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Facebook parent firm Meta faces fines totalling €390m (£345m), after European regulators found it had been unlawfully processing customers’ personal data to deliver targeted advertising on its Facebook and Instagram social media sites since 2018. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has given the company three months to comply with Europe’s data protection laws after regulators found

Here is our 2023 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 01 Jan 2023 Computer Weekly Buyer’s Guides map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate

ChatGPT is one of a new breed of AI models that promises to deliver machine-based creativity By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 05 Jan 2023 15:45 Towards the end of last year, management consultant McKinsey published an article where the first paragraph was created by ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) language model. The article’s

Biologists have long known that new protein-coding genes can arise through the duplication and modification of existing ones. But some protein genes can also arise from stretches of the genome that once encoded aimless strands of RNA instead. How new protein genes surface this way has been a mystery, however. Now, a study identifies mutations

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New York City's Department of Education announced a ban on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT — which some have warned could inspire more student cheating — from its schools’ devices and networks. Jenna Lyle, a spokesperson for the department, said the decision to ban ChatGPT, which is able to generate conversational responses to text prompts

The graveyard is full of indispensable people. I felt indispensable at my last job - company is still alive years later, and I wish I had left sooner. It's often hard to have perspective if you are The Person, or rely on The Person, but if the projects are important (Linux) they will evolve some

Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot. We searched Scopus for authors who had published more than 72 papers (the equivalent of one paper every 5 days) in any one calendar year between 2000 and 2016, a figure that many would consider implausibly prolific1. We found more than