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21 Nov 2024
DOJ charges 5 alleged Scattered Spider members
The defendants, charged for conducting alleged phishing scams across the U.S., are suspected members of a prolific threat group responsible for last year's casino attacks.
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21 Nov 2024
Brit charged in US over Scattered Spider cyber attacks
A UK national named as Tyler Robert Buchanan has been charged in the US over his alleged involvement in cyber attacks perpetrated by the Scattered Spider gang
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21 Nov 2024
Canalys: Cloud services continued to grow through Q3
There’s been demand for AI-fuelled growth and investment from the three main hyperscalers over the most recent quarter
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- 03 Jan 2024
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02 Jan 2024
China’s UNC4841 pivots to new Barracuda ESG zero-day
The Chinese state threat actor behind a series of cyber attacks on Barracuda Networks customers embarked on a campaign targeting the supplier’s email security products in the run-up to Christmas
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02 Jan 2024
Qualtrics supports Dow digital transformation
How US-based materials science company has used analytics tools from Qualtrics to target improvements to customer experience
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02 Jan 2024
Wearable Biosensor Predicts Aggression Among Inpatients with Autism
The wearable device collects physiological data that can be analyzed via machine learning to preempt aggressive behavior among inpatient youth with autism.
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02 Jan 2024
Fallon Ambulance Service Data Breach Impacts 911K Individuals
The now-defunct ambulance service suffered a data breach when a threat actor accessed its data storage archive.
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02 Jan 2024
Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI
Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 investigations and national security stories of 2023
From a secret campaign by right-wing Brexit supporters against science journal Nature to Investigatory Powers Act 2016 revisions that will make it easier for police and intelligence agencies to access databases on the population, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 investigations and national security stories of 2023
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 India IT stories of 2023
We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2023
As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023
We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year
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28 Dec 2023
GAO Urges FDA, CISA to Revamp Medical Device Cybersecurity Agreement
The FDA and CISA maintain a 5-year-old agreement about medical device cybersecurity management that must be updated to reflect organizational changes, GAO suggested.
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28 Dec 2023
Research on Digital Health Stroke Interventions Not Diverse Enough
An analysis shows digital health interventions can improve stroke prevention, but due to a lack of diversity, their efficacy among minority groups is uncertain.
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28 Dec 2023
Does Integrating Medicare and Medicaid Improve Care for Dual Eligibles?
UPMC’s fully integrated dual eligible special needs plan improved home- and community-based services use but fell short in other areas.
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28 Dec 2023
Pros, Cons of End-to-End RCM Platform Adoption
A new KLAS report surveys deep adopters of RCM technology from a single vendor in the pursuit of an end-to-end platform.
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27 Dec 2023
Another Barracuda ESG zero-day flaw exploited in the wild
On Christmas Eve, Barracuda disclosed that a China-nexus threat actor had resumed attacks against its Email Security Gateway appliance using a new zero-day vulnerability.
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 business applications stories of 2023
Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 police technology stories of 2023
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 IT careers and skills stories of 2023
Looking back at the skills and hiring landscape in 2023, Computer Weekly shares the key moments for IT careers and skills over the past 12 months
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27 Dec 2023
Healthcare Software Company Notifies 2.7M Individuals of Data Breach
ESO Solutions suffered a ransomware attack in which an unauthorized third party encrypted some of its computer systems, resulting in a data breach.
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27 Dec 2023
Humana Awards $169K in Health Equity Grants to Community-Based Orgs
The health equity grant recipients align with Humana’s goals to improve access to care and address social determinants of health.
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023
Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI
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27 Dec 2023
Kaiser Permanente Study Shows Scalability of Hospital-at-Home Model
The study reveals that the hospital-at-home model can be scaled successfully, but it is unclear if its care quality remains on par with traditional inpatient care.
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27 Dec 2023
74% of Hospitals Use Some Revenue Cycle Automation
More hospitals and health systems are automating revenue cycle operations, with many leveraging artificial intelligence.
