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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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28 Mar 2024
Remote access is the Post Office’s known unknown
Calls for criminal investigation after covert recordings are latest evidence to reveal extent of Post Office knowledge of remote access to subpostmaster accounts
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28 Mar 2024
Merged Vodafone/Three could offer UK’s leading mobile coverage
Despite the possible merger of Vodafone UK and Three UK set for rigorous examination by competition watchdog, mobile analyst points to performance benefits of proposed deal
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28 Mar 2024
Zayo lights up European fibre connectivity with Waves on Demand
Future-ready network and tailored edge services provider expands European connectivity with fibre service offering customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in five working days
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28 Mar 2024
Healthcare security culture steadily improving, but gaps remain
Healthcare security culture maturity gaps can make the sector vulnerable to increased cyber risk, KnowBe4’s Security Culture Report suggests.
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28 Mar 2024
Hospital financial performance off to a strong start
New data from Kaufman Hall shows a median monthly operating margin index of nearly 4% in February 2024, building on several months of positive margins.
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28 Mar 2024
Online big data dashboard to help map enteric infectious diseases
The Planetary Child Health & Enterics Observatory dashboard aims to shed light on the global public health threat of diarrheal diseases in children.
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28 Mar 2024
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs reached $5.7 billion in 2022
Medicare spending on GLP-1 drugs may continue rising as demand surges and coverage expands.
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28 Mar 2024
FDA issues warning letters for unapproved topical pain relief products
The FDA issued warning letters to six companies, highlighting the dangers of unauthorized topical pain relief products and warning consumers.
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27 Mar 2024
Adobe intros new GenAI tools and apps for marketers
The new applications and tools are for marketers looking to connect the different processes of the content supply chain in a safe and responsible manner.
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27 Mar 2024
Workday's AI lawsuit defense puts responsibility on users
Workday faces an AI lawsuit that's raising questions about HR software responsibility and liability in AI-driven recruitment. A federal judge is considering a dismissal motion.
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27 Mar 2024
New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development
The data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models.
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27 Mar 2024
Zoom spreads AI across collaboration services
Zoom's new AI-powered Workplace enters a market in which enterprises worry about the loss of data control in AI applications spreading across collaboration platforms.
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27 Mar 2024
Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite
The BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis.
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27 Mar 2024
Spyware vendors behind 75% of zero-days targeting Google
Google observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild last year, which was more than a 50% increase over the 62 exploited zero-day vulnerabilities tracked in 2022.
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27 Mar 2024
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
Data stolen from an earlier attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been leaked by a ransomware gang that claims to be in possession of much more content
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27 Mar 2024
RingCentral goes global with AI-powered contact centre solution
Provider of artificial intelligence-driven cloud solutions expands global footprint and drives adoption momentum of contact centre products with CRM integrations that enable integrated, immersive agent experience
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27 Mar 2024
TD Synnex expects improving market through 2024
Distributor shares Q1 numbers, but looks to PC growth and impact of AI to help drive business forward
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
Despite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
Analysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime
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27 Mar 2024
Unpatched flaw in Anyscale's Ray AI framework under attack
Oligo Security researchers say thousands of Ray servers have been compromised through the flaw, but Anyscale said it has received no reports of exploitation.
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27 Mar 2024
Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
Smart meters make it possible to manage the electricity grid in a more flexible way, but millions are facing connectivity issues
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27 Mar 2024
Westcon-Comstor promotes Partner Insights
Distributor is encouraging channel to use data it provides to help identify trends and grow their businesses
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27 Mar 2024
Indian large language models gain momentum
Indian LLMs trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country
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27 Mar 2024
Avaya announces Zoom strategic partnership for collaboration
Avaya selects Zoom’s recently launched AI-powered Workplace platform to integrate with its Communication and Collaboration Suite to help enterprises ‘reimagine’ teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks
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27 Mar 2024
Chronic care access limits diagnosis & quality for women
It takes women more than a year longer to get a diagnosis than men, spelling out an issue with chronic care access and clinical quality.
