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There’s finally an AI search engine that doesn’t suck, but most people will never use it

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When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, we soon wondered whether the AI chatbot could ultimately replace Google. Google certainly got scared about all the attention AI was getting at the time. Every Google announcement since then has been full of AI. That’s what Google’s products are all about, and it’s all for the sake of…

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This free site uses AI to help you fight health insurance claim denials

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Fight Health Insurance (FHI) is the name of an AI website with only one purpose: to help you appeal health insurance claim denials. “Make your health insurance company cry too,” is the site’s clever motto.FHI is the result of an engineer who worked at IBM, Apple, and Google before landing at Netflix. Over the years,…

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Tech sector layoffs mount amid AI investment frenzy

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Amazon, automation, Azure, Cisco, Dell, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tech, Technology / By

Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…

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Body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch recovered after freak storm

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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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New Qilin tactics a ‘bonus multiplier’ for ransomware chaos

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The cyber criminal Qilin ransomware gang seems to be upping the stakes in its ransomware attacks, stealing not just their victims’ data, but harvesting credentials stored within Google Chrome browsers on their endpoints, something that has never been observed before. Described as a “bonus multiplier for the chaos already inherent in ransomware situations” by the…

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Now anyone can use Midjourney’s website to generate AI images

2 minutes of reading / AI, Google, Tech / By

If you wanted to use the AI image generator Midjourney when it first launched, your only choice was to join a Discord server and interact with a bot. Late last year, the Midjourney team created a website for the service, but only for users who had already generated at least 10,000 images on Discord. Months…

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Court document reveals Google’s strategy to dodge Department of Justice

5 minutes of reading / Alphabet, Apple, Google, Tech / By

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled against Google in the anti-trust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of US states. The court concluded that Google had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by maintaining its monopoly in general search services and general text advertising…

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Google’s AI Olympics ad is so bad, Gemini must have created it

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, Intel, Tech / By

Winning the AI race isn’t just about getting artificial intelligence features right. It’s also about winning the hearts and minds of people who will use these products. Google just gave us a good example of how not to win any hearts or minds. As impressive as Gemini AI innovations might be, Google’s “pizza glue” Search…

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Securing data in GCP: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

2 minutes of reading / Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, Intel, Tech / By

Listen to this podcast We speak to Google’s director of product management for confidential computing about ensuring the protection of data in use How do you offer a trusted environment for hosting applications and data in the public cloud? It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a CrowdStrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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