By Nick Godt Hyundai remains committed to offering CarPlay and Android Auto, the in-car phone-mirroring apps.

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By Siôn Geschwindt UK startup PhysicsX, founded by former Formula 1 engineering whizz Robin “Dr. Rob” Tuluie, has unveiled an AI tool that could fast-track the time it takes to design a new aircraft from months to just a few days.  Dubbed LGM-Aero, the software creates new designs for aeroplanes. Using advanced algorithms trained on more than 25 million geometries, the model predicts lift, drag, stability, structural stress and other attributes for each shape. It then tailors the design according to what you want your plane to do. PhysicsX said the AI is the first-ever Large Geometry Model (LGM) for aerospace engineering. A…This story continues at The Next Web

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According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), generative AI (genAI) will soon affect work areas previously considered to have a low likelihood of automation, according to The Register.

Automation in the past mainly affected industrial jobs in rural areas. GenAI, on the other hand, can be used for non-routine cognitive tasks, which is expected to affect more highly skilled workers and big cities where these workers are often based. The report estimates that up to 70% of these workers will be able to get half of their tasks done twice as fast with the help of genAI. The industries likely to be affected include education, IT, and finance.

The OECD notes that even if work tasks disappear, unemployment won’t necessarily increase. The overall number of jobs could increase, but those new positions might not directly benefit those who lost work because of automation and new efficiencies.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Microsoft’s cloud ambitions just hit a major snag in the UK. The tech giant is facing a £1bn ($1.27 billion) lawsuit over how it licenses software to customers using rival cloud platforms. Filed in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by Scott+Scott, the lawsuit accuses Microsoft of punishing businesses for choosing competitors like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Alibaba over its Azure platform. Here’s the gist: if you’re using Microsoft’s Windows Server but prefer another cloud provider, you’re allegedly stuck with higher costs. Maria Luisa Stasi, the lead claimant, argues this forces UK businesses into Azure’s arms and stifles…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Microsoft

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By Siôn Geschwindt A Spanish government-appointed committee of experts has recommended that smartphones sold in the country carry health warning labels. The advice comes amid mounting concern about the effects of smartphone use, particularly among young people.   The experts published their findings in a 250-page report, seen by newspaper El País. The document details ways the government could crack down on what the panel calls a “public health epidemic”.   Proposals include banning digital devices for kids under three and restricting their use for those between three and six, except in rare cases. The report also advises rolling out so-called “dumbphones” for teens up…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt PLD Space has secured an €11mn loan to help fund the development of a liftoff site for its partially reusable Miura 5 rocket, which is set to become Europe’s first privately developed satellite launcher — unless one of its competitors gets there first.  The loan will help the Spanish startup construct the launch facility, located at Europe’s primary spaceport in French Guiana and estimated to cost around €16mn overall. PLD Space launched its first, smaller rocket, Miura 1, from Spain last year. However, for a bigger orbital launcher like Miura 5, the company needs a facility with specific capabilities. These…This story continues at The Next Web

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Apple has been accused of spying on its employees in a lawsuit filed in a California court.

Among other things, the company is alleged to control staffers’ personal devices and iCloud accounts and requires employees to install special software that allows the tech giant to access their email, image library, and other information. Apple reportedly prohibits its employees from discussing wages and working conditions, according to Reuters.

The lawsuit also charged that Apple discriminates against women, who are allegedly offered lower wages than men in similar positions.

An Apple spokesperson denied the allegations and emphasized that employees receive information about their rights at training sessions every year.

In October, the company was accused by the National Labor Relations Board of violating labor laws.

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By Nick Godt Kia confirmed that its futuristic, affordable EV4 sedan will launch in 2025

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While in these post-CrowdStrike days it is reasonable to think one of the best ways to improve endpoint security in any business is to replace Windows with Apple devices, that’s just the starting point in a serious security journey.

But it’s a pretty good starting point. 

Writing on LinkedIn, Google CISO Phil Venables recently drew attention to his company’s latest cybersecurity report, which quite clearly makes a strong case for the need to purchase products that — like Apple’s — are secure by design.

If you want security, start with security

The report explains: “Organizations don’t need more security products; they need more secure products. That’s one of the key takeaways from our new global cyber security survey. The research reveals that incremental security fixes no longer work. In fact, the more security tools an organization throws at the problem, the worse it gets.”

Supporting that argument, there’s data:

Organizations with 10 or more security tools endure 14 security incidents each year.

Those with 10 or fewer such tools have to weather just six such events.

82% of security decision-makers acknowledge the need to improve security measures.

More than half admit that the complexity of modern work environments hinders their efforts. 

