Why scaling connectivity is imperative to continue meeting demand

If the UK is serious about digital inclusion, it must confront a simple truth: without connectivity, inclusion fails.
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‘A perfect marriage of performance and efficiency’: There’s a massive Apple MacBook Air sale at B&H if you want to grab our laptop of the year for cheap, but the deal ends soon

Apple MacBook Air (M4) models are heavily discounted on B&H right now — but the sale ends soon.

‘You don’t cook a Thanksgiving turkey in the microwave’: Pentagon confirms Department of Defense will use Google Gemini for ‘classified projects’ – US military to expand AI vendors as ‘overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing’

Google’s Gemini joins OpenAI’s ChatGPT as AI models being leveraged by the Department of Defense for warfighting capabilities.
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AWS and OpenAI confirm cloud partnership — a day after ChatGPT maker ended its Microsoft exclusivity

AWS is already a big investor in OpenAI – Amazon Bedrock now gets access to more models after Microsoft loses exclusivity.
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Evolving observability architecture for cloud-scale event data

Why modern observability systems fail during incidents, and how new architectures fix them.

‘Claude can’t replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working’: Anthropic signs up Adobe, Blender and more to push Claude into creative work

The latest round of connectors Anthropic is adding to Claude are for the creative industry – including a major Adobe one.
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‘The creatives are about to become more powerful than anyone expected’: Freepik’s relaunch marks a wider industry shift to all-in-one AI-driven content creator software — and lowering the barrier of creativity means beginners have never had it so good

CEO heralds the “no-collar economy” as rebranded creative platform hits $230 million in annual recurring revenue.

‘An unauthorized actor accessed certain Vimeo user and customer data’: Vimeo confirms security incident, blames attack on Anodot breach

Vimeo did not say how many people were affected, but confirmed that payment data is secure.

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‘VECT is being marketed as ransomware…but it functions as a data destruction tool’: Experts warn this “broken” ransomware is now acting as a data wiper, so protect your files now

New ransomware variant destroys everything bigger than 128kb, making retrieval without a backup impossible.

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Why insurance innovation ambitions keep stalling

The gap between firms modernizing their back offices and those still running on fragmented systems and manual workflows.
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