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Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again

4 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Facebook, Meta, social media, Tech, Twitter / By

Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their activity, and threat actors based out of Vietnam continue to drive the new surge, according to intelligence compiled by WithSecure. Ducktail first emerged a little over 12 months ago, targeting business accounts on Facebook and…

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Alternative perspectives: relational and virtue ethics in tech

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, augmented reality, Facebook, Google, Meta, social media, Tech, Technology / By

If you are involved in collecting and analysing data, or developing or applying algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, you probably want to do so responsibly. You can turn to documents that list and discuss ethical principles, such as preventing harms, human dignity, human autonomy, fairness, equality, transparency and explicability. Great principles – but they…

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Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame

26 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Apple, automation, Big Data, branding, Cloud, compliance, Computer, digital transformation, Facebook, fintech, GDPR, IBM, Intel, internet of things, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, robotics, Tech, Technology / By

Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has been running since 2012 to make female role models in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible.In 2015, the Hall of Fame was introduced alongside the top 50 to recognise women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector, as…

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Most influential women in UK tech: The 2023 longlist

26 minutes of reading / 5G, Accenture, agile, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cisco, Cloud, Computer, data analytics, data science, DevOps, Ericsson, Expedia, fintech, Flex, Fujitsu, Google, Google Cloud, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Okta, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Siemens, Snap, software engineering, Sony, Square, Tech, Technology, Twilio / By

Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…

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Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp

5 minutes of reading / GDPR, Meta, Tech / By

NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after 26 staff at the trust used a WhatsApp group to share patient data, including names, phone numbers and addresses, on over 500 occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. Staff at the trust, which oversees three hospitals near Glasgow in the…

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China Imposes New Export Restrictions on Gallium and Germanium

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China this week formally imposed new export regulations on gallium and germanium, as well as materials incorporating them. This move is broadly seen as a retaliatory act for the limitations recently placed on the Chinese semiconductor industry by the U.S., Japan, and the Netherlands. These new export regulations risk eventually significantly impacting the semiconductor sector,…

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Pig butchers caught using ChatGPT to con victims

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

Romance scammers looking to con people out of their savings appear to be turning to generative AI services such as ChatGPT to save time as they woo their victims, according to information obtained by Sophos researchers, who were alerted to the ruse when one scammer appeared to forget to check the messages they were sending…

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The Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti isn’t happening, but I hope we see its awesome cooler in the future

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Most believe the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Ti graphics card has been scrapped, but if it survives, we can look forward to at least one especially cool feature.The long-rumored and recently rumored to be canned Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti might have had an interesting cooler design, according to Goofish user ‘Hayaka,’ who became infamous for…

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Risks of opening up AI

5 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, AWS, Azure, Facebook, Git, GitHub, HP, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, open source, Palo Alto Networks, social media, Tech / By

Earlier in July, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced the availability of Llama 2, which will be made available in the Microsoft Azure AI model catalogue, as well as AWS. Meta describes Llama 2 as “the next generation” of its open source large language model. But while it is free for research and commercial…

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Sonic Superstars Cover, Remnant II, Twisted Metal Show Review

1 minute of reading / Apple, Meta, social media, Tech / By

Sonic Superstars is speeding onto the cover of our latest issue of Game Informer, and we’re talking all about the Blue Blur’s retro-modern throwback. Join Marcus Stewart, Kyle Hilliard, and Brian Shea as we break down our exclusive cover story. We’ll also unpack Kyle’s review of Remnant II while Marcus gives updated thoughts on his ongoing…

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