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• Jamf exec details how the Apple ecosystem will win the business market

  26-09-2023 18:24 via computerworld.com
  
  Every business is a digital business, and it's widely known that to truly realize the efficiencies of digital transformation, traditional departmental siloes must be broken down. As above, so below, and IT admins aren't immune to change as different fiefdoms merge.During last week's JNUC event, I caught up with Michael Covington, Jamf vice president of portfolio strategy, to discuss these transformations and the extent to which Apple benefits.To read this article in full, please click
  
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• Atlassian adds new collaboration and integration features to Jira platforms

  26-09-2023 15:07 via computerworld.com
  
  Atlassian has announced a host of new capabilities across its Jira Software and Jira Work Management platform to help reduce silos between technical and non-technical teams.Two years ago, Atlassian launched Jira Work Management, bringing Jira capabilities to all enterprise business teams and enabling non-technical departments like marketing, HR, finance, and design to easily connect their work with that of their technical counterparts.“Software development teams don’t just achieve a
  
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• How to fix Windows 10 and 11 printing problems

  26-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  Thinking back to the era of Windows 3.0, 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups, I dimly recall that printer drivers could be especially troublesome. Happily, with Windows 95 through Windows 7, printer problems didn’t register much on my radar. But in the wake of upgrading my network to Windows 10 a few years back, I noticed an uptick in printer problems. On the other hand, Windows 11 seems rock solid where printing comes into the picture.If printing is a cause for concern with your Windows setu
  
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• Microsoft’s data centers are going nuclear

  25-09-2023 23:32 via computerworld.com
  
  A job posting from Microsoft, for a qualified nuclear technology program manager, indicates that the company is planning to integrate small nuclear reactors into its power systems for data centers.The software giant is already working with at least one third-party nuclear energy provider in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. The ad, though, signals an effort to make nuclear energy an important part of its energy strategy.   The posting said that the new nuclear expert “wi
  
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• UK regulator provisionally clears Microsoft's $69B Activision acquisition

  25-09-2023 19:33 via computerworld.com
  
  The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority (CMA) has declared that Microsoft has addressed the concerns it had about the software giant's $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard, clearing the way for the deal to go ahead.In April, the CMA blocked Microsoft from making the acquisition over concerns the deal could “alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, leading to reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.&
  
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• Forrester asks a forbidden question: Are vendors lying or do they believe their own hype?

  25-09-2023 18:54 via computerworld.com
  
  Forrester Research, in a recent pull-no-punches blog post, called out cybersecurity vendors for not merely telling IT executives things that are not true, but for being so clueless about enterprise IT that they actually believe their own bogus hype.This raises a thorny issue. Even when vendors don’t understand business tech needs, IT directors and C-suite leaders certainly should. So why does vendor spin work with an audience that knows better? The most likely answer: lying and exaggerati
  
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• Amazon set to invest $4B in constitutional AI advocate Anthropic

  25-09-2023 17:59 via computerworld.com
  
  Amazon has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI firm Anthropic, giving the e-commerce and public cloud giant a minor ownership stake in the vendor.Founded by former senior members of Microsoft-backed OpenAI in 2021, Anthropic is the company behind Claude, an AI assistant that the company decided to train on constitutional AI, in contrast to other models.Amazon will initially be investing $1.25 billion in the company, with the option to increase that to a total of $4 billion in the future. In
  
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• Q&A: How one CSO secured his environment from generative AI risks

  25-09-2023 13:11 via computerworld.com
  
  In February, travel and expense management company Navan (formerly TripActions) chose to go all-in on generative AI technology for a myriad of business and customer assistance uses.The Palo Alto, CA company turned to ChatGPT from OpenAI and coding assistance tools from GitHub Copilot to write, test, and fix code; the decision has boosted Navan’s operational efficiency and reduced overhead costs.GenAI tools have also been used to build a conversational experience for the company’s cl
  
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• Bay Group requires Jr. Executive in the IT department - The Financial Express BD

