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Bridging Borders: The rise of Ukrainian-British tech collaboration

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The past year has been crucial for Ukrainian-British tech cooperation. As one of the leading IT service exporters, Ukraine’s presence in the UK has never been stronger, with business ties growing deeper. Recently, the IT Ukraine Аssociation (ITU) published a comprehensive report on the state of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. According to the report, Digital…

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Insider report details Apple’s AI struggles, says first big Siri upgrade due this fall

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It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced its most important Apple Intelligence feature would be delayed indefinitely. Facing a huge crisis with its AI platform, the company has shaken up its structure to finally deal with Siri and give it a proper revamp.After all, the last time Apple announced a product that wasn’t ready…

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Banks to share fraud data with tech firms in cross-sector collaboration

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Banks and tech firms are coming together in an initiative to share information on fraud to give them visibility of the attacks targeted at customers. The collaboration is part of Stop Scams UK’s intelligence-sharing pilots, which have brought together banks such as HSBC, NatWest and Santander with tech firms Amazon, Google and Meta. Mobile telecommunications…

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AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of

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Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…

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Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud

6 minutes of reading / Apple, Cloud, compliance, Computer, Facebook, GDPR, iCloud, Meta, Tech, Technology / By

Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any Apple phone or computer user world-wide. The government has used powers under UK surveillance laws to issue a…

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Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons

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Google parent company Alphabet has dropped its pledge to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools, citing a need to support the national security of “democracies”. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a blogpost published Jun 2018, previously outlined how the company would “not pursue” AI applications that “cause or are likely…

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Apple: British techies to advise on “devastating” UK global crypto power grab

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An obscure British government committee is to be asked this month to advise Home Secretary Yvette Cooper whether to go ahead with government demands that Apple provide British agents with a secret backdoor to break into the companies iCloud Advanced Data Protection system, enabling British spies to secretly copy and read users’ private data.   …

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Apple may have finally found a way to fix Siri and Apple Intelligence

2 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Apple, chatbot, ChatGPT, Google, Intel, iPhone, machine learning, Meta, Tech / By

With the iOS 18.3 release just around the corner, it won’t take long before we get the long-awaited Siri overhaul expected with iOS 18.4. However, with Apple Intelligence not being as useful as users might wish for and Siri still being Siri, Apple is in a bad place with its AI efforts.This is why the…

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Here’s why you should start talking to ChatGPT even if AI scares you

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Intel, iPhone, Meta, Nokia, Samsung, Square, Tech / By

I have this distinct memory of looking at a Samsung billboard in Times Square and telling someone that I should soon buy one of those new phones, not because they appealed to me but because I didn’t want to be left behind.It was the summer of 2006, about a year before the first-generation iPhone came…

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Top 10 data and ethics stories of 2024

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In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…

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