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21 Nov 2024
Fujitsu snubbed on private sector deal with Centrica due to Post Office scandal backlash
By Karl FlindersCentrica board said to be concerned about contracting Fujitsu due to its involvement in the Post Office scandal
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21 Nov 2024
Nvidia CEO talks up AI post-training, test learning and gigawatts
By Cliff SaranThe company’s datacentre business continues to skyrocket as demand for artificial intelligence accelerates
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21 Nov 2024
RWE bets on HPE Private Cloud AI for green energy push
By Caroline DonnellyEnergy firm RWE has selected the HPE Private Cloud AI setup to help it model and glean insights from weather data with greater ease
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14 Mar 2024
Wellcare partners with tech company to improve value-based primary care
By Victoria BaileyThe partnership will allow Wellcare to share increased financial risk and advance value-based primary care.
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14 Mar 2024
Passalacqua hotel claims exceptional guest connectivity with AI-driven Wi-Fi 7
By Joe O’HalloranPrestigious hotel on the shores of Lake Como to become one of the world’s first early adopters of Wi-Fi 7 to give not only high connectivity speeds, but also low latency and increased capacity
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14 Mar 2024
Channel struggling to unlock data insights
By Simon QuickeHigh volumes of information from various sources are underlining attempts to grow revenues, according to findings from Westcon-Comstor
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14 Mar 2024
MPs will attempt to amend law on overturning Post Office scandal convictions
By Karl FlindersBusiness and trade select committee chair says the job is not done with legislation to overturn wrongful subpostmaster convictions and provide financial redress
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14 Mar 2024
Hospital payment cap slashes prices in Ore.
By Jacqueline LaPointeA new study finds a hospital payment cap in the Oregon state employee health insurance plan reduced prices and price variation.
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14 Mar 2024
Predictive tool use has little effect on knee surgery decision-making
By Shania KennedyThe use of a predictive tool designed to forecast outcomes of total knee arthroplasty did not significantly alter patients’ willingness for surgery.
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14 Mar 2024
Racial minority IBD patients find mental health apps ‘acceptable’
By Anuja VaidyaMinority IBD patients experience high rates of anxiety and depression, but a new study shows the acceptability of using mHealth apps to manage their mental health.
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14 Mar 2024
Healthcare data breaches are piling up 3 months into the year
By Victoria BaileyIndividuals impacted by these healthcare data breaches at hospitals and other entities are encouraged to monitor account statements and credit reports for suspicious activity.
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14 Mar 2024
FDA requests $7.2 billion from Biden’s 2025 fiscal year budget
By Veronica SalibThe request will fund enhanced food safety and nutrition, address shortages and supply chain challenges, and modernization efforts.
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14 Mar 2024
Oracle adds generative AI tools to Fusion CX applications
By Don FluckingerThe new tools are among 50 generative AI features Oracle released for several Fusion applications, from CX to HR and supply chain.
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14 Mar 2024
Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word
By Karl FlindersThe children of victims of the Post Office scandal have formed a group that will hold Fujitsu’s European boss to his promise of support
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13 Mar 2024
Cerebras introduces next-gen AI chip for GenAI training
By Esther AjaoThe new accelerator is for training large AI models. It powers the startup's CS-3 supercomputer, which is designed to train models that are 10 times larger than GPT-4 and Gemini.
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13 Mar 2024
Zendesk to acquire AI customer service bot startup Ultimate
By Don FluckingerZendesk continues its acquisition spree with plans to buy partner Ultimate, making way for more straightforward integration of virtual agents.
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13 Mar 2024
EU AI Act sets global standard for managing AI
By Makenzie HollandThe EU AI Act will come into force in 2024, meaning that global enterprise businesses will need to take steps toward compliance.
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13 Mar 2024
Vast Data, Nvidia collaborate on new AI architecture
By Adam ArmstrongVast Data is adding its OS to Nvidia hardware, freeing up GPUs to focus solely on AI workloads -- a new architecture that could potentially speed up processing.
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13 Mar 2024
US authorities move a step closer to banning TikTok
By Alex ScroxtonLawmakers in Washington DC have moved a step closer to enacting a broad national ban on controversial video app TikTok in the US, with global ramifications
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13 Mar 2024
Researchers warn devs of vulnerabilities in ChatGPT plugins
By Beth PariseauOpenAI and two third-party providers fixed vulnerabilities in the experimental ChatGPT plugins framework, but Salt Security researchers caution devs that security risks persist.
