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Tim Danton

Europe, United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief at PC Pro

Senior Contributor at TechFinitive

Editor-in-chief of PC Pro, author of The Computers That Made Britain, senior editor at https://t.co/kqNPZw4maj and tennis obsessive.

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  • 1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

    One thing is clear from our series of interviews with blockchain thought leaders: they’re willing to think different. That’s certainly true for Anna Štrébl, CEO of global payment platform Confirmo, who entered the world of crypto in 2021 shortly after a three-year stint working for the UK Government. “I was struck by [blockchain’s] potential to redefine trust in digital transactions,” she told us.

  • 1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

    How many of us can claim to have built a neural network? “Probably less than 1%” was Copilot’s unhelpful answer when we asked, but we suspect that Joseph George, General Manager of IT Solutions Group at GoTo, is closer to one in a million. “I went to graduate school eager to specialise in AI and ML [machine learning],” he told us.

  • 2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

    It tells you much about Lea Petrášová, CEO and Co-Founder of the Vexl app, that she launched it from the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. To quote Lea on the creation of the Vexl Foundation: “Vexl isn’t just an application, it’s the embodiment of our vision for financial autonomy.

  • 2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

    We’ve got AI in our phones, our laptops and our PCs. Now IBM is introducing them to its mainframes, with the all-new IBM z17. IBM claims this is the “first mainframe fully engineered for the AI age”. This means that organisations large enough to run their own mainframes can execute a huge range of AI tasks on their own hardware. And not just GenAI tasks, but security tools that use AI to make it easier to spot threats and management tools for IT teams.

  • 2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

    One of our favourite things about interviewing IT leaders is that they often see the world differently. That’s certainly true for Kennet Harpsøe, Lead Researcher at Logpoint, who makes two excellent points about GenAI that we hadn’t considered before. Or, more particularly, about Large Language Models (LLMs). “LLMs understand programming languages and one of the benefits of that is that they can de-obfuscate malicious code,” he explained.

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Tim Danton
Tim Danton @timdanton
11 Nov 24

Here's an article I wrote about quantum laptops... https://t.co/hAohRAocrY

Tim Danton
Tim Danton @timdanton
24 Sep 24

I've reviewed the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V for @TFinitive - tried to make it pithy and easy to read. Possibly failed! But there are pretty graphs, too. https://t.co/J8VgzJzI7J

Tim Danton
Tim Danton @timdanton
26 Aug 24

Playing with Udio, a music-generating AI. Odd in places, but still. https://t.co/dC3PSjvytZ