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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save New York City on Wednesday designated social media a public health hazard for its effect on youth mental health, becoming the first major city in the United States to take such a step, Mayor Eric Adams (D) said in an address. “Companies like TikTok, YouTube, […]

Cisco has developed technology to help developers manage the software agents they use to monitor applications and IT infrastructure. Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics provides agent lifecycle management, which, according to Cisco, dramatically simplifies application instrumentation for full-stack observability through intelligent agent automation and management.  Cisco said customers can use Smart Agent to identify

Multi-solution crowdsourced cyber security platform Bugcrowd says it saw growing acceptance and adoption of crowdsourced security strategies among mainstream end-user organisations in 2023, as ethical hackers continue to prove their value to in-house security teams over and over again. The organisation this week published its latest annual Inside the platform report, revealing that in

Companies including Google, Microsoft, Barclays and Vodafone are set to join the government’s AI Opportunity Forum, looking at artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities in the private sector. Overseen by technology secretary Michelle Donelan and Franck Petitgas, the prime minister’s special advisor on business and investment, AI companies have been invited to join forces with business leaders

Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon reveals how AI can change how Americans drive on The Claman Countdown. Victoria’s Secret & Co. and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership that will allow the popular retailer to use Google’s artificial intelligence technology to create a personalized shopping experience. “The integration of Google Cloud’s AI and generative

The year 2023 was another one characterised by uncertainty. Once again, global instability has muddied the waters, making coming up with reliable predictions almost impossible. Last year, forecasters said businesses would charge ahead with the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). But 12 months later, many organisations are taking a more measured approach and focusing

For a growing number of organisations, the default option for new IT projects is the cloud and cloud storage, with even the more cautious businesses have adopted “cloud-first” or “cloud-preferred” strategies. That’s because startups and fast-growing firms can build infrastructure in the cloud that would be hard to achieve quickly in any other way.

Ransomware, data breaches and fraud are unabating, with cyber insecurity as well as misinformation and disinformation being the top and fourth risks, respectively, for the upcoming two years as projected in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024. The attack surface gets ever more complex with the increased adoption of cloud, AI, thanks

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has had discussions with members of the U.S. Congress about increasing the world’s supply of advanced computer chips necessary to train and run artificial intelligence programs as he seeks to launch a hugely expensive venture to build new chip factories. Altman