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February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 News

CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan

Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 Blog Post

Budget flexibility for on-prem AI

Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ... Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 News

ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 News

European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties

Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 In Depth

Quantum computing in cyber security: A double-edged sword

Scepticism still abounds, but quantum computing stocks have boomed this year. In the world of cyber, however, quantum brings both unprecedented capabilities and significant threats, demanding careful attention Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 News

Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger

Russia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series - Finastra: Counting clever to cost an AI model

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Lieberman in his role as chief AI officer at Finastra. Finastra is a global financial software company that provides ... Continue Reading

February 19, 2025 19Feb2025 Opinion

Balancing act: Managing business needs alongside digital transformation and innovation

How can IT leaders deliver on the challenging balancing act between innovation, cost control, and managing corporate expectations? One startup CTO in a highly established industry shares his experiences Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities

The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use

Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 Blog Post

The Private AI Infrastructure Imperative: A Practical Perspective

Early experimentation with generative AI (‘GenAI’) through generic cloud services has left many organisations questioning where to go next. While services like ChatGPT or AI features embedded in ... Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre

Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

Cyber Monitoring Centre develops hurricane scale to count cost of cyber attacks

A non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1 to 5 scale borrowed from hurricane classification Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series: ABBYY - A strategic recalibration of the tech arsenal

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) written by Maxime Vermeir in his role as senior director of AI strategy at ABBYY. Vermeir writes in full as follows... On the ... Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage

Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 News

CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security

At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 E-Handbook

Collaboration vital for making DEI progress

At the Computer Weekly diversity in tech event, in partnership with Harvey Nash, attendees agreed wholeheartedly that only by working together can we create a truly diverse and inclusive industry. Download the full report here. Continue Reading

February 18, 2025 18Feb2025 E-Zine

AI Action Summit calls for a rethink of regulation

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the AI Action Summit in Paris on how easing red tape is overtaking safety as a priority. We examine the AI regulations that IT leaders need to understand. And we talk to the UK government’s AI minister ... Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 News

‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery

Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 In Depth

Digital twins extend to biological systems

The use of digital twins in industrial, manufacturing and architectural firms is well known - now we can also include medical science, pharmaceutical research and agricultural management use cases Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 News

The Security Interviews: Yevgeny Dibrov, Armis

Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov talks about how his military service and intelligence work opened the door into the world of cyber security entrepreneurship Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 News

AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research

Retailers should be using artificial intelligence to increase brand loyalty through personalisation, according to research Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 In Depth

The irresistible marriage of AI and XR

Not long ago, the metaverse was on the lips of everyone in technological media. However, coverage has moved to the new technology darling of AI – but crucially, both technologies are synergistic Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 In Depth

AI models explained: The benefits of open source AI models

In this guide, we explore how to get started with open source AI models and go over how they support your enterprise IT strategy Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 News

Liverpool reinvents customer service through digital platform

Liverpool City Council wants to improve residents’ experience of dealing with the council, and sees digital technologies as key to achieving its goal Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series - Qt: Practical code experiences from the command line

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Schneider in his role as senior product manager at Qt Group. Schneider writes as follows… On the question of whether ... Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 Opinion

Opinion: Saudi plans to be an IT superpower, but challenges lie ahead

Impressions of Saudi Arabia during Leap 2025: Big plans ahead, but challenges in physical and digital infrastructure, and in transition from public to private sector dominance Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 In Depth

RAG AI: ‘Do it yourself,’ says NYC data scientist

New York City council data scientist says organisations should get their hands dirty with open source AI as his teams build AI apps to check for duplicates in legislative documents Continue Reading

February 17, 2025 17Feb2025 In Depth

A path to better data engineering

Data engineering requires expertise in programming and data management, and now IT leaders need to include large language models in their data strategy Continue Reading

February 16, 2025 16Feb2025 Opinion

How to get employees to take cyber risk more seriously

To combat risky cyber security behaviour, organisations must move beyond awareness training and cultivate a culture where security violations are personally felt and socially unacceptable, leveraging existing values, real-world impacts, and even ... Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association

A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

NHS launches breast cancer AI trial

The trial will see 700,000 women taking part in artificial intelligence-based screening for breast cancer, looking at whether use of technology can help identify signs of cancer earlier Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives

Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 Blog Post

Maximising agentic AI’s impact: the importance of a strong data foundation

This is a guest blogpost by Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot. The new wave of AI has arrived in the form of agentic AI, and it is already making significant strides in the ... Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series - SUSE: Balanced realities for AI model use cases

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Quackenbos aka Ian Q. Quackenbos leads the AI Innovation & Incubation team (technology & product) at SUSE and ... Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing

Government announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia

Doug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic

Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 News

Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data

Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data Continue Reading

February 14, 2025 14Feb2025 Blog Post

Should the UK spend hundreds of billions on AI?

