US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by senator…
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Over the past 20 to 30 years, the intelligence community has generated a stream of cyber security leaders – private cyber security companies are littered with former operatives of the American and British intelligence services. But in Israel’s case, the intelligence-to-cyber pipeline has produced arguably the highest density of cyber security startups and organisations in…
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The long-anticipated personalized Siri allegedly coming with iOS 18.4 has now been delayed to 2026. To Daring Fireball, Apple’s spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy said the more personalized Siri experience powered by Apple Intelligence will take longer to be released.Here’s what she said: “Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and…
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Google is officially testing Gemini integration with Google Calendar. If you’ve been holding out hope that the Google-powered AI would make the jump to your calendar, you likely won’t have to wait much longer.The feature is currently only available in Workspace Labs, which is essentially Google’s “beta” program for new workspace features that will soon…
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Until now, IT leaders have needed to consider the cyber security risks posed by allowing users to access large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT directly via the cloud. The alternative has been to use open source LLMs that can be hosted on-premise or accessed via a private cloud. The artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to…
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When building a startup, there is a real balancing act between managing expectations, educating on what’s possible, and identifying the true cost of innovation. CTOs are challenged not only to build functional technology platforms quickly, but to do so as cost effectively as possible. Startups are often not profitable therefore don’t have a lot of…
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Superbugs are what we routinely call bacteria that grow resistant to antibiotics. The name isn’t exaggerated, as these acquired defenses allow the superbugs to survive and potentially provoke more havoc. Scientists like Professor José R Penadés’s team at Imperial College London have been trying to figure out how superbugs get their problems in the hope of…
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Russia-backed hacking groups have developed techniques to compromise encrypted messaging services, including Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram, placing journalists, politicians and activists of interest to the Russian intelligence service at potential risk. Google Threat Intelligence Group disclosed today that Russia-backed hackers had stepped up attacks on Signal Messenger accounts to access sensitive government and military communications…
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Microsoft announced that its Copilot’s Think Deeper and Voice features are now available for free, with unlimited access for all users. Powered by OpenAI’s o1 model, you can talk with Copilot using Voice and use Think Deeper’s reasoning models to help with more complex tasks.This announcement comes as OpenAI expands its Operator capabilities to more…
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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…
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