Investment in the UK fintech sector fell by 37% last year compared to 2023, but retained its leadership in Europe and was second place in global terms. The huge fall in investment was put down to tough market conditions which included “rising interest rates, geopolitical instability, and a recalibration in venture-capital fund-raising”, according to Innovate…
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain its military advantages, which will require nurturing the country’s private AI defence sector and ensuring there is interoperability with the systems used by its allies, the Commons Defence Committee has said. In December 2023, the committee launched an inquiry examining how the…
Apple is working on a key iPhone update that will enable an important Apple Intelligence feature on supported devices. iOS 18.4 will bring the more advanced Siri assistant to the iPhone 15 Pros and all iPhone 16 models in the coming months.Siri will have access to more contextual information from iPhone apps to better respond…
Hyperscale datacentres are getting increasingly larger in size, as operators look to bolster the amount of IT load their facilities can handle to accommodate the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services. That’s according to figures shared by IT analyst house, Synergy Research Group, whose forecast data shows the average hyperscale datacentre is set…
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Security supplier Ivanti has once again found itself at the centre of an expanding series of breaches after it emerged that two freshly disclosed vulnerabilities in a number of its products are likely being exploited by China-backed threat actors. The vulnerabilities in question – which are designated CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283 – affect Ivanti’s Connect Secure,…
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Apple is always working on new apps. Even though iPhone users already have an app for almost everything they want, some users prefer Apple’s solutions instead of going with third-party apps. According to 9to5Mac, the next new Apple app that might see the light of the day is called “Invites.” As the name suggests, this…
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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…
