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  • 2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

    With 96,000 staff across 35 agencies, responsibility for 87,000 prisoners, and no shortage of "legacy" IT, it was always going to be a mammoth task to get the Ministry of Justice’s digital systems in order. Nava Ramanan admits that when he first joined the Justice Digital team, a small change to its systems would take weeks and “cost so much money” once it had passed through various reviews and external partners.

  • 2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

    Shopify’s CEO says that his employers must “demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI” before they grow their teams. And the ecommerce company will also add “AI usage questions to our performance and peer review,” said CEO Tobi Lutke in an edict to staff. Shopify, which reported revenues of $8.8 billion in 2024, says it is using AI “to make customer communications more efficient” as well as to underpin its “Sidekick” commerce assistant for merchant-onboarding.

  • 2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

    IBM’s z17 mainframe is here and, as teased, Big Blue is going big on AI – with an on-chip AI coprocessor to reduce latency for “in-transaction inferencing” and the ability to support small and large language models. Each system is powered by 32 of its Telum II processors, revealed last year. z17 inference capabilities are powered by IBM’s second-gen on-chip AI accelerator, with a new “Spyre” Accelerator set to provide additional capabilities via PCIe card when it launches at the end of this year.

  • 2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

    The EU has joined the UK in poking the Big Tech bear on encryption backdoors with its ProtectEU security strategy, which outlined plans to allow law enforcement to access encrypted data. While not legislation in itself, the ‘European Internal Security Strategy’ laid out the commission’s security goals, including the launch of a new Cybersecurity Act to secure cloud and telecom services and an assessment of the EU’s data retention rules on encrypted content.

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Noah Bovenizer
Noah Bovenizer @NoahBovenizer
25 Mar 25

Second post I've seen in a row from Variety with a negative story about Rachel Zegler's relationship with Disney execs. What's the deal here?

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Rachel Zegler reportedly had strained nerves at both Disney and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners when she complained on social media that she wasn’t invited to the 2022 Oscars as the star of best picture nominee “West Side Story,” a film distributed by Disney. Sources say she https://t.co/Jg8fEOrQhh

Noah Bovenizer
Noah Bovenizer @NoahBovenizer
20 Mar 25

Such an odd 'discussion' in this. They basically ignore any and all obvious criticisms/potential issues with this reboot. Basically saying 'woo we all love Harry Potter'. Umm think there's a few things that have put people off in recent years

The Rest Is Entertainment
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📣 New Episode Out Now! 📣 🪄 Will The Harry Potter Reboot Fail? 🥰 Is On-Screen Romance Dead? 🥹 Deal Or No Deal’s Mystery Donor ‌@RichardOsman and ‌@MarinaHyde answer your questions in the latest episode - out now on audio and video!

Noah Bovenizer
Noah Bovenizer @NoahBovenizer
30 Jan 25

Does this actually affects Emilia Pérez's chances at BP now? I feel like it's becoming too big for voters to ignore

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Karla Sofía Gascón weighed in on the Oscar ceremony from 2021, the first held following the COVID pandemic in which “Nomadland” won best picture. She wrote: “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching https://t.co/aesUZaNvks