when attempting to take advantage of artificial intelligence
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13 Jun 2024
Black Basta ransomware crew may be exploiting Microsoft zero-day
A Microsoft vulnerability that was addressed without fanfare in March may in fact have been exploited as a zero-day by the notorious Black Basta ransomware gang, threat hunters warn
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13 Jun 2024
Barcelona kicks off edge to cloud to customise fan experience
Aiming to fulfil its ‘mes que un club’ ethos, Spanish football giant pulls networking ‘palanca’ to offer fans customised experience at legendary stadium, becoming official edge-to-cloud partner for next four seasons
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13 Jun 2024
SCOTUS votes to uphold FDA’s mifepristone mailing regulations
The ruling upholds access to medication abortions by continuing to allow the FDA’s regulatory approach for distributing the drug without an in-person doctor’s visit.
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13 Jun 2024
Enterprises scale private wireless for additional use cases, industrial sites
Study shows enterprises expanded private wireless networks use or deployed them in another location
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13 Jun 2024
eSIM Go checks in with Lufthansa on-brand global travel service
Aviation group partners with embedded subscriber identity module company to provide mobile data services to passengers across four of its airlines, enabling travellers to stay connected in more than 150 countries while avoiding data roaming charges
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13 Jun 2024
Microsoft, Google offer cybersecurity resources for rural hospitals
Microsoft and Google will provide free or discounted cybersecurity services to rural hospitals to bolster prevention efforts.
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13 Jun 2024
Tech industry losing steam for DE&I, finds TTC report
Tech sector diversity is slowly improving, but trends spotted by the Tech Talent Charter could be a threat to current and future progress
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13 Jun 2024
National healthcare spending grows 7.5% to nearly $4.8T
National healthcare spending continued to grow in 2023 with more people insured and the higher price of personal healthcare, CMS actuaries report.
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13 Jun 2024
VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support
VMware is not going away anytime soon. While some IT leaders may be feeling the pain of Broadcom’s changes, they still need to seek a long-term plan
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13 Jun 2024
Q&A: Adalbjorn Thorolfsson on IT project management in Iceland
With a small, but very sophisticated population, Iceland has unique ways of keeping up with the rest of the world in the IT sector. Adalbjorn Thorolfsson, president of the Icelandic Project Management Association, describes some lessons for the rest of the world
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13 Jun 2024
84% of US adults would participate in hospital-at-home programs
A new survey shows that most Americans are open to hospital-at-home programs, citing the convenience and comfort of being at home as the reason for participating.
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13 Jun 2024
Machine learning tool accurately predicts spine surgery outcomes
A machine learning approach using wearable data, EHRs and ecological momentary assessment information outperformed existing spine surgery outcome prediction tools.
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13 Jun 2024
Multi-agency task force collaborates to address illegal e-cigarettes
The United States FDA and the Department of Justice will collaborate to fight against the unlawful distribution and sale of e-cigarettes.
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13 Jun 2024
Epicor rides Southeast Asia manufacturing boom
Midmarket ERP software supplier capitalising on growing investments by Chinese and local manufacturing firms in region to drive business
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12 Jun 2024
New Cisco-Splunk observability roadmap details emerge
Post-acquisition, Cisco puts Splunk's CEO in charge of its observability strategy and lays out the details of how Splunk Observability Cloud will replace its existing platform.
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12 Jun 2024
Hammerspace adds S3 interface to Global Data Platform
Hammerspace adds the S3 interface to its parallel global file system, allowing object storage to talk directly to the software while bringing more efficient data use to compute.
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12 Jun 2024
AWS touts security culture, AI protections at re:Inforce 2024
AWS executives highlighted the company's longstanding security, which evoked comparisons to its chief cloud rival Microsoft and the recent Cyber Safety Review Board report.
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12 Jun 2024
Black Basta might have exploited Microsoft flaw as zero-day
While investigating a ransomware attack, Symantec found evidence that suggests Black Basta threat actors exploited a Microsoft vulnerability as a zero-day.
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12 Jun 2024
Amazon expands free AI training, part of a vendor rush
Amazon extends its free training initiative with new AI trainings, offering more than 100 free AI and machine learning resources. The move is part of a trend among tech giants to offer training around AI.
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12 Jun 2024
Nordic innovators look to revive the zombie subscriber population
Zombie subscriptions where customers buy a service and forget about it are harming the subscription economy, but software is being developed to support the subscription economy
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12 Jun 2024
Barracuda: MSPs under pressure to support AI
Firm’s latest survey of the managed services market revealed the pressures many partners are facing as artificial intelligence continues to dominate customer conversations
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12 Jun 2024
Women are underrepresented in medical device clinical trials
A research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that medical device clinical trials had a median female participant rate of 33%.
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12 Jun 2024
New Databricks tools target AI quality, cost and security
The vendor's latest features aim to help customers improve model accuracy by securely developing compound systems that include multiple language models and RAG pipelines.
