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    Singapore keeping its eye on data centers and data models as AI adoption grows

    <!–> Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images With the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) fast accelerating, Singapore says it has taken steps to ensure data centers operating in the country are energy efficient and government data used to train models are adequately secured.  The government will establish the necessary computing power and grow the datacenter market in a […] More

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    Automation driving AI adoption, but lack of right skillsets slowing down returns

    <!–> BlackJack3D/Getty Images Businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to automate their IT processes and help detect potential security threats, but the lack of relevant AI skillsets is a key barrier to benefiting from such initiatives.  Some 42% of organizations already are using AI, with 59% planning to accelerate and increase their investment in […] More

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    Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives

    <!–> dem10/Getty Images The Wi-Fi Alliance has given Wi-Fi 7, officially known as 802.11be, its blessing, and our homes and offices will soon see speeds of – believe it or not – almost 5.8 Gigabits per second (Gbps).   Actually, just between us, I don’t believe Intel when it states, “a typical Wi-Fi 7 laptop […] More

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    The fall of Firefox: Mozilla’s once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

    <!–> slpu9945/Getty Images When the Netscape browser suite source code was open-sourced in 1998, it was a desperate move.  Although Netscape and the Department of Justice had been successful in the courts at battling Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) illegal monopoly, it didn’t matter. Netscape, once the most popular web browser of all, was […] More

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    Singapore telcos to let subscribers block international calls in new anti-scam measure

    <!–> d3sign/Getty Images Mobile subscribers in Singapore can now instruct their carrier to block all incoming calls from international numbers, as part of the government’s efforts to curb the growing volume of online scams targeting the local population.  The option is available to customers of the country’s four mobile operators: M1, StarHub, Singtel, and Simba, […] More

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    Meta tracks your Facebook link history, but now you can opt out

    <!–> Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you’ve opened your Facebook settings lately, you may have seen a new “Link History” option. This is a library that saves all the links users click on. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is touting this new setting as a “feature” so users never lose a link again, but it […] More