This week the European Union (EU) announced a €200bn InvestAI fund, to build out sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This follows on from the Trump administration’s $500bn Project ... Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 News

UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 News

EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line? Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 News

Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa

Lithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 News

Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage

The launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series - Cotera: 10 key SLM facts for software engineers (and businesses)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tom Firth, co-founder of Cotera. Cotera is an AI operating system (OS) that unifies support tickets, feedback and product ... Continue Reading

February 13, 2025 13Feb2025 News

UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers

The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 E-Handbook

LEAP tech conference promises expansive insights, opportunity

The LEAP 2025 conference promises insights on the future of tech from key trailblazers. Check this guide regularly for the essential news and post-conference assessments. Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Blog Post

What to expect from F5 AppWorld 2025

Keen to tighten our grasp on the application delivery landscape (as we always are), the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to F5 AppWorld 2025. Staged in the (it has to be said, ... Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched

Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical

Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’ Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending

Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement

The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth

MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement

Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?

Thought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Blog Post

A road-warrior kit: Dell Pro keyboard, mouse, briefcase & backpack

It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ... Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series: NTT DATA - Cost-effective solutions for real-time industrial AI

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Shahid Ahmed in his role as EVP for Edge Services at NTT Data. Part of the wider NTT conglomerate family, NTT Data ... Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore

Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 Opinion

Entrepreneurship with a conscience - the new mandate for tech leaders

Technology leaders are entrepreneurs too - innovating to transform their organisations. But the nature of entrepreneurial leadership has changed, with ethics and social responsibility now taking centre stage Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption

At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption Continue Reading

February 12, 2025 12Feb2025 News

Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace

At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs

A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Blog Post

Rethinking AI’s place in the software stack

This is a guest blogpost by Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. DeepSeek's recent developments have ignited significant discussion in the AI community. ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash

Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal

Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape

The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Blog Post

The journey to Agentic AI impact in 2025

This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO. Artificial Intelligence has undergone an extraordinary evolution — from predicting trends and ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 In Depth

How Kingsland Drinks is raising a glass to industrial gains from Wi-Fi

Discover how one of the UK’s premier independent suppliers of bulk wine and spirits goes about its business – from its origins in 1895 to its running of modern wireless networks Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up

A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season

For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI

The market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs

The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 News

Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps

The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 E-Zine

A two-horse race? Competition concerns cloud AWS and Microsoft

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Microsoft and AWS don’t like it, but the UK competition watchdog says their hold on the cloud market is cause for concern. We talk to AutoTrader’s CEO about how to become a digital business. And we go behind the ... Continue Reading

February 11, 2025 11Feb2025 Opinion

Technology is changing and so should the civil service

The government has promised that AI will change policy making - but that means policy makers in the civil service will need to change too Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab

A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Blog Post

Your three point plan for Safer Internet Day

The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand. Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Blog Post

"Just throw more bandwidth at it" - Yeah right... Some people never learn!

One of my classic mantras of the past, ooh er, 30+ years has been “throwing bandwidth at a problem doesn’t solve the problem”. So, you would think all those decades later that the penny had dropped ... Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Natural England clears clouds with machine learning

Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons

Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike

Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

The story behind Alps, Europe’s second largest computer

The director of CSCS and professor of computational physics at ETH, Thomas Schulthess, explains the development of one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Alps, in Switzerland Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

UAE eyes quantum computing for financial services

Middle East financial firms are investing heavily in quantum computing, with one of the world’s top quantum research centres in Abu Dhabi Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Opinion

Courting global talent: How can Web3 startups attract the best developers in the world?

James Strudwick, executive director at Web3 tech startup Starknet Foundation, on how to attract the best talent in the Web3 space Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 News

UK broadband majors, altnets accelerate gigabit in non-metro areas

Premises in Shropshire and Devon to gain access to gigabit services as part of £5bn government scheme and planned expansion by major comms provider Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 In Depth

Skills required for data engineering success

We look at what IT leaders can do to help untangle the numerous structured and unstructured data sources that exist in a modern enterprise Continue Reading

February 10, 2025 10Feb2025 Opinion

Why the UK must lead on data to unlock AI’s full potential

Unless the data silos in government are addressed, the UK risks falling short of the Action Plan’s ambitious goals to lead in AI adoption Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud

Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones

As part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 News

HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems

Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world Continue Reading

February 09, 2025 09Feb2025 Blog Post

SLM series: Editorial brief & scope

There are language models and there are language models. While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ... Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud

The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 Opinion

Secure software procurement in 2025: A call for accountability

Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly called on buyers to demand better security standards from their software suppliers. The Security Think Tank considers what better means, and what best practice for secure software procurement looks like in 2025. Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool

US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state Continue Reading

February 07, 2025 07Feb2025 News

Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024

Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments Continue Reading

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