Research from analyst Gartner has reported that 30% of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects are expected to be abandoned after the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, largely due to challenges such as poor data quality, escalating costs and unclear business value. Gartner found that earlier adopters across industries and business processes are reporting…
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As global efforts to recover and learn from the Friday 19 July CrowdStrike incident continue, cyber criminals and scammers are predictably lurking on the fringes of the discourse, picking off unsuspecting victims, supported by over newly created malicious domains associated with CrowdStrike’s branding. This is according to web security specialist Akamai, which said its researchers…
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During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation…
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A 2009 EU anti-competition ruling has been used as a line of defence by Microsoft as questions are being asked over why a third-party product was able to take down Windows. On Friday 19 July, 8.5 million PCs experienced the so-called Blue Screen of Death, which occurs when the Windows operating system (OS) experiences a…
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Microsoft’s response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into its cloud licensing practices has seen it accuse arch-rivals Amazon and Google of “muddying the waters” with their contributions to the probe. The software giant has issued a 27-page response to a working paper the CMA published in June 2024 that detailed the…
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Google’s August 13th Pixel 9 event can’t come soon enough. That’s because the Pixel 9 phones have appeared in so many leaks that we already know everything there is to know about them. We saw the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold in so many leaks that…
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Microsoft users across the globe should review the state of their infrastructure security setups in the wake of the botched CrowdStrike software update that took millions of Windows devices across the world offline on Friday 19 July 2024. As stated in a blog post, authored by Microsoft’s vice-president of enterprise and operating system security, David…
Apple has agreed to comply with a set of voluntary safeguards for AI created by President Joe Biden’s administration. As Bloomberg reported, this guideline aims to help the better development of this technology while protecting consumers.Cupertino joins OpenAI, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and others in committing to testing their AI systems to protect Americans’ privacy,…
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Under-fire cyber firm CrowdStrike has published an initial post incident review setting out more information on the update-gone-wrong that brought down millions of Microsoft devices on 19 July, causing global chaos. In an update posted earlier on 24 July, the firm said it had attempted to release a content configuration update for its Falcon sensor…
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The total direct financial loss faced by Fortune 500 companies as a result of the 19 July Microsoft – CrowdStrike outage has been set at approximately $5.4bn (£4.18bn), at a average weighted loss of $44m per organisation, rising to close to $150m for the most heavily affected, such as airlines. This is according to cloud…
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