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15 Jul 2024
J.D. Vance is a Silicon Valley insider and tech policy critic
By Makenzie HollandJ.D. Vance's tech policy is likely to focus on bolstering competition with China while addressing perceived political biases amid big tech platforms like Google and Meta.
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15 Jul 2024
Judge allows AI lawsuit against Workday to proceed
By Patrick ThibodeauA court partially allows a lawsuit against Workday to advance, raising questions about AI's role in hiring. The case may set precedent for applying discrimination laws to AI tools.
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15 Jul 2024
AI readiness requires buy-in, technology and good governance
By Eric AvidonWith interest in natural language processing, predictive analytics and other augmented intelligence rises, more than tooling is needed for enterprises to properly prepare.
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19 Jul 2023
Republicans back lawsuit to end Optional Practical Training
By Patrick ThibodeauRepublican lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the Optional Practical Training program, a student visa work program.
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft aims for Dynamics 365 cloud migrations
By Jim O'DonnellMicrosoft AIM is a new initiative to help on-premises Dynamics ERP customers move to the cloud, with guidance, tools and services from Microsoft and partners.
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19 Jul 2023
Meta Llama 2 brings new opportunity for enterprises
By Esther AjaoThe new LLM version is open for commercial use, meaning enterprises can train and experiment with it more. The social media giant also expanded its partnership with Microsoft.
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19 Jul 2023
BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
By Alex ScroxtonCosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder is experiencing operational disruption in the wake of a cyber attack that seems to involve two different cyber crime gangs
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19 Jul 2023
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
By Cliff SaranThe $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate
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19 Jul 2023
ISVs, AI and multicloud on Oracle channel chief’s to-do list
By Simon QuickeThe vendor is looking to make sure its partners deliver high levels of customer experience and can take advantage of emerging opportunities
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19 Jul 2023
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
By Joe O’HalloranConsortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft increases channel exposure to AI
By Simon QuickeVendor rolls out fresh specialisation encouraging the channel to embrace the benefits artificial intelligence can deliver
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19 Jul 2023
Qualtrics uses AI to analyze customer needs for better CX
By Mary ReinesQualtrics unveils new generative AI tools to minimize time spent searching for and disseminating customer feedback and creating text responses to increase brand loyalty.
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19 Jul 2023
Private Grant Funding Supports Using AI to Address Disparities
By Mark MelchionnaUsing a $10 million grant, Northwell Health and the Feinstein Institute leverage AI to address disparities and risk factors.
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19 Jul 2023
Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps
By Caroline DonnellyThe latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny
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19 Jul 2023
NLP EHR Integration Identifies Acute COVID-19 Cases with 94% Sensitivity
By Hannah NelsonA study found that an NLP EHR integration helped speed time to treatment and improved reporting accuracy for COVID-19 cases.
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence
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19 Jul 2023
Openreach claims ‘game-changer’ for wholesale optical Ethernet
By Joe O’HalloranBT broadband provision division ups the ante in enterprise broadband with optical networking product designed to address demand for 100G point-to-point managed services in the access network
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19 Jul 2023
‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute
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19 Jul 2023
Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims
By Alex ScroxtonApproximately 55% of security professionals say they have engaged in behaviours they would more usually advise against in the workplace, according to a report
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19 Jul 2023
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
By Alex ScroxtonA newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn
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19 Jul 2023
Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows
By Caroline DonnellyThe latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft
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19 Jul 2023
Oklahoma Proposes Opt-Out Provision in Updated Statewide HIE Rules
By Sarai RodriguezAfter the Governor rejected Senate Bill 1369, the subsequent rule changes now exempt healthcare providers from mandatory participation in the statewide HIE.
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19 Jul 2023
ChatGPT Accurately Answers Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Questions
By Shania KennedyChatGPT-4 responded correctly to 84 percent of multiple-choice questions used to prepare for the American Board of Ophthalmology certification exam.
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19 Jul 2023
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
By Cliff SaranThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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19 Jul 2023
Nokia, Starlink, Speedcast collaborate to drive private networks in Brazil
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech firm and satellite broadband connectivity leader to expand coverage with LTE private wireless networks in Brazil
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18 Jul 2023
A look at writers' battle to get AI vendors to pay them
By Esther AjaoAn Authors Guild open letter asks vendors to pay for works previously used to train generative AI systems and calls for lawmakers to tighten copyright laws.
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18 Jul 2023
Splunk AI update adds specialized models for SecOps tasks
By Beth PariseauSplunk AI updates this week included specialized models for SecOps that detect and automatically respond to common issues such as DNS exfiltration and suspicious processes.
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18 Jul 2023
Multiple Adobe ColdFusion flaws exploited in the wild
By Alexander CulafiOne of the Adobe ColdFusion flaws exploited in the wild, CVE-2023-38203, was a zero-day bug that security vendor Project Discovery inadvertently published.
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18 Jul 2023
Confluent partner plan aids streaming data platform delivery
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's Connect With Confluent program enables technology partners to deliver event data to end users in real time through integrations with Confluent Cloud.
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18 Jul 2023
Fibre glides past two-thirds of global broadband subscriptions in Q1 2023
By Joe O’HalloranUpdated analysis of trends in global and regional broadband subscriptions and technology adoption in first three months of year reveals robust growth in high-speed broadband offerings such as FTTH/B
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18 Jul 2023
Splunk enters hardware market using trusted partners
By Simon QuickeVendor Splunk announces plans to roll out a device at the edge for monitoring and protecting customer data
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18 Jul 2023
Microsoft releases Sales Copilot, teases Insights tools
By Mary ReinesThe tech giant released generative AI-supported functions for sellers to generate text and summaries, and unveiled new Dynamics 365 Customer Insights tools for marketers.
