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How small businesses can harness the productivity power of AI
There is a productivity problem in the UK, and small businesses unfortunately aren’t immune. Although a long-standing issue, poor productivity has been compounded by below-trend economic growth and one-off events like Brexit – it’s definitely tough out there! Xero’s report “Small business productivity: Trends, implications and strategies” reflects these macroeconomic…
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Popular astrology app leak exposes data on millions of users — find out if you’re affected
Researchers have uncovered private data of six million users of the popular Moonly astrology and lunar tracking app leaked online. The uncovered data includes dates of birth, exact GPS locations, and email addresses of users, as well as employee IP addresses and credentials, by experts at Cybernews. The GPS locations…
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AI push from US tech giants leads to skyrocketing water consumption figures
It probably comes as no surprise some tech giants are falling short when it comes to sustainability, with harmful mining practices, giant carbon footprints, and massive energy usage plaguing green goals. Now, new research from the Financial Times has also identified water consumption practices amongst tech giants has reached untenable…
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Microsoft patches Windows security flaw exploited by North Korean hackers — but is it too late?
As part of its latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, Microsoft fixed a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock. This bug is tracked as CVE-2024-38193, and carries a severity score of 7.8. Abusing this flaw apparently grants attackers admin privileges on the vulnerable endpoint, with…
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ChatGPT accounts suspected of being Iranian influence operation shut down by OpenAI
A cluster of malicious ChatGPT accounts linked to a notorious cybercrime group have been disabled by OpenAI after they were found to be attempting to spread content aimed at influencing voters. The content posted discussed a number of topics, particularly focusing on the US election, Israel’s presence at the Olympic…
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Pentagon unveils new supercomputer aimed at boosting defense against biothreats
The biodefense capabilities of the US have received a major upgrade in the form of a new supercomputer and rapid response laboratory (RRL). The supercomputer uses the same AMD MI300A processors as found in the LLNL exascale supercomputer, El Capitan, expected to be completed later this year. The US government…
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