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ITPro Decides: Top technology predictions for 2025
The beginning of a new year holds so much promise: new breakthroughs, releases, and successes all hang in the balance. At the same time, the last few days of the year provide a perfect vantage point to look clearly at how the past 12 months have panned out and use this knowledge to help decide which successes are the most…
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The Best Optical Disk Technology You (Probably) Never Heard Of
Summary Sony’s Optical Disk Archive was designed to last 100 years and offer unparalleled data protection. ODA beat traditional storage formats with its WORM design and durability. The failure of ODA was due to a lack of market adoption and failure to bridge enterprise and consumer needs. Imagine a storage technology that could safely preserve your data for 100 years,…
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Rapid7 announces new chief technology officer for EMEA
Extended risk and threat detection specialist Rapid7 has announced the appointment of Thom Langford as its new chief technology officer (CTO) for EMEA. A seasoned information and security compliance expert, Langford arrives with a track record of advocating for innovative and accessible cybersecurity approaches and boasts a wealth of experience across information security, compliance, and risk management. In his new…
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AI agents are unlike any technology ever – Computerworld
What are AI agents? A great way to understand agents is to compare them with something we’ve all used before: AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Existing, popular LLM-based chatbots are designed around the assumption that the user wants, expects, and will receive text output—words and numbers. No matter what the user types into the prompt, the tool is ready to…
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Baidu releases new AI offerings on the way to broader commercialization of the technology – Computerworld
Indeed, like those of leading US companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, Baidu’s AI moves demonstrate its march toward the commercialization phase of the technology. The company, like others before it, has been adding AI to existing products or creating new ones that enterprise and other business users can integrate into their applications. Follow the leader Google, OpenAI, and…
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The demise of the floppy disk continues: Months after Japan ‘won the war’ on the legacy storage medium, San Francisco announces plans to spend millions overhauling its metro rail technology
Officials from the San Francisco transportation department have announced they will be replacing their floppy disk-based train control system, jumping on the bandwagon to do away with the legacy storage platform. The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which is responsible for overseeing San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail network, signed a new $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to overhaul its…
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Efficiency, productivity, and public sector technology
The UK has a productivity problem. In fact, labor productivity has been close to flat (0.4%) since the financial crisis of 2008. One of the first things the current government committed to, when it came into office, was to grow the UK’s economy, and that means tackling productivity. Ministers have also committed to addressing the productivity gap in the public…
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US finalizes curbs on investment in AI and critical technology in China – Computerworld
“Companies might also need to reassess their strategic priorities, which may lead to an unnecessary increase in innovation costs,” said Charlie Dai, VP and principal analyst at Forrester. “On the other hand, regulatory concerns will force enterprises outside the US to further prioritize localization strategies to achieve self-sufficiency in critical areas, potentially leading to increasingly isolated innovation ecosystems.” The new…
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Ethical hackers are flocking to AI tools, but the technology may be causing more problems than it solves
Ethical hackers and security researchers are getting much more enthusiastic about AI and are using the technology more widely, but are worried about the threat it represents. Last year, only 21% of hackers told Bugcrowd that AI technologies enhance the value of hacking – but that figure has rocketed to 71% this year. Meanwhile, three-quarters revealed they’re actively using generative…
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A time bomb for tech: The risks of legacy technology for your business
Legacy tech continues to plague businesses, with backlogs of outdated tech hindering business growth and hampering modernization goals. But the risks of legacy technology must also be at the top of the list for any IT leaders, as legacy stacks can obscure attack surfaces and open organizations up to attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities. In 2017, McKinsey spoke with over…
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