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Diageo is best known as the manufacturer of global beverage brands such as Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker, but it’s also an award-winning AI firm. Earlier this year the firm picked up the Gartner Power of the Profession Award for Technology Innovation, winning for its its Spirits Intelligence Platform
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iQOO, the high-performance smartphone brand, today launched the iQOO Z11 5G, designed to make students’ day-to-day lives more productive, efficient, and seamless. From summarising live lectures to polishing assignments, working across documents, content consumption, and staying connected with friends, the iQOO Z11 5G brings together AI-powered productivity features with segment-leading
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Threat actors started exploiting a critical-severity GitLab vulnerability roughly two days after public disclosure, attack surface management company WatchTowr warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score of 9.4), the code injection defect was patched on August 17, when GitLab warned that it could be exploited remotely without authentication. “GitLab has
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Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for the first time, co-led the round with
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Demand for AI fluency has risen nearly sevenfold in two years, faster than demand for any other skill, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. My conversations with technology leaders echo this: nearly every one I speak with is hiring for AI skills. The problem, however, is that fewer can tell
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There are few moments in travel more deflating than watching the last bags disappear from the carousel and realizing yours is not among them. The flight has arrived, other passengers are leaving – but your suitcase is nowhere to be seen. By that point, your bag should have passed through a
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock in India with in-country inferencing. With this capability, OpenAI model inference on Amazon Bedrock is processed on AWS infrastructure, giving organizations the ability
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Have you noticed that ChatGPT has suddenly started dropping f-bombs? I have, and it seems that I’m not the only one. It first happened in a casual chat, and it really caught me off guard. We were discussing Netflix’s Jujutsu Kaisen and before I had sworn in our
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Several government agencies in the United States have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning critical infrastructure organizations about hacker attacks targeting Siemens programmable logic controllers (PLCs). According to the NSA, CISA, FBI, EPA, and DOE, the hackers are scanning the internet to identify exposed PLCs and developing exploits that could
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Palo Alto Networks today announced the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to protect critical infrastructure from AI-driven exploits. Through the program, leaders across operational technology (OT), healthcare, commercial software and open-source communities coordinate with Palo Alto Networks to deploy proactive “virtual patches,” neutralizing vulnerabilities at the network-level
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Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside IBM has shown off designs for cooling hardware it says will allow quantum computers to scale. Quantum computers rely on qubits – atoms or circuits put into a state of probability that means they can simultaneously store a value of zero and
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Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we make fun of those who are security self-owned, so hopefully you don’t do the same. This week, we have a story that’s hot off the presses