- 26 Dec 2023
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 government IT stories of 2023
In the year that gave life to four new government departments, Whitehall bosses have continued to fly the flag for technology, with mixed results and success. Here are the stories that made waves in 2023
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 Middle East stories of 2023
Middle Eastern countries are on digital journeys, with many pinning their futures on expertise in advanced technologies
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 retail technology stories of 2023
Computer Weekly looks at what 2023 had in store for the retail industry – a year of financial uncertainty and increasing cost of living has made consumers ever more demanding, so how are retailers using tech to cope?
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2023
Generative AI is the buzzword on every financial services IT professional’s lips as the technology promises to accelerate the ongoing fintech revolution
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21 Dec 2023
10 of the biggest ransomware attacks in 2023
Ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations hit record levels this year as threat actors stepped up extortion tactics and took shaming victims to new levels.
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21 Dec 2023
Cisco Security Cloud adds Isovalent for multi-cloud networks
The commercial backer of open source networking and security projects Cilium and Tetragon comes under Cisco's control for cloud-native network security.
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21 Dec 2023
Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage
The UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development
- 21 Dec 2023
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21 Dec 2023
COVID Rates Surge Amidst the Holiday Season
National wastewater data reveals very high COVID-19 viral activity in the US amidst the holiday season.
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21 Dec 2023
Elizabeth Line intros 4G connectivity
UK operators announce delivery of 4G mobile coverage to four key stations on London Underground’s latest and state-of-the-art train line, stretching from the West End to the financial heart of the UK capital
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21 Dec 2023
Global private wireless networks hit accelerator in 2023
Study shows good times rolling for private networks industry, with major tech suppliers playing significant roles as integrated solution providers and total deployments set to grow by 33% to 2028
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21 Dec 2023
XR2 industry initiative targets European XR headset for Industry 5.0
European tech suppliers reveal plan to take on global extended reality leaders and become the reference for mixed reality in region by targeting Industry 5.0 and addressing user needs
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 networking stories of 2023
This year has seen the continued adoption of software-defined wide area networks and secure access service edge as firms phase out multi-protocol label switching infrastructures, with artificial intelligence also stepping into the networking limelight
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
Ransomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage stories of 2023
In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023
In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing
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21 Dec 2023
Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Healthcare AI, ML Research
Kaiser Permanente’s AIM-HI has awarded funding to five healthcare organizations researching how AI and ML tools can improve diagnostic decision-making.
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21 Dec 2023
Lawmakers Push For Increased Patient Privacy Regarding Prescription Records
In a letter to HHS, lawmakers addressed patient privacy concerns following instances of pharmacies handing prescription records over to law enforcement without a warrant.
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21 Dec 2023
ACA Marketplace Enrollment Up By 33%, Surpassing 19M Enrollees
Around 15 million enrollees have selected an ACA marketplace plan through the HealthCare.gov platform.
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21 Dec 2023
Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy Manages MDD in Cancer Patients
A phase 2 open-label clinical trial on cancer patients with MDD determined that psilocybin-assisted group therapy is a safe, feasible, and effective treatment.
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21 Dec 2023
Few Providers Use Z-Codes to Document Social Determinants of Health
Use of Z-codes to document social determinants of health is low, and there are differences in which patients get a Z-code documented, two unrelated studies showed.
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20 Dec 2023
Qlik's Mozaic acquisition adds decentralized data management
The longtime analytics vendor continues to expand into data management, now adding capabilities that enable a decentralized approach and an emphasis on data products.
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20 Dec 2023
Agencies support regulating commercial space industry
The White House wants to divide regulatory authority for new commercial space industry activities between the DOC and DOT, a move that has federal agency support.
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20 Dec 2023
UltiHash compresses, deduplicates data on a binary level
In this Q&A, the CEO of UltiHash talks about the continuous compression and deduplication it aims to provide primary storage while reducing storage needs.
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20 Dec 2023
Mercy Ships network transformation nears completion
The tech upgrade brings expanded network capabilities to the NGO's hospital ships, with improved remote consultation and dockside medical services among the expected benefits.
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20 Dec 2023
Abandoning Figma merger will cost Adobe $1 billion
EU and U.K. regulators' concerns about 'future competition,' a fairly new antitrust argument, spurs Adobe to cancel $20 billion deal to acquire Figma.
