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Iceland Faces Daunting Period After Lava From Volcano Destroys Homes in Fishing Town, President Says

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland’s president said the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano in the island’s southwest consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik. Scientists said Monday that the eruption appeared to be dying down, but it was too soon to declare the danger over. […]

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How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry | Computer Weekly

The ongoing hearings in the UK Post Office’s Horizon software scandal drilled down into an area rarely addressed in detail by the courts or inquiries – the topic of legal disclosure of documents and evidence. With the ITV drama. Bates vs The Post Office and an accompanying documentary bringing home the real human cost of

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Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base | Computer Weekly

Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post,

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Santander bank added 4,500 tech staff last year | Computer Weekly

Spanish banking giant Santander has increased its IT workforce to 27,500 globally after adding 4,500 in 2023 to support its digital transformation, which has seen 95% of systems moved to the cloud. New recruits include experts in cloud, cyber security, data, DevSecOps, artificial intelligence, software development, enterprise architecture and product management. The recruitment campaign,

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EU amendment changes open source definition | Computer Weekly

An amendment to the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has changed the widely accepted definition of open source software, which has the potential to lead to confusion across the open source community. Towards the end of December 2023, Raul Milani, the chair of the Council of the European Union’s Committee of the Permanent Representatives

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NCA director sacked after WhatsApp and email security breaches | Computer Weekly

A senior director at the National Crime Agency (NCA) lost her job after sending sensitive and secret information over her personal email and on WhatsApp in what was described as a “serious information security” breach. Nikki Holland, former director of investigations at the NCA, was responsible for some of the UK’s most high-profile criminal

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How the UK is supporting the Ukraine tech community | Computer Weekly

You may not assume that an online IT tuition course could have a big impact on the war on Ukraine – but technology is playing a vital role in Ukraine’s defence against Putin’s illegal invasion. The government recognises the significant place tech holds in Ukraine’s defence and recovery, which is why we have created

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Six ways to use LLMs operationally in the enterprise | Computer Weekly

Forrester predicts that operational support use cases for large language models (LLMs) will develop rapidly. LLM integration with action components creates fully autonomous workplace assistants (AWAs) that become valued coworkers for support processes like finance and accounting, onboarding customers or field service implementation, and difficulty depends on the degree of input and output shaping.

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Jamie Dimon weighs in on AI, says only ‘God knows’ what the tech will do for humanity

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the Federal Reserve’s rate trajectory, 2024 economy, looming bank regulations and artificial intelligence. As artificial intelligence continues to revolutionize the world around us, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicts that the technology will have a “tremendous” impact on healthcare and finance. HOW AI IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

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