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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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…
Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits? Read More »
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’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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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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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…
The AMD-powered El Capitan supercomputer, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer. Built by HPE, the supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs). It achieved a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops based on the latest Top500 list. The LLNL is using the…
Raymond Boyle, vice-president of data and analytics at Hyatt Hotels, is an experienced executive who helps his business make the most of its information. He is responsible for Hyatt’s data strategy, governance, engineering, science and analytics capabilities. His team’s data-led insights boost customer and colleague experiences. “I took the opportunity because I love the role,”…
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In 2022, datacentres were estimated to consume about 2% of global energy. By 2026, that number is predicted to double to 4%, equivalent to about 1000 terawatt hours a year, which, according to Gartner, is equivalent to the consumption of a country the size of Japan. Lloyd Jones, vice-president analyst at Gartner, said the company’s…
Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
