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How to choose productivity tools that optimize efficiency and ROI

Today Chief Innovation Officers (CIOs) are faced with a myriad of decisions to make on a daily basis, as they seek to reduce costs, maintain workflow efficiency and improve service offerings through new digital tools – whether that be implementing new automation strategies or sourcing tools to support the businesses’…

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This new method could reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95% — but may also need whole new forms of hardware

Engineers reveal alternative to floating-point multiplication New method could reduce AI energy consumption by up to 95% But new calculation method would also need alternative hardware to existing GPUs As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies evolve, the demand for computing power – and consequently, electricity – has surged, as have concerns…

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Avast security tools hijacked in order to crack antivirus protection

Researchers spot new campaign that can turn off antivirus protection Malware uses legitimate Avast Anti-Rootkit driver to access kernel level Once antivirus is deactivated, the malware can proceed without detection Hackers are using a legitimate Avast Anti-Rootkit driver to disguise their malware, turn off antivirus protection, and infect systems, experts…

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AMD’s fastest CPU gets surprising 33% price cut in time for Black Friday and just one month after it launched; is there something else happening?

AMD’s 192-core EPYC 9965 CPU now a third cheaper than at launch 5th-gen Turin chip has seen stellar reviews from the tech press Half the price of Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6980P AMD’s new 192-core CPU monster, the EPYC 9965, launched last month, four months after its initial announcement.…

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Russian hackers are attacking innocent companies to get access to their neighbors

Russia’s APT28 cyber-espionage group linked to ‘Nearest Neighbor Attack’ Victim’s Wi-Fi network was protected, but its neighbor’s wasn’t Timing aligns with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Russian cyber-espionage group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, was able to breach an American company’s network by leveraging a ‘Nearest Neighbor Attack’…

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Google has blocked a huge network of pro-China propaganda news websites

Google crackdown identifies four PR firms infiltrating search results ‘Glassbridge’ firms spread Chinese propaganda Google removed 1,000 domains form the network Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has revealed it has blocked over 1,000 sites belonging to a small number of PR firms that spread pro-China propaganda through inauthentic news sites. The…

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