  23-09-2023 16:25 via news.google.com
  
  Bay Group requires Jr. Executive in the IT department  The Financial Express BD
  
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• Intel brings AI to the PC and could redefine the desktop

  23-09-2023 02:40 via computerworld.com
  
  Disclosure: Intel is a client of the author.At Intel’s Innovation conference this past week, the company highlighted the next generation of Windows PCs, clearly anticipating Microsoft’s genAI Copilot tool, which can write documents for you, create presentations from comments, and automate much of what annoys everyone about Outlook. Intel offered up a number of interesting scenarios about this new class of hardware — due in December — that has the potential to transform w
  
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  23-09-2023 02:40 via computerworld.com
  
  Disclosure: Intel is a client of the author.At Intel’s Innovation conference this past week, the company highlighted the next generation of Windows PCs, clearly anticipating Microsoft’s genAI Copilot tool, which can write documents for you, create presentations from comments, and automate much of what annoys everyone about Outlook. Intel offered up a number of interesting scenarios about this new class of hardware — due in December — that has the potential to transform w
  
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• CDW Executive SummIT: How to Fold Emerging Tech into Your ... - BizTech Magazine

  22-09-2023 21:03 via news.google.com
  CDW Executive SummIT: How to Fold Emerging Tech into Your ...  BizTech Magazine
  
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• The AI future of Windows is here (next week)

  22-09-2023 15:14 via computerworld.com
  
  The future of Windows AI. That’s what we’ve been hearing, and now Microsoft has shown us exactly what that looks like. If the future of Windows is AI, that’s because it’s like any other Microsoft product — the future of every Microsoft product involves AI and a Copilot.That’s the vision. AI everywhere. But the AI is your copilot, both figuratively and literally. Microsoft’s message is that there is one Copilot, and it will integrate into every Microsoft
  
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• The AI future of Windows is here

  22-09-2023 15:14 via computerworld.com
  
  The future of Windows AI. That’s what we’ve been hearing, and now Microsoft has shown us exactly what that looks like. If the future of Windows is AI, that’s because it’s like any other Microsoft product — the future of every Microsoft product involves AI and a Copilot.That’s the vision. AI everywhere. But the AI is your copilot, both figuratively and literally. Microsoft’s message is that there is one Copilot, and it will integrate into every Microsoft
  
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• How to create your own iPhone-15-inspired 'Action button' on Android

  22-09-2023 14:07 via computerworld.com
  
  If you're reading this column, odds are, you don't have a lot of iPhone envy.Believe me, I'm right there with ya. But much as we may enjoy the (ahem) greener pastures here in the land o' Googley matters, every now and then, Apple does come up with a genuinely interesting idea for its iPhone devotees.And amidst all the magical and revolutionary blathering at last week's iPhone 15 event, one such intriguing addition made its way to the surface. It's a new "Action button" that sits on the side of
  
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• Climate Tech Tycoon to CRE: It's Time to Change - Commercial Property Executive

  22-09-2023 14:01 via news.google.com
  
  Climate Tech Tycoon to CRE: It's Time to Change  Commercial Property Executive
  
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• Generative AI and US copyright law are on a collision course

  22-09-2023 11:00 via computerworld.com
  
  US copyright law has yet to catch up to the numerous challenges posed by the wildfire adoption of generative AI, and the first real movement on major legal questions is likely to come from upcoming trials.One of those key questions is the copyright status of works generated by artificial intelligence — for example, whether a Midjourney image that the system generated in response to a user prompt is protected by copyright, and, if so, who owns that copyright.To read this article in full, p
  
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• An Insurance Regulator Asked for a Favor. It Cost a Senior ... - The Wall Street Journal

  22-09-2023 08:05 via news.google.com
  
  An Insurance Regulator Asked for a Favor. It Cost a Senior ...  The Wall Street Journal
  
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• It's Family Week! Palace suspends work at executive branch on Sept ... - Politiko

  22-09-2023 02:26 via news.google.com
  
  It's Family Week! Palace suspends work at executive branch on Sept ...  Politiko
  
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• Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout set for Nov. 1

