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Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

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There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information across different networks of data, according to Jim Webber, chief scientist at Neo4j. Computer Weekly spoke to Webber following the ratification of the GQL ISO standard, which provides a standard way to run searches across…

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Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability

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A Fujitsu IT expert’s admission that bugs existed in the Post Office Horizon system in 2013 was a “bombshell moment”, according to a barrister who was acting for the Post Office at the time. Simon Clarke, a barrister who advised the Post Office on criminal prosecutions, also told the Post Office scandal public inquiry that…

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Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases

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Post Office lawyers misled a barrister acting for them in subpostmaster prosecution cases, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has heard. Simon Clarke, previously a barrister at Cartwright King, said he believes he was misled by the Post Office’s lawyers during his work with the organisation. Discussing the case of Seema Misra, who was…

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Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is popping up everywhere in the workplace, but companies do not have the policies or training in place to make sure deployments do not go awry.  Staff at nearly three-quarters of European organisations already use AI at work, but only 17% have a formal, comprehensive policy governing the use of such…

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Major breach of customer information developing at Dell

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A serious breach of customer information – including names, postal addresses, hardware, order information and servicing history – is developing at Dell, after a database containing 49 million records was offered for sale on the dark web’s Breach Forums site by a user going by the handle, “menelik”. The first indications of a data breach…

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Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers

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Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior (SCW) has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams. Although other security benchmark and scoring services exist, the SCW Trust Score is specifically designed to provide a baseline of the impact of organisations’ learning programmes,…

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Case study: Why GenAI is taking off in local government

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Barnsley has become one of the first councils to roll out generative AI (GenAI) tools across its entire organisation as part of a six-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365, which it hopes will take some of the heavy admin load off staff. Local councils have become perhaps an unexpected testing ground for GenAI as…

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Post Office investigators saw subpostmasters as ‘enemies’ – and that’s what they became

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Post Office employees investigating subpostmasters over unexplained account shortfalls didn’t look into claims that the computer system was to blame, said a 2013 report to the organisation’s general council. During the latest hearing in the Post Office Horizon scandal statutory public inquiry, former Post Office interim general counsel Chris Aujard was questioned by barrister Flora…

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Ukrainian national sentenced over REvil ransomware spree

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A United States court has sentenced a 24-year-old Ukrainian national named as Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13 years and seven months in prison, and ordered him to pay more than $16m in restitution, after convicting him of over 2,500 ransomware attacks demanding over $700m in payments under the REvil/Sodinokibi crime spree. Vasinskyi, who used the handle…

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Post Office legal boss withheld details from statutory body reviewing miscarriages of justice

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The Post Office general counsel failed to give the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) evidence that would have identified the biggest miscarriage of justice years earlier. In a 2014 response to a CCRC request for an update on a Post Office review of its own prosecution strategy and processes, Chris Aujard, interim general council at…

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