Tag: pro
The end of the HR department is in sight; could this AI recruiter be the most advanced yet?
Mega HR claims Megan is the most sophisticated AI recruiter to date It can apparently manage up to 78% of frontline hiring tasks to cut costs It doesn’t take lunches, go on holiday, take toilet breaks, go to sleep or gossip Recruiters play an important role in the hiring process,…
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Blu-ray is dying so I believe it’s now time for ‘obsolete’ tape to shine again in the strangest of ironies
Shiny discs were supposed to kill boring magnetic tape once and for all But cheap storage all but killed the media for data hoarders Tape remains the only true viable long-term solution but drives are far too expensive It’s 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced that it…
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Over a billion credentials stolen were stolen in malware attacks in 2024
Billions of passwords are breached each year, SpecOps report claims Millions of users are guilty of poor password hygiene Strong passwords are the first line of defense against data breaches Passwords are being breached at an alarming rate, and threat actors are gaining access to victims accounts through weak and…
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Universal translators are tantalizing close as Facebook’s Meta reveals its tech can translate between 101 languages
Back in August 2023, Meta revealed an ‘all-in-one’ AI translation model capable of understanding close to 100 different languages. Dubbed SeamlessM4T (Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation), this is Meta’s attempt at creating a ‘universal translator’ akin to the Babel Fish in Douglas Adams’ classic sci-fi series The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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FBI claims North Korean workers are hacking the US companies which hired them
The FBI’s missive follows three previous ones in as many years Statement is aimed at educating businesses and warding off domestic collaborators Suggested remedies include employing endpoint protection on computer systems and checking applications for “typos and unusual nomenclature” The FBI has claimed North Korean IT workers are extorting US…
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QNAP says it has fixed several major vulnerabilities in NAS backup, recovery app
QNAP said it addressed six flaws in its Hybrid Backup Sync tool The flaws stemmed from rsync, an open-source file syncing tool Users are advised to update their HBS immediately QNAP has addressed half a dozen vulnerabilities affecting its Hybrid Backup Sync (HBS) software. In a security advisory, the company…
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