  21-09-2023 20:51 via computerworld.com
  
  Microsoft’s M365 Copilot will be made generally available to business customers beginning Nov. 1, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft first unveiled plans to embed the generative AI assistant into its M365 collaboration and productivity apps — including Outlook, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint — earlier this year. The M365 Copilot, built using gen AI models codeveloped with OpenAI, can automate tasks and create content, potentially saving users time and enhancing produ
  
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• ServiceNow embeds AI-powered customer-assist features throughout products

  21-09-2023 17:20 via computerworld.com
  
  Workflow management software provider ServiceNow has embedded a chatbot for assisting customers with most of its products.ServiceNow’s new Now Assist tool is an expansion to its AI-powered Now Platform, and is available in its Vancouver software release for IT Service Management (ITSM), Customer Service Management (CSM), HR Service Delivery (HRSD), and Creator workflow application.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• EU Chips Act comes into force to ensure supply chain resilience

  21-09-2023 17:01 via computerworld.com
  
  The EU Chips Act has officially come into force today, putting in place a comprehensive set of measures to shore up the European Union’s semiconductor supply chain resilience and reach its target to double its current global market share to 20% in 2030.The act is made of three pillars, the first of which is a Chips for Europe Initiative, a program that aims to bridge the gap between research and innovation by promoting advanced semiconductor technologies by European businesses.To read thi
  
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• Cisco: Macs in business boost productivity and security, cuts costs

  21-09-2023 15:33 via computerworld.com
  
  Mac adoption in the enterprise isn’t just about giving employees hardware options, according to Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn. It's a business imperative — and many companies agree.Previn spoke at this week's Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC), where he explained that migrating to Apple hardware boosts productivity, enhances security, and can trim ownership costs. And he has the evidence to back the claim up.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Could Superhuman be your email savior?

  21-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  If we're gonna have an honest discussion about email, we need to get a few tough truths out of the way first. Think of 'em as ground rules for the conversation we're about to embark on:
  Email is atrocious. It's a soul-sucking hell-hole that steals hours of your day and never lets up.
  Most modern email tools fail to create a fully effective framework for navigating the deluge of email we busy professionals find ourselves facing on a daily basis — a truly inspired system for taming the madn
  
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• UK's controversial online safety bill set to become law

  20-09-2023 18:59 via computerworld.com
  
  Four years after it started life as a white paper, the UK government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has finally passed through Parliament and is set to become law in the coming weeks.The  bill aims to keep websites and different types of internet-based services free of illegal and harmful material while defending freedom of expression. It applies to search engines; internet services that host user-generated content, such as social media platforms; online forums; some online games
  
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• IDC: AR/VR headset sales slide, could rebound with Apple, Meta device launches

  20-09-2023 18:22 via computerworld.com
  
  Sales of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) headsets continue to decline sharply due to weak economic conditions and aging product lines, according to IDC. But upcoming device launches from vendors such as Meta and Apple could help drive a rebound later this year and into 2024, the analyst firm predicts. Global shipments for AR/VR devices fell 46% year on year in the second quarter of 2023, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headse
  
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• Jamf: Generative AI is coming to an Apple IT admin near you

  20-09-2023 17:59 via computerworld.com
  
  Imagine running fleets of iPhones that alert you when unexpected security-related incidents take place, or when otherwise legitimate service requests arrive from devices at an unexpected time or location. Imagine management and security software that not only identified these kinds of anomalies but gave you useful advice to help remediate the problem.This, and more, is the kind of protection Jamf hopes to deliver using generative AI tools.Generative IT for Apple admins
  Jamf believes generative
  
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• Manufacturing firms make early bets on the industrial metaverse

  20-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  Manufacturing firms are already investing in a range of technologies that could serve as the building blocks for the industrial “metaverse,” but the end of goal of fully interconnected, immersive environments is likely to take longer to realize.The metaverse concept has been used in recent years primarily to describe the development of a 3D internet, referring to virtual environments used mostly — so far — for entertainment. The concept has gained traction in the industr
  
