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Apple released iOS 17.3 on Monday with a few new features, but the tech giant’s release of iOS 17.2 was packed with new things you may have missed. The update was released in December and came with security fixes and patches, plus over a dozen new and useful features, like the long-awaited Journal app and Contact Key Verification. It also […]

Samsung’s $1,300 (£1,249, AU$2,199) Galaxy S24 Ultra is the company’s highest-end and priciest phone in the lineup, highlighting lots of new AI features along with tweaks to its cameras. This story is part of Samsung Event, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Samsung’s most popular products. It’s also by far the most expensive

While Apple could release iOS 17.3 any minute now, the tech giant’s release of iOS 17.2 was packed with new features you may have missed. The update was released in December and came with security fixes and patches, plus over a dozen new and useful features, like the long-awaited Journal app and Contact Key Verification. It also has fun features

Microsoft has revealed over the weekend that its systems were infiltrated at the end of 2023 by Midnight Blizzard, the same Kremlin-backed hackers who compromised the SolarWinds Orion platform in the infamous Sunburst/Solorigate incident almost exactly three years previously, in what appears to have been a coordinated and targeted information-gathering exercise. In an announcement

In November 2023, Broadcom completed its $69bn acquisition of VMware, in a move to build out what the company sees as a multicloud strategy. VMware has had a number of owners. It was previously owned by Dell, which took over the virtualisation company following its $67bn purchase of EMC in 2016. EMC had purchased

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save When Karen Ben-Moshe, a 43-year-old public health program manager in San Francisco, learned that Amazon owns Goodreads — the app she used to log her reading habits — she started hunting for an alternative. “I just don’t love the monopoly Amazon has on our lives

Less than a quarter of Dutch companies are ready for artificial intelligence (AI), according to Cisco’s AI readiness index, with only 4% fully prepared to use AI technology. But according to Marc Engel, partner at international accounting firm Mazars, this is actually not particularly alarming at all. “This technology is developing so fast in

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Experts in artificial intelligence have long warned that AI-generated content could muddy the waters of perceived reality. Weeks into a pivotal election year, AI confusion is on the rise. Politicians around the globe have been swatting away potentially damning pieces of evidence — grainy video

Just under three months since its first release of Jais, the consortium that released what it calls the world’s most powerful large language model (LLM) for Arabic has finished training a second version, which is more than twice as big. The first model was based on 13 billion parameters and is now referred to