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29 Oct 2024
Meta joins others reinventing search with AI
The 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’
In 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
The 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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26 Apr 2024
INDO-MIM taps 3D printing in precision manufacturing
The precision metal parts manufacturer is using HP’s Metal Jet S100 printers to produce components using metal powder for the automotive, healthcare and other industries
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25 Apr 2024
Rubrik IPO to grow platform, reach
Rubrik goes public, becoming the first data backup vendor to do so in years. It plans to expand its security cloud software and customer base with an influx of funding.
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25 Apr 2024
Microsoft's new Phi-3-mini AI language model runs on iPhone
Microsoft researchers contend the Phi-3-mini's performance is on par with the much larger ChatGPT 3.5 model and can run on an iPhone 14 powered by an A16 Bionic chip.
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25 Apr 2024
Risk & Repeat: Change Healthcare's bad ransomware bet
This Risk & Repeat podcast discusses Change Healthcare's ransomware attack and the apparent further spread of sensitive data despite the company paying a ransom.
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25 Apr 2024
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud gets GenAI for banking
If Salesforce can talk the highly conservative, highly skeptical and highly regulated financial industry into adopting GenAI, the company could win over a lot more customers.
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25 Apr 2024
Dymium scares ransomware attacks with honeypot specters
Dymium, a security startup that recently emerged from stealth, offers ransomware defense for data stores with a network of honeypot traps for spoofing attackers.
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25 Apr 2024
Progress being made on gender diversity in cyber
Women make up a higher percentage of new entrants to the cyber security profession, particularly among younger age groups, and are increasingly taking up leadership positions and hiring roles, but challenges still persist
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25 Apr 2024
More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge
Evidence in the questioning of 35-year Post Office veteran reveals the lengths the Post Office went to in hiding computer system vulnerabilities
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25 Apr 2024
Cisco zero-day flaws in ASA, FTD software under attack
Cisco revealed that a nation-state threat campaign dubbed 'ArcaneDoor' exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense products.
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25 Apr 2024
UK gigabit maintains steady progress
Latest study of UK communications market from national regulator finds access to gigabit broadband and 5G mobile coverage has risen over past 12 months
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25 Apr 2024
Executive interview: Salesforce AI head discusses dynamic flowcharts
Business workflows can usually be mapped onto flowcharts which depict the set of actions an IT system takes, but large language models can make this dynamic, according to Jayesh Govindarajan, senior vice-president of AI at Salesforce
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25 Apr 2024
Ultrahuman launches US-based wearable ring manufacturing facility
The company’s press release declared that this is the first time wearable rings will be manufactured domestically.
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25 Apr 2024
Oracle expands generative AI across its CX applications
Oracle beefs up its Fusion Cloud Customer Experience applications with GenAI tools for users of its sales, field service, marketing and contact center.
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25 Apr 2024
Threat actors increasingly exploit zero-day vulnerabilities to evade threat detection
Although exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities remains a popular tactic, Mandiant found that defenders are getting better at identifying and containing compromises.
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25 Apr 2024
Meta chief lays out long-term AI plan
During the company’s first quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg and chief financial officer Susan Li discussed Meta’s long-term bet on AI
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25 Apr 2024
Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology
Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag
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25 Apr 2024
Consolidation and growth are key MSP market trends
Market analysis from tech investment player reveals the factors underpinning continued growth on both sides of the Atlantic
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25 Apr 2024
LLMs may enhance geriatric polypharmacy management in primary care
ChatGPT demonstrated potential in providing useful clinical decision support for primary care physicians managing polypharmacy and deprescription.
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25 Apr 2024
Humana reports Medicare Advantage growth, income gains in Q1 2024
Full-year consolidated revenues are expected to be $113 billion and individual Medicare Advantage membership is projected to grow by 150,000.
