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Women in data: Claire Thompson, chief data officer, L&G

It’s almost become a cliché to say that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. However, Claire Thompson, group chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) at financial services firm L&G, says data has always been crucial to big firms. What’s changed during the past few years, particularly in her sector, is a recognition of…

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Body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch recovered after freak storm

Following the sinking of his luxury yacht on Monday, Reuters has reported that the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered.Lynch was among six people who have been confirmed to have died when the yacht sank after being hit by a sea tornado, known as a waterspout, in the early hours of Monday…

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Women in Data: Barilla chief of analytics on reaching the ‘so what?’ moment with data insights

For Lyndsay Weir, the key to success with data analytics is getting to the “so what?”, beyond the charts and spreadsheets. “You need to understand what business question is and you need to get to the action. I say this to my teams, but whenever they produce anything, a report, a tool, a dashboard, my…

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Kingfisher develops AI-agnostic platform to power DIY assistant

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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Closing the datacentre skills gap by tapping up career changers

The UK datacentre industry is in the midst of a prolonged and well-publicised skills crisis, as there are simply not enough people entering the sector despite more students studying science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. Might it be time to look again at how best to attract candidates from other walks of life, such…

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Deputy prime minister heads up AI central government drive

The government has begun a recruitment drive to hire top-tier engineers as it builds out i.AI, the plan run by the deputy prime minister to develop artificial intelligence (AI) in government. According to information posted on the ai.gov.uk website, i.AI is a new initiative that aims to work across government to identify where targeted applications…

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Data-sharing strategy needs business buy-in

A survey of data scientists for Capital One Software, the software business spun out of Capital One Bank, has found that many struggle to secure funding for self-service initiatives. Forrester Consulting surveyed 150 data science, analytics, cloud infrastructure and data decision-makers at North American companies from May 2023. It reported that a self-service data strategy…

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ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop hopes to give security researchers and defenders a little extra help when it comes to defending against malware and botnet operations, by making its entire 16 million row domain generated by algorithm (DGA) dataset publicly available on GitHub. So-called DGAs are programs that use algorithmic generation to…

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Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…

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AI is the most hyped technology of 2023

There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype. “The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The massive pretraining and scale of AI foundation models, viral…

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