BT could save £3 billion by cutting up to 55,000 workers, AI could end even more contracts If share prices don’t rise, BT might have to spin off Openreach Group revenue was down 2% year-over-year BT CEO Allison Kirkby has indicated the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence could lead to even deeper cuts beyond current…
German state Schleswig-Holstein wants to remove all traces of Microsoft, including Windows Transition started in 2023, and should be complete by the end of 2025 Digitalization minister says, “We’re done with Teams” Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, has confirmed it will be phasing out Microsoft office software tools (including Teams, Word, Excel and Outlook) in its…
A Minecraft Movie will be available to stream on Max very soon Warner Bros. has confirmed it’ll arrive on June 20 The biggest film of 2025 has almost reached the $1 billion mark globally Get ready to shout “chicken jockey!” at your screens, everyone, because A Minecraft Movie has finally dug up a streaming release…
AI may be redefining cyberattacks and defenses, but the real security battleground is data. In an environment where information flows freely between SaaS platforms, personal devices, and remote endpoints, preventing data leakage is a strategic imperative critical to company performance. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has become the cornerstone of digital trust, especially as organizations automate…
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto made key breakthroughs in reinforcement learning Dawn Gaves, University of Alberta/Zinj Guo, University of Massachusetts Amherst Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 Turing award, which is often called the Nobel prize of computing, for their fundamental work on ideas in machine learning that later proved crucial to…
Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability to engage in seemingly meaningful conversation. But, for decades, ELIZA was considered lost because its creator – Joseph Weizenbaum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology –…
One of the biggest differences between being rich and poor is having people to do things for you. When a person moves from being poor to the middle class, they might get a cleaner or take their clothes to a dry cleaner; when they become rich, they might get a driver, a private chef –…
Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,400 of them. But knowing what’s gone before is important, because Wordle answers don’t repeat – so you could easily be wasting guesses. What you need then, is a list of past Wordle answers, and that’s…
“If the 20th century was the age of atomics, then the 21st is the age of the internet” DKosig/Getty Images If you cast your mind back over the past two and a half decades, a bizarre fact emerges: everyone from business investors to teachers has been planning for a future ruled by communications technology. If…
There is a new application for lasers laboratory/Alamy Lasers could become an important tool for detecting radioactive materials, such as those in covert nuclear weapons, from a greater distance than ever before. Conventional radioactivity sensing techniques involve waiting for particles produced during radioactive decay to hit a detector. The method can sense these particles from…
