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09 Apr 2025
Nokia, Telia, Finnish Defence Forces claim 5G standalone slice first
Companies showcase potential of 5G technology in enhancing critical communications for defence units operating in coalition environments to ensure seamless experience when crossing country borders
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09 Apr 2025
Exploited Windows zero-day addressed on April Patch Tuesday
Microsoft delivers fixes for 121 vulnerabilities with 11 rated critical this month. Admins will have extra mitigation work to correct three flaws.
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09 Apr 2025
EU sets out plans to ‘at least’ triple its AI datacentre capacity over the next seven years
The European Union wants to reduce its dependence on non-EU datacentres in support of its plan to become an artificial intelligence superpower
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25 Feb 2025
Government launches Digital Inclusion Action Plan
Whitehall aims to fix digital exclusion through funding local digital skills, as charities and industry pledge to help with skills training, devices and connectivity
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25 Feb 2025
IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax
The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products.
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25 Feb 2025
Backup vendor Veeam gets an equity stake from Microsoft
Veeam plans deeper AI integrations in Microsoft 365 and other Azure services through Microsoft equity investment and expanded partnership.
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25 Feb 2025
Intel unveils more Xeon 6 chips for AI servers
Intel launches Xeon 6 processors, the 6700P and 6500P, targeting AI systems and multi-socket servers, and enhancing performance for enterprise applications while reducing prices.
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25 Feb 2025
Apple and the bullish AI investment trend
The iPhone maker's plans have been in the works for a while, but they speak to a larger trend in spending on technology internationally and in the U.S.
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25 Feb 2025
PCPs seek additional training to fully trust healthcare AI
New survey data show that while using healthcare AI is common in primary care, clinicians desire additional training to fully trust AI tools.
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25 Feb 2025
Salesforce, Google ink $2.5B deal to bring Gemini to Agentforce
The deal gives Salesforce customers multi-cloud and LLM flexibility.
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25 Feb 2025
MGMA, CHIME ask Trump to rescind proposed HIPAA Security Rule
Several industry groups signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to rescind the proposed HIPAA Security Rule updates, citing high costs and regulatory burden.
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25 Feb 2025
Black Basta ransomware leak sheds light on targets, tactics
VulnCheck found the ransomware gang targeted CVEs in popular enterprise products from Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Confluence Atlassian and more.
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25 Feb 2025
New Relic takes partnership tack for agentic AI
New Relic users say its collaborative approach to agentic AI, revamped AIOps tools and pricing model will make it easier to explore fresh forms of automation.
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25 Feb 2025
Calls continue for public sector procurement to open wider to SMEs
Open letter adds to recent NAO report in drawing attention to risks of focusing on cosy relationships and low costs rather than value
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25 Feb 2025
Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions
The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions.
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25 Feb 2025
Davies gets CEO role at Maintel
After a year holding the position on an interim basis, the managed service provider has confirmed Dan Davies will continue navigating the business through its transformation strategy
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25 Feb 2025
Dragos: Ransomware attacks against industrial orgs up 87%
Ransomware attacks continue to be a major pain point for industrial organizations, as the sector has historically struggled with vulnerability management.
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25 Feb 2025
Plenty of room for improvement in mobile quality in Euro cities
Analysis of mobile quality in 15 of Europe’s leading cities sees Porto and Stockholm offer highest 5G quality of experience in region, but with all cities falling short of EU Digital Decade Objectives
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25 Feb 2025
Europe ‘severely’ lags other major regions in 5G standalone
Research from network intelligence company shows interplay of earlier deployments, more diversified multi-band spectrum and greater willingness to invest in new use cases have driven 5G SA roll-outs at a faster pace in regions outside Europe
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25 Feb 2025
CommScope bets on AI for next wave of enterprise networking
Wired and wireless network provider enhances Wi-Fi 7 portfolio with AI-driven services that integrate generative, edge and intent-based AI features, and next generation optical LAN
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25 Feb 2025
Bridge Alliance, Telna team on eSIM strategic partnership
Leading mobile industry alliance announces it will use managed wholesale eSIM platform’s capabilities for connectivity and revenue opportunities
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25 Feb 2025
Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope
While there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems
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25 Feb 2025
Ransomware: on the murky trail of one of the leaders of Black Basta
The internal exchanges within the Black Basta group revealed last week offer a new opportunity to investigate one of its leaders: Tramp. He may have been arrested in Armenia in June 2024, before being released
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24 Feb 2025
Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities
The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients
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24 Feb 2025
Anthropic intros hybrid reasoning model Claude 3.7 Sonnet
The model can perform both generic LLM and reasoning tasks. It is optimized for business use. The vendor also introduced an agent for generating code.
