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Entrepreneurship with a conscience – the new mandate for tech leaders

5 minutes of reading / AI, data privacy, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, entrepreneurship isn’t just about disruption, innovation, and profitability anymore. As technology and enterprise leaders, we face a new mandate – to align business growth with social responsibility. Technology influences every facet of our lives, from how we communicate and work to how we shop, learn, and even think. With…

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iOS 18.4 lets you pick a default translation app on your iPhone

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As interested as we are in the upgrades coming to Siri and Apple Intelligence, that’s not all that iOS 18.4 has to offer users. As spotted by 9to5Mac after the first iOS 18.4 beta rolled out, Apple now allows iPhone users to set more default apps.In iOS 18.4 beta 1, you can change the default…

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AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?

8 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, robotics, Tech / By

At Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 event in February, the kingdom announced huge investment in artificial intelligence (AI), while the conference element of the show majored heavily in key questions about AI. These ranged from the next steps, such as getting business value from enterprise AI, to challenges in developing agentic AI, as well as the…

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You have to pay for Windows Notepad if you want to use AI

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If you thought Windows’ humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft’s never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months back, and now it’s prompting users to pay for a Microsoft 365 subscription to use AI features like Rewrite.For over four decades, Notepad has been…

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Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical

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Microsoft followed up its massive January Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities with a more modest crop this month. This time, it released fixes for 57 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in its update, three of which are critical. Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative described one of the vulnerabilities as unprecedented in…

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We just started using AI like ChatGPT, and it may already be making us dumber

5 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

Before the arrival of ChatGPT, I’ve had this running joke with friends that we actually don’t know how to do many trivial things, and we’re overly reliant on googling for information. Should the internet go down for extended periods, we’ll be in a world of trouble. The same thing still applies now that AI is…

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Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…

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The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

11 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…

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DeepSeek: Welcome to US artificial intelligence’s Sputnik moment

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Apple, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, iPhone, machine learning, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…

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AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…

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