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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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29 Feb 2024
Post-production company to go ‘all-in’ on Deep Green’s heat-reusing datacentre in Devon
Datacentre startup Deep Green confirms long-standing client Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its workloads to its heat-reusing server farm, located in a leisure centre in Devon
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29 Feb 2024
Government sets out research plans for 2024
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology highlights cyber security, artificial intelligence and telecoms as areas where it would like to build evidence and bridge knowledge gaps in current research
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29 Feb 2024
SCC adds SOC to bolster security division
Channel player SCC views the addition of a security operations centre as a key part of attaining more growth
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29 Feb 2024
Sauber ups connectivity gear with Extreme Networks Wi-Fi 6E
Leading Formula 1 team deploys wireless network and associated analytics solutions to keep pace with lightning-fast vehicles and productive teams
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29 Feb 2024
Windows 11: Not as big a priority in EMEA compared with North America
Survey shows that IT decision-makers are prioritising desktop productivity and PC refreshes this year, with more in the US prioritising spending on PCs and Windows 11 upgrades
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29 Feb 2024
Oxa hails first commercial deployment of self-driving software
Culmination of 10 years of software engineering, hardware integration, machine learning and testing in the virtual and real worlds sees connected vehicle technology provider deliver automation in AV Shuttles in Florida, US.
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 24: Nokia, Intel team to boost industrial, enterprise private 5G
Nokia and Intel collaborate on compact solution using virtualised open baseband technology and industrial digitisation platform to optimise efficiency and cost of 5G connectivity at small industrial facilities
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29 Feb 2024
Ericsson, Intel look to double down on Open RAN, AI innovation with Tech Hub
Tech Hub establishes itself as incubator for advancements and new hardware technology exploration, building open, resilient, sustainable and intelligent mobile networks, including recent successful Cloud RAN call using future Xeon processor
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Open Gateway, AI drive future mobile networks
Mobile industry’s flagship event reveals that more than 40 mobile operator networks across five continents have now commercially launched network API services to the developer community to unlock 5G’s full potential
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29 Feb 2024
Post Office CEO’s claim to be ‘working hard’ on Capture investigation in doubt
The Post Office hasn’t even contacted Capture Software users brought to its attention, but CEO claimed, under oath, that the organisation has been ‘working hard’ on the cases for five weeks
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29 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Orange Business and Cisco team to achieve net-zero goals
Network giant and business services division of telco form collaborative partnership to accelerate progress towards greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, covering circular economy best practices
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29 Feb 2024
Police arrested journalists as part of surveillance operation to identify confidential sources
Three police forces took part in surveillance operations between 2011 and 2018 to identify sources that leaked information to journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears
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29 Feb 2024
Machine Learning Models Predict Mortality Among Dementia Patients
New machine learning tools accurately predicted patient mortality at one, five, three, and 10 years across eight dementia subtypes.
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29 Feb 2024
MA Payment Reductions May Impact Value of Healthcare for Beneficiaries
The value of healthcare for beneficiaries, including supplemental benefits and premiums, could be negatively impacted if CMS finalizes the Advance Notice policies.
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28 Feb 2024
New Nvidia, GitHub AI coding assistants expand devs' options
GitHub Copilot Enterprise and StarCoder2 LLMs, both released this week, will add to an array of AI coding assistants. But caution, especially with security, is still warranted.
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28 Feb 2024
Google unfazed by advertiser criticism of third-party cookie plan
Google is working with U.K. regulators on its plan to phase out third-party cookies this year, despite pushback from an advertisers group. Meanwhile, bots are affecting ad traffic.
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28 Feb 2024
Biden aims to protect data, calls for U.S. data privacy law
President Joe Biden is aiming to stop the sale of Americans' sensitive data to countries of concern, while also pushing for a U.S. data privacy law.
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28 Feb 2024
New version of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware hits victims
An updated version of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware has been spotted in the wild amid a series of attacks on American healthcare providers, prompting a new alert from the authorities
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28 Feb 2024
Alphv/BlackCat attacking hospitals following FBI takedown
The ransomware attacks against hospitals and the healthcare sector come after law enforcement agencies, led by the FBI, disrupted Alphv/BlackCat's network in December.
