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Seagate claims its flagship hard drives could last more than 7 years — world’s largest HDD vendor transferred a whopping 3.2PB of data by getting a drive head to work continuously over 6000 hours
Seagate recently announced the results of an experimental test that showed one of its hard drives could run continuously for over 6,000 hours. By leveraging advanced hard-drive recording (HAMR) technology, the world’s biggest hard disk vendor claims it was able to transfer a whopping 3.2PB of data in that period,…
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A whole new generation of ransomware makers are attempting to shake up the market
The days of the “traditional” Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model could be numbered as hackers instead pivot towards cheaper, crude, off-the-shelf ransomware variants, new research has said. In a new report analyzing the state of the ransomware community, Sophos says it discovered 19 “junk gun” ransomware variants emerging since June 2023. These…
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“Every company will be able to benefit” — why Google Cloud believes AI is set to supercharge the work we do every day
The recent Google Cloud Next 24 conference was perhaps unsurprisingly dominated by AI, with a range of new announcements and launches from the company proving the latest salvo in what is set to be an increasingly AI-dominated future. Google Cloud has been at the forefront of pushing AI innovation forward…
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Google cutting more jobs as it restructures teams as part of shift to AI
Google is laying off an unspecified number of workers in its latest round of cuts as the company continues to self-scrutinize costs, efficiency, and operations. As part of the upcoming changes, Google is reportedly considering moving away from its more expensive locations to cheaper hubs in regions such as India,…
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Underestimating the dangers within: mitigating the insider cyber threat
The cybersecurity risks that businesses are often most concerned about come from external attacks. But at the same time, threats – both by accident or with malicious intent – by their own employees are overlooked, despite accounting for 58% of cybersecurity breaches in recent years. As a result, a large…
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The road to analytics excellence is paved with automation
As organisations embark on becoming more digitally enabled, the road is paved with many twists and turns. Data science teams and analysts, as well as the teams they serve, know full well that the path to analytic excellence is not linear. The good news is organisations have opportunities to unlock…
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