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The be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 650W PSU Review: Solid Gold

6 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, HP, Tech / By

Be quiet! is renowned for its dedication to excellence in the realm of PC components, specializing in products that emphasize silence and performance. The brand’s product lineup is extensive, encompassing high-quality power supply units (PSUs), cases, and cooling solutions, including air and liquid coolers. Be quiet! is particularly renowned for trying to achieve whisper-quiet operation…

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Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing

8 minutes of reading / compliance, Computer, GDPR, Meta, Tech / By

Privacy campaigners have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators against online advertising and data brokerage company LiveRamp, claiming it’s “privacy-invasive profiling” breaks European data protection laws. Open Rights Group (ORG) – which submitted two separate complaints to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the French Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des…

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Unexpected costs hit many as they move to cloud storage

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, Cloud, compliance, machine learning, Tech / By

Most organisations spend more on cloud storage than they budget for, with large numbers migrating more data to the cloud than planned. Those numbers are even higher for companies that have adopted cloud storage in the past two years, with unexpected costs coming from storage capacity growth, egress fees and application programming interface (API) call…

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NI Policing Board pressed to open inquiry into PSNI spying on journalists’ phones

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The policing watchdog in Northern Ireland has been asked to set up an inquiry into allegations that police have covertly monitored journalists’ phones. Amnesty International and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) have written to the Policing Board asking for a statutory inquiry into the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) use of…

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Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI

9 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, compliance, Computer, Intel, risk management, Tech, Technology / By

The UK government insists it is already acting “responsibly” in the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) and military artificial intelligence (AI), following a warning from Lords to “proceed with caution”. However, critics say the government is failing to engage with alternative ethical perspectives, and that the response merely confirms its commitment to the…

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Kingfisher develops AI-agnostic platform to power DIY assistant

4 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, data science, e-commerce, Tech / By

Kingfisher, the group that owns DIY retailers B&Q and Screwfix, has launched a generative AI-powered virtual assistant in its French Castorama stores. The virtual assistant, which is built on top of a reusable platform called Athena, has been trained to answer customers’ DIY queries and provides step-by-step advice on a range of home improvement projects,…

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The new data landscape: how will the new UK-US data bridge affect businesses?

5 minutes of reading / compliance, digital transformation, GDPR, Tech, Technology / By

After much deliberation, the UK-US data bridge finally took effect on 12 October. This new framework is expected to speed up processes and increase opportunities for companies that are exporting data-enabled services. Previously, organisations that wanted to do this had to have contract clauses in place to guarantee UK data protection and privacy standards are…

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UK IT professionals express concerns about government’s generative AI goals

3 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Tech / By

As the Global AI Safety Summit prepares to bring together leaders from around the world in November, research reveals that a large majority of UK IT professionals are concerned about the government’s ambitions for the use of generative AI (GenAI). To be held at Bletchley Park on 1-2 November 2023, the Global AI Safety Summit…

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Scottish biometrics watchdog outlines police cloud concerns

10 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, data privacy, Microsoft, Tech / By

The Scottish biometrics commissioner has written to Police Scotland outlining his ongoing concerns over the cloud-based digital evidence sharing system used by the force, which uses hyperscale public cloud infrastructure to store and process sensitive biometric data despite major data protection concerns. At the start of April 2023, Computer Weekly revealed the Scottish government’s Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC)…

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Multi-agency pilot aims to help innovators navigate regulatory landscape

3 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Tech, Technology / By

Four UK regulators have joined forces in a pilot scheme to offer businesses tailored support to meet requirements across various sectors while safely innovating. The pilot service will be run by members of the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), made up of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Ofcom, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and…

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