Microsoft partners with Darktrace to help customers combat cyber threats with AI May 10, 2021 17:02 EDT with 0 comments
Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Counterfit as a part of its effort to help organizations automate the way they test the security of their artificial intelligence systems. Now, the software giant wants to use AI to help protect businesses from various kinds of threats.
Microsoft announced today a new partnership with Darktrace, a UK-based cyber security AI firm that works with customers to address threats using what it describes as self-learning artificial intelligence . Darktrace s threat response system is designed to counter insider threats, espionage, supply chain attacks, phishing, and ransomware.
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Microsoft and the Met Office, the UK s national weather service, are teaming up to develop a weather and climate supercomputer, which will be the world s most advanced machine dedicated to meteorology.
The goal is to better prepare the UK public for severe weather and a changing climate. In February 2020, the UK government committed £1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) of funding to develop this state-of-the-art supercomputer, which is expected to be up and running by the summer of 2022.
Once operational, it will work in a myriad of ways:
Improve projections for risk-based planning
Enhance emergency preparedness ahead of local storms, heavy rain, and flooding
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Severe weather warnings and advance notice of floods will also be issued with greater accuracy
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The Met Office says the more powerful computer will give it a greater ability to predict storm surges and floods.
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The Met Office will be able to give street-by-street weather forecasts with a £1.2bn Microsoft supercomputer that can pinpoint predictions to within 100m.
The UK s national weather service will launch the computer next year, with technology provided by Microsoft, and says it could eventually let people see how their weather will differ to their neighbours a day or two ahead.