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25 Apr 2024
Extreme Connect 2024: AI in networks to live or die by trust
Cloud networking provider unveils hub for research, development and innovation in networking previews, tapping AI to offer a new way to design, optimise and deploy networks
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25 Apr 2024
Metformin use is associated with reduced cancer risk
A study from the National Cancer Institute found that metformin use was linked to lower cancer risk, primarily gastrointestinal, urologic, and hematologic cancer.
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25 Apr 2024
Do better outcomes from female docs signal need for more empathy?
Researchers suggest the better outcomes yielded by female physician-led care are due to the empathy females usually bring to the patient-provider relationship.
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24 Apr 2024
Lenovo, AMD broaden AI options for customers
Lenovo is expanding its partnership with AMD to bring more options for servers and HCI devices aimed at AI. It also launched an AI advisory and professional services offering for customers.
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24 Apr 2024
Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community
Mandating multifactor authentication for select developers has been a huge success for GitHub, the platform reports, and now it wants to go further
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24 Apr 2024
AtScale adds semantic layer support for AI, GenAI models
The vendor's new platform update centers around decision-making flexibility, collaboration and community, and includes a metadata hub along with support for advanced applications.
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24 Apr 2024
Critical CrushFTP zero-day vulnerability under attack
While a patch is now available, a critical CrushFTP vulnerability came under attack as a zero-day and could allow attackers to exfiltrate all files on the server.
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24 Apr 2024
Coalition: Insurance claims for Cisco ASA users spiked in 2023
Coalition urged enterprises to be cautious when using Cisco and Fortinet network boundary devices as attackers can leverage the attack vectors to gain initial access.
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24 Apr 2024
TD Synnex launches group to focus on AI
Distributor forms group to bring together businesses and individuals with different skills and resources to maximise benefits of artificial intelligence
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24 Apr 2024
GitHub vulnerability leaks sensitive security reports
The vulnerability is triggered when GitHub users correct code or other mistakes they discover on repositories. But GitHub does not believe it warrants a fix.
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24 Apr 2024
Cyber training leader KnowBe4 to buy email security firm Egress
Security awareness training and phishing simulation specialist KnowBe4 is to buy email security expert Egress
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24 Apr 2024
Experts: IBM buy could change HashiCorp open source equation
IBM will buy HashiCorp for $6.5 billion, prompting speculation that being brought under the same roof as Red Hat could alter Hashi's open source trajectory.
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24 Apr 2024
TikTok ban sails through US Senate
A law that will ban TikTok in the US unless its owner sells up pronto passed the US Senate by a landslide majority after being included in a package of military aid
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24 Apr 2024
AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage
AI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero
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24 Apr 2024
Education will be key to good AI regulation: A view from the USA
Computer Weekly sat down with Salesforce’s vice-president of federal government affairs, Hugh Gamble, to find out how the US is forging a path towards AI regulation, and how things look from Capitol Hill
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24 Apr 2024
HubSpot embraces GenAI with Service Hub updates and more
A reimagined, generative AI-infused Content Hub leads the way for a passel of HubSpot updates for users of its sales, service, marketing and digital payment platforms.
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24 Apr 2024
Snowflake targets enterprise AI with launch of Arctic LLM
The data cloud vendor's open source LLM was designed to excel at business-specific tasks, such as generating code and following instructions, to enable enterprise-grade development.
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24 Apr 2024
FDA launches initiative to advance home healthcare models, devices
The agency’s new Home as a Health Care Hub aims to help technology developers and providers consider new designs for at-home care devices and models.
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24 Apr 2024
FDA approval of Wegovy expands coverage access for Medicare beneficiaries
Medicare beneficiaries eligible for Wegovy coverage may still face cost barriers due to the high list price of the drug.