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24 Feb 2025
AI prior authorization denials threaten patient care
AMA survey warns that 61% of physicians are alarmed by AI-driven prior authorization, with denials delaying care and contributing to serious patient harm.
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24 Feb 2025
Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection in UK, sparking concerns
Privacy and security concerns mount, as Apple pulls the end-to-end encryption feature for users located in the U.K. following pressures from the government.
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24 Feb 2025
Oracle Health applies for TEFCA QHIN designation
If approved, Oracle Health will be the ninth TEFCA qualified health information network (QHIN), joining Epic, Health Gorilla, eHealth Exchange and others.
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24 Feb 2025
Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development
By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier.
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24 Feb 2025
Zendesk acquires Local Measure CCaaS, CX platform
Zendesk expands its CCaaS capabilities with Local Measure acquisition.
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24 Feb 2025
Myriota, Saudi Space Authority team for ultra-low power IoT connectivity
Satellite internet of things connectivity company announces initiatives with Saudi space authorities including the Space and Technology Commission to bring ultra-low power IoT connectivity to the region
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24 Feb 2025
Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract
UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform
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24 Feb 2025
Can TSMC save Intel chip manufacturing?
Analysts question whether TSMC could do a better job than Intel at turning around its manufacturing operations.
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24 Feb 2025
Juniper Networks increases AI features on WAN offerings
Vendor expects its artificial intelligence-driven additions will improve life for partners trying to ensure customer networks can cope with increased traffic
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24 Feb 2025
European Union calls for more cyber data-sharing with Nato
Updates to the EU’s Cyber Blueprint, establishing best practice for multilateral security incident response in Europe, include calls for more collaboration with Nato member states, as the geopolitical environment becomes ever more fractious
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24 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
We take a look at the moves of note this week at Ingram Micro, Proact, Myriad360, Zyxel and Barracuda
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24 Feb 2025
StorOne update automates storage tiering for data access
StorOne Data Storage Platform uses AI and ML to automate data between tiers of flash and HDD storage without the need for custom hardware or user intervention in latest release.
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24 Feb 2025
HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates
A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’
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24 Feb 2025
Versa claims to redefine SASE for enterprises
Universal secure access service edge company announces general commercial availability of what it says is unique proposition allowing enterprises, governments and service providers to deploy customised networking and security services
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24 Feb 2025
NTT, Nokia, Anritsu demo dynamic networking using IOWN APN
Latest step in next-generation networking project aims to realise power-efficient RAN network by dynamic base station operation according to traffic fluctuations
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24 Feb 2025
BT boosts interconnectivity with Equinix, broadens Optiva partnership
UK’s leading telco expands partnership with digital infrastructure company to help multinationals transform interconnectivity across digital value chain, and joins with enterprise network service company to implement B2B, B2B2X services
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24 Feb 2025
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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23 Feb 2025
Check Point co-founder on AI, quantum and independence
Gil Shwed, Check Point’s co-founder and executive chairman, discusses the company’s focus on artificial intelligence-driven security and his commitment to remaining an independent force in the cyber security market
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21 Feb 2025
IRA fate will affect U.S. renewable energy projects
Companies have invested in renewable energy projects from solar to geothermal. The Trump administration's focus on oil and gas could slow renewable energy research and advancement.
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21 Feb 2025
Palo Alto Networks vulnerabilities exploited in chained attack
The cybersecurity vendor urges customers to take immediate action to mitigate recently disclosed vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild.
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21 Feb 2025
Block storage and Kafka events come to Vast Data Platform
A new Apache Kafka API-compatible service enables customers to move their data management services closer to storage using the Vast Data Platform, which now offers block storage.
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21 Feb 2025
Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘backdoor’ access
After the Home Office issued a secret order for Apple to open up a backdoor in its encrypted storage, the tech company has instead chosen to withdraw the service from the UK
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21 Feb 2025
Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project
Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco
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21 Feb 2025
Electronic frailty index predicts risk of adverse outcomes
Mass General Brigham's electronic frailty index analyzes EHR data to assess patient frailty, helping predict adverse outcomes and improve care for older adults.
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21 Feb 2025
Non-English speakers face multiple barriers to video visits
Patients primarily speaking Spanish or Cantonese were less likely to participate in video visits due to various technical and communication challenges.
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21 Feb 2025
Understanding intersectionality: Inclusion and employees’ whole life experience
While businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences
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21 Feb 2025
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities
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21 Feb 2025
A landscape forever altered? The LockBit takedown one year on
The NCA-led takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang in February 2024 heralded a transformative year in the fight against cyber crime. One year on, we look back at Operation Cronos and its impact
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21 Feb 2025
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’
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20 Feb 2025
Goldberg: Practical value key for AI in NetSuite ERP
In this Q&A, Evan Goldberg discusses the company's position as a SaaS ERP provider for SMBs, highlighting emerging AI features and collaboration with Oracle.
