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    In Major Ruling, Judge Finds Google ‘Willfully Acquired and Maintained Monopoly Power’ Over Digital Ad Market

    Image: Andrii/Adobe Stock A new court ruling could change the dominant role Google has held in the digital advertising market since the release of AdWords in late 2000. On April 17, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized two markets: one for publisher ad servers and one for online ad exchanges. Antitrust investigators were unable to prove…

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    NASA finds generative AI can’t be trusted

    Although many C-suite and line-of-business (LOB) execs are doing everything they can to focus on generative AI (genAI) efficiency and flexibility — and not about how often the technology delivers wrong answers — IT decision-makers can’t afford to do the same thing. This isn’t just about hallucinations, although the increasing rate at which these kinds of errors crop up is terrifying. This…

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    US, other G7 nations, fall behind in global tech race, study finds – Computerworld

    Without focusing on innovation and future industries, tech leadership by the G7 is no longer guaranteed, Lehne said. Tech advances are reshaping the global economy, with industries such as AI, automation, and clean energy relying on a STEM-skilled workforce. As a result, countries investing in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and training will drive growth; those that don’t…

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    Tech’s gender gap is already seeping into AI sector, report finds

    Women are taking up AI skills at a far lower rate than men according to research from Coursera, raising the risk of existing gender disparities being replicated in the burgeoning field. While enrollments in generative AI courses on Coursera surged by 227% over the past year, women enrolled in these courses at half the rate of men and made up…

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    Boosting R&D Could Lift Australia’s GDP by 3%, Report Finds

    Australia is missing out on billions in economic growth due to underinvestment in research and development, a new report warns. The country’s gross domestic product could be increased by 3% if decision-makers focus on boosting investment in research and development. The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering has released its ‘Boosting Australia’s Innovation’ report outlining a series of strategies…

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    AI chatbots outperform doctors in diagnosing patients, study finds

    Chatbots quickly surpassed human physicians in diagnostic reasoning — the crucial first step in clinical care — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine. The study suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLMs), which underpin generative AI (genAI) chatbots, demonstrate improved performance on several patient care tasks compared to colleagues without access to the…

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    AI can predict career success from a facial image, study finds – Computerworld

    Organizations have been screening job applicants based on personality for years using behavioral assessments such as Pymetrics games, which measure up to 91 personality traits that fit into 9 different categories. In fact, Shue said, “a ton” of companies already heavily use these more obvious estimates of someone’s personality, “they just haven’t been doing that from pictures of a person’s…

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    US court finds spyware maker NSO liable for WhatsApp hacks

    A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group violated U.S. hacking laws by using WhatsApp zero-days to deploy Pegasus spyware on at least 1,400 devices. NSO Group markets Pegasus as surveillance software for governments that enables clients to monitor victims’ activities and extract data from compromised devices. “This ruling is a huge win for privacy,” WhatsApp’s…

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    AI-Assisted Attacks Top Cyber Threat For Third Consecutive Quarter, Gartner Finds

    For the third consecutive quarter, Gartner has found that cyber attacks staged using artificial intelligence are the biggest risk for enterprises. The consulting firm surveyed 286 senior risk and assurance executives from July through September, and 80% cited AI-enhanced malicious attacks as the top threat they were concerned about. This isn’t surprising, as evidence suggests AI-assisted attacks are on the…

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    Human error is cybersecurity’s number one concern, Kaseya report finds

    User behavior is the biggest cybersecurity challenge facing IT organizations today, new research from Kaseya has found, as threat actors and defenders alike increasingly adopt AI. The 2024 Kaseya Security Survey quizzed IT professionals across North America, the UK and EU, as well as APAC and New Zealand, working for companies with annual revenue of between $1 million and $10…

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