Legal cases question IP in large language model training
A recent warning from OpenAI about the potential ramifications of a stringent copyright crackdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development has sparked a complex legal debate…
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The human toll of ransomware: how IT pros suffer during incidents
Over the last decade, ransomware has become a living nightmare for victims of all shapes and sizes. Attacks can bring operations to a standstill, damage…
NAO head calls for clean data and modern government IT
In his annual speech to Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the National Audit Office, called for improvements in government IT procurement as part of a…
All eyes are on the Post Office scandal – at last
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Human-centric technology vision changes IT procurement
Accenture’s 2024 Technology vision report has introduced a term to the CIO vocabulary – human-centric technologies. These are artificial intelligence-based systems, which are built in…
AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF
Artificial intelligence (AI) could impact almost 40% of global employment, says International Monetary Fund (IMF), and will “likely worsen overall inequality” if policymakers do not…
British Library catalogues back online after ransomware attack
The British Library has successfully recovered a significant portion of its main catalogue and restored public access, two-and-a-half months after being forced to take the…
Octopus Energy invests £200m in datacentre heat reuse startup Deep Green
Heat reuse-focused datacentre compute provider Deep Green has secured £200m in investment from Octopus Energy’s generation arm, which will be used to help the UK-based…
Cosmetics retailer Lush dealing with mystery cyber incident
Dorset-based cosmetics retailer Lush has fallen victim to a cyber security incident of a currently undisclosed nature, via a brief notice posted to its website…
How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry
The ongoing hearings in the UK Post Office’s Horizon software scandal drilled down into an area rarely addressed in detail by the courts or inquiries…
Six ways to use LLMs operationally in the enterprise
Forrester predicts that operational support use cases for large language models (LLMs) will develop rapidly. LLM integration with action components creates fully autonomous workplace assistants…
Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base
Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a…