The government set out plans in the Autumn Budget 2024 to commission another independent review of the Loan Charge policy that – in its words – will “help bring the matter to a close for those affected whilst ensuring fairness for all taxpayers”. This description was seized on by contractors in scope of the policy…
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OpenAI unveiled its latest image generation model earlier this week. But rather than creating a separate product, it built the GPT-4o image generation abilities right into ChatGPT. That made it even easier to come up with mind-blowing ChatGPT-generated images. Just type your detailed prompt, and ChatGPT will deliver the images you want. That includes pics…
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Guys, I’m seriously worried that my husband might leave me. Why? Because I can’t stop engraving everything in my house. Ever since Acmer sent me a P3 dual laser engraver to test, I’ve been engraving pretty much everything I own that fits into the machine. And everything my husband owns. And all my dog’s stuff.…
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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is attempting to contact any former subpostmasters that could have been prosecuted for unexplained losses on the Post Office’s pre-Horizon Capture software. There are former subpostmasters that, like Horizon users, could have been convicted of crimes based on data from these systems. Since the Post Office Horizon scandal…
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The Post Office has made interim compensation offers to a number of former subpostmasters affected by a major data breach that was revealed last year. There is still work to be done on cases, but according to a source, some subpostmasters affected by the breach have been offered interim compensation payments by the Post Office.…
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Pure Storage has announced FlashBlade//Exa, which aims at artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads that demand extremely high throughput to graphics processing units (GPUs). That will serve customers between large enterprise users of AI and the hyperscalers. At the same time, FlashBlade//Exa has also introduced a new architecture to a Pure product line,…
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The government is under-prepared for a catastrophic cyber attack and still dogged by legacy IT, but making progress, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has heard. The committee, chaired by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Conservative MP for North Cotswolds, took testimony on 10 March from four high-ranking government IT leaders about the cyber resilience…
UK government under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack, hears PAC Read More »
The new ChatGPT 4o image generation model is the talk of the town, and not just for good reasons. Everyone is marveling at the AI’s amazing new abilities, which include generating legible text in images, creating fake photos out of real ones, creating deepfakes of celebrities, and replicating copyrighted content like Studio Ghibli characters. It…
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ChatGPT’s 4o image generation model is the talk of the town right now, but it’s not the only AI software that can offer mind-blowing image generation. TikTok parent company ByteDance has a new AI model called InfiniteYou, whose sole purpose is to let users generate photos of themselves starting from a single uploaded photo.It’s not…
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A secret tribunal is due to meet at the High Court in London this week to hear tech giant Apple appeal against a Home Office order to compromise the encryption of data stored by its customers on the iCloud service worldwide. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has taken the unusual step of publishing a notification…
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