Nicole Kobie

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Rogue And Illegal Ebikes Spark Challenges In UK Cities

1 day ago | forbes.com | Nicole Kobie

Rush-hour cyclists, traffic and pedestrian commuters on Bishopsgate in the City of London, the ... More capital's financial district, on 28th February 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)In Pictures via Getty ImagesEbikes are a perfect solution for getting around cities — but rogue designs that aren’t legal on UK roads need to be addressed, as do other sources of friction.
Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive

1 day ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

OpenAI has announced new updates for ChatGPT which allow users to record and transcribe meetings, as well as connectors for cloud tools such as Google Drive. The new transcription tools put ChatGPT directly into competition with Otter.AI and Zoom's built-in tools, while the cloud connectors target the AI productivity tools built into offerings from Google and Microsoft.
Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Nicole Kobie

1 day agoOpenAI announced that ChatGPT is getting new features, including a service that could help out during your next meeting. ChatGPT is getting another tool in its toolbox. OpenAI has revealed that ChatGPT can now record, transcribe, and answer questions about meetings. The company also announced new …
CEOs think workers are becoming hostile to AI tools, but they’re pushing ahead with adoption anyway

1 day ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

Nearly half of CEOs believe their employees are becoming openly hostile to AI tools, but it's not slowing down adoption rates. That's according to a survey by tech services company Kyndryl, which polled 1,000 executives to unpick how ready workforces were for the arrival of AI. One of the key findings was that 45% of CEOs think that most of their employees are anti-AI — though just 8% of CTOs and CIOs believe employees are resistant to the technology.
100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn't hacked - here's why

2 days ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

The UK's tax revenue service has lost £47 million in a breach that started last year and impacted 100,000 people. The HMRC told the treasury select committee yesterday that the account scam was the result of "organized crime" that set up PAYE, or ‘Pay As You Earn’, accounts for individual taxpayers and used them to claim refunds.
Questions raised over AI’s impact as studies tout conflicting adoption outcomes

2 days ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

How much value does generative AI bring to the workplace? It depends who you ask. A report by the Danish National Bureau of Economic Research suggests very little impact at all – but a separate study by PwC noted AI adoption leads to a fourfold increase in productivity growth and 56% higher wages.
Enterprises are keen on cloud repatriation - but not for all workloads

4 days ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

So long, public cloud, a whopping 97% of surveyed companies say they plan to ditch the public cloud in favour of in-house infrastructure. The growing trend of cloud repatriation doesn't mean the end of the public cloud, however, as most of those companies aren't shifting every workload over, just a few specific ones.
Microsoft invests $400 million to expand Swiss data centers

4 days ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

Microsoft has announced plans to invest $400 million in Swiss data centers to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in the region. The move comes alongside data sovereignty moves — keeping European data in Europe — which has driven billions in Microsoft investment in data centers in the region. Earlier this year, Microsoft said its EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud was finally complete and would include Switzerland.
Breach at data analytics firm impacts 364,000 people

1 week ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

Hackers have nabbed LexisNexis data belonging to more than 360,000 people via GitHub. LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) began sending data breach notifications to impacted individuals last week, but admitted it was told about the leak at the beginning of April — and that the actual breach had occurred in December of last year.
Shifting left might improve software security, but developers are becoming overwhelmed - communication barriers, tool sprawl, and ‘vulnerability overload’ is causing serious headaches for development teams | IT Pro

1 week ago | itpro.com | Nicole Kobie

Nearly half of enterprises are trying to "shift left" in a bid to shore up software security, but false positives, the faster pace of development thanks to AI, and challenges integrating tools are limiting success for developers. That's according to research by AI security firm Pynt that focused on the adoption of shift left practices — referring to a strategy of spotting flaws and security issues earlier in the software development cycle when they're easier to fix.

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Articles

Rogue And Illegal Ebikes Spark Challenges In UK Cities

Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive

Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive

CEOs think workers are becoming hostile to AI tools, but they’re pushing ahead with adoption anyway

100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn't hacked - here's why

Questions raised over AI’s impact as studies tout conflicting adoption outcomes

Enterprises are keen on cloud repatriation - but not for all workloads

Microsoft invests $400 million to expand Swiss data centers

Breach at data analytics firm impacts 364,000 people

Shifting left might improve software security, but developers are becoming overwhelmed - communication barriers, tool sprawl, and ‘vulnerability overload’ is causing serious headaches for development teams | IT Pro

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