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27 Mar 2024
Cisco unveils enhanced collaboration tech for the hybrid workforce
Multifunctional devices from Cisco aim to enhance collaboration in offices through optimised cameras and AI-powered collaboration features for hybrid teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI
Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts
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27 Mar 2024
Goldilock makes move to channel-first model
Security player views partners as best way to grow business and brings on board expertise to support shift
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27 Mar 2024
Leaked comms reveal Fujitsu eyeing huge UK government bounty, despite Post Office scandal promise
While subpostmasters fight tooth and nail for justice and financial redress, Fujitsu continues to target millions of UK taxpayer pounds
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27 Mar 2024
UK regional science and tech startups grew in 2023
Globally there is still a post-pandemic funding slump, but UK startups in regions such as Wales and Yorkshire grew private sector investment in 2023
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27 Mar 2024
HHS offers resource guide to providers impacted by Change Healthcare cyberattack
The guidance document consists of health plan contact information to help providers bridge communication gaps as they work to recover from the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
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27 Mar 2024
CMS final rule aims to simplify Medicaid, CHIP enrollment, coverage
The CMS final rule updated renewal and enrollment policies and sought to eliminate practices that cause coverage disruptions.
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27 Mar 2024
Flashpoint observes 84% surge in ransomware attacks in 2023
The threat intelligence vendor anticipates that enterprises will continue to face increases in ransomware activity and data breaches in 2024, with some silver linings ahead.
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27 Mar 2024
Primary care delivery is similar across all Medicare patient mixes
The rate of social needs screenings was low among primary care physicians serving primarily Medicare Advantage patients and those serving traditional Medicare patients.
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27 Mar 2024
Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE
The Carequality interoperability framework facilitates the exchange of over 745,000,000 documents every month across disparate HIE networks, regions, and technologies.
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27 Mar 2024
Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge
Patient satisfaction scores were lower when patients did not receive good post-discharge notes and communication.
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27 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, uptake
New study suggests that principles of behavioral economics – such as risk aversion – may have a significant impact on attitudes around vaccination and immunization.
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27 Mar 2024
SCOTUS to issue a decision on mifepristone in the coming months
Following yesterday’s hearing, experts predict that SCOTUS will issue a final ruling on mifepristone access in the coming months, likely siding with the FDA.
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27 Mar 2024
Transplant teams are less likely to accept donor hearts for Black men
An analysis of transplant center teams’ donor heart acceptances revealed that Black men on the wait list had the lowest probability of acceptance.
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27 Mar 2024
2024 MIPS Changes and Their Impact on Emergency Medicine
CMS continues to shift the MIPS reporting process with a new model specifically designed to align with physician specialties, like emergency medicine.
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26 Mar 2024
Qilin ransomware gang claims cyber attack on the Big Issue
A ransomware attack on the systems of publisher and social enterprise Big Issue Group has been claimed by the Qilin gang
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26 Mar 2024
Talkdesk releases on-prem AI contact center automation suite
Contact center as a service users have a leg up on generative AI integrations because of the nature of cloud infrastructure, but on-premises customer service will get theirs.
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26 Mar 2024
SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet software under attack
Fortinet and CISA confirmed CVE-2023-48788 is being actively exploited. But the Shadowserver Foundation found that many vulnerable instances remain online.
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26 Mar 2024
Top.gg supply chain attack highlights subtle risks
Threat actors used fake Python infrastructure and cookie stealing to poison multiple GitHub code repositories, putting another spotlight on supply chain risks.
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26 Mar 2024
Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management
Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware
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26 Mar 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange given temporary reprieve over extradition
Court seeks assurances from the US that Assange will be given First Amendment Rights, will not prejudiced at trial because of his nationality, and will not be subject to the death penalty
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26 Mar 2024
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline
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26 Mar 2024
Shareholders win when businesses do better at cyber
The more advanced a company’s cyber security performance, and the more engaged its board is with security issues, the greater the return for shareholders, a report has found
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26 Mar 2024
Softcat boss talks H1 results, M&A and growing headcount
In light of the release of numbers for the channel player’s first half, Softcat’s CEO shares his thoughts on the progress made
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26 Mar 2024
Writer Inc.'s new AI tool generates voice of marketers' content
As generative AI technology grows in marketing, personalized tools such as these help brands define their style. It makes sure what's generated is on brand with a company's message.