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13 Mar 2024
BT, Broadpeak intro multicast tech to enhance network video streaming
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading network provider teams with content delivery network firm to enhance live video streaming quality and reliability using adaptive bit rate and multicast-assisted unicast delivery technology
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13 Mar 2024
Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April
By Alex ScroxtonAfter a year being previewed by beta customers, Microsoft’s much vaunted Copilot for Security service is about to go on general release, promising time savings and improved accuracy for hard-pressed security pros
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13 Mar 2024
British Library opens up over ransomware attack to help others
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library has opted for full transparency after experiencing a devastating ransomware attack, publishing details of the intrusion, its response and the lessons it has learned
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13 Mar 2024
SEA-ME-WE 4 doubles undersea capacity with optical link
By Joe O’HalloranOptical communications technology provider Ciena doubles capacity of undersea cable links covering South/Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to 122Tbps
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13 Mar 2024
UK gets funding boost through EU Horizon chip initiative
By Cliff SaranSigning up to the Chips Joint Undertaking means the UK will receive up to £35m to support chip development
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13 Mar 2024
Acne treatments contain harmful levels of benzoyl peroxide
By Veronica SalibAn independent lab analysis found that multiple products, including acne treatments, contain high levels of benzoyl peroxide, up to 800 times greater than the regulatory limit.
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13 Mar 2024
Dataiku intros GenAI cost monitoring tool: LLM Cost Guard
By Esther AjaoThe tool lets customers be provider-agnostic and can integrate with models from providers like OpenAI, AWS and Anthropic. It watches for overruns and differentiates between costs.
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13 Mar 2024
TotalEnergies upgrades OT network to increase safety, performance, cyber security
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal multi-energy company upgrades operational technology network on its North Sea oil and gas platforms with next-generation infrastructure to ensure efficient operation of critical infrastructure
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13 Mar 2024
Healthcare stakeholders call for hospital-at-home waiver permanency
By Anuja VaidyaA group of healthcare stakeholders, including providers, vendors, and associations, are urging Congress to extend the CMS hospital-at-home waiver beyond 2024.
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13 Mar 2024
VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?
By Cliff SaranNutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware
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13 Mar 2024
Traveller experience takes off at Houston Airports with HPE Aruba mobility
By Joe O’HalloranOne of North America’s largest public airport systems modernises connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and networking infrastructure to boost quality of passenger experience and contribute to sustainability goals
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13 Mar 2024
Channel urged to keep evolving sustainability position
By Simon QuickeWith the industry evolving, the emergence of AI and other energy-hungry technologies, the need to keep on top of strategies to reduce carbon emissions are essential
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13 Mar 2024
Unprecedented bill to exonerate hundreds of wrongly convicted Post Office workers arrives
By Karl FlindersUnprecedented legislation that will see hundreds of former subpostmaster convictions for fraud and theft overturned begins its journey through Parliament
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13 Mar 2024
Omnispace, MTN team to develop, deploy satellite IoT, 5G NTN services
By Joe O’HalloranAfrican space-based mobile communications industry gains higher orbit as continent’s largest mobile operator enters partnership with non-geostationary satellite constellation firm
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13 Mar 2024
Continuous Medicaid eligibility during PHE improved postpartum coverage
By Victoria BaileyAfter the continuous Medicaid eligibility requirement was implemented, postpartum Medicaid enrollment rose from 63.1 percent to 72.8 percent.
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13 Mar 2024
Deep learning tool predicts brain metastasis in lung cancer patients
By Shania KennedyA new deep learning approach utilizes histopathology images to forecast whether a patient’s lung cancer will eventually spread to the brain.
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13 Mar 2024
Little progress made with hospital price transparency compliance
By Jacqueline LaPointeOnly about a third of hospitals are fully compliant with federal price transparency requirements three years later, a new report shows.
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13 Mar 2024
Childhood cancer survivors don’t adhere to surveillance guidelines
By Veronica SalibLess than 55% of childhood cancer survivors adhere to surveillance guidelines for colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and cardiomyopathy.
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13 Mar 2024
Using gen AI to translate medical jargon in discharge notes
By Sara HeathDischarge notes riddled with too much complex medical jargon can confuse patients, but generative AI can support health literacy.
