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The British Medical Association has warned that normal GP service “cannot be resumed immediately” after the global IT outage caused a “considerable backlog”.

A cancer patient has revealed that her surgery to remove a four-centimetre mass from her brain was cancelled this week due to the global IT glitch. Chantelle Mooney, 41, was scheduled for a craniotomy on Friday, July 19, but the operation was called off due to issues arising from a software update that caused major problems worldwide.

A global IT outage which hit 8.5 million devices is set to cause 'continued disruption' at GP surgeries, the NHS has said. Chaos unfolded after an update was sent out by Texan tech firm CrowdStrike, which left millions of Microsoft Windows devices unable to function properly.

Ryanair is asking passengers who have had their flights cancelled due to a global IT outage to leave the airport and return home.

A Microsoft Windows issue has caused problems in major airports around the world including Manchester Airport.

Sky News went off the air briefly on Friday morning amid a global IT outage, which also disrupted flights around the world and train services in the U.K. According to the BBC, the disruptions appear to be linked to a software update that went awry for cybersecurity company Crowdstrike’s anti-virus software, which has affected many of Microsoft’s Windows devices. In a statement to the BBC, Microsoft blamed “third-party software,” but did not name the platform.

A global IT meltdown has caused chaos around the world today after a major IT outage.

A Scots student who made tens of thousands of pounds from creating malicious software to sabotage websites has been jailed.

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Criminals have been found selling a staggering number of stolen bank card information online. It is understood that scammers are able to gain access to software programs that allows them to more easily pinch vulernable peoples' card details for subscription-styled costs of around £80 per month. The software has allowed criminals to steal the stolen information then sell them on to others via the dark web.

DNEG Group, a visual effects studio and entertainment services technology company known for its work on “Dune” and “Oppenheimer,” has acquired Prime Focus Technologies, an AI-powered media tech company. The acquisition aims to help the Group leverage PFT’s media workflow and automation software suite, Clear and Clear AI, to offer streaming platforms, studios, broadcasters and brands transformational solutions to help manage content, video collaboration and automation in the content production and distribution process.

An electric bus looks set finally to go into service in and around the Glenkens after months of delays.

AI) companies for copyright infringement.The news of the lawsuit was shared on Monday (June 24) by the Recording Industry Association of America, and accused companies Suno and Udio of committing copyright violations of “an almost unimaginable scale”.It is the latest of many lawsuits that have been filed in recent months, in a bid to challenge the rights of AI companies to use and reimagine their work.Udio is a firm based in New York, which has garnered popularity in recent months for allowing users to use AI in a musical setting. Already it has received backing from high-profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz and gained attention as being the technology responsible for creating ‘BBL Drizzy’ – a parody diss track that emerged among the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud.Suno is a company based in Massachusetts, which emerged in 2023 and claims that over 10million people have already used it to create AI-assisted music.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent TOLEDO, Spain — Launched in November, Banijay Branded Entertainment (BBE), has closed strategic partnerships aligned with software, insights and data company, Launchmetrics, and Banijay Iberia’s creative agency IMA, in order to enhance the expertise and appeal to clients of BBE’s 360° production, marketing and measurement services. Made at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, the announcement comes hours before Carlotta Rossi Spencer, head of branded entertainment business development, Banijay Entertainment, will talk on a panel at the forum, as producers and companies look for ever more engaging ways to promote their content and brands – and measure the results of their campaigns.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Steps that Adobe allegedly took to make it hard to cancel online subscriptions weren’t just annoying — they were illegal, according to the U.S. government. The U.S.

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Kevin Giraud While AI has been one of the most discussed topics in Annecy this year, from pre-festival controversy to crowds literally booing shorts built with generative AI tools during screenings, “puzzled and uncomfortable” seems to be the best way to define both audience and panelists in today’s AI discussion held at MIFA, Annecy’s industry component. In an event that was “artist-driven, unlike most of other AI conferences in the industry,” according to moderator Flavio Perez, CTO of animation studio Les Fées Spéciales, the crowd went from skeptical to dumbfounded as the panelists unrolled their own lack of answers to what has been described many times now as the most significant contemporary threat to the creative industries.

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Jamie Lang France’s Annecy Animation Festival opened on Sunday, and among the event’s first activities was a screening of titles from the Commission Films in Competition Lineup. During the projection, the French music video for Chien Méchant’s “Étoile filante,” produced using generative artificial intelligence software, earned the extraordinary distinction of being booed by the Annecy audience.

The Conservative Party has accepted another multi-million-pound donation from Frank Hester.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The “Call of Duty” franchise is expanding. Microsoft’s Activision revealed new title “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” Thursday, along with a teaser for the previously unannounced first-person-shooter game. Though no other details were revealed, the game developer promises more info to come out of Xbox Games Showcase in June, which will be followed by a “Black Ops 6 Direct” presentation.