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26 Mar 2024
Cisco releases Webex AI Assistant for office, contact center
Cisco brings AI Assistant for Webex to Enterprise Connect. Analysts break down the timing and potential for the new features available for office collaboration and contact center.
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26 Mar 2024
HPE taps GenAI to bolster AIOps on Aruba Networking Central
Cloud-native network management service to be enhanced through GenAI LLM models applied directly to AI search to improve performance and accuracy for enhanced operator experience
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26 Mar 2024
Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022
Although still one of the least-visited alternative care sites, retail health clinic utilization soared between 2021 and 2022.
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26 Mar 2024
Ogi, MS3 push altnet-delivered gigabit Britain
Wales and north of England-based gigabit broadband networks providers reveal strategies to cash in on accelerated roll-out of full-fibre gigabit services to businesses and homes alike
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26 Mar 2024
Apple, Meta and Alphabet under EU scrutiny
Under the new Digital Markets Act, European commissioners are looking at potential issues with the way Apple, Alphabet and Meta operate their platforms
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26 Mar 2024
New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI
The longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI.
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26 Mar 2024
Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management
Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines
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26 Mar 2024
NHS SBS launches digital advisory framework
The Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement aims to provide a way for health and care organisations to get help with digital transformation and skills
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26 Mar 2024
New SIOS console enables high availability visualization
IT generalists on Linux systems can avoid the complexity of HA management for mission-critical apps or databases with a new management console in SIOS' LifeKeeper software.
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26 Mar 2024
Zoom aims to reimagine teamwork with Workplace AI collaboration platform
Comms and collaboration specialist unveils artificial intelligence-powered platform to help reimagine teamwork, facilitate connections and improve productivity intelligence within familiar experience
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26 Mar 2024
Softcat shares H1 progress
Channel player indicates the business emerged from a tough 2023 in decent shape, and ambition to grow market share remains paramount
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26 Mar 2024
GTC 2024: Storage suppliers queue up to ride the Nvidia AI wave
Storage supplier announcements at Nvdia conference centre on infrastructure integration, tackling the GPU I/O bottleneck and AI hallucinations by running Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices
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26 Mar 2024
Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools
Interviewed customers of clinical communication vendors PerfectServe, TigerConnect, and Baxter reported the highest levels of EHR integration in a new KLAS report.
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26 Mar 2024
How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications
SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers
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26 Mar 2024
HC3 alerts shed light on two popular healthcare cyberattack tactics
Recent HC3 sector alerts warned healthcare organizations of email bombing and credential harvesting, both of which may be used to enable healthcare cyberattacks.
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26 Mar 2024
RingCentral looks to ‘reimagine’ business phone system with real-time AI
Cloud business communications provider adds artificial intelligence to provide immersive employee experience, with capabilities including real-time call notes, conversation intelligence, message translator and generative search
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26 Mar 2024
NCSC reaffirms guidance for those at risk of Chinese state hacking
As the UK and US governments announce sanctions and indictments of a Chinese state threat actor, the NCSC has reiterated its security advice for individuals at risk of being targeted for espionage purposes
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26 Mar 2024
Deep learning model detects COVID-19 infection using lung imaging
A deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images.
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26 Mar 2024
Tax breaks higher than community investments for most non-profit hospitals
Non-profit hospitals spent an average of 3.87 percent of their budgets on community investments in 2021.
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26 Mar 2024
US authorities charge seven over Chinese hacking
The US Department of Justice has charged seven Chinese nationals linked to the APT31 threat actor that targeted politicians in the UK and US
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26 Mar 2024
Sums of money Post Office ‘stole’ from subpostmasters may never be known
MP asks government minister for figure on how much money the Post Office took from subpostmasters who were wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls
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26 Mar 2024
Digital maternal health tools hold promise, but equity question remains
Patients are using digital maternal health tools to manage care, but racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to point out cultural competence issues.