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20 Dec 2023
Compound natural disasters emerge as new HR risk
Compounding natural disasters is something businesses will need to plan for. Employees face physical recovery and mental health issues, affecting work performance.
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20 Dec 2023
Server-side Wasm to-do list lengthens for 2024
Server-side WebAssembly hype peaked in late 2022, but a year later, its path to general availability for key features remains long and cloud portability alternatives are emerging.
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20 Dec 2023
Post Office gets government handout as Horizon replacement costs increase ‘significantly’
The increasing costs associated with replacing the Post Office’s controversial IT system have forced the government to hand it over £100m extra
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20 Dec 2023
Giacom picks up Microsoft-focused intY
Move to bolster managed services proposition will add greater cloud depth and enhance UK market position
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20 Dec 2023
Novo Nordisk Launches Vaccine Initiative for Airborne Infections
Novo Nordisk announced it would allocate $260 million to research and vaccine development initiatives focused on airborne viruses.
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20 Dec 2023
Orange Business boosts digital ambitions with Expertime acquisition
Acquisition of consulting company by business services division of global telco becomes latest part of strategic ambition to accelerate growth in digital services and support growth in digital, public cloud, AI and data
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20 Dec 2023
Nokia drones-as-a-service business gains altitude in North America
Tech provider and partners make drone network backed by 4G/LTE and 5G connectivity available for purchase, lease or one-off flight hire, bundled with services so more enterprises can take advantage of industrial drones
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20 Dec 2023
GAO Appoints New Members to Health IT Advisory Committee
GAO added five new health IT leaders to the committee, including Lee Fleisher, MD, former chief medical officer and director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS.
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20 Dec 2023
'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandal
MPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives
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20 Dec 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out
Multinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant
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20 Dec 2023
AMRC North West showcases Industry 4.0 smart factory, smart building demonstrator
UK university’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre announces internet of things deployment powered by telco’s IoT.nxt management platforming showcase of low carbon smart building demonstrator and smart factory
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20 Dec 2023
Medical Groups Faced High Expenses, Staffing Challenges in 2023
From 2020 to 2023, medical groups’ revenue grew by 9.1 percent, while expenses increased by 26.5 percent.
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20 Dec 2023
Most Employers Offering Retiree Health Plans Use Medicare Advantage
For many retirees, a Medicare Advantage plan may be the only option they have for receiving retiree health benefits.
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023
In the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 Benelux stories of 2023
The Benelux region is researching some of the latest digital technologies of the future with efforts to ensure the region keeps pace in quantum computing and artificial intelligence
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20 Dec 2023
Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy
Zoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers
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20 Dec 2023
Which Healthcare Players Yield the Highest Patient Satisfaction?
Gallup polling found that 82 percent of patients think their nurses provide excellent or good medical care, while 69 percent said the same about doctors.
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20 Dec 2023
CISA’s Healthcare Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Reveals Sector-Wide Improvement Areas
CISA urged the healthcare sector to use phishing-resistant MFA, implement network segmentation, and verify the implementation of appropriate hardening measures to mitigate cyber risk.
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 IT leadership interviews of 2023
The top technology executives – whether their job title is CIO, CDIO, CDO or something completely different – talk to Computer Weekly and share their plans and strategies for delivering digital success
- 20 Dec 2023
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20 Dec 2023
Apple Watch Can Detect Irregular Heartbeats in Children
Research shows that the Apple Watch can accurately record arrhythmia events in children, correctly characterizing a majority of the most common type.
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20 Dec 2023
FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Using RWD in Medical Device Regulation
The guidance outlines multiple factors of RWD, including appropriate use, data relevance and reliability, data collection and analysis, and documentation.
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19 Dec 2023
U.S.-China relations will affect businesses in 2024
U.S.-China relations will affect U.S. businesses in 2024, whether it's through more export controls or building alliances with other countries on technology.
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19 Dec 2023
Snowflake acquisition of Samooha adds data clean room tools
The data cloud vendor's purchase aims to give users a way to share data with partners and collaborate on decisions without compromising data privacy and security.
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19 Dec 2023
FBI leads Alphv/BlackCat takedown, decrypts victims' data
The latest law enforcement effort to halt the surge of ransomware attacks was successful in disrupting one of the most active ransomware-as-a-service groups.
