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Building a more secure, and sustainable, open source ecosystem

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Once again, a critical security vulnerability has shone a light on the reality of open source today. Unpaid hobbyists maintaining so-called ‘Nebraska projects’, named for the now ubiquitous XKCD comic, ‘Dependency’, bear the weight of the modern world on their shoulders. All software has bugs, including critical security vulnerabilities. Proprietary vendors are famous for Patch…

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Digital border problems are stacking up

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 28 May 2024 Digital border problems are stacking up Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the government’s post-Brexit plans for digital borders as problems begin to emerge. We find out about AI PCs and ask whether they will make…

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Forrester: Preparing for the era of the AI PC

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Artificial intelligence (AI) on the personal computer (PC) was a central focus of the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year. PC and chip manufacturers such as AMD, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel and Nvidia announced AI PC innovations to come in the so-called “year of the AI PC”. Approximately 50 models…

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Can AI supercharge human creativity?

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 21 May 2024 Can AI supercharge human creativity? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to Getty Images about the challenges of balancing human creativity with the risks and opportunities of generative AI. Our latest buyer’s guide examines the latest…

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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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Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has this week added a vulnerability that was first disclosed in January in the GitLab open source platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue, prompting a flurry of warnings urging users of the service to apply available patches immediately. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028 and discovered through GitLab’s…

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IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

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IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same quarter in 2023, with software revenue growing 5% to $5.9bn. Automation, with growth of 14%, was the biggest contributor to IBM’s software revenue; meanwhile, Red Hat grew 9%. IBM chairman…

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Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public

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People’s inclusive participation in both the public and private management of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is key to making the technology work for the benefit of all, but there are currently no avenues to meaningful public engagement. During the fourth annual AIUK event run by the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), delegates speaking across the day…

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AMD to the rescue for Nvidia RTX 2000 and 3000 GPUs, as fudge for DLSS 3 games turbocharges frame rates to an eye-opening level

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Owners of older Nvidia RTX graphics cards can now benefit from FSR 3 frame generation in games that support DLSS 3, thanks to a smart new mod.Your first reaction to that may be confusion around FSR support being brought in for Nvidia DLSS 3 games, and how that figures. So, the simplest way to look…

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