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Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan | Computer Weekly

Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced £3.4bn in additional funding for the NHS to deliver 2% annual increases in productivity through new technology and digital transformation across the health service in England. The cash for the NHS – which Hunt claimed is doubling investment in digital transformation – is the largest part of […]

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Cash-strapped cyber pros go rogue on the dark web | Computer Weekly

Cyber professionals frustrated with stagnating salaries and poor working conditions are increasingly turning to the cyber criminal underground to increase their pay, cover expenses and replace dried up work, the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) has warned in its latest State of the profession report. The study highlighted that a lack of appropriate remuneration

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Nation states buying hacking tools from underground Russian cyber forums | Computer Weekly

Nation states have been identified shopping on Russian cyber crime forums for malware they can use to wipe computers of data in hostile hacking attacks. Russian-speaking hacking forums, including Exploit and XSS, run black markets in tools and services used by cyber criminals intent on making money by hacking computer systems and stealing data. According

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Interview: How a fundraiser became more data-savvy | Computer Weekly

Data analysis is critical in the charitable sector but research has found that charities in the UK are missing out on funding due to poor data management. The Sagacity survey of 50 finance and revenue professionals in UK charities and not-for-profits found that almost half (47%) of charity revenue leakage can be traced back to

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Klarna CEO says AI can do the job of 700 workers. But job replacement isn’t the biggest issue.

Fintech company Klarna, which powers e-commerce transactions for some of the world’s most recognizable brands, including Expedia, Macy’s and Nike, is at the forefront of AI adoption. It has integrated artificial intelligence across the company, most notably with an AI chatbot that it recently said does the equivalent work of 700 customer service agents. Klarna,

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Iconic Old West Tumbleweeds Roll in and Blanket Parts of Suburban Salt Lake City

The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City. Crews on Tuesday continued to plow, load and haul carcasses

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Facebook and Instagram back up after outage briefly blocked log-ins

Meta’s social media platforms are back up Tuesday after a widespread outage appeared to block thousands of users from logging onto their accounts. Facebook and Meta users started seeing problems around 10 a.m. Eastern time, based on reports to Downdetector.com, a site that tracks online glitches. The issues peaked with more than 570,000 Facebook users

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Musk trolls Zuckerberg’s Meta as Facebook, Instagram see widespread outages

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com As Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and other social platforms appeared to experience a wide-scale outage on Tuesday morning, X owner Elon Musk took to his platform to remind users that its servers are still working. Musk trolled Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant in a short post on X after a

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