Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
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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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Senior retailers and technology providers from around the world converged on New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), where they gained insights into the latest solutions affecting the sector. This year’s event attracted around 40,000 people from 105 countries representing 6,200 brands who heard about a variety of…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently addressed the future of ChatGPT, confirming that a GPT-5 upgrade is coming later this year. Before that, we’ll get GPT-4.5, an upgraded model expected to arrive in the coming weeks. Before any of those big upgrades arrive, OpenAI gave GPT-4o an unexpected upgrade that should improve the entire ChatGPT experience.…
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The UK government holds some of the world’s most valuable datasets, including official statistics, cultural heritage records and NHS health data. These datasets have powered scientific breakthroughs, business innovation, and improvements in public services. With the publication of the much-anticipated AI Opportunities Action Plan, the transformative potential of government data for AI has never been…
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Despite being taken down and humiliated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) coordinated Operation Cronos in February 2024, an unknown individual(s) associated with, or claiming to represent, the LockBit ransomware gang has broken cover to announce the impending release of a new locker malware, LockBit 4.0. In screengrabs taken from the dark web that have…
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Throughout 2024, UK government and law enforcement rhetoric around technology largely focused on the role of automation in reducing cost while boosting efficiency and productivity. Since the ascent of the new Labour government in July, there has also been a renewed focus on law and order given its manifesto commitment to “take back our streets”.…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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Apple has taught us to expect emotional Christmas commercials for its products around this time of year, and the company delivered yet another touching ad that will make you cry. Released on Thanksgiving Day, the Heartstrings ad already tops one million views on YouTube, though you’ll also catch it on other social media channels. The ad…
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The specifications for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D have leaked ahead of its scheduled release on November 7 – and it’s good news for gamers.The leak remains consistent with the previous marketing description leak regarding a performance boost over its predecessor, the 7800X3D. As spotted by VideoCardz, the leak originates from Geizhals, a price comparison…