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12 Jun 2024
Prediabetes linked to social determinants of health, not race
Social determinants of health disproportionately affect racial/ethnic minorities, leading to disparities in prediabetes in teens.
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12 Jun 2024
NTT upgrades JUNO submarine cable
Largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system boosts network capacity to support delivery of ubiquitous high-capacity 800Gb, 400Gb and 100Gb services, claiming to hit service delivery targets as soon as it launches
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12 Jun 2024
Acronis XDR expands endpoint security capabilities for MSPs
Extended detection and response capabilities for the Acronis platform can automatically lock accounts and generate incident summaries for MSPs looking for additional security.
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12 Jun 2024
CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market
Microsoft has dismissed the idea its cloud licensing practices are affecting its two biggest competitors, but stakeholders claim the CMA's latest working paper could signify a day of reckoning over its pricing strategy
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12 Jun 2024
CIO interview: Career progression and business alignment
We speak to the CIO of law firm Kingsley Napley about his progression from PC support to IT leadership
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12 Jun 2024
Advania adds services muscle with Servium addition
Acquisition of Servium adds more customers and greater software, hardware and services depth to Advania offering
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12 Jun 2024
Nokia maintains 25G PON momentum with HKBN and Chorus
Comms tech provider closes more deals for 25Gbps passive optical network technology with Hong Kong fibre network provider and New Zealand’s largest open-access internet infrastructure company on behalf of leading retail service provider
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12 Jun 2024
Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders
Amazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code
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12 Jun 2024
Supreme Court agrees to review Medicare DSH case
The Supreme Court will accept a case that seeks greater clarity on how HHS calculates Medicare DSH payments to hospitals.
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12 Jun 2024
IT witness was hidden away from Post Office court battle, but supported it from shadows
Former Fujitsu chief architect provided evidence support to Post Office witnesses in High Court battle despite being unfit to provide it directly
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12 Jun 2024
Synthetic tumor data enhances training for cancer detection AI
An artificial intelligence model trained solely on synthetic liver tumor data performed on par with models trained using images of real tumors.
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12 Jun 2024
RCE flaw and DNS zero-day top list of Patch Tuesday bugs
An RCE vulnerability in a Microsoft messaging feature and a third-party flaw in a DNS authentication protocol are the most pressing issues to address in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday
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12 Jun 2024
FDA advisory panel votes in favor of Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug
On June 10, a panel of FDA advisors unanimously voted in favor of approving Eli Lilly’s new Alzheimer’s disease drug, donanemab.
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11 Jun 2024
Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption
Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI
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11 Jun 2024
PSNI ran secret unit to monitor journalists’ and lawyers’ phones, claims former senior officer
The Police Service of Northern Ireland denies claims that its anti-corruption unit used a standalone computer to ‘avoid scrutiny and control’
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11 Jun 2024
Microsoft delivers 51 fixes for June Patch Tuesday
A critical remote-code execution flaw in Windows and a DoS vulnerability affecting DNS in Windows Server top the list of patching priorities for admins.
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11 Jun 2024
IFS buys industrial asset management provider Copperleaf
IFS acquires asset investment management provider Copperleaf Technologies, adding to its portfolio of applications that help companies manage their physical and digital assets.
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11 Jun 2024
Pure Storage hit by Snowflake credential hackers
Pure Storage emerges as the latest victim of a fast-spreading breach of Snowflake customers targeting users with lax credential security measures in place
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11 Jun 2024
Low language access limits patient appointment scheduling
Researchers say low access to cancer care is due to poor language access during the appointment scheduling process.
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11 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies
The Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government
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11 Jun 2024
RingCentral pushes AI deeper into sales tech, integrates Teams
Among other new features, RingCentral pushes its RingSense conversational intelligence deeper into the sales market with new integrations, where it meets a crowd of tech competitors.
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11 Jun 2024
More than 160 Snowflake customers hit in targeted data theft spree
Mandiant reports that more than 160 Snowflake customers have been hit in a broad data theft and extortion campaign targeting organisations that have failed to pay proper attention to securing valuable credentials
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11 Jun 2024
Dynatrace expanding channel reach
Firm following strategy of working closely with strategic partners and developing channel-led segment to access more customers
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11 Jun 2024
Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI
At its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware
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11 Jun 2024
Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE
French nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades
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11 Jun 2024
A planetary health diet lowers the risk of total mortality
Across the US, a higher planetary health diet index reduces the risk of total and cause-specific mortality while improving environmental health.
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11 Jun 2024
CDO interview: Sophie Gallay, global data and client IT director, Etam
The French retailer has some catching up to do on its data strategy and digital transformation – and its new data chief has an ambitious roadmap to deliver on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence
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11 Jun 2024
FluidOne refinances to support growth ambitions
Channel player aims to treble the business in the next five years and reveals a fresh partnership to fund that ambition
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11 Jun 2024
StorMagic debuts HCI, hypervisor as VMware alternative
StorMagic looks to court customers with smaller data centers for SMBs and the edge with SvHCI, a new VMware alternative with a KVM-based hypervisor and HCI capabilities.
