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Nearly half of job seekers us AI to polish their resumes

C3 AI CEO Tom Siebel provides insight on the unimaginably powerful technology on The Claman Countdown. The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has nearly half of job seekers utilizing such tools to help improve their resumes according to a new survey from Canva. Canva partnered with Sago to survey 5,000 hiring managers and […]

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IR35: Contractors call for off-payroll rules to be scrapped in Spring Budget 2024 | Computer Weekly

IT contractors are among the freelance workers calling on the government to consider scrapping the controversial IR35 off-payroll working rules in the March 2024 Spring Budget. The IR35 rules were introduced at the turn of the millennium as part of a disguised employment clampdown by the government, geared towards preventing individuals from artificially minimising

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Southern Water confirms cyber attack after Black Basta claims | Computer Weekly

UK utility Southern Water, which serves customers in East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent and West Sussex, has confirmed it is probing a major cyber incident after the Black Basta ransomware syndicate claimed to have accessed its systems. The Black Basta crew posted limited details of its supposed intrusion on its Tor

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Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo | Computer Weekly

Cardiff University has deployed 90 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, with Logicalis technology, to support high-performance computing (HPC) research. The university’s Advanced Research Computing @Cardiff (ARCCA) service worked with Logicalis and the Lenovo ThinkSystem platform to boost the capabilities of its Hawk HPC cluster by up to 100%. The HPC will be used to support research

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Uptime Institute predicts 2024 will see datacentre operators start row back on net-zero commitments | Computer Weekly

The Uptime Institute has predicted that 2024 will see many organisations forced to backtrack on their publicly stated net-zero goals, as their sustainability efforts struggle to keep pace with rising regulatory scrutiny. The prediction is one of several shared by the datacentre resiliency think tank in a 24-page report that seeks to shine a

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Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users | Computer Weekly

Barely 12 months since a zero-day in the Fortra GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) tool resulted in a surge in cyber attacks and global infamy for the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware gang, users of the popular service are being advised to steel themselves against a newly uncovered, critical flaw in the product. Credited to security

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AI will heighten global ransomware threat, says NCSC | Computer Weekly

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be leveraged to increase the volume and impact of cyber attacks involving ransomware between now and 2026, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned in a report. The NCSC has previously rejected overt alarmism over the impact of AI on cyber security, but now believes the rapidly emergent

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Salesforce’s bug bounty programme paid out $3m in 2023 | Computer Weekly

Salesforce’s long-running bug bounty programme continues to pay dividends to both the organisation’s customers and its growing network of ethical hackers, as the software giant announces it has now paid out more than $18.9m in bug bounties since the scheme’s inception in 2015, covering 30,600 potential vulnerabilities. In 2023, Salesforce revealed, it paid out

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Committee chair asks minister to back ‘Mr Bates clause’ in Post Office compensation legislation | Computer Weekly

The chair of the department of business and trade select committee has called on the government to consider enshrining deadlines on payments to subpostmasters into the Post Office Compensation Bill, which is currently processing through parliament. The bill is an attempt by government to speed payments to subpostmasters that fell victim to the Post

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