Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
Ahyan Stock Studios/Shutterstock We all have bad days. Well, it turns out that Google’s generative AI chatbot Gemini does, too. Based on multiple reports and social media post from around the internet — as well as a comment from Google DeepMind’s group project manager, Logan Kilpatrick — it seems the Google-based AI can struggle to…
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A multinational cyber enforcement operation – led by the European Union’s (EU’s) Europol and Eurojust agencies – has successfully disrupted the NoName057(16) pro-Russian hacktivist cyber crime network responsible for multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Europol said offenders associated with the network primarily focused on targets in Ukraine but shifted their focus to other European…
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AMD has received quite a lot of flak for making an 8GB version of the RX 9060 XTA Team Red exec has argued that this VRAM loadout is fine for 1080pSome gamers remain unconvinced and also feel AMD has badly named this new pair of 8GB and 16GB GPUsAMD has shot back at critics after…
AI continues to be the biggest thing in tech, so it’s no wonder hackers want to take advantage of it in their attacks on unsuspecting victims. A few days ago, we learned of a clever campaign on social media platforms like TikTok, where hackers uploaded clips narrated by AI that convinced users to install malware…
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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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