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Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail Bank

8 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, chatbot, ChatGPT, Cloud, compliance, digital transformation, IBM, IBM Cloud, machine learning, Tech, virtual reality / By / Leave a Comment

Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at NatWest Retail Bank, has had a distinguished career leading technology-led change in some of the world’s biggest financial services organisations. Now, she’s using that experience to drive even more innovation. After four years as CIO for collaborative technology solutions with Deutsche Bank, Redshaw says she was eager…

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DWP ‘fairness analysis’ reveals bias in AI fraud detection system

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An artificial intelligence (AI) system used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to detect welfare fraud is showing “statistically significant” disparities related to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality, according to the department’s own internal assessment. Released under freedom of information (FoI) rules to the Public Law Project, the 11-page “fairness analysis”…

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Data: The reindeer pulling AI’s sleigh

4 minutes of reading / AI, automation, compliance, digital transformation, machine learning, Microsoft, robotics, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

tomertu – stock.adobe.com By Published: 12 Dec 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword; it’s a transformative force reshaping industry. We’re currently past the initial ‘hype’ phase of AI and are now in what Gartner calls the ‘trough of disillusionment.’ Essentially, this means that everyone is realising that successful AI implementation isn’t…

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The most pressing challenges for CISOs and cyber security teams

5 minutes of reading / AI, business continuity, machine learning, quantum computing, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

The UK Ministry of Defence recently published its Global Strategic Trends report which sets out the developments that will shape the world over the next five years. These provide an insight into some of the challenges that CISOs and cyber security teams will face.The first threat is that of global and regional political instability. As…

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Could generative AI help to fill the skills gap in engineering?

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, ChatGPT, Computer, Intel, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By

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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Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits?

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, data science, Google, Google Cloud, machine learning, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Many enterprises are moving towards use of data lakes to help in managing increasing amounts of information. Such large repositories allow organisations to gather and store structured and unstructured data before handing it off for further data management and processing in a data warehouse, database, enterprise application, or to data scientists and analytics and artificial intelligence…

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Swedish authorities urged to discontinue AI welfare system

5 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, machine learning, social media, Tech / By

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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Microsoft slaps down Egyptian-run rent-a-phish operation

4 minutes of reading / machine learning, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has scored a major win against the cyber criminal underworld after leading an operation to seize 240 fraudulent websites used by an Egyptian national – named today as Abanoub Nady – who sold do-it-yourself phishing kits under the brand name ONNX to less adept crooks. Nady, who used the handle MRxC0DER,…

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IT and business leaders face big gap in understanding of data priorities

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

Over three-quarters (77%) of business leaders claim it is easy to use the data they need for their jobs, yet IT people struggle with data management, research has found. The Morning Consult survey of 4,000 business leaders and tech practitioners for Capital One found that 70% of IT staff report spending up to four hours…

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IAM within the framework of defence in depth

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By

IT leaders should address their internal processes to minimise their organisations’ IT security risk exposure and attack surface. This becomes ever more complex as business IT environments evolve. Leaders not only need to consider which employees and job roles require access to which IT systems, but also non-human access controls where either an internal or…

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