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28 Feb 2024
75% of third-party breaches target software, IT supply chains
Data drawn from SecurityScorecard’s telemetry reveals how supply chain breaches are becoming a weapon of choice for threat actors
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28 Feb 2024
Users love their cyber teams, but find them frustrating
Despite strong support for security teams, a good number of ordinary workers see them as obstructive to business goals, and would like to see them operate more transparently
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28 Feb 2024
IR35 reforms: PAC concerned HMRC’s ‘tough’ enforcement is harming contractors
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised red flags over how HMRC is policing the IR35 rules out of concern its actions might be putting public and private sector organisations off hiring contractors
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28 Feb 2024
Intel, Nvidia aim latest systems-on-a-chip at AI workstations
Nvidia's RTX 500 and RTX 1000 GPUs are for the lightest mobile workstations. Intel's Core Ultra with a built-in GPU can handle many AI-powered tasks on the workhorse computers.
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28 Feb 2024
Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration
Microsoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI
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28 Feb 2024
IT leaders spend on cutting-edge to refactor legacy tech
Organisations carry around a huge amount of technical debt, which holds back innovation and limits application architectural decisions
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28 Feb 2024
Regenstrief Updates LOINC with 800 Concepts for Health Data Exchange
LOINC release 2.77 reflects Regenstrief Institute’s work with partners like HL7 International and CMS to advance health data exchange across the care continuum.
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28 Feb 2024
Rimini Street Custom offers expanded third-party support
Rimini Custom pushes beyond Rimini Street's usual support of SAP, Oracle and Salesforce systems by customizing packages specific to a customer's enterprise applications.
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28 Feb 2024
SambaNova Systems intros Samba-1 generative AI model
The new model is aimed at enterprises wanting to use generative models without compromising privacy. It also uses the best open source model for a given application.
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28 Feb 2024
Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations
The data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem.
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28 Feb 2024
Cohesity Gaia enables GenAI content creation using backups
A new generative AI capability in the Cohesity Data Cloud platform enables content creation from backup data and aims to eliminate data warehouses for common enterprise uses.
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28 Feb 2024
A Third of Americans Say Racism Is a Major Problem in Healthcare
People with previous experiences of discrimination were more likely to agree that racism is a big problem for healthcare.
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28 Feb 2024
Government urged to take a pro-innovation approach to quantum regulation
Responsible innovation, learning from AI and the use of foresight techniques should inform policymaking
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28 Feb 2024
‘Pathetic’ Post Office spat detracts attention and fuels ‘disdain’ for authority
Former Post Office chair’s row with the government and Post Office cannot be allowed to deflect attention away from achieving justice and recompense for former subpostmasters
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28 Feb 2024
UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan
The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap
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28 Feb 2024
Mid-market customers feeling ignored and mis-sold
Research from Microsoft partner Advania has revealed that users are struggling with legacy tech, management headaches and a lack of support from vendors
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28 Feb 2024
Caroline Dinenage signs letter calling for angel law change
The MP has signed a letter calling for the government to reconsider recently changed laws making it harder for women to be angel investors
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28 Feb 2024
CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike
The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m
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28 Feb 2024
BT launches smart city NB-IoT offer
UK’s leading comms provider launches multi-million-pound narrowband internet of things network to pave way for more smart cities and industries, creating cost-efficiency gains and costs savings for public sector
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28 Feb 2024
UnitedHealth Group Scrutinized for Alleged Antitrust Practices
The antitrust practices may have not only squashed competition with competitors, but also allowed the major payer to skirt around certain regulations.
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28 Feb 2024
Patient Collection Rate Falls to Nearly 48%
A new analysis shows a sharp decline in the patient collection rate in 2022 and 2023 as providers write off more bad debt from patients with insurance.
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28 Feb 2024
Digital Engagement with RPM Boosts Post-Discharge Care Coordination
A digital engagement program leveraging an RPM solution helped increase touch points between patients and clinicians following discharge, research reveals.
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28 Feb 2024
Early Prenatal Mental Health Interventions Reduce Postpartum Risks
An NIH-funded study based in Pakistan revealed that prenatal mental health counseling reduced postpartum depression and anxiety risk.
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28 Feb 2024
White House Commits to Ending Hunger, Diet-Related Illness by 2030
White House convened healthcare industry stakeholders and public and private enterprise in its commitment to ending diet-related illness.
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28 Feb 2024
Amgen Opens Its Most Advanced Manufacturing Site in Central Ohio
On February 26, Amgen announced the opening of its most advanced manufacturing site located in New Albany, Ohio.
