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‘A major step forward’: Keir Starmer’s £187 million tech skills drive welcomed by UK industry
The UK government has announced plans to invest £187 million to bolster tech skills across the country in a move welcomed by industry stakeholders. Unveiled on the opening day of London Tech Week, the ‘TechFirst’ program aims to give young people and workers across the UK access to training schemes in areas such as artificial intelligence. The program will see…
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Next Step Healthcare data breach leaks patients’ SSNs, medical records, and credit cards
Next Step Healthcare in Massachusetts over the weekend confirmed it notified thousands of patients of a June 2024 data breach that compromised the following personal info: Social Security numbers Medical records Financial account details Drivers’ licenses Credit and debit card numbers At time of writing, two states have disclosed how many of their residents were compromised in the breach: 10,041…
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Continuous Thought Machines Could be the Next Step in AI
Summary The Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) model incorporates time into neural networks for more human-like problem-solving. CTMs bridge the gap between AI learning models like LLMs and human-like adaptability, but require more resources. The CTM model faces challenges such as longer training times, slower inference, and lower accuracy compared to current models. Do AI models “think”? This is an important…
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China’s Alibaba and Baidu step up global competition with new reasoning-focused AI models – Computerworld
“In initial benchmarks, both of these models have been measured as being roughly on par with OpenAI and DeepSeek models and slightly behind Grok 3 beta and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro,” said Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights. “Baidu’s Ernie 4.5 Turbo Measures up on par with OpenAI’s newest GPT models while being priced much more competitively…
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New AI weather forecasting system called a huge step forward – Computerworld
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system — Aardvark Weather — that could revolutionize the field of meteorology. Aardvark Weather can apparently provide weather forecasts that are tens of times more accurate, while requiring dramatically less…
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We’re a step closer toward a working quantum system and neuromorphic computing – either would revolutionize tech forever
When Google announced its Willow quantum chip, there was a lot of talk about the notion that we might live in a multiverse, and of solving computational problems that would otherwise take longer than time itself. But this all seems a long way from day-to-day IT operations. In Google’s blog post announcing Willow, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI…
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Zoom, Google step up their AI game with new videoconferencing features – Computerworld
Zoom Workflow Automation automatically creates a workflow that triggers a set of actions, such as generating summaries of meetings, exporting the summary to a document, and sharing it with team members. The tool can also track activity and communication among a team with multiple participants and generate summaries, so everyone is up to date on the activities. That solves the…
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This German sleep hacks takes the Scandi sleep method a step further — and couples are loving it
The Scandi Sleep Method boomed in popularity after couples who regularly fight for the covers managed to get a peaceful night’s sleep. If you missed it, this method simply refers to two people having individual duvets or comforters at night. But there’s a new sleep method gaining traction now, and this one’s from Germany. The German Bed Method sees a…
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Civilization 7 review — two steps forward, one step back
Civilization 7 review: Specs Platforms: PC (reviewed), Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series XPrice: $69 / £59 / AU$119Release Date: February 11, 2025Genre: Strategy If it sometimes takes one step back for every two steps forward, human civilization has never slowed down. Neither has Sid Meier and Firaxis’s strategy series Civilization, which for nearly 34 years, has entranced,…
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What is exascale computing? Exploring the next step in supercomputers
When the first computers were built, famously they would fill entire rooms but had computing power comparable to a modern day calculator. In the time between now and then, the chips that power computers have become both smaller and – following Moore’s Law – exponentially more powerful. Today, the computers that sit on our desks are more powerful than Jack…
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