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13 Mar 2024
AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne
By Stephen WithersThe Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment
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12 Mar 2024
March Patch Tuesday fixes critical Hyper-V vulnerabilities
By Tom WalatMicrosoft also corrects a remote code execution flaw on Exchange Server and issues an advisory related to changes with an outdated file-scanning feature on the messaging platform.
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12 Mar 2024
Meta intros two GPU training clusters for Llama 3
By Esther AjaoThe Facebook parent company said the training clusters are part of its plans to grow its infrastructure and obtain 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year.
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12 Mar 2024
March Patch Tuesday throws up two critical Hyper-V flaws
By Alex ScroxtonTwo critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V stand out on an otherwise unremarkable Patch Tuesday
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12 Mar 2024
Snowflake boosting its commitment to AI, including GenAI
By Eric AvidonRecent moves, including the appointment of a new CEO and the formation of a new partnership, are representative of the vendor's heightened focus on artificial intelligence.
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12 Mar 2024
Sophos: Remote ransomware attacks on SMBs increasing
By Alexander CulafiAccording to new research from Sophos, small businesses are seeing a rise in threats such as remotely executed ransomware attacks, malvertising, driver abuse and more.
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12 Mar 2024
Cohere tackles some generative AI challenges with Command-R
By Esther AjaoThe startup's new large language model aims to address problems with factual accuracies in generative AI models. It also focuses on language problems, and cloud and API challenges.
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12 Mar 2024
Arista adds network change analysis to CloudVision
By Antone GonsalvesArista's CloudVision Universal Network Observability analyses network changes to assess their impact on applications and workloads, including those on virtualization platforms.
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12 Mar 2024
Openreach, Focus Group boost broadband focus in South West England
By Joe O’HalloranOpenreach claims major milestone inunderserved region’s digital transformation, while UK provider of essential business technology beefs up regional presence with key acquisition
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12 Mar 2024
Labour will use AI to grow the economy by 0.5%, says shadow tech secretary Peter Kyle
By Bill GoodwinThe Labour Party plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in small businesses and across government to grow the economy, but transparency and building trust with the public will be key
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12 Mar 2024
Nationwide IT infrastructure poised to absorb Virgin Money
By Karl FlindersA Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money will be the biggest financial services acquisition since 2008, but what about the IT challenges and opportunities that go with it?
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12 Mar 2024
Swiss player Avallain gains UK foothold with TeacherMatic buy
By Simon QuickeAvallain responds to growing impact of artificial intelligence in education with acquisition of specialist firm in UK
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12 Mar 2024
LockBit attacks continue via ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws
By Arielle WaldmanCoalition is latest company to confirm LockBit activity against vulnerable ScreenConnect instances. But the insurer found significant differences between previous LockBit attacks.
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12 Mar 2024
Industry partnerships and data key to better public services
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUsing public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan
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12 Mar 2024
Identity threats in the cyber battleground
By Simon QuickeA shift towards cyber criminals trying to access datacentres has underlined the need for the channel to help customers counter attacks
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12 Mar 2024
MinIO bolsters commercial storage with new console, firewall
By Adam ArmstrongMinIO's Enterprise Object Store is aimed squarely at enterprises and reflects how object storage has evolved over the years, one analyst said.
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12 Mar 2024
Mayo Clinic develops novel AI class to advance cancer research, care
By Shania KennedyHypothesis-driven artificial intelligence could enhance cancer studies and guide personalized treatment by focusing on specific research questions.
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12 Mar 2024
Care orgs tap Microsoft generative AI for clinical documentation
By Hannah NelsonStandford Medicine, WellSpan Health, and Providence are early adopters of DAX Copilot, a generative AI tool for clinical documentation from Microsoft.
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12 Mar 2024
Healthgrades: communication, patient experience sway recommendations
By Sara HeathDoctor and nurse communication are among the top patient experience issues that predict whether a patient will recommend a hospital to others.
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12 Mar 2024
UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration
By Cliff SaranDeclaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech
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12 Mar 2024
VergeIO's IOguardian protects VM data loss with syncing tech
By Tim McCarthyThe IOguardian capability for VergeIO's OS enables virtual machine replication and data syncing without the continuity lag common with disaster recovery software.
