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Gen Z is tired of working from home — stunted career growth and limited training opportunities mean they’re willing to brave the commute
Younger workers are eager to get back to the office to capitalize on potential mentoring opportunities and to drive career growth, according to new research Following the lockdowns of the COVID pandemic, many companies have switched to entirely remote operations or hybrid setups, with staff working some days from home and making limited trips to the office – and it’s…
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How not to conduct cyber awareness training: UCSC slammed for ‘tone deaf’ Ebola phishing tests
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has come under fire after it conducted phishing training using a fake Ebola virus track and trace alert. Security experts have criticized the test after it caused panic on campus, forcing senior leaders at the university to come out and publicly acknowledge its error of judgment. On 18 August 2024, UCSC’s IT department…
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How to Get Your Strength Training Done in Less Time, According to Science
If you struggle to find enough time to exercise, you’re not alone. Even though an effective workout can be long, short, or anywhere in between, we often let the time commitment exercise requires become a barrier, and figure it’s not worth even starting. Fortunately, a review paper by sports scientists has gathered a set of guidelines for time-efficient strength workouts,…
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Apple blocked from training Apple Intelligence on several publishing websites — here’s what we know
Three months ago, Apple debuted a tool that makes it easy for companies to opt out of its AI training, and it appears that several major companies have used it. Unlike Google, Apple has been offering companies millions of dollars to allow its AI to use crawlers to scrape data to train Apple Intelligence. As part of the deal, companies can elect for…
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Transform Your Office Skills With This $40 Training Bundle
TL;DR: Get comprehensive training across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Access with the Ultimate Microsoft Office 2021/365 Training Bundle for $39.99 (reg. $449). As far as the business world goes, proficiency in Microsoft Office is more than just a helpful skill. In varying degrees, it’s a necessity. So, if you’d like to brush up on your proficiency and become a…
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Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training – Computerworld
Generative AI firm, Anthropic, is embroiled in a new legal battle after three authors filed a class-action lawsuit in California federal court, accusing the company of illegally using their copyrighted works to train its AI-powered chatbot, Claude. The complaint, filed on Monday, alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson,…
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Researchers tackle AI fact-checking failures with new LLM training technique – Computerworld
“They could give the model a genetics dataset and ask the model to generate a report on the gene variants and mutations it contains,” IBM explained. “With a small number of these seeds planted, the model begins generating new instructions and responses, calling on the latent expertise in its training data and using RAG to pull facts from external databases…
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Nvidia promises to give Californians free AI training with new initiative
Nvidia has partnered with the state of California to provide a first-of-its-kind training program, offering AI skills sessions for residents. The office of governor Gavin Newsom announced the two parties had signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 9 August 2024. The initiative, cosigned by Newsom and Jensen Huang, founder and CEO at Nvidia, promises to train students, educators,…
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X faces GDPR complaints for unauthorized use of data for AI training
European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model. According to NOYB, X did not inform its users that their data was being used to train AI and did not ask for their consent…
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