59% say reliance on outdated technology leaves them ill-equipped to handle future security needs.

In other words, one way to halve the number of security incidents your company is exposed to is to rationalize spending on security tools, ensure those tools are effective in protecting the entire attack surface of company operations, and invest in computers, smartphones, and tablets that are secure by design.

Such as those from Apple (and maybe even those from Google).

Away with the clouds

You might also consider recent data that suggests Google Cloud and AWS are more secure than Microsoft Azure — and consider the value of your data as AI heads into the server farms and wraps itself around the globe. (I can’t help but think Apple’s Private Cloud Compute could eventually be a competitor in this space, too.)

Most enterprise decision makers have heard all these arguments before. Facing rapid change, new technology deployments, and multiple waves of digital transformation, they aren’t just time poor, but budget-constrained. In those environments (which is most environments) it feels like the best decision is to continue managing more of the same. 

That means patching together mish-mash networks of systems and solutions and constant investment in teams to manage it all (and the ongoing costs of internal tech support for when those ad hoc systems inevitably go wrong).

But on an increasingly unstable globe, we aren’t in Kansas anymore. The digital frontier is just as important a permiter as any geographical one, and the rising prevalence of nation state-backed attacks from all sides represent this. Business, every business, is now as compelling a target as any government entity in this brave new digi-world. And complacency will have (and is already having) huge impacts worldwide. 

Protecting your health 

The UK’s National Health Service is a frequent victim of ransomware, for example. In part, this is because it remains heavily reliant on clapped out vintage computing equipment due to decades of ideologically inspired attacks against the integrity of the service. 

The truth is that UK infrastructure is pretty much a poster child for how to manage your digital platforms wrong. 

Complacency is a big part of that, with the nation’s National Cyber Security Center head, Richard Horne, about to warn that the UK is unprepared for the looming cyberwar (which some argue has already begun). Years of under-investment, a laissez-faire approach to security, and continued insistence on using legacy technologies have left the nation’s digital underbelly exposed. 

“There is no room for complacency about the severity of state-led threats or the volume of the threat posed by cybercriminals,” Horne plans to say. “The defense and resilience of critical infrastructure, supply chains, the public sector and our wider economy must improve.”

Cyber-physician, heal thyself

While recommending a root-and-branch Mac migration might well seem to be an overly simplified diagnosis to the problem, it is a good starting point. After all, when did you last hear of a security incident impacting Apple’s systems putting global business out of action? 

Never? Why is that? Because Apple’s products are secure by design.

That’s not to say they are perfect. You must still put security policies and procedures in place, deploy secure endpoint management solutions, and ensure employees are fully up to speed with good security practices. 

Just because Macs haven’t fallen victim to a Windows-level cyberattack yet doesn’t mean they never will, so you still need to have action plans prepared and rehearsed to go into effect on the day they inevitably do. But protecting your business by making such a migration is going to make a lot more sense as the cyberwars intensify. 

You need more secure platforms

Even in the UK, IBM estimates the average cost of a data breach on UK businesses as $3.4 million, and while that does depend on the size of your enterprise, that’s the kind of money that makes the seemingly higher one-off investment in a new platform seem aminor in contrast to the consequences of leaving yourselves vulnerable to attack through reliance on patched together solutions with so many built-in security weaknesses your top tech teams struggle to protect them.

You don’t need more security products. You need more secure platforms. That’s the bottom line.

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Japanese electronics company Panasonic has created an AI version of its founder, Kōnosuke Matsushita, who died in 1989, The Japan Times reports. Matsushita was one of the most respected figures in the Japanese business world and his book, The Path, is usually considered as mandatory reading for Japanese entrepreneurs.

According to Panasonic, the number of people Matsushita personally trained at the company has decreased, making an AI ​​version necessary. “We believe it is important for our employees to understand our founder Kōnosuke Matsushita’s leadership philosophy, on which our basic management policy is based, and to pass it on through generations,” Panasonic said in a statement, according to The Register.

Panasonic reportedly collaborated with Tokyo University’s Matsuo Institute to develop the AI Matsushita, which ​​will be trained on 3,000 recordings of Matsushita, as well as his writings, lectures and digitized interviews.

The plan is to do the same with Matsushita’s direct contacts and researchers so they can help users make management decisions based on what the founder might have thought or felt about a situation.

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What processors will be running the Apple bargains we’ll be seeking to purchase on Cyber Monday 2025? Presumably, Apple’s M5 chips will be inside some of them, with work already under way on the next amazing Apple Silicon processor.

