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The European Commission has announced its intention to join the ongoing debate about lawful access to data and end-to-end encryption while unveiling a new internal security strategy aimed to address ongoing threats. From a report: ProtectEU, as the strategy has been named, describes the general areas that the bloc’s executive would like to address in the coming years although as a strategy it...
Agency canceled about $17bn in grants for projects that go beyond Trump’s orders targeting diversity, suit alleges
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A group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over what they call an “ongoing ideological purge” of scientific research.
In a legal complaint filed on Wednesday, the American Public...
Microsoft is pushing businesses to shift away from perpetual Office licenses to Microsoft 365 subscriptions, citing collaboration limitations and rising IT costs associated with standalone software. “You may have started noticing limitations,” Microsoft says in a post. “Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you’re away from your office. You can’t easily access your...
The FBI searched two homes of Indiana University Bloomington data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang last week, following months of university inquiries into whether he received unreported research funding from China, WIRED reported Wednesday. Wang, who leads the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, was terminated on March...
The car maker’s sales slide has been attributed to competition and controversy around its boss.
An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft — a difficult task requiring multiple steps — without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report: “Dreamer marks a...
Jacobite leader was unknowingly ‘following the footprints’ of megalosaurs after escaping to the Isle of Skye in 1746
When Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the Scottish Highlands after defeat at the Battle of Culloden, his route may have crossed the fossilised footsteps of massive meat-eating dinosaurs, researchers say.
Newly discovered impressions at Prince Charles’s Point on the Isle of Skye,...
Unhappy Rentoza customers have flooded social media and consumer review platforms with complaints about product delivery delays and refunds not being processed.
In today’s data driven world businesses turn to modern data architectures to harness data, drive innovation and stay ahead of the competition. Without these solutions organisations are stuck with inefficiencies, data silos and slow decision making. Snowflake, a cloud data platform, changes the way companies manage and use data. Its scalable solutions give data access, […]
A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
A shift in technology, along with a healthy dose of pragmatism and a dash of humility, might just do the trick.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid. Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people...
Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate 95% of code within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Scott said AI would not replace software engineers but transform their role. “It doesn’t mean that the AI is doing the software engineering job…. authorship is still going to be human,” Scott said. According to Scott, developers will shift from writing...
South Africa’s goal since 2012 has been to build a capable and developmental state to address the twin challenges of poverty and inequality. The country’s National Development Plan defines a capable state as “well-run and effectively coordinated state institutions with skilled public servants”. A transformative and developmental role is about “consistently delivering high quality services” […]
We went hands-on with Sony’s latest home theater gear, including its fiery new OLED TV.
A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots.
Newcomer: Keith O’Brien, the man who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, is apparently clearing his conscience, according to a sworn Irish affidavit. O’Brien says in the affidavit that Deel paid him to spy on Rippling and that he coordinated directly with Deel’s CEO, Alex Bouaziz. For some background, Alex Bouaziz is Deel’s CEO and Philippe Bouaziz is his father, Deel’s CFO....
Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.
Health records of more than 280,000 older adults revealed that those who received a...
An Australian study found that babies with early exposure to antibiotics had lower levels of antibodies against jabs in later infancy
Babies who are treated with antibiotics as newborns have reduced immune responses to vaccines in later infancy, likely due to changes in the gut microbiome, new research suggests.
The Australian study tracked 191 healthy babies from birth, finding that those who...
Half of the top 10 neighbourhoods with the fastest mobile network speeds were located within the area, known for its luxury lifestyle offerings and high property prices.
The co-founder of Oracle and friend of President Trump, who was a flamboyant fixture in the 1990s, has returned to the spotlight through — of all things — TikTok.