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2 weeks ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 09.53am The consortium will be led by notable scientific minds including Professor Charlotte Deane at the University of Oxford, and David Baker, Chemistry Nobel Prize winner and head of the Institute for Protein Design at Washington University.
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2 weeks ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 09.45am The UK Government says that the marketplace is a “first-of-its-kind.” A new digital marketplace is being built by the UK Government to transform how the country’s public sector buys technology, helping save over £1 billion in annual savings, clinch back time, and provide public servants with the power to rate suppliers.
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3 weeks ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 09.43am “The boldness and innovation of Humanitix, combined with their ethical approach, is how you really go about disrupting an industry and we’re excited to see that happening from their Edinburgh HQ,” said Scottish Enterprise’s Reuben Aitken.
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3 weeks ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 09.18am “Email-based social engineering has never been more convincing or more effective,” said Mike Britton, CIO at Abnormal AI. New research around vendor email compromise (VEC) has uncovered that enterprise businesses based in European, Middle Eastern, and African countries (EMEA) are particularly vulnerable to VEC attacks, with post-read interaction and repeat engagement rates significantly outpacing other regions.
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3 weeks ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 09.12am Wordsmith is recording strong revenue growth across the UK and US, with the company set to open offices in both London and New York later this year. Edinburgh-based startup Wordsmith AI has secured a $25 million (£18.5m~) Series A, led by venture capital firm Index Ventures.
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1 month ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 10.07am An investigation into the wider case by the Independent Office of Policy Conduct is ongoing. The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a reprimand to the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) following “serious shortcomings” around its storing and handling of CCTV footage. In February 2021, a person was held in custody for 48 hours. A CCTV system was in operation during this period.
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1 month ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 04.53pm “It not only puts the legitimacy of police deployments into question, but also exposes how unprepared our broader regulatory regime is,” said Michael Birtwistle, associate director. The Ada Lovelace Institute, the independent AI and data research institute, has condemned the UK’s “fragmented and piecemeal” approach to governing facial recognition and other biometric technologies.
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1 month ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 03.16pm Ring lights, iPhone camera, action: it’s the rise of “InfluenCEOs.” One in three (30%) CEOs have built up such a following that they now see themselves as influencers, according to new research from BT which finds execs view their social media presence as critical to their business strategy.
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1 month ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 10.01am Generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed education for our current generation of students. But are they using AI to game the system? New research from online tutoring platform GoStudent digs deeper.
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1 month ago | 
digit.fyi | Thom Carter
, 10.00am “They see other consumers can potentially own physical versions so they have less psychological ownership of it,” said the University of Stirling’s Rob Angell. As the metaverse grows in opportunity for companies and consumers alike, new research out of the University of Stirling has discovered that it doesn’t always translate to extra sales for brands.