Apple has requested that TSMC begin production/development of M5 chips with the aim of beginning production in late 2025, The Elec claims, supporting speculation from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. (We saw similar claims to this effect from Trendforce earlier this year, when trial production allegedly began.)

These new processors will maintain the impressive legacy Apple how has with its own silicon; expect faster 3nm processors with even better GPUs, artificial intelligence (AI) support, and impressively low energy requirements.  If the reports are correct, this will be the third year running in which Apple has deployed 3nm chips, though this isn’t a bad thing — the company has decided to apply a little TSMC chip magic to push next year’s big performance gains.

The TSMC magic show

That magic comes in the form of TSMC’s System on Integrated Chip (SoIC) technology. Both AMD and Nvidia already collaborate with TSMC on this for use in chips to drive AI — and that kind of support has become equally important to Apple, which is converting its entire ecosystem into a full-fledged edge AI delivery system.

Of course, Apple already recognizes the challenges of building intelligence at the edge — principally, that some tasks require more processing power than you can provide in a handheld smartphone, no matter how advanced the chip.

This is why Apple Intelligence uses its own Private Cloud Compute system to handle some tasks, and offloads others to third-party vendor such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. No surprise, then, that these SoIC-supporting Apple M5 chips will see service in Apple’s ultra-secure Private Cloud Computer servers, as well as across Macs and other devices.

So, what’s so magical about SoIC?

More transistors, lower energy too

There’s a lot to learn about TSMC’s SoIC technology. The technology significantly increases transistor density — boosting speed and power efficiency — and increases the maximum number of cores per chip.  To achieve this, TSMC uses its own state-of-the-art packaging solution to bond multiple chips to a single wafer, crafting processors that are smaller, thinner, and more performant as a result.

We don’t know how much performance these new chips will deliver inside future Apple hardware, but we can expect that AI will be Apple’s primary focus — in part, because AI seems to be Apple’s primary focus everywhere.

That’s got to mean the final design will focus on enhancements in the GPU and Neural engine, and likely also means additional cores for both. It could also be that Apple’s huge investments in 5G networking will make even more sense by the time these chips ship, as network performance in terms of data downloads and uploads will be of major significance when it comes to perceived performance of its own AI technologies.

Bringing the team together, as it were, could further widen Apple’s competitive moat, though the lack of 5G chips from Apple could complicate things. (They are expected in next year’s iPhone SE, but that remains to be seen.) The speculation about a connection between processor advances and new 5G radios could be off, but I feel that when it comes to edge AI, probably not by much.

All about AI?

It remains to be seen which faster Apple Intelligence services will support future product sales, of course, but what does seem true is that these new M5 chips will begin to rollout in Macs and iPads toward the end of next year. When they make their appearance, these will inevitably deliver performance increases similar to what we’ve seen so far with the M4 family of chips; they’ve already propelled all of Apple’s latest Macs to the top of the list.

The recently introduced super-powered M4 Mac mini and MacBook Pro models already illustrate the huge leaps in processor design Apple has been able to pull off, thanks to its work with ARM and TSMC. That journey is remarkable in itself, and it underlines the commitment to chip production the company has made.

That commitment means any enterprise migrating to Apple’s AI ecosystem (PC, smartphone, tablet) can do so in full expectation that they will not need to migrate again for at least a decade. That has to be a good thing for any business seeking stability amid change and wanting to deploy a trusted and secure platform for AI.

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By Nick Godt Range Rover’s electric SUV is getting tested in hot weather conditions in the United Arab Emirates, where temperatures can reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Amsterdam-headquartered Nebius, which builds full-stack AI infrastructure for tech firms, has secured $700mn in a private equity deal led by Nvidia, Accel, and asset manager Orbis.  The funding comes in the form of a private placement — when a company sells stocks directly to a private investor instead of on the public market. The deal will see Nebius issue 33.3 million Class A shares at $21 apiece.   Nebius, which is the rebranded European arm of “Russia’s Google,” Yandex, is investing more than $1bn across Europe by mid-2025 as it seeks to cash in on booming demand for AI computing power.…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt British startup SatVu has secured £20mn (€24mn) to fuel the development of its hyper-accurate thermal imaging satellites that act like a thermometer for the whole planet.  The cash injection includes £10mn (€12mn) in equity from Spanish VC Adara Ventures and British tech-focused fund Molten Ventures. The remainder comes from an insurance payout, the startup said.  The funding will propel the launch of two new satellites in its HotSat constellation, which are scheduled to liftoff next year. The probes — HotSat-2 and HotSat-3 — will replace HotSat-1, SatVu’s first satellite, launched in 2023.  When HotSat-1 launched it was fitted with the…This story continues at The Next Web

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