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Rockwell urges users to disconnect ICS equipment

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American industrial control systems (ICS) specialist Rockwell Automation has urged users across the world to disconnect their equipment from the public-facing internet, citing geopolitical tensions and a dramatic increase in threat actor activity targeting its hardware through a number of known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based firm’s warning is accompanied by an…

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IT strategy: Supporting a distributed workforce

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Prior to 2019, many corporate IT departments had evolved a fairly efficient end-user computing strategy, which kept PCs functioning and updated to support the enterprise software requirements of staff. Then along came the pandemic, which broke the entire model for end-user computing. Literally overnight, IT departments had to enable people to work from home in…

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TSMC: Performance-Optimized 3nm N3P Process on Track for Mass Production This Year

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As part of the second leg of TSMC’s spring technology symposium series, the company offered an update on the state of its 3nm-class processes, both current and future. Building on the back of their current-generation N3E process, the optical shrink of this process technology, N3P, is now on track to enter mass production in the…

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Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, automation, AWS, chatbot, compliance, Computer, cybersecurity, data privacy, machine learning, Meta, Tech / By

Amazon has been building artificial intelligence (AI) systems and using machine learning for well over 20 years. Personalisation and recommendations were among the early innovations introduced on the ecommerce site, and these and other technology concepts, such as the Alexa voice assistant, help to drive forward AI innovation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public…

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Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference

3 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Tech / By

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominant both in and outside of the tech sector at the moment, and a huge part of the Knowledge24 agenda focused on generative AI (GenAI), with many of the platform and product announcements made during the event featuring the technology, including the further embedding of GenAI into the…

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Four key impacts of AI on data storage

6 minutes of reading / AI, automation, chatbot, ChatGPT, Cloud, compliance, IBM, machine learning, Tech / By

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise technologies. According to IBM, 42% of firms with more than 1,000 employees now use AI in their business. A further 40% are testing or experimenting with it. Much of that innovation is being driven by generative AI (GenAI), or large language models (LLM), such as ChatGPT.…

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IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

3 minutes of reading / AI, automation, containers, hybrid cloud, IBM, multicloud, open source, Tech / By

IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same quarter in 2023, with software revenue growing 5% to $5.9bn. Automation, with growth of 14%, was the biggest contributor to IBM’s software revenue; meanwhile, Red Hat grew 9%. IBM chairman…

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Autonomous weapons reduce moral agency and devalue human life

6 minutes of reading / AI, automation, AWS, Intel, machine learning, Tech / By

Using autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to target humans will erode moral agency and lead to a general devaluing of life, according to military technology experts.Speaking at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems on 30 April 2024 – a forum set up by the Austrian government to discuss the ongoing moral, ethical, legal and humanitarian…

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NVIDIA’s ‘cuLitho’ Computational Lithography Adopted By TSMC and Synopsys For Production Use

2 minutes of reading / AI, automation, HP, Synopsys, Tech / By

Last year, NVIDIA introduced its cuLitho software library, which promises to speed up photomask development by up to 40 times. Today, NVIDIA announced a partnership with TSMC and Synopsys to implement its computational lithography platform for production use, and use the company’s next-generation Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC applications. The development of photomasks is a…

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Are we ready for the era of the ‘sentient’ document?

4 minutes of reading / AI, automation, ChatGPT, Tech / By

We now have the technology for documents and digital content to develop levels of interactive responsiveness and competence that will make them appear super-intelligent. The question now becomes, how should we approach and harness this advancement? As deep learning algorithms distil key points with increasing accuracy and present them to users via the medium and…

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