The news: A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood cholesterol, a step that may foreshadow wide use of the technology to prevent heart attacks. How did they do it?: The experiment involved injecting a version of the gene-editing tool CRISPR in order […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
ITP news in brief (11th July)
Victoria MacLennan. 13 July 2022, 12:01 am The interest in lifting the capability of our industry and in career / skills development – through education, the SFIA framework and other programmes – is greater than ever before. Yesterday I met with the CSAC (the Cyber Security Advisory Committee) where we were exploring skills challenges in […]
Monday news in brief (11th July)
Victoria MacLennan. 13 July 2022, 12:01 am The interest in lifting the capability of our industry and in career / skills development – through education, the SFIA framework and other programmes – is greater than ever before. Yesterday I met with the CSAC (the Cyber Security Advisory Committee) where we were exploring skills challenges in […]
Russian ‘hacktivists’ are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine
Getty Images | Sergey Balakhnichev reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story The attacks against Lithuania started on June 20. For the next 10 days, websites belonging to the government and businesses were bombarded by DDoS attacks, overloading them with traffic and forcing them offline. “Usually the DDoS attacks are concentrated on […]
Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth
According to the company, that tiny edit should be enough to permanently lower a person’s levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, the fatty molecule that causes arteries to clog and harden with time. The patient in New Zealand had an inherited risk for extra-high cholesterol and was already suffering from heart disease. However, the company believes […]
New York City is drowning in packages
Noticing the increase in e-commerce delivery traffic, then-mayor Bill de Blasio allocated $38 million in the November 2021 budget to shipping these packages via the “blue highway”––by ferry instead of by truck. “One of the best ways to fight climate change is to get away from a society and economy dominated by big trucks,” he […]
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI
But Meta’s model is available only upon request, and it has a license that limits its use to research purposes. Hugging Face goes a step further. The meetings detailing its work over the past year are recorded and uploaded online, and anyone can download the model free of charge and use it for research or […]
The immigration rebalance and what it means for tech workers and employers
Peter Griffin, Editor. 12 July 2022, 3:54 pm Relief is on the horizon for tech firms hit by a talent shortage that is yet to let up despite our borders reopening. The Government has introduced the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV), a new immigration policy for employers looking to employ migrant workers. It includes a […]
President Biden reveals the James Webb Space Telescope’s “poetic” first image of the universe
“It is a new window into the history of our universe,” President Biden said. “Today we’re getting a glimpse of the first light to shine through that window.” Launched on Christmas Day 2021, the $10 billion JWST is the most advanced telescope ever sent to space. Measuring 21 feet across and sporting 18 gold-plated hexagonal […]
Increasing amounts of data require holistic governance
Effective governance also enables a company to implement and manage internal policies and standards related to the security and usage of data. This not only supports a company’s response to external compliance directives, but also standardizes the data for use across the company. Standardized data provides the “single source of truth” required for critical business […]