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Review | TurboTax and H&R Block now use AI for tax advice. It’s awful.

This year, TurboTax and H&R Block added artificial intelligence to the tax-prep software used by pretty much everyone. Now while you’re doing your taxes online, there are new chatbots on the right side of the screen to answer your burning questions. But watch out: Rely on either AI for even lightly challenging tax questions, and […]

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Apple Fined Nearly $2 Billion By EU For Hindering Music Streaming Competition

LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps. Apple muzzled streaming services from

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How AllSaints, L’Oreal and Deliveroo are using AI to improve CX | Computer Weekly

Shelley Bransten, Microsoft’s corporate vice-president for retail, consumer goods and gaming industries, opened her conference session at NRF’s Big Show in January saying: “You can’t spell retail without AI. It really is in our blood.” t might have been a slightly cheesy way of making the point, but it allowed her to highlight the vast potential

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Amazon lobbyists banned from European Parliament | Computer Weekly

The European Parliament has revoked the access badges of Amazon lobbyists, preventing easy access to its buildings, after the firm failed to attend multiple meetings about the labour conditions of warehouse workers. The Parliament’s secretary general withdrew Amazon’s 14 entry badges following a formal request by members of the employment and social affairs (EPML) committee,

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G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash | Computer Weekly

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is reviewing its decision to ramp up the insurance cover needed by prospective suppliers on its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, by £20m after being criticised about how anti-small business the change would be. The situation has seen at least one government minister pledge to investigate since Computer Weekly first

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The Security Interviews: Cyber security is about managing risk effectively | Computer Weekly

A good cyber security strategy should always start by defining what risk a business is willing to tolerate, and this is a task in which the IT security manager must involve their business colleagues. But it is also essential that the chief information security officer (CISO) knows how to clearly describe the investments and actions

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Going up? Senior tech pay trends – and how to influence them | Computer Weekly

The past few years have seen a boom in demand for technology services as businesses digitised and transformed following the pandemic. But last year, this began to level out in a tough economic climate. Despite a difficult economic background, we did see senior level pay grow. In fact, 65% of CIOs reported a boost to

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4 New Astronauts Head to the International Space Station for a 6-Month Stay

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts headed to the International Space Station on Sunday where they will oversee the arrivals of two new rocketships during their half-year stint. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin. The astronauts should reach

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Forrester: Tips for assessing hybrid cloud management | Computer Weekly

As more companies adopt public cloud, most choose a hybrid cloud strategy. This is because legacy workloads and applications aren’t always well suited for cloud without modernisation. According to Forrester’s Private Cloud Market Insights, 2022, 87% of global cloud decision-makers say their organisations deploy enterprise IT workloads on public cloud, private cloud and in datacentre

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