With cyber criminality and fraud against banks running rampant in recent years and showing no signs of slacking off, banking organisations around the world are coming to understand that they need to be doing much more effective due diligence when managing inbound customer contacts via voice calls or web chats. First National Bank of Omaha…
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Saudi Arabia (KSA) has called for a global agreement to govern artificial intelligence (AI) with humanitarian and democratic values, earning the incredulity of rights activists campaigning to free people imprisoned for decades for criticising the Gulf state on social media. Using the diplomatic honour the United Nations (UN) bestowed on it by allowing it to…
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A little over a year after xAI announced Grok, X’s AI-powered assistant, it’s now available in the US as a standalone app. Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and it’s intended to answer almost anything and, “far harder, even suggest what question to ask.”When it was announced in November…
AMD’s Frank Azor was interviewed by a Spanish YouTuber about RDNA 4The exec told us that the RX 9070 will be a ‘very competitive product’Pricing was also mentioned, in a vague way, and some gamers are taking it as a bad sign – but that’s jumping the GPU gun AMD has given us some clues…
AMD has announced a new Ryzen 5 9600 processor at CES 2025This is a slightly slower version of the already existing Ryzen 5 9600XIt has a boost speed that’s 200MHz slower, but it’ll be cheaper – though we don’t have a launch price yetAMD will doubtless be launching a few fresh Zen 5 processors this…
AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 scores a 99fps average in Black Ops 6 at native 4KEarly benchmark was done in rig using the new Ryzen 9950X3DFSR 4 could provide a massive frame rate boost based on this benchmarkWhile AMD made it clear that it wouldn’t focus on high-end GPUs this generation but instead target the midrange…
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B&H Photo accidentally posted early listings of RDNA 4 graphics cardsRX 9070 and RX 9070 XT were given a pre-order date of January 23That’d suggest an on sale date at the end of January, when Nvidia’s RTX 5080 (and 5090) hit the shelvesAMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards, which were revealed (in a rather fleeting…
Former users of a pre-Horizon Post Office accounting system, who suffered as a result of its errors, are being invited to tell their stories to the government as it attempts to ascertain common themes that will help in the design of its compensation scheme. The government has recognised that problems with the Post Office’s Capture…
For chief information security officers (CISOs) still looking to set some professional goals for the New Year, or to expand on a list they’ve already compiled, consider strengthening the relationship with your organisation’s legal function. You may well have already spent a great deal of time building bridges with company lawyers. After all, it’s now…
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California is currently dealing with some of the most destructive wildfires in the state’s history. Five people have been killed so far, and more than 2,000 buildings have been burned in Los Angeles alone, according to The Los Angeles Times. The situation is ongoing, and there’s an app that has everything you need to know…
