Planet Business: HSE cybersecurity ‘weak link’, Alan Joyce’s successor at Qantas and why ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton thinks it is ‘quite scary’ via IrishTimesBiz
Remaining Health Service Executive devices that still run Windows 7, raising fears of a “weak link” in its cybersecurity.Years since Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7, meaning no technical support or security updates are available for the operating system. The HSE was duly disrupted by a serious cyberattack in May 2021.“Legacy systems” running on the HSE’s Windows 7 devices.
Hudson, a former Deloitte auditor who has worked for Qantas since 1994, knows the 103-year-old airline inside out, which will surely come in handy as she seeks to repair the strained relations between the company and its trade unions and help it build on the momentum of its recent return to profit. His chosen successor, however – deemed less “confrontational” in style – will hope to avoid some of the personal opprobrium he attracted, which, along the way, included the pelting of his Sydney house with eggs and toilet paper.Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather” of artificial intelligence who has been helping Google develop its AI capabilities over the past decade, quit the Alphabet-owned tech giant.
Regrets work: The Nobel Prize winner says a part of him now regrets his life’s work. “I console myself with the normal excuse: if I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” he said.
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