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Swiss encrypted messaging service, ePost, targets one million postal users

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Switzerland’s national postal service is targeting one million Swiss residents to join its ePost encrypted communications service by the end of 2025. Swiss Post, faced with the prospect of annual falls in demand for traditional postal services, is betting that its ePost mobile app will fill the gap left by the declining use of traditional…

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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2024

18 minutes of reading / AI, blockchain, Computer, data analytics, digital transformation, fintech, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, open source, Salesforce, Siemens, software engineering, Sony, Square, Tech, Technology / By

Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, has become the 13th person to be named Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech. Launched in 2012, the Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech started as a list of 25, expanding to 50 in 2015, and now seeing…

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Apple addresses two iPhone, Mac zero-days

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Apple has dropped a series of software updates across its various product lines as it aims to ward off the impact of two newly discovered zero-days, both of which may have already been exploited in the wild. The fixes for CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309 – both attributed to Clément Lecigne and Benoît Sevens of the Google…

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Innovating with weather data at the Met Office

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 12 November 2024 Innovating with weather data at the Met Office Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the Met Office is using its vast stores of weather data to create innovative new products. Our latest buyer’s guide…

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Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning

3 minutes of reading / AI, cloud-native, Computer, Git, GitHub, IBM, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as a way for Red Hat and its parent IBM to lower the barrier to entry for organisations that want to run machine learning workloads without the need to deploy servers…

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Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations

6 minutes of reading / cloud-native, compliance, edge computing, Git, GitHub, Huawei, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…

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Interview: James Fleming, CIO, Francis Crick Institute

8 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, Computer, data science, Dell, IBM, internet of things, Lenovo, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Every digital leader likes to think their work helps boost a greater cause. For James Fleming, CIO at the Francis Crick Institute, that value-adding element is a core element of his job. “I go to sleep at night thinking that I’m helping cure cancer with computers,” he says, reflecting on his everyday roles and responsibilities.…

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Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training

3 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, Intel, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has gone live with its Parallelstore managed parallel file storage service, which is aimed at intensive input/output (I/O) for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is based on the open source – but developed by Intel – Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) architecture. Intel originally intended DAOS to be supported by its…

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What are tensor processing units and what is their role in AI?

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Google, Intel, open source, Tech / By

There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). You may have also heard of tensor processing units (TPUs), which are a…

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Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday

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Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them exploited in the wild, and three other critical issues for attention – in a relatively large update. Although moderate in their severity, carrying CVSS scores of 7.8 and 6.5 respectively, the two exploited zero-days should…

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