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18 Jul 2023
Midwich signals AV market strength with strong H1
By Simon QuickeLive events are returning and helping to drive revenues at the distributor, which has continued to use M&A to expand the business
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18 Jul 2023
Nexfibre gains £250m to accelerate UK gigabit expansion
By Joe O’HalloranUK government-owned policy bank provides debt investment to joint venture gigabit network that aims to offer real competition in growing broadband sector
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18 Jul 2023
NIH Funding Aims to Improve Precision Medicine and Reduce Disparities
By Mark MelchionnaScripps Research used NIH funding to improve medical practices along with research program engagement.
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18 Jul 2023
The FA draws on Google Cloud to support Women's World Cup training push for The Lionesses
By Caroline DonnellyThe Football Association is drawing on its long-standing technology partnership with Google Cloud to collect match and player data to support the Lionesses in their training regimes for the Women's World Cup
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18 Jul 2023
Orca: Google Cloud design flaw enables supply chain attacks
By Alexander CulafiOrca Security says threat actors can use a design flaw in Google Cloud Build's default permissions to gain access to Artifact Registry code repositories and poison software.
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18 Jul 2023
NATO membership to drive Nordic cyber security sector growth
By Gerard O'DwyerThe Nordic cyber security sector will see increasing demand as Finland and Sweden joint NATO
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18 Jul 2023
Microsoft Sentinel, Nasuni stand watch over cloud storage
By Tim McCarthyA new integration between Microsoft Sentinel and Nasuni enables visibility into data compromises or other issues logged by the storage vendor through the SIEM console.
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18 Jul 2023
Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks
By Alex ScroxtonTwo vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed
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18 Jul 2023
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
By Karl FlindersOverall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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18 Jul 2023
NextGen Healthcare Pays $31M to Resolve False Claims Act Violations
By Sarai RodriguezNextGen Healthcare allegedly breached the False Claims Act, falsely certifying and misrepresenting EHR software capabilities to exploit federal incentives.
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18 Jul 2023
Mount Sinai Predictive AI Flags Drugs That May Cause Birth Defects
By Shania KennedyNew AI tool sheds light on the relationship between drugs, genes, and birth defects, allowing researchers to predict which medicines may cause congenital disabilities.
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18 Jul 2023
Sateliot joins project to bring rural broadband connectivity out of the Ether
By Joe O’HalloranProvider of satellite constellation offering standard 5G IoT connectivity from space becomes member of European consortium looking to create a telecom network, bringing connectivity to 25 million people in rural areas
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17 Jul 2023
54 Hospitals Get Top Marks for Social Responsibility and Care Quality
By Sara HeathThe Lown Institute’s social responsibility rankings integrated concepts of health equity into rankings for value and patient outcomes.
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17 Jul 2023
Businesses caught in the crosshairs amid U.S., China tensions
By Makenzie HollandAs the U.S. and China continue to target each other with restrictive export controls, businesses are caught in the middle of an increasingly tense conflict.
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17 Jul 2023
Microsoft still investigating stolen MSA key from email attacks
By Arielle WaldmanWhile Microsoft provided additional attack details and techniques used by Storm-0558, it remains unclear how the Microsoft account signing key was acquired.
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17 Jul 2023
JumpCloud breached by nation-state threat actor
By Rob WrightJumpCloud's mandatory API key rotation earlier this month was triggered by a breach at the hands of a nation-state threat actor that gained access through spear phishing.
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17 Jul 2023
Broadband power users stream more than 2.2TB of data per month
By Joe O’HalloranLatest quarterly insight from the network improvement services provider report identifies nearly six times difference from average user streaming consumption among those who use most data
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17 Jul 2023
AI, cloud trends shape next-gen managed services offerings
By John MooreService providers are launching new services, capabilities and delivery models to meet the needs of customers grappling with AI and complex cloud environments.
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17 Jul 2023
Arrow Electronics rolls out managed service offering
By Simon QuickeDistributor aims to help resellers plug gaps in their portfolios with a wide range of services
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17 Jul 2023
Subpostmaster compensation deadline will be missed, warns public inquiry chair
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters that successfully sued the Post Office and exposed the Horizon scandal are at the ‘back of the queue’ and won’t receive compensation by current deadline
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17 Jul 2023
Home Office failures on £2bn ESN project see “significant” costs to emergency services
By Joe O’HalloranPublic Accounts Committee slams government for appearance of complacency in its confidence over much delayed, over-budget emergency services network and calls for revised delivery plan
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17 Jul 2023
ChatGPT, Provider Responses Almost Indistinguishable to Patients
By Shania KennedyResearchers investigating the utility of chatbots for patient-provider communication found that laypeople may trust ChatGPT to answer low-risk health questions.
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17 Jul 2023
Fibre to the fore in data usage but mobile usage continues at slower pace
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from global policy forum finds fibre outshining mobile sector in terms of consumption growth, with fibre firmly established as the leading connection technology
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17 Jul 2023
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach and the overall legality of using hyperscale public cloud technologies in a policing context
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17 Jul 2023
Deep Learning Model Accurately Detects Cardiac Function, Disease
By Shania KennedyA deep learning model can classify left ventricular ejection fraction, aortic stenosis, tricuspid regurgitation, and other conditions from chest radiographs.
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17 Jul 2023
Shift towards ‘smarter’ digital life as broadband security, sustainability become key needs
By Joe O’HalloranCisco survey finds consumer expectations will reshape the needs and economics of the internet
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17 Jul 2023
Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play
By Aaron TanZoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market