Nicole Kobie
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more.
Nicole the author of a book about the history of technology, The Long History of the Future.
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How the Binance hack happenedNews Binance has revealed new details on a record-breaking hack that hit the company last week
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Why a quarter of security flaws are never fully fixedNews A new study warns against delegating flaw fixes to AI when human staff are still struggling to understand what's wrong
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Identity and access management investment is skyrocketingNews Juniper Research predicts identity and access management investment to surge 55% on the back of AI
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Ransomware attacks on government agencies have surged 91% in a yearNews Comparitech has observed a rise in ransomware attacks against government organizations
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Amazon tells software engineers that not every task needs AINews The tech giant wants staff to stop tokenmaxxing and start using AI when it's sensible
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Microsoft Teams is getting a suite new AI features to crack down on phishing attacksNews A sharp rise in phishing attacks against Microsoft Teams has prompted a raft of new features
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Microsoft’s ‘voluntary exit’ offer explainedNews The tech giant expects fewer than 30% to take up the offer, but the move shows changes are afoot at Microsoft
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Enterprises are being stung by unexpected AI bills, and it’s disrupting IT budgetsNews A survey by Cisco found that observability costs are skyrocketing amid the shift to AI, despite half unable to measure LLM response quality
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AI is speeding up coding, but devs are squandering time savingsNews An Atlassian survey suggests AI helps coding, but workflow friction needs to be addressed too
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Microsoft says AI is causing a rupture between business leaders and employeesNews New Microsoft research shows a huge disconnect between leadership and employees when it comes to confidence in the UK leading in AI
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Hackers are using patches to create vulnerability ‘maps’News Terra Security has spotted a leap in vulnerabilities in patches or otherwise fixed code
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Data centre and cloud shares slide amid AI gloomMajor providers saw massive selloffs following Barclays downgrade as Gartner warns on AI infrastructure spending
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Bank of America hired 1,000 security consultants to address Mythos-spotted flawsNews Temp hires were needed to work through patches and other fixes necessary to address vulnerabilities spotted by the AI security models
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Gartner: PC shipments collapse by nearly a quarterNews PC sales continue to slide as AI drives up component prices
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French fridges hacked in country-wide supermarket attackInternet-connected fridge temperatures raised remotely by hackers, spoiling food and sparking fires
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Finance teams are wasting a quarter of their week checking AI slopNews AI adoption is high in financial processes, but accuracy and accountability remain challenges
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Meet Le Chonk: Everything you need to know about Mistral's new open-weight AI modelNews Mistral claims its latest foundation AI model is the best open weight design outside China
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Enterprises aren't quite sold on autonomous IT operationsNews A new survey shows companies aren't ready for autonomous AI, and those with technical skills are the most pessimistic
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Everything we know about the cyber attack that hit 8.8m DanesNews Around 8.8 million citizens have been impacted in the incident, according to official figures
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Here's how AI could pay for itselfNews Bain lays out the challenge of paying for the high costs of AI infrastructure
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California bans firing by ‘robo boss’You can work for a robot, but you can't be fired or disciplined by one – without human oversight
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Nvidia unveils safety platform that could have stopped Hugging Face attackNews GPU giant says Open Agent Safety Platform will add protections to rein in rogue agents
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OpenAI won't release next Astra model over safety worriesNews AI developer says new agent didn't stay within the scope of tasks
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Nearly half of CISOs have been hit by AI deepfake voice callsNews Gartner has urged CISOs to remain vigilant for voice and video social engineering attacks
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