IBM has launched LinuxOne Emperor II, the second generation of its open source mainframe computer system. The new model has a layer of security and privacy not seen in a Linux-based platform before, the company said. "We saw in our success stories for Emperor that security was a recurring theme attracting new customers to the platform," noted Mark Figley, director of LinuxOne Offerings at IBM.

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"AI's role is to augment," says IBM Watson's CTO, Rob High. It assists and amplifies. "We need to be thinking seriously about whether AIs are really being deployed that way."

IBM X-Force says that threat actors are taking up ransomware in their droves to reap the benefits of criminal activity through blackmail.

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Whereas regular competitors aim to race up the brutal mix of Dolomite singletrack on foot, Wibmer would be forced to rely on all his trials riding prowess to manoeuvre his bike down to the finish.