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• Researchers, legal experts want AI firms to open up for safety checks

  05-03-2024 23:11
  
  More than 150 leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, ethicists and others have signed an open letter calling on generative AI (genAI) companies to submit to independent evaluations of their systems, the lack of which has led to concerns about basic protections.The letter, drafted by researchers from MIT, Princeton, and Stanford University, called for legal and technical protections for good-faith research on genAI models, which they said is hampering safety m
  
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• Meta services begin recovering from major disruption

  05-03-2024 18:49
  
  Widespread outages for Facebook, Instagram and Threads were reported Tuesday morning, as parent company Meta warned that many of its core services were suffering from outages.A status page went from listing all of Meta’s services as “unknown” to “major disruptions” for business tools like Ads Manager, Facebook and Instagram Shops, Meta Business Suite and Meta Admin Center, as well as Facebook Login, Graph API, WhatsApp Business API, and Marketing API.All of the out
  
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• The MacBook Air — better for business?

  05-03-2024 17:46
  
  The best value notebook for most of us is the MacBook Air, and Apple has now updated both the 13- and 15-in. models with powerful M3 chips and the capacity to run two external displays when the lid is closed.All in all, these Macs should be more than suitable for most mobile workers.Apple in the fast lane
  Think back less than a year to when the company introduced its superb M2-powered 15-in. MacBook Air. That model delivered more performance than the late 2019 2.7GHz Intel Mac Pro.That surge in
  
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• BrandPost: Ensure security and collaboration thrive in the hybrid working era

  05-03-2024 13:10
  
  Small and medium sized businesses can cut costs and drive growth by adopting remote working – but increasingly sophisticated cyber attackers can exploit these new practices.The trend toward hybrid working is now well established, with employees largely showing positive sentiment toward a mode of work that enables greater flexibility and eases the strain of issues such as caregiving and commuting.According to Cisco’s Global Hybrid Work Study 2022, a large majority of employees a
  
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• BrandPost: Building the foundations of a sustainable innovation strategy

  05-03-2024 13:05
  
  Modern customer demands and evolving technology capability mean smaller businesses are seeking digital transformation as eagerly as their enterprise counterparts.   In the UK, for example, a recent survey by the Federation of Small Business (FSB) suggests that in the past three years, 69% of companies have either brought an entirely new product to market (25%), improved existing products (38%) or improved or introduced new internal or customer-facing processes (25%).&nb
  
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• BrandPost: How to thwart cyber criminals seeking to target smaller businesses

  05-03-2024 12:58
  
  Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the belief that they have not invested in the security technology required to thwart attacks. In fact, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at SMBs. Cybercriminals are rational, profit-driven and highly organised: they know that attacking easy targets can result in a bigger aggregate pay-day. To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Q&A: GitHub COO on how genAI makes devs more efficient (and can automate the helpdesk)

  05-03-2024 12:00
  
  GitHub, the online developer platform that allows users to create, store, manage, and share their code, has been on a generative AI (genA) journey since before ChatGPT or Copilot was widely available to the public.Through an early partnership with Microsoft, the dev platform adopted Copilot two-and-a-half years ago, tweaking it to create its own version — GitHub Copilot.The genAI-baed conversational chat interface is now used as a tool for both GitHub users and internal employees to
  
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• Executive Q&A: What's It Worth? | AVNetwork - AV Network

  05-03-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Executive Q&A: What's It Worth? | AVNetwork  AV Network
  
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• Executive Q&A: What's It Worth? - AV Network

  05-03-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Tellurian to part ways with chief executive as it targets FID for struggling project (+) - Upstream Online

  05-03-2024 04:53 via news.google.com
  
  Tellurian to part ways with chief executive as it targets FID for struggling project (+)  Upstream Online
  
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