Free Microsoft Office licences negotiated by the Scottish government for school pupils are set to end at the start of August, according to the Scottish Herald. The newspaper reported that the free A1 Plus licence will no longer be available to students. Glow, Scotland’s digital environment to support learning, has posted a notice stating that Microsoft…
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Howdens, which supplies kitchens to tradespeople, has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app to provide technical knowledge. Chip uses Microsoft’s generative AI (GenAI) technologies, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search and Applied AI Services. Chip has been designed to provide Howdens’ trade customers with the information they need to do…
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After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the unique architecture of Graphcore’s intelligence…
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Security teams will have a busy few days ahead of them after Microsoft patched close to 140 new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its July Patch Tuesday update, including four zero-day exploits – one of them a third-party update via processor giant ARM. The four zero-days are listed, in numerical order, as follows: CVE-2024-35264,…
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After Bloomberg reported that Apple would get a seat on OpenAI’s board due to its recent partnership with Apple Intelligence features, the Financial Times writes that not only Cupertino won’t join the board, but Microsoft is also dropping its observer seat amid regulatory scrutiny.With that, both companies will have stakeholder meetings instead of board seats…
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The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body stands accused of selling its members down the river, after agreeing a $22m deal to withdraw its long-standing anti-trust complaint against Microsoft. The pair have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that commits Microsoft to making an enhanced version of its Azure Stack HCI offering…
Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 9 July 2024 How data drives decisions at BAE Systems Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the chief data officer of one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers, BAE Systems, about data strategy and diversity. Microsoft’s claims over sovereign…
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App development harnessing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) might be democratising coding and potentially freeing up resource, but organisations must carefully manage contributors without prior coding experience. According to Jon Puleston, vice-president of innovation in the profiles division at Kantar, even an accurate synthetic persona based on a data set of 25,000 real people containing 250…
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Chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has deployed cloud-to-cloud backup from Own in a move that has seen it become fully protected in its Salesforce.com environment. Previously, it regularly lost customer data without knowing it, and also ran up against storage space limitations that halted work. The Netherlands-based company employs 300 people in offices across Europe and…
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A new Intel Arrow Lake leak suggests that the upcoming desktop processors will only feature a low-powered NPU, one that won’t past muster in terms of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC hardware requirements. As spotted by Videocardz, hardware leaker Jaykihn on X has posted what’s claimed to be a spec list for Intel Arrow Lake-S (desktop) which states…
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