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24 Apr 2024
SAP earnings rise, but no support extension
Support for SAP ECC is due to end in 2027. The company hopes customers will choose to buy into its business AI portfolio
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24 Apr 2024
ITV News tech failures nearly caused ‘holes’ in live broadcasts
Software purchased by ITN to be used to create bulletins and other content for ITV News is still experiencing problems almost a year after its introduction
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24 Apr 2024
Third-party tracking tech lawsuits surge in healthcare
From class action lawsuits to regulatory pushback, third-party tracking tech remains a focus area in the healthcare privacy landscape.
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24 Apr 2024
Lords debate amendment to law on use of computer evidence in light of Post Office scandal
Peers to debate amending the law on the use of computer evidence in court, which is partly to blame for the wrongful prosecutions of hundreds of former subpostmasters
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24 Apr 2024
HPE looks to go beyond standards requirements with Wi-Fi 7 access points
HPE announces Wi-Fi 7 wireless access points to provide managed ‘comprehensive’ edge IT solution to provide extended user and IoT connectivity, in-line processing, enhanced security and maximised performance
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24 Apr 2024
UK altnets claim to outpace Openreach in UK fibre
Research from Independent Networks Cooperation Association finds that despite challenges, alternative broadband providers enjoyed robust growth in 2023
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24 Apr 2024
Computational models forecast pediatric heart valve leakage
New computational models simulate heart valve shape, possible weak spots, and blood flow to help predict potential issues and guide surgery-based preventive efforts.
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24 Apr 2024
Race-neutral eGFR formula moves black patients up on transplant list
Several years after the NKF and ASN urged the use of an updated eGFR formula, more Black patients in need of a transplant have been added to or moved up on the list.
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24 Apr 2024
Marginal health equity for Black Californians suggests slow road ahead
Health equity and general equity in social issues only saw modest gains in the past two decades, which could spell slow progress in the future.
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23 Apr 2024
Splunk-Cribl lawsuit yields mixed result for both companies
Cribl did infringe on Splunk's copyright, a California jury found, but awarded damages of only $1. Both sides declared victory, and Splunk vowed to seek injunctive relief.
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23 Apr 2024
SAP earnings for Q1 indicate strong cloud growth
SAP's cloud revenue for the first quarter of 2024 indicates healthy growth and sets the stage as customers plan cloud migrations and implementations of business AI functionalities.
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23 Apr 2024
Veeam acquires Coveware for incident response capabilities
Coveware will remain operationally independent with its cyberincident capabilities and ransomware research complementing the data backup vendor's recovery offerings.
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23 Apr 2024
Extreme Connect 2024: Wi-Fi 6E to drive connectivity revolution in infinite enterprise
Extreme Networks kicks off annual conference with a launch it says will revolutionise outdoor connectivity through Wi-Fi 6E certification, with first significant customer deployments by leading entertainment company, major league baseball sports team and university
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23 Apr 2024
FTC bans noncompete agreements in split vote
Now that the FTC has issued its final rule banning noncompete clauses, it's likely to face a bevy of legal challenges.
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23 Apr 2024
Gartner's IT services forecast calls for consulting uptick
IT service providers could benefit from a less-constrained tech purchasing climate as enterprises seek to bolster in-house skills with consulting services.
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23 Apr 2024
Cohesity adds confidential computing to FortKnox
Cohesity is partnering with Intel to bring confidential computing technology to its FortKnox vault service -- a welcome, if limited, security addition, according to experts.
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23 Apr 2024
U.S. cracks down on commercial spyware with visa restrictions
The move marks the latest effort by the U.S. government to curb the spread of commercial spyware, which has been used to target journalists, politicians and human rights activists.
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23 Apr 2024
GooseEgg proves golden for Fancy Bear, says Microsoft
Microsoft’s threat researchers have uncovered GooseEgg, a never-before-seen tool being used by Forest Blizzard, or Fancy Bear, in conjunction with vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler
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23 Apr 2024
Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?
SaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue
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23 Apr 2024
Post Office boss used husband’s descriptions in 'Orwellian' ploy to downplay Horizon problems
Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.
