hanohiki – stock.adobe.com After the Home Office issued a secret order for Apple to open up a backdoor in its encrypted storage, the tech company has instead chosen to withdraw the service from the UK By Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly Published: 21 Feb 2025 17:52 Apple has withdrawn from providing its UK smartphone and computer …
Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco By Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor Published: 21 Feb 2025 16:45 Grant Thornton has issued a forensic 66-page report relating to a failed Oracle Fusion enterprise resource planning …
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While businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences By Clare McDonald, Business Editor Published: 21 Feb 2025 15:30 The reason why diversity is so important for tech teams is because difference …
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UK police forces are “supercharging racism” through their use of automated “predictive policing” systems, as they are based on profiling people or groups before they have committed a crime, according to Amnesty International. Predictive policing systems use artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms to predict, profile or assess the likelihood of criminal behaviour, either in specific …
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Wednesday 19 February 2025 marked the first anniversary of Operation Cronos, a multinational cyber law enforcement action led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) with support from global partners, which disrupted the activities of the notorious LockBit ransomware crew in a targeted operation that has had a lasting impact on the ransomware economy. Looking …
A landscape forever altered? The LockBit takedown one year on Read More »
Every gamer has encountered gaming hardware that doesn’t live up to expectations. Washed-out colors, blooming, ghosting, and screen tearing are all giveaway signs that a gaming monitor is struggling with performance. That’s relatable if you have an el cheapo panel, but when you’ve spent a small fortune on what’s meant to be kickass visuals, that …
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Image: Google Google’s thoughtful AI research partner, Deep Research, is now available to Google Workspace users, Google said Thursday. And that’s not all: Google Workspace users who sign up for Gemini Advanced can try other, experimental AI models, too. On Tuesday, Google announced that Gemini Advanced with Deep Research is now accessible by mobile users. …
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We’re a tiny team @deepseek-ai pushing our limits in AGI exploration. Starting next week, we’ll open-source 5 repos – one daily drop – not because we’ve made grand claims, but simply as developers sharing our small-but-sincere progress with full transparency. These are humble building blocks of our online service: documented, deployed and battle-tested in production. …
DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days Read More »
$100K – $400K / 0.25% – 2.00% Location San Francisco, CA, US Experience Any (new grads ok) Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About the role At Exa, we’re building the next NVIDIA. Our novel polymorphic chips are a generation ahead of anything on the market. We’re essentially building …
Exa Laboratories (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Build AI Chips Read More »
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. This article is an excerpt from last week’s The Pulse, issue – full subscribers received the below details seven days ago. …
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? Read More »