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‘We are now a full-fledged powerhouse’: Two years on from its Series B round, Hack the Box targets further growth with AI-powered cyber training programs and new market opportunities
It’s been over two years since Hack the Box completed a $55 million Series B funding round, but CEO Haris Pylarinos is keen to continue riding the wave of optimism at the company and make inroads into new markets. Speaking to ITPro in the wake of the investment round in January 2023, Pylarinos said the company planned to triple its…
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OpenAI woos UK government amid consultation on AI training and copyright
OpenAI is fighting back against the UK government’s proposals on how to handle AI training and copyright. The government’s ‘preferred option’ is to change current copyright law to allow AI firms to use public content for commercial training purposes without permission from the rights holders, unless those rights holders specifically opt out. The proposals, which form part of the Data…
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Web Scraping for AI and Machine Learning Training
The success of machine learning and AI models heavily depends on the quality and quantity of data used for training. The internet has become one of the richest sources of information, including structured and unstructured data. However, manually collecting and organizing this data is impractical. This is where web scraping is needed. Web scraping is an automated method of extracting…
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AI skills training can’t be left in the hands of big tech
The government must intervene in upskilling workers for the AI revolution, with industry experts warning it can’t be left to industry alone. That’s the assessment offered by a panel of digital training experts speaking at AI UK, the annual conference held by the Alan Turing Institute. The rise of AI has many concerned about the impact on jobs, suggesting a…
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Dragon Training Codes (March 2025)
Update: added new Dragon Training codes on March 19, 2025. Always dreamed of having your own dragon and making it the best? Well, Dragon Training on Roblox is an experience that helps you get started. This interesting game is all about training your dragon and winning races against others to become the fastest. But being the fastest will require boosts…
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Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap?
Roxana Mînzatu, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness and Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins. Image: Cisco Cisco recently announced its initiative to provide 1.5 million people in the European Union by 2030 free courses on basic digital skills. Cisco Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins said the plan also includes training 5,000 instructors in AI,…
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Master Photoshop, Illustrator & More with This $30 Adobe Training Bundle
Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Gain expert-level Adobe training in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, InDesign, and more for just $29.99 (reg. $200) with this 51-hour course bundle. Adobe’s creative tools are the gold standard in graphic design, publishing, photography, and video editing. Whether you’re a graphic designer refining your craft, a marketer creating standout visuals, or a freelancer looking to expand your…
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12,000 API keys and passwords were found in a popular AI training dataset – experts say the issue is down to poor identity management
The discovery of almost 12,000 valid secrets in the archive of a popular AI training dataset is the result of the industry’s inability to keep up with the complexities of identity management, experts have told ITPro. Researchers at Truffle Security found nearly 12,000 ‘live’ API keys and passwords when analysing the Common Crawl archive used to train open source LLMs…
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LinkedIn lawsuit over AI model training withdrawn
A lawsuit accusing LinkedIn of using customer data to train its AI models has been dropped. Last month, a class action case was filed against the Microsoft-owned professional networking firm in a California federal court on behalf of LinkedIn user Alessandro De La Torre. The suit accused the company of disclosing Premium customers’ private messages to third parties to train…
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DeepSeek accused of training its models on OpenAI’s content
OpenAI has accused newcomer rival DeepSeek of training its chatbot on the firm’s proprietary models. There is some evidence that DeepSeek may have performed model distillation, OpenAI reportedly told the Financial Times, a technique whereby a smaller model is trained on a larger one to replicate certain responses for specific use cases. The US AI and Cryptocurrency Czar, David Sacks,…
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