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23 Apr 2024
ONC releases Common Agreement Version 2.0 for TEFCA
ONC has released the TEFCA Common Agreement Version 2.0, as well as Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, to further health data interoperability.
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23 Apr 2024
AWS boosts Amazon Bedrock GenAI platform, upgrades Titan LLM
The cloud giant buttressed its GenAI platform with features to import, select and build safety guardrails for third-party LLMs from Meta, Cohere, Mistral and others more easily.
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23 Apr 2024
CMS sets minimum staffing standards for nursing homes
A new rule from CMS establishes at a national level a minimum total of 3.48 hours of nursing care per day, among other staffing standards.
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23 Apr 2024
Medicaid final rules improve care access for managed care, FFS beneficiaries
The rules address payment rates, care quality, and home- and community-based services in Medicaid managed care and fee-for-service plans.
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23 Apr 2024
Mandiant: Attacker dwell time down, ransomware up in 2023
Mandiant's 'M-Trends' 2024 report offered positive signs for global cybersecurity but warned that threat actors are shifting to zero-day exploitation and evasion techniques.
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23 Apr 2024
Portal allows public reporting of anti-competitive behaviors
The federal government has opened an online portal for public reporting of anti-competitive behaviors in healthcare in an effort to fairer markets.
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23 Apr 2024
HHS finalizes rule to strengthen reproductive health data privacy under HIPAA
The final rule aims to protect those seeking lawful reproductive healthcare by prohibiting the disclosure of PHI for the purposes of investigating patients.
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23 Apr 2024
Nokia boosts Industry 4.0 with MX Grid, Visual Position and Object Detection
Comms tech provider makes series of announcements to enable more effective, responsive and agile decision-making for Industry 4.0 segments by processing, and unveils visual position and object detection technology to track industrial assets via camera video feeds
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23 Apr 2024
Poor care access leaves youth mental health crisis in limbo
Limited workforce, challenges balancing care access with school, and stigma are exacerbating the youth mental health crisis.
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23 Apr 2024
Expert investigating Capture system refuses to meet ‘untrustworthy’ Post Office
A former Post Office executive has refused to meet his past employer to discuss the controversial Capture system
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23 Apr 2024
Vodafone Business aims to help SMEs boost productivity and security
Following research showing how small and medium-sized businesses could increase profits and efficiency by making better use of digital tools, UK comms provider unveils campaign to help SMEs source digital tools to boost productivity and security
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23 Apr 2024
Lords split over UK government approach to autonomous weapons
During a debate on autonomous weapons systems, Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current position, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use
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22 Apr 2024
Mitre breached by nation-state threat actor via Ivanti flaws
An unnamed nation-state threat actor breached Mitre through two Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, disclosed earlier this year.
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22 Apr 2024
SAP Emarsys launches Product Finder AI shopping tool
SAP Emarsys moves deeper into generative AI with Product Finder, a product recommendation tool that promises to improve e-commerce and marketing message relevancy.
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22 Apr 2024
Fujitsu to cut UK jobs as Post Office scandal fallout hits sales
Japanese supplier’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal is beginning to hurt its UK business, with job cuts announced
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22 Apr 2024
Machine learning approach predicts heart failure outcome risk
A machine learning tool accurately forecasts risk of adverse outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction across five categories.