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25 Mar 2024
Which? calls for government action on fake banking sites
Amid high volumes of spoofed, fraudulent banking websites, Which? is calling for the government to implement new legal obligations for domain registrars
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25 Mar 2024
Chinese hackers responsible for two ‘malicious’ cyber campaigns against UK
Government sanctions two Chinese nationals and a Chinese company identified as responsible for cyber campaigns against government officials and members of parliament
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25 Mar 2024
NEC, NTT claim success in first-of-its-kind subsea optical fibre cable trial
Tech giant and leading Japanese telecoms provider reveals research making progress towards increasing capacity of transoceanic optical submarine cable through use of over 7,000km using 12-core fibre net
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25 Mar 2024
Marked growth in UK broadband proves elusive in 2023
Quarterly study from specialist comms analyst finds persistent challenging macro-economic conditions acting as headwind for overall fixed and wireless broadband market in final quarter of 2023, but with fibre still a shining light
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25 Mar 2024
Interview: Priyanka Sharma, executive director, CNCF
We speak to the Cloud Native Computing Forum chief about her own journey in software development and the continuous drive towards greater inclusivity
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25 Mar 2024
Healthcare leaders launch Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network
The newly formed Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network aims to advance the quality and safety of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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25 Mar 2024
Turing Institute: Generative AI is going to change the face of government
Turing Institute researchers say there is a ‘huge’ opportunity for artificial intelligence to automate many government services
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25 Mar 2024
IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition
Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments
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25 Mar 2024
Britain’s democracy under threat from Chinese cyber attackers, government warns
The deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, is due to tell Parliament that Beijing is behind a hacking attack that obtained details of 40 million UK voters and has targeted parliamentarians who have criticised the regime
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25 Mar 2024
Vodafone Business aims to boost SME effectiveness with IT Hubs channel
UK IT experts and entrepreneurs are invited to join local franchise opportunity as part of strategic drive from Vodafone to help smaller businesses better manage their IT solutions
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25 Mar 2024
New cyber legislation would provide advance payments to providers facing hacks
Senator Mark Warner introduced legislation that would allow providers to receive advance payments in the event of a cyber incident, provided they meet minimum cybersecurity standards.
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25 Mar 2024
Vodafone, Three merger faces further competition review
Blow to major UK operators’ merger plans as competition watchdog takes investigation to new level, concluding that combining firms could leave consumers and businesses worse off
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25 Mar 2024
Private payers initially deny nearly 15% of medical claims
A new survey from Premier Inc. reveals a high rate of initial claim denials from private payers, including claims pre-approved through prior authorizations.
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25 Mar 2024
Medicaid disenrollments surpass 18M, exceeding HHS projections
Most Medicaid disenrollments occurred due to procedural reasons, meaning beneficiaries did not complete the required renewal process.
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22 Mar 2024
Generative AI emerges as sustainability opportunity
Generative AI can be a useful tool for helping business leaders achieve climate and sustainability goals.
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22 Mar 2024
Nvidia partners, customers drive AI into data centers
Nvidia and its partners are providing the tools and infrastructure to build and deploy AI applications that companies say could transform their businesses.
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22 Mar 2024
Salesforce Field Service users get generative AI helpers
Salesforce launches Einstein 1 Field Service Edition. Field technicians get a generative AI boost to help navigate through scheduling and technical content.
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22 Mar 2024
'GoFetch' attack spells trouble for Apple M-series chips
Academic researchers discovered a hardware optimization feature called 'data memory-dependent prefetcher' could be abused to extract secret encryption keys from vulnerable systems.
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22 Mar 2024
Court finds EncroChat hacked messages admissible as former footballer is jailed
A judge in ‘lead’ EncroChat case found that messages obtained by police from the encrypted phone network can be lawfully used in evidence
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22 Mar 2024
Nationwide building society falls victim to IT outage
Nationwide joins McDonald’s, Greggs, Sainsbury’s and Tesco as the fifth major high street name to experience an IT service outage in the space of a week
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22 Mar 2024
Fujitsu won’t sign any new business in Ireland
Fujitsu is closing down its Irish business after a review of the operation’s current performance and market outlook
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22 Mar 2024
Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto
The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data
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22 Mar 2024
Sidecarless Istio Ambient Mesh clears cloud interop hurdle
Istio's Ambient Mesh is now compatible with major cloud providers' managed Kubernetes services, available as an Amazon EKS add-on and slated for beta in the next release.