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On August 14, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-27B, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to be small enough to run on a laptop. Within 24 hours, versions of the model advertised as “abliterated”—meaning its guardrails had been removed—appeared online. Three days later, a neo-Nazi known
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* Cambridge Audio unveils new Spira turntable * Mid-range price tag; on sale immediately * Range of connection options, but nothing too complex If you've never used a record player before, they can seem quite complicated, which is why many of the best turntables are entry-level options targeted at relative novices
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HCLTech recently won a large infrastructure services contract with M Group, a company that provides critical infrastructure services in the UK and Ireland. M Group is responsible for managing systems in sectors such as water, energy, transport, defence, technology and communications and so has a wide infrastructure footprint. The deal
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ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales guidance and its shares rose 2.8%. ASML says it will not be able to
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Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to revisit a 2-1 ruling upholding the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply-chain risk. It argues the designation was retaliation for its speech about AI safety. Anthropic has asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to rehear
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Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is
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The hardest part of retail AI may soon be the part nobody puts in the demo. A model can recommend a markdown, predict a stockout, adjust a picking route or identify a pattern in store traffic in milliseconds. But a retailer only gets value when that decision becomes an accurate
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Microsoft addressed 1,413 security vulnerabilities in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday update, making it the company’s largest monthly security release to date. Microsoft addressed 1,413 security flaws on October 13, 2026, marking its largest security update to date. Reportedly, artificial Intelligence-based automated scanning systems helped identify some
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No sign of the SaaSpocalypse here. Workday entered the first full day of Workday Rising 2026 in uber-confident mode, talking up the re-invention of work and "The new Workday." What gives Workday that swagger? I believe underneath is a growing confidence that a multi-SaaS application and data footprint
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While cloud services and AI features can be valuable assets, in many cases, they present serious security concerns, especially if the access rights, responsibilities, and data ownership are not clearly defined. Thus, an organization’s IT governance strategy enables it to formalize control and compliance policies, standardize employee responsibilities, and
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