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• Got a Google Pixel Fold or Pixel Tablet? Find this secret setting this second

  20-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  Google's Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet may not look like siblings, but the two 2023 flagship Android offerings actually have a surprising amount in common.And i's not just that they're the first Pixel devices in their respective categories of folding phones and tablets, either. Nope: When you use the two products side by side, you quickly realize that they share plenty of DNA within the evolved Android setup they showcase and the overall user experience they provide. And that extends all the way
  
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• Orange shows it means business with executive hires - Orange ... - Light Reading

  20-09-2023 11:54 via news.google.com
  
  Orange shows it means business with executive hires - Orange ...  Light Reading
  
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• Is Executive Coaching Worth It? Facts Say "Yes" - If Done Right - 24-7 Press Release

  20-09-2023 09:22 via news.google.com
  
  Is Executive Coaching Worth It? Facts Say "Yes" - If Done Right  24-7 Press Release
  
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• Despite remaining leaderless, SBC Executive Committee says it had ... - Religion News Service

  20-09-2023 00:22 via news.google.com
  
  Despite remaining leaderless, SBC Executive Committee says it had ...  Religion News Service
  
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• Legislature v. Executive? Lawmakers ask FDOT oversight board ... - Florida Politics

  19-09-2023 22:24 via news.google.com
  
  Legislature v. Executive? Lawmakers ask FDOT oversight board ...  Florida Politics
  
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• Google adds its Bard chatbot to Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other apps

  19-09-2023 22:20 via computerworld.com
  
  Google today announced it is embedding its conversational,Bard chatbot into many of its most popular apps, allowing users to get human-like responses to questions, summarize Gmail messages, and search Google Docs and Youtube.Bard is in heated competition with other top generative AI technologies, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing conversational AI tool (which is also based on ChatGPT). Microsoft has added ChatGPT functionality to its suite of Microsoft 365 bu
  
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• Google launches another appeal against 2017 EU antitrust ruling on shopping service

  19-09-2023 19:02 via computerworld.com
  
  Google has once again sought to overturn a €2.4 billion ($2.6 billlion) fine imposed by the European Union in 2017 after it found the company had violated antitrust rules by using its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promote its comparison shopping service.Google originally appealed the fine the ruling in the General Court — the EU’s lower court — in 2021, but the decision was upheld. The company has now again sought to challenge the fine, this t
  
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• Smartsheet adds generative AI capabilities to work management platform

  19-09-2023 18:00 via computerworld.com
  
  Work management software company Smartsheet unveiled its next-generation platform today, debuting features designed to provide users with new generative-AI powered capabilities at scale.Work in the Smartsheet platform centers around “sheets” that contain information relating to a particular project or projects, within which users can include a variety of details such as a description, status, due dates, and which workers have been assigned to complete a task.“Our goal is to ma
  
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• Jamf touts Jamf Pro 11 at JNUC, its annual Apple IT admin event

  19-09-2023 17:34 via computerworld.com
  
  Now in its 14th year, the world’s biggest event for IT admins who manage Apple hardware, the Jamf Nation User Conference kicks off today in Austin, Texas with Apple-related insights from Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and other big names in tech management and integration.MacPaw, Okta, Mac Stadium, and many other important vendors in the space are also on tap at the hybrid show.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Experts: 'Quiet cutting' employees makes no sense, and it's costly

  19-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  Companies are increasingly using role reassignments as a strategy to sidestep expensive layoffs, according to some tech industry experts. But they see it as generally short-sighted and likely to do a company more harm than good.As with last year's 'quiet quitting' trend, quiet cutting appears to be a concept originally coined in the media — in this case, by The New York Times. The practice involves reassigning workers to roles that don’t align with their career goals to achieve
  
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• 5 мифов о женщинах в IT-сфере - E-xecutive

  19-09-2023 10:37 via news.google.com
  5 мифов о женщинах в IT-сфере  E-xecutive
  
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• Nikola Shares Surge 30% as it Names Former GM Executive as Operating Chief - MarketWatch