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20 Feb 2025
OCR: Warby Parker to pay $1.5M penalty for violating HIPAA
Warby Parker faces a $1.5 million penalty for violating HIPAA, OCR determined after launching an investigation into a 2018 credential stuffing cyberattack against the eyewear retailer.
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20 Feb 2025
CISA, FBI warn of Ghost/Cring ransomware attacks
Ghost is a China-based financially motivated ransomware group that has launched attacks against organizations in more than 70 countries -- including its own.
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20 Feb 2025
FDA approves Merilog, first NovoLog biosimilar for diabetes
The FDA approved Merilog (insulin-aspart-szjj), the first biosimilar to NovoLog, enhancing insulin accessibility and competition while potentially lowering costs.
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20 Feb 2025
Ambient scribing reduces cognitive burden of documentation
While ambient scribing shows promise for clinical documentation efficiency, the technology may be more suitable for certain specialties or workflows than others.
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20 Feb 2025
Zero-CVE Chainguard Images gain customization option
Chainguard opens its container image builder factory to let users mix and match hardened container components while preserving a zero-vulnerability SLA.
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20 Feb 2025
State of U.S. rural hospitals: No margin, no mission
Highlighting financial struggles, a new study reveals nearly half of U.S. rural hospitals face closures, service cuts and declining healthcare access for communities.
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20 Feb 2025
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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20 Feb 2025
Watchdog approves Sellafield physical security, but warns about cyber
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken Sellafield out of special measures for physical security, but harbours cyber security concerns
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle
It has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially
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20 Feb 2025
Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel
New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges.
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20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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19 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils world AI model for video games
The new type of foundation model is similar to Nvidia Cosmos. While it makes for a better gaming experience, it's also applicable to enterprises.
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19 Feb 2025
Healthcare cyberattacks continue to escalate in 2025
Healthcare cyberattacks, third-party data breaches and supply chain attacks remain top concerns for healthcare security professionals in 2025, Health-ISAC found.
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19 Feb 2025
Most patients do not trust health systems to use AI responsibly
Trust in health systems to use AI responsibility and protect them from AI harm is low among patients, indicating the need to improve health system trustworthiness.
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19 Feb 2025
Abortion bans affect access in states without restrictions
A new study showed that a Texas abortion ban led to care delays for everyone accessing the procedure in Colorado, a state without restrictions.
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19 Feb 2025
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
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19 Feb 2025
Kaseya boss looks back on his time at the helm
As he moves into a vice-chairman position, the boss at the managed service provider tools specialist reviews the progress made under his leadership
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19 Feb 2025
TD Synnex hands Andy Brown responsibility for driving AI programme
Distributor continues to put muscle behind data, analytics and artificial intelligence with latest senior appointment
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19 Feb 2025
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
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19 Feb 2025
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
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19 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
XAI's Grok-3 highlights openness and transparency concerns
The AI startup's new Grok model has 10 times more compute power than the previous generation. XAI also introduced reasoning capabilities that it says surpass reasoning models.
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability exploited in the wild
Palo Alto Networks says threat actors used a publicly available PoC exploit in attack attempts against firewall customers with PAN-OS management interfaces exposed to the internet.
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18 Feb 2025
U.S. healthcare spending soars on diabetes, heart diseases
Cardiovascular diseases were the costliest conditions, while U.S. healthcare spending on type 2 diabetes beat out other single conditions, according to a new study.
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
Evolve IP teams up with Cavell to share market insights
Comms channel player working with market watcher to make sure partners can identify opportunities provoked by an evolving landscape
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
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
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18 Feb 2025
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
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17 Feb 2025
‘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
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17 Feb 2025
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
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17 Feb 2025
AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research
Retailers should be using artificial intelligence to increase brand loyalty through personalisation, according to research
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17 Feb 2025
Rapid7 channel programme emerges from partner dialogue
Security player’s director of global partner programmes outlines the process and ambitions that supported its recently launched PACT offering
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17 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Last week saw ATSG solidify its management structure after the Evolve IP merger, plus some personnel moves at BCS, Fivetran, Armis and Rimes
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17 Feb 2025
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
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14 Feb 2025
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
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14 Feb 2025
SailPoint IPO highlights importance of identity
Security player’s distributor views move as a moment that validates the market, as well as its involvement with the vendor
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14 Feb 2025
SAP data cloud, Databricks integration aims to unify AI data
SAP unveiled a Business Data Cloud platform and Databricks partnership to support customers in AI projects, which analysts bill as an important evolution of data management.
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14 Feb 2025
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
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14 Feb 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Geographic expansion, partner programmes, fresh warehouses and attempts to increase trust levels in artificial intelligence have all been happening over the past few days
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14 Feb 2025
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
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14 Feb 2025
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