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19 Dec 2023
DevSecOps pros prep for GenAI upheavals in 2024
Generative AI models have been a hot topic of discussion in 2023, but their real-world impact on each of the major IT disciplines is just beginning.
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19 Dec 2023
Digital Ethics Summit 2023: The year in AI
At trade association TechUK’s seventh annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the state of AI regulation and the direction of travel set for 2024
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19 Dec 2023
5G continues momentum growth and drives spectrum demand
Survey from mobile trade association finds 1.6 billion global 5G connections by the end of third quarter of 2023, growing 71% annually
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19 Dec 2023
More than 17 million UK homes gain full-fibre broadband access
Ofcom report into state of UK fixed and wireless communications shows surge in full-fibre uptake over the past 12 months and 5G mobile coverage continuing to grow rapidly
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19 Dec 2023
Government reveals its own slow progress in compensating Post Office scandal victims
Few of the subpostmasters who unearthed the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history have been compensated so far, four years after their court victory
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19 Dec 2023
Minimizing the Impact of Bias in Healthcare Algorithms
A special communication in JAMA Network Open outlines strategies for minimizing racial and ethnic bias impacts in healthcare algorithms.
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19 Dec 2023
Virgin Media O2 network traffic rises 13% over 2023
Leading UK operator’s year in review reveals connectivity, digital and TV habits of 2023, with continuation of working from home, online gaming, and streaming live sport, films and TV shows seeing usage on broadband network increase
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19 Dec 2023
DOJ Disrupts BlackCat Ransomware Variant, Offers Decryption Key to Victims
BlackCat ransomware group, also known as ALPHV or Noberus, has been known to target the healthcare sector.
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19 Dec 2023
Nokia and HellasQCI complete quantum-safe networks proof of concept
Trial showcase by leading networking tech firm and communication infrastructure consortium shows hybrid approach with both classic and quantum physics key to reach goal of quantum-safe networks
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 software development stories of 2023
There have been two main trends driving software development this year: artificial intelligence and low-code/no-code tooling
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 telecoms stories of 2023
Over the past 12 months, the telecoms market has been defined by the three Fs – fibre, 5G and flying objects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 telecoms stories from 2023
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber security stories of 2023
The past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides, but it was the chaotic state of global geopolitics that really made an impact
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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19 Dec 2023
Feds Finalizes $115 Participation, Other Fees for IDR Process
The new fees come after a court ruling vacated previous guidance used to set the administrative payment amount for the federal IDR process.
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 Nordic stories of 2023
Known for its advances in digital technology, the Nordic region continues to pioneer the startup sector while making serious waves in Quantum computing and artificial intelligence
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19 Dec 2023
Deep Learning Model Predicts Mortality Following Medical Procedures
Patients classified as high risk for postoperative mortality by a new deep learning tool were nearly nine times more likely to die than their low-risk counterparts.
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19 Dec 2023
OCR Settles Multiple HIPAA Right of Access Complaints With Optum Medical Care
Optum Medical Care agreed to pay $160,000 to resolve OCR’s investigation, marking the 46th enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.
- 19 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
HHS Urges States to Reduce Medicaid, CHIP Child Disenrollments
States that have not expanded Medicaid have higher child disenrollment rates than expansion states combined, new data indicated.
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19 Dec 2023
Patient-Provider Communication Ranks High While Doc Face Time Lags
Doctors are good at answering patient questions, but the limited amount of in-person time with doctors mars the patient experience.
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18 Dec 2023
Alteryx to be acquired by private equity firms for $4.4 billion
Following slow revenue growth in recent quarters, the data management vendor will become a private company and be afforded time to restructure.
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18 Dec 2023
Veeam exec illustrates how AI fits into backup, recovery
Veeam CTO Danny Allan details the impact of AI on backup and how his company uses the tech. He also discusses what he's heard from users about Broadcom's VMware acquisition.
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18 Dec 2023
Cloud consulting deals revolve around ServiceNow, Google
Cognizant's pending purchase of Thirdera and Insight Enterprises' acquisition of SADA reveal the global systems integrators' preference for pure-play cloud consulting firms.