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12 Mar 2024
More DDoS attacks launched against APAC financial firms
By Aaron TanThe financial sector in Asia-Pacific saw more DDoS attacks in 2023, but no notable impact was reported, according to a report by Akamai and FS-ISAC
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12 Mar 2024
Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads
By Antony AdsheadSoftware-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS
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12 Mar 2024
Current subpostmaster account shortfalls reveal extent of Post Office’s pre-2019 neglect
By Karl FlindersHundreds of current subpostmasters might have been hounded for money or prosecuted had the Post Office not been forced to change its ways in 2019
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12 Mar 2024
Digitally transforming government: MoJ and GDS on using mobile devices and GenAI to help people
By Caroline DonnellyDuring a fireside chat at the Tech Show London, GDS CEO Tom Read and the Ministry of Justice CDIO Gina Gill swapped stories on how their teams are using technology to improve the quality of life for citizens
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12 Mar 2024
Starlink launches constellation, improves comms latency
By Joe O’HalloranAfter launch of 23 craft for growing satellite constellation, Elon Musk-led US spacecraft manufacturer reveals steps taken to improve quality of experience and service
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12 Mar 2024
Lower reimbursement rates, denials behind razor-thin margins
By Jacqueline LaPointeA survey of health system CFOs identifies major pain points, including lower reimbursement rates, more denials, and high labor costs.
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12 Mar 2024
What are the top patient safety concerns for this year?
By Sara HeathECRI listed workforce challenges and patient access to maternal and perinatal care as the leading patient safety concerns for this year.
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12 Mar 2024
Patients mostly use telehealth for prescription renewals, follow-ups
By Anuja VaidyaNew survey results from Elevance Health reveal US adults’ top telehealth use cases and underscore the enduring patient satisfaction with virtual care services.
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12 Mar 2024
Machine learning enables prediction of pediatric urinary condition
By Shania KennedyNew tool uses machine learning to forecast risk of dilating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), a common cause of hydronephrosis in infants.
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12 Mar 2024
Healthcare hit hardest by ransomware last year, FBI IC3 report shows
By Jill McKeonLockBit and ALPHV/BlackCat were the top ransomware variants to impact critical infrastructure sectors last year, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report.
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12 Mar 2024
2024 Medicare Advantage premiums remain low and stable
By Victoria BaileyFor beneficiaries selecting plans through eHealth, the average Medicare Advantage premium is $9 per month—the same as in 2023.
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12 Mar 2024
FDA expands Wegovy indications, adding cardiovascular disease
By Veronica SalibLast week, the FDA expanded Wegovy’s approval, allowing doctors to prescribe it to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke.
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11 Mar 2024
Elon Musk plans to take xAI chatbot Grok open source
By Esther AjaoThe move comes nearly two weeks after the Tesla owner filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. It also comes as more vendors are providing open source options for enterprise users.
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11 Mar 2024
AWS partner competency asks for GenAI tech, business skills
By John MooreThe cloud provider's generative AI certification takes months to complete, involves numerous technical and operational demands, and requires four detailed customer case studies.
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11 Mar 2024
CISA confirms compromise of its Ivanti systems
By Alexander CulafiCISA said that approximately one month ago, it identified 'activity indicating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti products the agency uses.'
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11 Mar 2024
Birmingham City Council’s Oracle implementation explained: What went wrong?
By Cliff SaranThe council swapped out a heavily customised SAP ERP system for Oracle Cloud, but since it went live, it has had numerous technical challenges
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11 Mar 2024
Aryaka launches SASE as a service to cover channel options
By Simon QuickeNetworking player provides service that will give partners additional consumption model to put in front of customers
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11 Mar 2024
Aryaka advances network, security convergence with SASE as a service
By Joe O’HalloranCloud-based software-defined networking and security services provider claims to transform global secure networking with unified secure access service edge solution
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11 Mar 2024
Government not facing up to CNI cyber risks, committee warns
By Alex ScroxtonThe Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has accused the government of burying its head in the sand over the cyber threat to UK critical infrastructure
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11 Mar 2024
Salesforce AI a work in progress for customers
By Antone GonsalvesWhile eager to embed AI in Salesforce software, customers acknowledge that planning, time and work are needed to make AI useful in the company's applications.
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11 Mar 2024
Sateliot to launch four 5G satellites
By Joe O’HalloranLEO 5G internet of things satellite constellation provider reveals summer launch of satellites to connect nearly seven million IoT devices and begin to recurrently bill €187m in binding orders
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11 Mar 2024
Surescripts reports increase in patient data sharing across HIE network
By Hannah NelsonIn 2023, Surescripts saw increased utilization of several patient data sharing tools, including its Real-Time Prescription Benefit services.
