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UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into whether Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic is anti-competitive. There appears to be an arms race going on in the tech sector for artificial intelligence (AI) talent and capabilities, which is leading the UK regulator to consider whether partnerships between major tech firms and AI startups are healthy…

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Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Electoral Commission after basic security errors allowed hackers linked to the Chinese state to gain access to servers containing the personal information of 40 million people. Hackers were able to access the Electoral Commission’s Microsoft Exchange Server after the organisation failed to patch known…

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How to stop AI costs from soaring

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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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Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume

5 minutes of reading / branding, Computer, Facebook, Git, GitHub, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By

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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The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Review: Unleashing Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 Into Notebooks

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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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Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?

4 minutes of reading / API, Apple, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update

5 minutes of reading / business continuity, Computer, disaster recovery, Microsoft, Tech / By

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…

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Apple says it will follow the Biden administration’s AI safety guidelines

2 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ChatGPT, cybersecurity, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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