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27 Feb 2024
Westcon-Comstor adds private Cisco listings to AWS Markeplace
Distributor moves quickly to flex status as valued partner of public cloud giant
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27 Feb 2024
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories
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27 Feb 2024
US tech used in Russian weapons, despite export controls
U.S. export controls aren't keeping technology produced by Intel, AMD, Analog Devices and Texas Instruments from ending up in weapons systems used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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27 Feb 2024
Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns
More ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching
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27 Feb 2024
Ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws
Ransomware activity is ramping up against vulnerable ScreenConnect systems as Black Basta and Bl00dy threat actors were observed exploiting the vulnerabilities.
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27 Feb 2024
VulnCheck bug listing to help track new threats quicker
Exploit intelligence firm VulnCheck launches a proprietary Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in hopes of improving end-user access to intel on emerging threats and reaching those that the likes of CISA do not
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27 Feb 2024
Cohesity CEO on customer choice following Veritas merger
Sanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, talks about his company's recent purchase of Veritas, what customers should expect in the year ahead and if other mergers are possible.
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27 Feb 2024
IBM FlashSystem update focuses on ransomware detection
IBM FlashSystem builds on the ransomware fight in primary storage by adding AI to its FlashCore Module storage media and to Storage Defender, its data protection SaaS.
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27 Feb 2024
Government should face legal deadlines on paying Post Office victims
The government should face a legal deadline on paying Horizon scandal victims and unfair previous settlements should be reopened, MPs have been told - amid further boardroom controversy at the Post Office
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27 Feb 2024
Birmingham sets aside £25m for Oracle transformation
Council’s budget report shows that £5.3m is needed to continue support and manual intervention on troubled Oracle system
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27 Feb 2024
Keepit cuts ribbon on London base
Backup and recovery player is the second Danish firm to set its sights on growing its position in the UK market in the space of a week
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27 Feb 2024
Majority of UK employees ‘willingly gamble’ with security
Human-centric threats originating from employees continue to damage organisations both financially and reputationally, according to a report
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27 Feb 2024
Executive interview: David Wong, Thomson Reuters
We speak to the chief product officer of Thomson Reuters about working with artificial intelligence and embedding Microsoft Copilot for Word
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27 Feb 2024
HSCC Issues Five-Year Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
The five-year plan aims to improve the diagnosis of healthcare cybersecurity from “critical” to “stable” condition by 2029, HSCC said.
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27 Feb 2024
Hycu uses AI to develop APIs for SaaS application backup
SaaS applications don’t usually come with built-in data protection, but Hycu plans to tackle that gap in the market with AI to generate the connectors needed to backup user data
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27 Feb 2024
AI fuelling cloud infrastructure services growth
Canalys’ analysis of the market and year-long prospects indicate that the effects of artificial intelligence technology are already being felt in cloud infrastructure services
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27 Feb 2024
R1 RCM May Go Private After $5.8B Private Equity Offer
Private equity firm New Mountain Capital has reportedly offered to purchase R1 RCM for about $5.8B, prompting considerations of going private.
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27 Feb 2024
AMA Report Outlines Considerations for AI Integration in Healthcare
“The Emerging Landscape of Augmented Intelligence in Health Care” report provides an overview of risks and opportunities for clinicians looking to adopt AI.
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27 Feb 2024
Is SNAP the Solution to Healthcare’s Medication Adherence Woes?
Researchers indicated that SNAP benefits made it easier for patients to afford their drugs, eliminating cost-related medication adherence barriers.
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27 Feb 2024
Managers want generative AI, but workers need more help getting to grips with it
Staff given artificial intelligence guidelines are more likely to experiment with the technology than those who are given none, according to a survey
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27 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Huawei looks to advance 5.5G opportunity
Comms tech giant lays out course it will follow to take advantage of forthcoming next standard in 5G mobile communications offering the prospect of native 10Gbps connectivity, native green technology and native intelligence
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy
Microsoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators
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27 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Nigel Richardson, European CIO, PepsiCo
The food and drinks giant is targeting customer engagement, supply chain improvements and greater sustainability as it works on its digital transformation plans
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft president commits to Azure open platform for AI
Brad Smith sets out Microsoft’s ambitions to make Azure the best platform to host foundational AI models, and train and run AI applications
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27 Feb 2024
Cybersecurity Preparedness Tied to Lower Insurance Premium Increases
Adoption of the NIST CSF was correlated with lower cyber insurance premium increases, KLAS and partners found in the latest edition of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study.
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27 Feb 2024
Cozy Bear and other APTs changing tack as cloud adoption increases
A change in APT tactics has been observed resulting from greater adoption of cloud-based services, according to the NCSC
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27 Feb 2024
NLP Framework Could Improve Medical Summarization Tools
Researchers have developed a framework to fine-tune the natural language processing models used in medical text summarization tools.