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11 Jun 2024
Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems
Expertise in complex Cobol systems, critical to major financial institutions, is dwindling in The Netherlands, resulting in retired professionals returning work
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11 Jun 2024
AHA has “strong concerns” about IPPS payment updates
The leading hospital association said proposed payment updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System are inadequate considering financial challenges.
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11 Jun 2024
Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech
Britain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology
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11 Jun 2024
Altnet full-fibre firms hit the north
Independent UK broadband providers continue programmes of network expansion to light up premises in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Humberside with gigabit connectivity
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11 Jun 2024
Eye care company suffers 377K-record data breach
Panorama Eyecare notified more than 377,000 individuals of a data breach, more than a year after LockBit posted the company on its leak site.
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11 Jun 2024
Interpretable machine learning helps clinicians classify EEG anomalies
An interpretable machine learning model improved clinicians’ performance in reading electroencephalography charts, boosting accuracy from 47% to 71%.
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11 Jun 2024
O2 Telefónica, Ericsson renew core network partnership
German operator and leading comms tech provider agree multi-year contract extension to realise network of the future
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11 Jun 2024
Combined COVID-19/influenza vaccine is superior to individual vaccines
Moderna’s mRNA-1083 vaccine combines the company’s seasonal influenza candidate and next-generation COVID-19 vaccines for improved immune response.
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10 Jun 2024
Apple Intelligence GenAI, ChatGPT to boost Siri on iPhone, Mac
The consumer electronics giant finally made its long-anticipated move into generative AI, emphasizing privacy. But most features will only be available on the newest iPhones.
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10 Jun 2024
Mandiant: 'Exposed credentials' led to Snowflake attacks
According to new threat research, Mandiant is reporting that UNC5537 conducted attacks against Snowflake database customers at least as early as April 14.
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10 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Liberal Democrats thread digital commitments throughout manifesto
The Lib Dems have promised a new industrial strategy and emphasised the importance of the digital sector, skills and regulating AI, as they lay out plans for the UK general election
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10 Jun 2024
Pegasystems' Blueprint enables automation with no code
Pegasystems uses generative AI to simplify previously difficult development tasks that unite back-office and front-office data, and launches a GenAI-led learning system.
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10 Jun 2024
NHS blood stocks running low after ransomware attack
The NHS is appealing for people with O Positive and O Negative blood types to come forward to donate as hospitals in London struggle to keep critical services running after ransomware attack
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10 Jun 2024
It’s time to gen up on AI-capable PC use cases
The channel has been advised to ensure they understand and can support users with the move to hardware that is taking advantage of AI
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10 Jun 2024
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
There have been moves this week at Westcon-Comstore, Kaseya, Six Degrees, Pax8, Kinly, Pulsant and Hyperoptic
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10 Jun 2024
AI firms can’t be trusted to voluntarily share risk information
Workers at frontier AI firms have warned that their employers – including OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic – can’t be trusted to voluntarily share information about their systems capabilities and risks with governments or civil society
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10 Jun 2024
Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems
Post Office branch managers have told Computer Weekly they had no training on how to use Capture software, which pre-dated Horizon
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10 Jun 2024
SAP Sapphire 2024: AI in all its forms – but not only AI
SAP talked a lot about artificial intelligence at its big annual event in Orlando. But the supplier has more discreetly addressed other issues closer to the concerns of clients
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10 Jun 2024
Telenor IoT launches testing facility for internet-connected tech
Nordic operator announces initial work being undertaken at its recently opened internet of things test lab, aiming to help customers understand how their connected IoT products behave before deployment
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10 Jun 2024
Neutral internet sites account for 70% of leading 50 US exchanges
Study reveals steady transformation over the past decade in the way networks choose to interconnect with neutral IX models operated by a neutral third party rather than by datacentre operator or carrier
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10 Jun 2024
Driving customer experience through cloud and AI
Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience
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10 Jun 2024
How Inaccurate Provider Data from Payers Impacts Access to Care
When payers’ online provider information is wrong, it may impact not only members’ access to care but also the level of member-payer trust.
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10 Jun 2024
South Carolina gains web-based tool for population health surveillance
Six new data dashboards will track cancer, care access and SDOH across South Carolina’s 46 counties in an effort to advance population health.
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10 Jun 2024
FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to come forward
At a conference in Boston, the FBI Cyber Division’s assistant director urged LockBit ransomware victims to contact IC3 to obtain a decryption key.
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10 Jun 2024
Enhancing Transparency and Trust in Healthcare with Smart Contract Management
Managing health plan provider contracts is complex, but next-generation technological solutions can increase transparency and streamline the process across stakeholders.