Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal hasn’t taken the typical digital leadership journey. Having completed a PhD in material science and engineering, he started in business-focused operations, working in marketing, engineering, product and operations. His shift into IT came much later, almost to the extent that he could be seen as an accidental CIO. “My career wasn’t…
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A cybersecurity researcher has discovered a major vulnerability in a popular PC speakerThe Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speakers can reportedly be used to hack users’ PCs via BluetoothCreative won’t provide a patch as it’s not viewed as a vulnerability, but a temporary third-party fix is availableDiscovering potential PC vulnerabilities is undoubtedly of high importance…
Pennymac Financial Services has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools as part of its plan to “change how mortgages are made”. The US mortgage lender is expanding its current deal with AWS to include the tech giant’s GenAI offerings. The arrangement has seen Pennymac develop a natural language virtual assistant using…
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AMD’s David McAfee expects DDR5 RAM prices to ‘recover slowly in the future’However, the exec added that DDR5 won’t return to ‘normal’ pricing levels for some two yearsMeanwhile chatter from the rumor mill claims Lenovo is going to implement another sizeable round of price hikes with its PCsAn AMD exec has told us that DDR5…
Intel has detailed how it’s designed Wildcat Lake laptops to be affordableThis isn’t only about the Wildcat Lake processor itself, but the supporting componentsThese have been implemented in a cost-friendly way, leveraging phone chips and design elements, helping to further reduce the cost of productionIntel is talking up how laptops based on its new Wildcat…
Almost a third (30%) of English hospital trusts using Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) are carrying out fewer patient operations than before they started using it, according to data obtained from the NHS by campaigning group Foxglove. The findings, revealed via freedom of information (FOI) requests, challenge claims by the UK government and Palantir that FDP…
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