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Doomed to fail? Most AI projects flop within 12 months, with billions of dollars being wasted
New research has claimed the vast majority (80%) of AI-based projects fail, double the normal failure rate for non-AI tech proposals. A study by the Rand Corporation found only 14% of organizations felt fully ready to adopt AI, despite 84% of business leaders reporting they believe the technology will have…
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Hackers have exploited a WPS Office zero-day to deploy dangerous malware
The popular WPS Office workplace productivity software suite carried a vulnerability which allowed some threat actors to deploy backdoors to their target’s endpoints, experts have claimed. Cybersecurity researchers at ESET found WPS Office was vulnerable to an improper path validation flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7262. It carries a severity score of…
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Hackers linked to Russian government found using some very familiar malware tools
Research from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has found evidence Russian-backed threat actor APT29 used iterations of watering hole campaigns which were ‘identical or strikingly similar’ to exploits developed by notorious spyware companies NSO Group and Intellexa. TAG found Mongolian government websites were hit by multiple campaigns earlier in 2024…
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Update Windows now, there are some worrying security hacks on the way
If you haven’t installed the security patches for Windows in the latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, you should probably hurry, as experts have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a critical severity flaw allowing crooks to mount remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The vulnerability in question, which was addressed in the…
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Ahead of US Elections, energy deal will see Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp run on hot air — Meta signs contract with Sage Geosystems for its US data centers
Meta and Sage Geosystems have announced a partnership to use geothermal energy to power the former’s US data centers in a first-of-its-kind project aimed at reducing carbon emissions. The agreement, revealed at a US Department of Energy (DoE) summit, will deliver up to 150MW of new geothermal baseload power and…
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Managing the IPv4 to IPv6 transition
The global transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has gained major traction, driven by the urgent need to accommodate a rapidly expanding number of internet-connected devices and the introduction of IPv6 addresses. Historically, the shift to IPv6 was slow, with many regions taking years to offer IPv6 service. But currently, the…
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