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22 Apr 2024
Former Sellafield consultant claims the nuclear complex tampered with evidence
Whistleblower Alison McDermott claims former employer Sellafield tampered with metadata in letters used in evidence during an employment tribunal
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22 Apr 2024
Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance
Fujifilm to add 100TB SME-focused Kangaroo tape infrastructure in a box to existing 1PB offer, as energy efficiency and security of tape make it alluring to customers
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22 Apr 2024
Government provides funding to help innovators navigate regs
AI and Digital Hub, backed by almost £2m in funding, will coordinate regulatory advice across CMA, FCA, ICO and Ofcom
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22 Apr 2024
NCSC announces PwC’s Richard Horne as CEO
Former PwC and Barclays cyber chief Richard Horne set to join UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as CEO
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22 Apr 2024
Interview: IoT enables Dutch-French company to provide bicycle and scooter rental
Dott’s connected system and mobile app allow users to hire vehicles and ensure safe and compliant rides in 40 cities across Europe and Israel
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22 Apr 2024
Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market
Fast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals
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22 Apr 2024
HHS finalizes 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution process
A new rule from HHS finalizes an Administrative Dispute Resolution process, which allows covered entities to address disputes with drug companies.
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22 Apr 2024
Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own
Post Office IT scandal inquiry hears how a lawyer was at the centre of the Post Office’s attempts to prevent problems with its IT system becoming public knowledge
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22 Apr 2024
Provider markups on specialty drugs increased commercial premiums
The average provider markup on specialty drugs was 42 percent and represented 0.7 percent of total healthcare spending.
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22 Apr 2024
Survey reveals physicians’ optimism, concerns around generative AI
A recent survey showed that physicians’ perceptions of generative AI are rapidly evolving, with a majority reporting that they are receptive to adopting the tech.
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22 Apr 2024
IT leaders hiring CISOs aplenty, but don’t fully understand the role
Most businesses now have a CISO, but perceptions of what CISOs are supposed to do, and confusion over the value they offer, may be holding back harmonious relations, according to a report
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22 Apr 2024
Can AI Manage High-cost Claims? Not Without Humans
AI and human expertise play crucial roles in managing the growing complexity and volume of high-cost healthcare claims.
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21 Apr 2024
Crime agency criticises Meta as European police chiefs call for curbs on end-to-end encryption
Law enforcement agencies step up demands for ‘lawful access’ to encrypted communications
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19 Apr 2024
Cisco charts new security terrain with Hypershield
Initially, Hypershield protects software, VMs and containerized applications running on Linux. Cisco's ambition is to eventually broaden its reach.
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19 Apr 2024
Businesses need to prepare for SEC climate rules, EU's CSRD
While the SEC's new climate rules and the EU's CSRD are both facing delays, businesses still need to identify methods for collecting and assessing climate data.
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19 Apr 2024
Report reveals Northern Ireland police put up to 18 journalists and lawyers under surveillance
Disclosures that the Police Service of Northern Ireland obtained phone communications data from journalists and lawyers leads to renewed calls for inquiry
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19 Apr 2024
Nexfibre reaches million premises ready for service benchmark
Months after commitment to billion-pound investment in broadband infrastructure across the course of 2024, UK wholesale provider claims massive milestone in plan to deliver full-fibre gigabit network to five million premises by 2026
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19 Apr 2024
OpenTofu forges on with beta feature that drew HashiCorp ire
Defying a HashiCorp cease and desist, OpenTofu 1.7 beta ships with the removed blocks feature and client-side state encryption support long sought by the Terraform community.
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19 Apr 2024
Sonatus opens software-defined vehicle R&D, engineering centre in Dublin
Software-defined vehicle partner establishes new design centre to take advantage of highly skilled pool of technical and engineering talent, and enable closer collaboration with customers and partners in the UK and EU
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19 Apr 2024
Businesses confront reality of generative AI in finance
As large language models move from pilot projects to full-scale deployment in finance, the industry is facing a mixture of compliance and technological challenges in 2024.
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19 Apr 2024
CISA: Akira ransomware extorted $42M from 250+ victims
The Akira ransomware gang, which utilizes sophisticated hybrid encryption techniques and multiple ransomware variants, targeted vulnerable Cisco VPNs in a campaign last year.
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19 Apr 2024
Decade-long IR35 dispute between IT contractor and HMRC prompts calls for off-payroll revamp
An IT contractor’s business is on the brink of insolvency after a decade-long IR35 dispute with HMRC
