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Swiss encrypted messaging service, ePost, targets one million postal users

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Switzerland’s national postal service is targeting one million Swiss residents to join its ePost encrypted communications service by the end of 2025. Swiss Post, faced with the prospect of annual falls in demand for traditional postal services, is betting that its ePost mobile app will fill the gap left by the declining use of traditional…

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Police cloud project raises data protection concerns despite legal reforms

20 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, GDPR, Microsoft, NEC, Tech / By

Nine police forces are seeking to replace their common records managements system (RMS) with a cloud-based alternative – but despite upcoming changes to the UK’s data laws, experts say the strong likelihood of a US-based hyperscaler winning the contract presents continued risks. Under the UK’s current data regime, moving sensitive police records to one of…

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AWS storage: Key storage options in the Amazon cloud

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least for end users. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels commented on S3’s 15th anniversary in…

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The ChatGPT apps for Mac and Windows are getting even better

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, chatbot, ChatGPT, Microsoft, Tech / By

OpenAI is expected to announce new genAI products in the not-too-distant future. The next big ChatGPT update might arrive next year. That’s the GPT-5/Orion model that appeared in various reports recently, though it’s unclear what OpenAI will call it. Before that, OpenAI might release the Operator AI agent to control computer apps. While we wait for…

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Zero-day exploits increasingly sought out by attackers

3 minutes of reading / API, Atlassian, Cisco, Cloud, Fortinet, Microsoft, Tech, VPN / By

Threat actors – both state-backed and financially motivated – are increasingly taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, to compromise their victims before fixes or patches are made available by the tech industry, according to an advisory published by the Five Eyes cyber agencies, including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the…

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Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, Dell, edge computing, Google, HP, internet of things, Kubernetes, Lenovo, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech / By

Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…

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Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, IBM, quantum computing, Tech / By

The latest machine on IBM’s quantum computing roadmap, Heron, has been given a hardware and software boost as the company pushes towards its goal of error correction. Error correction is seen as the holy grail for quantum computing, which would open the gates to commercial adoption. This may be many years away, but IBM Heron offers…

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Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access

3 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, IBM, Tech / By

Object storage specialist Scality has launched Ring XP, a tuned-up version of its existing Ring platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) data lake use cases that promises microsecond (µs) storage access times. That tune-up centres on the use of a stripped-down version of S3 object storage application programming interfaces (APIs) – that lack performance-sapping functionality…

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Watch out, Nvidia – new benchmarks suggest Apple M4 Ultra could beat the mighty RTX 4090

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, Apple, Tech / By

A new benchmark for the M4 Max suggests the M4 Ultra could surpass the RTX 4090This could strengthen Apple’s position within the gaming marketCyberpunk 2077 is a strong indication of the M4 family’s power and performanceApple’s lineup of M4 chips is expected to significantly enhance performance across all Macs, and the M4 Ultra could take…

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Data classification: What, why and who provides it

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, internet of things, machine learning, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, risk management, SAP, Tech / By

When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…

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