It has been two years since OpenAI’s generative AI (GenAI) tool ChatGPT was launched, and with many rivals emerging on the market since, GenAI technology is beginning to be deployed in many industries, including the engineering sector, but concerns remain as to its viability and appropriateness. The engineering sector accounts for nearly a fifth of…
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Sweden’s algorithmically powered welfare system is disproportionately targeting marginalised groups in Swedish society for benefit fraud investigations, and must be immediately discontinued, Amnesty International has said. An investigation published by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet (SvB) on 27 November 2024 found that the machine learning (ML) system being used by Försäkringskassan, Sweden’s Social Insurance Agency,…
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the United States’ Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), have published updated intelligence on the activities of the dangerous BianLian ransomware operation, after observing a rapid evolution in the gang’s tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). One of a number of gangs that first came to prominence alongside…
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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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Microsoft president Brad Smith has called on United States president-elect Donald Trump not to break step with his predecessor’s work on cyber security, saying that threat actors working on behalf of China, Iran and Russia present an ever greater threat to American and global security. Speaking to the Financial Times, Smith praised president Joe Biden’s…
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A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed after repeatedly accessing sensitive files related to the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard while off-duty, prompting concern that legal requirements around police data access – which are due to be removed by the government’s data reforms – are not being followed. Following the murder of Sarah Everard…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 19 November 2024 Adventures in AI at Tripadvisor Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how travel site Tripadvisor is embracing AI to offer new products and services to its users. Gartner says the chance of a successful digital…
Nationwide Building Society is drawing on HPE’s private cloud capabilities to help deliver on the next phase of its multi-year hybrid cloud strategy. The company, which has more than 17 million customers in the UK and employs 18,000 people, is in midst of a hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation project, geared towards improving the online experience…
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“My husband has to sew my buttons on – I still can’t sew,” confesses co-CEO of technology education charity Tech She Can, Sheridan Ash. This year’s Computer Weekly most influential woman in UK technology has always had a sense of wanting to right the injustice inflicted on women by gender stereotyping. “At school, the girls…
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Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, has become the 13th person to be named Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech. Launched in 2012, the Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech started as a list of 25, expanding to 50 in 2015, and now seeing…
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