  18-09-2023 21:16 via news.google.com
  Nikola Shares Surge 30% as it Names Former GM Executive as Operating Chief  MarketWatch
  
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• UK regulator outlines AI foundation model principles, warns of potential harm

  18-09-2023 18:06 via computerworld.com
  
  The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned about the potential risks of artificial intelligence in its newly published review into AI foundation models.Foundation models are AI systems that have been trained on massive, unlabeled data sets. They underpin large language models — like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s PaLM — for generative AI applications like ChatGPT, and can be used for a wide range of tasks, such as translating
  
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• Apple again upsells users to the iPhone 15 Pro Max

  18-09-2023 17:47 via computerworld.com
  
  Apple once again appears to have upsold the world to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and while demand once again exceeded supply when orders began Friday, somewhere in Cupertino the bubbly was likely flowing as the company's initial stockpile of the iPhone Pro Max sold out  in minutes.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Google US antitrust trial: A timeline

  18-09-2023 12:15 via computerworld.com
  
  Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of its competitors and the detriment of the public at large.The first lawsuit, targeting Google's search business, kicked off last week, and a second trial against the tech giant, focusing on advertising, is scheduled for next year.The cases heavily echo the turn-of-the-century
  
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• How companies are putting embedded genAI to good use

  18-09-2023 12:00 via computerworld.com
  
  ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and other public-facing generative AI chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) are nice enough, but they’re general-purpose and not well integrated into enterprise workflows. Employees either have to go to a separate app, or companies have to spend time and effort adding the functionality to their applications via application programming interfaces. Plus, in order to use ChatGPT and other genAI chatbots well, employees have to learn prompt engineering.To read
  
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• How we did it: Report Card on Banks - Investment Executive

  18-09-2023 06:07 via news.google.com
  
  How we did it: Report Card on Banks  Investment Executive
  
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• Pottstown turns it on in second half, edges Executive Education Academy, 28-14 - The Mercury

  16-09-2023 06:36 via news.google.com
  Pottstown turns it on in second half, edges Executive Education Academy, 28-14  The Mercury
  
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• Critical updates for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio drive September's Patch Tuesday

  15-09-2023 21:40 via computerworld.com
  
  Microsoft released 59 updates in its September Patch Tuesday release, with critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, and  continued the trend of including non-Microsoft applications in its update cycle. (Notepad++ is a notable addition, with Autodesk returning with a revised bulletin.) We've made "Patch Now" recommendations for Microsoft development platforms (Visual Studio) and Microsoft Word.Unfortunately, updates for Microsoft Exchange Server have also returned, requiring
  
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• Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs

  15-09-2023 18:27 via computerworld.com
  
  Low-code software company Airtable announced its second round of job cuts in nine months, laying off around 237 people, or approximately 27% of the company.The cuts are part of a plan to focus the company on winning large enterprise clients and getting spending under control, CEO Howie Liu told Forbes, which  first reported the layoffs. They follow job cuts made by the company in December 2022 that saw 254 people laid off.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• iPhone 12: Fade away, and radiate?

  15-09-2023 17:40 via computerworld.com
  
  What’s up with the iPhone radiation story? On the eve of Apple’s big iPhone 15 reveal, France demanded the company remove iPhone 12 from sale in that country because it said the product radiates too much.Now that demand seems to be spreading across Europe.What’s happening here?The story so far
  ANFR, the French agency that regulates these things, claims that certain iPhone 12 models emit unacceptable levels of electromagnetic radiation. The regulator subsequently ordered Apple
  
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• Amazon deploys generative AI to write sales listings

  15-09-2023 13:48 via computerworld.com
  
  Amazon has launched a new generative AI tool that creates copy listings for users selling items on the company’s e-commerce platform.Designed to simplify the selling process, the new tool reduces the need for sellers to enter many pieces of specific product data when generating product descriptions. Instead, users can now enter a brief description of the product they are listing for sale – Amazon said this can be a few words or sentences – and the tool will generate the necess
  
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