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• Digital Storytelling at the British Library

  08-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s an exhibition about a new form of reading known as digital storytelling, and a more annoying way of telling a story has yet to be invented. It’s not that the exhibition is bad, as they’ve done a good job of laying out a range of stories that need computer screens, but the very notion of digital storytelling grated with me.Maybe this is a bad case of “old man doesn’t get it”, but I found the whole thing really quite frustrating. That’s mainly beca
  
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• Dish pitches EchoStar merger as a connectivity play

  08-08-2023 17:24
  Dish Network and EchoStar will merge in a deal that is primarily about strengthening one of the companies’ financial position, but will also leave the combined entity in a stronger position in network connectivity.
  The firms announced their all-stock merger on Tuesday, a month after the latest rumours on such a move surfaced. On completion of the deal, existing Dish Network shareholders will hold 69% of the resulting entity and EchoStar shareholders the remaining 31%. EchoStar’s curr
  
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• Altice: pressure mounts for Drahi to sell BT investment

  08-08-2023 17:16
  Selling the investment in the UK telecom would not garner much for the Altice group owner
  
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• A cluster of new offices and homes planned for Blackfriars

  08-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A cluster of new buildings is being proposed to go on one of the last remaining brownfield sites close to Blackfriars bridge.
  The development towers (in orange) – source: Planning documents
  The development by Hines and designed by Foster + Partners will be for three towers above a new podium, with two towers for residential and one for offices, and is a replacement for a previously approved development which was fairly similar in scale.
  The development site was cleared in 2015 in expectati
  
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• VMO2 continues offensive over UK smartphone overspend

  08-08-2023 14:11
  Virgin Media O2 is once again on the warpath over alleged overcharging of mobile subscribers, launching an online calculator to help people work out their overspend.
  The operator is pitching the calculator as a way to help people take action against overpayments. But to put it another way, it serves as a handy customer acquisition tool for a mobile operator that is struggling to keep pace with its rivals. However, it should still be applauded for shining a light on a practice that is quite clear
  
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• Rakuten Symphony hits duff note with CEO’s abrupt exit

  08-08-2023 14:06
  The Open RAN movement has lost one of its most vocal players after Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin left the company with no warning and little fanfare.
  He has also bid farewell to Rakuten Mobile, where he served as co-CEO.
  The official explanation given to Light Reading is that Amin left for family reasons. Either out of respect, or for some other reason, no mention of this appeared in Monday’s official press release, and no well-wishes appear to have proffered by the company, at least in
  
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• Zero-day exploits drive 143% rise in ransomware victims

  08-08-2023 14:02
  A report by cloud firm Akamai claims that a behaviour shift by hacker groups away from phishing and towards abuse of vulnerabilities over the past 6 months has led to a rise in the number of victims.
  The report – with the catchy title of ‘Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days’ – throws out an array of statistics involving the current trends around cyber attacks – including the claim that there was a 143% YoY inc
  
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• Outernet turns into Outer Space with NASA footage filling the video walls

  08-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Outernet will go into Outer Space this month as the Tottenham Court Road corner video venue fills the space with images from outer space.
  (c) Outernet
  The photos, supplied by NASA and other space agencies will fill the huge video screens on the corner of Tottenham Court Road twice an hour each day as part of a new video installation by the Outernet. The large rectangular open room next to the tube station will be decorated to look as if it’s a space station that you’re standing i
  
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• Inherent bias of AI models confirmed

  08-08-2023 12:21
  New research examined the varied biases of different AI large language models, depending on the source material used.
  Research conducted jointly between universities in the US and China attempted to measure the bias inherent in a bunch of large language models (LLMs), from which generative AI such as ChatGPT derive their outputs. Since none of those LLMs have access to the entirety of human learning, activity, and opinion, they must necessarily be biased in the direction of the fraction of it th
  
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• A visit to Carshalton Water Tower and Hermitage

  08-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just over 300 years ago a very rich man on the verge of bankruptcy built a grand house and a water tower. Three hundred years later, both still exist, and you can go inside the water tower, but not the house.Sir John Fellowes was the man, who made his fortune as a director of the South Sea Company, and in 1716 acquired, through some slightly iffy tax dodging means, a house in Carshalton. This was rebuilt into a grand new Georgian style with an artificial lake in front. And then in 1721, he commi
  
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• Telecoms face mounting pressure to consolidate

  08-08-2023 06:00
  Vodafone’s plan to merge its UK arm with Three will test whether regulatory mood has softened
  
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• Altice’s Drahi addresses criminal probe into The Barefoot Billionaire

  08-08-2023 06:00
  Plus, discount season comes to private equity and the architect of the US liquefied natural gas industry says he faces homelessness 
  
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