The author, Richard Frost, is head of technology solutions and consulting at Armata Cyber Security AI-powered phishing has become the most virulent security threat to the business world. Threat actors are now using advanced generative models to create highly personalised and convincing e-mails that are capable of bypassing traditional security measures. The pervasiveness of the…
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. (Image source: GCIS) Presidency minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has condemned the photoshopping of her X (formerly Twitter) account with vulgar images and misinformation, saying it is distasteful and shameful. This comes as X’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool Grok faces growing backlash for allowing users to create and publish sexualised images….
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi India has proposed requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures, prompting behind-the-scenes opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung. The tech companies have countered that the package of 83 security standards, which would also…
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced the release of Falcon H1R 7B, a next-generation AI model that takes a significant step toward making advanced AI more accessible than ever, by delivering world-class reasoning performance in a compact, efficient, and openly available format….
Quectel Wireless Solutions, an end-to-end global IoT solutions provider, announced the official launch of its new-generation flagship smart module, the SP895BD-AP. Powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ Q-8750 processor, the SP895BD-AP module boasts enhanced graphics processing capabilities, superior visual imaging effects, and advanced edge computing performance, meeting the requirements of high-end devices such as video conferencing…
China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chip-making tools is hobbling the sector, the country’s leading artificial intelligence researchers said on Saturday. China’s so-called “AI tiger” start-ups, MiniMax and Zhipu AI, had strong debuts on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this week,…
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced Falcon-H1 Arabic, a newly developed large language model built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture. Representing a complete departure from previous transformer-based versions, this new model establishes itself as the highest-performing system on the Open Arabic LLM…
Quectel today announced that it sent letters to Telit Cinterion, Thales Group, DBAY Advisors, Liberty Bell Project and Charles Parton demanding that they stop disseminating false and defamatory statements about Quectel regarding risks associated with its products’ security and the company’s purported connections to the Chinese government. The letters assert that Telit Cinterion, Thales Group,…
SP Electricity North West Moves from Outages to Outstanding Performance with Rimini Street Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, managed services and Agentic AI ERP innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced SP Electricity North West’s (SP ENW) successful…
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global end-to-end IoT solutions provider, today unveiled its SRG091X and SRG093X series modules at CES in Las Vegas, delivering integrated CPU, memory and wireless connectivity built around the NXP® Semiconductors i.MX 9 series of applications processors. This new generation of modules is engineered for industrial environments demanding high levels of automation,…