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27 Feb 2024
Privately Insured Adults Are Satisfied With Health Plan Coverage
Privately insured adults in traditional plans were more satisfied with their health plan coverage than those in high-deductible plans.
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27 Feb 2024
Pediatric Antidepressant Prescription Rates Increased 66%
A study in Pediatrics revealed that adolescent, teen, and young adult antidepressant prescription rates increased by 66% between January 2016 and December 2022.
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27 Feb 2024
Patient Portals & Open Notes Increase Referral Access by Up to 40%
Patients who log into their patient portals are 20% more likely to access a referral, while those who look at the portal and open notes are 40% more likely.
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27 Feb 2024
Global telcos team up on large language models
Global Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain
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26 Feb 2024
Microsoft allies with OpenAI rival Mistral AI
The tech giant is investing in the open source startup. The partnership means Mistral's premium models, including its new model, Mistral Large, will be available on Azure.
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26 Feb 2024
Broadcom to sell VMware EUC division to KKR for $3.8B
Customers that pair VMware's hypervisor with Horizon and Workspace One desktops might feel licensing jitters, but the deal could lead to more flexibility.
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26 Feb 2024
New merger guidelines, crackdown affect business strategies
The FTC and DOJ will be closely scrutinizing mergers and acquisitions heading into 2024 based on new merger guidelines released in December 2023.
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26 Feb 2024
Octopus Deploy reels in Codefresh for GitOps expertise
By joining forces in CI/CD and GitOps, the combined companies look to even the odds with bigger competitors, but this will be a daunting task, experts predict.
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit restores servers following law enforcement takedown
Law enforcement agencies last week announced a takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang that involved the seizure of servers, websites and decryption keys, as well as two arrests.
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26 Feb 2024
CISA: APT29 targeting cloud accounts for initial access
U.K. and U.S. government agencies have observed the Russian nation-state group increasingly target dormant and inactive cloud service accounts to gain initial access.
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26 Feb 2024
Government won’t rush to include Post Office Capture convictions in overturning legislation
The government said it does not yet have the 'right body of evidence' to include users of the Post Office's Capture software in Horizon compensation schemes and legislation to overturn convictions
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit bids to save face after NCA takedown
The LockBit gang’s ringleader resurfaces with new infrastructure and new victims, claiming to have shrugged off a multinational police sting
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26 Feb 2024
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay
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26 Feb 2024
Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP
City council audit committee meeting shows Birmingham City Council plans to follow Oracle best practices
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26 Feb 2024
Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle
January saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward
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26 Feb 2024
Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
The analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making.
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26 Feb 2024
Podcast: 2024 the year of ROI for generative AI
Generative AI technologies are proliferating rapidly, but vendors and investors are looking to monetize AI models, a pivot from last year's innovative frenzy.
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26 Feb 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
Moves this week at Mitel, Auxilion, VeUP, Eco group, Planon, Saidot and VIPRE Security Group
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26 Feb 2024
Ericsson, Telefónica claim to redefine 5G experiences with on-demand slicing
Proof of concept from telco and leading comms tech provide said to provide superior service experience for mobile consumers, enhancing performance of 5G services
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26 Feb 2024
5G, IoT roaming traffic soars in 2023
Data from international communications enabler reveals 156% spike in year-on-year 5G non-standalone roaming for consumer and IoT devices
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26 Feb 2024
HHS Delivers Reports to Congress on HIPAA Compliance, Enforcement
OCR stressed the need for additional funding to support its HIPAA compliance and enforcement efforts across the healthcare sector.
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26 Feb 2024
Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists
Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom
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26 Feb 2024
TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse
UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes
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26 Feb 2024
Making ACOs More Accessible for Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Providers
CMS must improve model alignment, financial methodology, quality measurement, and data-sharing to increase ACO participation among long-term and post-acute care providers.
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26 Feb 2024
Epic Sepsis Model Predictions May Have Limited Clinical Utility
New study suggests that the Epic Sepsis Model may only identify some high-risk patients after sepsis is clinically recognized, rather than before infection onset.
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26 Feb 2024
Stakeholders Urge Congress to Take Early Action on Telehealth Access
In a letter to Congress, healthcare providers, trade associations, and virtual care companies emphasized the need for action on telehealth policy early in the year.
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26 Feb 2024
Care Access, Coverage Value Similar in Medicare Advantage and Medicare
Despite many similarities in care access, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries faced care delays due to prior approval requirements more often than those in traditional Medicare.