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11 Mar 2024
Podcast: A look at SambaNova's open source AI strategy
By Esther AjaoDespite sometimes being seen as a direct competitor to Nvidia Systems, the AI hardware and software vendor tries to distinguish itself by focusing on training open source models.
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11 Mar 2024
Alation platform update targets building a data culture
By Eric AvidonNew business lineage and data discovery capabilities aimed at helping customers develop an enterprise-wide data culture are included in the data catalog specialist's latest update.
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11 Mar 2024
VA announces joint EHR deployment with DoD during EHRM program reset
By Hannah NelsonVA is rolling out the federal EHR system at a joint-DoD healthcare facility despite pausing additional go-lives as part of its EHR modernization (EHRM) reset.
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11 Mar 2024
Ocient raises $49.4M in funding to fuel development, growth
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor plans to use the new financing for product development and to fund sales and marketing efforts as it moves into its growth phase.
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11 Mar 2024
Dutch organisations vulnerable to deepfake fraud
By Kim LoohuisWith the information many employees share on social media, Dutch companies are especially vulnerable to a new form of fraud
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11 Mar 2024
HEALTHeLINK HIE Launches Dashboard for Community Health
By Hannah NelsonCommunity health organizations and providers in Western New York can search the HIE dashboard at a county and zip code level to inform public health initiatives.
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11 Mar 2024
Infor a penny, Infor a pound
By Marc Ambasna-JonesHow vertical enterprise resource planning specialist Infor has its sights set on a disruptive 2024
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11 Mar 2024
Global cellular IoT connections to grow by three billion in next four years
By Joe O’HalloranFederated learning to automate platform management, configuration of devices, security processes and connectivity in real time will be key to handling large increase in data as telco network-based internet of things flourishes
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11 Mar 2024
Vinnova launches National Digital Advancement project
By Gerard O'DwyerSwedish state innovation initiative invests in a network of regional research and development centres
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11 Mar 2024
AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs
By Aaron TanAI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia
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11 Mar 2024
$460B spending bill averts shutdown, some physician pay cuts
By Jacqueline LaPointeIn addition to preventing a government shutdown, the bipartisan spending bill will also reduce the Medicare physician pay cut and delay Medicaid DSH reductions.
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11 Mar 2024
Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise
By Stephen PritchardWhile optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests
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11 Mar 2024
How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services
By Aaron TanMicrosoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector
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11 Mar 2024
TechUK calls for next government to introduce ‘industrial strategy’ for AI
By Bill GoodwinTrade group TechUK publishes blueprint calling for winner of next election to boost tech startups, digitise government services and accelerate technology R&D
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11 Mar 2024
Mount Sinai to develop sleep apnea outcome risk prediction models
By Shania KennedyA $3 million NIH grant will help researchers develop and study machine learning models to predict risk for cardiovascular disease in sleep apnea patients.
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11 Mar 2024
Medicare Advantage enrollment increased by 1.7 million beneficiaries
By Victoria BaileyFor-profit health plans accounted for 73.5 percent of all Medicare Advantage enrollment in 2024.
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11 Mar 2024
Trauma center hospitals charged above-market prices for non-trauma care
By Victoria BaileyPrices for non-trauma inpatient admissions were 4.4 percent higher at trauma center hospitals than at hospitals without a trauma designation.
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11 Mar 2024
Short sleep duration linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
By Veronica SalibA JAMA Network Open study reported that chronic short sleep duration correlated with an increased probability of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
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11 Mar 2024
Behavioral healthcare access in community health centers up 40%
By Sara HeathDespite increased mental and behavioral healthcare access in community health centers, further funding is needed to meet growing demand.
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08 Mar 2024
Workday partnership pushes vendor into new area: PEO
By Patrick ThibodeauWorkday partners with Insperity to offer professional employer organization services to SMBs, aiming to expand its platform's reach to smaller, high-growth companies
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08 Mar 2024
Midnight Blizzard accessed Microsoft systems, source code
By Alexander CulafiMicrosoft said Midnight Blizzard used data stolen from a breach of its corporate email system to access other parts of the company's network, including source code repositories.