A Tamagotchi seance, macabre cartoon horror and an arty shmup: this new festival spotlights a fertile Scottish games scene beyond Rockstar North Walking through the doors of this boutique video game festival, you are immediately greeted by a bullet hell shoot-em-up with a painterly twist. In ZOE Begone!, you dodge and unleash attacks at blistering …
Exclusive: NSPCC finds Apple implicated in more cases of predators sharing child abuse imagery in England and Wales alone than the company reported globally in a year Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, child safety experts allege, which is raising concerns …
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But experts says full recovery from Friday’s IT failure could still take weeks A “significant” number of the 8.5m devices affected by last week’s global IT outage are back online, according to the cybersecurity company at the centre of the incident. CrowdStrike said it was also testing a new technique to reboot systems more rapidly, …
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CEO Sarah Franklin got such intense pushback on her company’s plans that she suspended them after three days One thing seems for sure: people are not ready for “digital workers” just yet. That’s the lesson learned by Sarah Franklin, the CEO of Lattice, a human resources and performance management platform that offers performance coaching, talent …
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Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says systems should soon be back online but business groups say companies may need days to recover Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says the company at the …
‘C the Signs’ artificial intelligence program scans medical records to increase likelihood of spotting cancers Artificial intelligence that scans GP records to find hidden patterns has helped doctors detect significantly more cancer cases. The rate of cancer detection rose from 58.7% to 66.0% at GP practices using the “C the Signs” AI tool. This analyses …
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Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia …
Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out Campaigners say the chaos caused by the global IT outage last week underlines the risk of moving towards a cashless society. Supermarkets, banks, pubs, cafes, train stations and airports were all hit by the failure of Microsoft systems on Friday, leaving …
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As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure A global IT failure wreaked havoc on Friday, grounding flights and disrupting everything from hospitals to government agencies. Over all the chaos hung a question: how did a flawed update to Microsoft …
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The billionaire’s companies enjoyed major tax breaks in the state. Now, he’s declared it intolerable and ordered his firms to Texas Elon Musk announced this week he would move the headquarters of his companies X and SpaceX from California to Texas, the culmination of a longstanding face-off between the volatile executive and the state where …
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