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Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of ...
Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords
A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition ...
At last, a use case for AI agents with high sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
Arthur Gervais, associate professor in information security at UCL, and Liyi Zhou, a lecturer in computer science at USYD, ...
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer
This is exactly what the boffins at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Technology Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, have done. At the International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit in Geneva this week, ...
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds
Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter ...
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well
Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ...
Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t ready for the job
Jose Augustin, Citrix’s senior director of product management, acknowledged Citrix’s retreat by describing XenServer as ...
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses
The bulk of the money will go toward AI and cloud credits for K-12 schools and community colleges, and Redmond claims 20 million people will "earn an in-demand AI skilling credential" under the scheme ...
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality
A cornerstone of the appeal, and yesterday's decision, is the fact that the FTC failed to undertake a preliminary regulatory ...
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data ...
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead ...
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO
US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting ...