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NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers

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The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working with social media platforms Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, has removed almost 12,000 posts, pages and accounts that were used to advertise the services of people smugglers. The takedowns form part of a coordinated social media action plan, first set up in December 2021, targeting the services of criminals…

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ASRock Launches Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT Cards for Servers

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As sales of GPU-based AI accelerators remain as strong as ever, the immense demand for these cards has led to some server builders going off the beaten path in order to get the hardware they want at a lower price. While both NVIDIA and AMD offer official card configurations for servers, the correspondingly high price…

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Google gives Gemini faster, higher-quality responses with 1.5 Flash

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Following the arrival of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini model and Meta’s Llama 3.1 models, Google has debuted its own AI update. On Thursday, Google made the Gemini 1.5 Flash model available to free users. The updated model is a fairly comprehensive upgrade over version 1.0, with faster, smarter responses and the ability to hold longer conversations.According…

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WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears

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Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard. Lawyers claimed that a decision by the IPT following an international police operation to harvest bulk encrypted messages from the EncroChat phone…

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OpenAI challenges Google with AI search engine SearchGPT

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OpenAI announced it’s now testing a new SearchGPT. This temporary prototype uses AI search features to give you “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.”The new SearchGPT feature is currently available for 10,000 users. If you’re not part of the program, you can join a waitlist for its possible expansion. OpenAI explains that…

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

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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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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 due to last-minute discovery of problems with some CPUs – launch won’t happen until August now

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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs are going to be delayed and won’t arrive at the end of July as originally planned, with Team Red pushing back the launch of its next-gen processors to August due to issues with the chips.Tom’s Hardware reports that while AMD had already started shipping out Ryzen 9000 CPUs to retailers and…

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YouTube might render ad blockers useless with new ad tech

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The YouTube ad blocker cat-and-mouse game between Google and ad blockers continues with a new episode that might deliver a big win to Google. The company has been trying to ban ad blocker extensions on YouTube for quite a while, though these programs have always found a way to circumvent Google’s ideas. This seemed to…

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The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship

9 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Computer, Tech, virtual reality / By

Since it was founded in 1754, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (The R&A) has been a bastion of sporting tradition and history, preserving the rules and spirit of the game – as well as organising the annual Open championship. But it’s also a provider of underground fibre-optic networking and a pioneer in private 5G…

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