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10 Jan 2025
Workforce planning lags behind rising climate disasters
By Patrick ThibodeauNatural disasters are causing more damage and increasing costs, but they aren't playing a major role in how employers approach workforce planning, such as remote work.
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10 Jan 2025
AI PC sales slow amid high costs, limited software
By Antone GonsalvesAI PC sales are lagging, despite an uptick in overall PC shipments. The lack of compelling use cases and high prices are hampering upgrades.
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10 Jan 2025
2025 ACA open enrollment breaks records with time to spare
By Kelsey WaddillThis ACA open enrollment season saw 3.2 million new enrollees enter the marketplace and those numbers could grow before the season ends on Jan. 15, 2025.
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17 Oct 2024
Sir Alan Bates tells Prime Minister to guarantee Post Office scandal victim redress by March 2025
By Karl FlindersCampaigner tells Keir Starmer to finalise full and final financial redress to victims of the Post Office scandal by March next year, or face legal action
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16 Oct 2024
Terraform Stacks, HCP Waypoint prompt migration questions
By Beth PariseauHashiCorp fends off challengers that sell ease of use with fresh infrastructure-as-code abstraction, while Terraform users grapple with a potential move to cloud-first services.
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16 Oct 2024
SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers
By Aaron TanSUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence
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16 Oct 2024
Applying IT observability to deliver business metrics
By Cliff SaranThe complex nature of modern IT requires advanced tooling to ensure systems are running optimally. These tools can also identify business trends
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16 Oct 2024
Former police officer heading Post Office operations did nothing to help innocent subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersFormer chief operating officer did nothing when action could have put a stop to the Post Office wrongful prosecutions
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14 Oct 2024
How Zoom is charting its course towards an AI-first platform
By Aaron TanZoom CEO Eric Yuan talks up his vision for the future of work, the company's transition to an AI-powered platform and what it is doing to stay ahead of rivals
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself
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11 Oct 2024
Buildkite: CI/CD pipelines still a job for app developers
By Beth PariseauIn an era of platform engineering, Buildkite and its high-scale users maintain that CI/CD pipelines and testing should remain the purview of app developer teams.
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office set to axe in-house-developed New Branch IT software
By Karl FlindersTroubled business may ditch its plan to build a new core branch system in-house and buy an off-the-shelf alternative
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10 Oct 2024
Post Office dragging its feet getting rid of tainted staff, despite government ‘green light’
By Karl FlindersFormer minister gave Post Office ‘green light’ to take robust action against existing staff with links to Post Office scandal wrongdoing
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09 Oct 2024
Atlassian 'cloud-first' becomes 'enterprise-first'
By Beth PariseauAtlassian's tune has changed in the past few months, as the company builds bridges to Data Center products and works on FedRAMP cloud compliance.
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09 Oct 2024
Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge
By Karl FlindersPost Office boss Nick Read was not prepared for the task ahead of him when he joined the organisation as CEO in 2019
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09 Oct 2024
Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonStand-out vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday drop include problems in Microsoft Management Console and the Windows MSHTML Platform
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08 Oct 2024
Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer
By Aaron TanThe supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives
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08 Oct 2024
Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry
By Karl FlindersPost Office interim chairman tells Horizon public inquiry that the Post Office needs to reset New Branch IT project
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08 Oct 2024
Google to appeal Play Store ruling
By Cliff SaranGoogle’s ongoing fight with Epic Games is game-over, after a judge ruled in favour of the developer to open up access to Android apps
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08 Oct 2024
Can the Post Office project to replace Horizon be rescued?
By Bryan GlickEvidence from the Post Office public inquiry shows huge problems with the critical project to replace the troubled Horizon IT system – after two government-mandated reviews, is there any sign it can succeed?
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07 Oct 2024
Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry
By Karl FlindersOutgoing Post Office boss Nick Read faces public inquiry for three days this week, with no shortage of questions to answer
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06 Oct 2024
Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter
By Karl FlindersA letter from Post Office staff to MPs, statutory inquiry chair Wyn Williams and the Post Office chairman demands their intervention and an investigation into the organisation's leadership
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04 Oct 2024
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
By Alex ScroxtonThe Cups Linux printing vulnerabilities disclosed at the end of September would seem to have a nasty sting in their tail, according to researchers at Akamai
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04 Oct 2024
Post Office recruiting tech-savvy board member amid unravelling IT disaster
By Karl FlindersPublic inquiry told that the Post Office is currently recruiting a tech-savvy non-executive director
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04 Oct 2024
Late evidence in Post Office Capture investigation could not be reviewed
By Karl FlindersEvidence failed to reach investigators in time for report into controversial pre-Horizon Post Office software
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04 Oct 2024
Meta fuels AI innovation in APAC with accelerator programme
By Aaron TanMeta launches AI accelerator and incubator programmes to support startups and enterprises in building AI applications using its Llama model
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03 Oct 2024
OpenAI shows developers what is possible with speech tool
By Esther ShittuThe AI vendor introduced four new offerings for enterprises. Its Realtime API is notable for its speech-to-speech capability. Meanwhile, the startup is growing explosively.
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03 Oct 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office chief transformation officer’s evidence to the public inquiry reveals organisation’s strained relationship with main IT supplier Fujitsu
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02 Oct 2024
GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity
By Cliff SaranWhile many organisations are piloting generative AI applications, few have mature production roll-outs, according to a survey of Computer Weekly readers worldwide
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02 Oct 2024
Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
By Karl FlindersRevelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches
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01 Oct 2024
Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue
By Joe FayBusinesses are seeing greater value from open source software, such as greater levels of productivity and reduced operational costs
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30 Sep 2024
Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
By Karl FlindersAn independent forensic analysis finds the predecessor to Horizon IT system was also likely to have caused shortfalls for which subpostmasters were blamed, years before the Post Office scandal
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27 Sep 2024
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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27 Sep 2024
More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
By Karl FlindersPost Office dramatically increased the number of investigations into subpostmasters after Capture Software was introduced
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26 Sep 2024
Fresh crop of startups takes on infrastructure-as-code toil
By Beth PariseauEmerging vendors, including a new venture from the founder of Chef, set out to put a fresh face on IT infrastructure automation for the platform engineering era.
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26 Sep 2024
Subpostmasters living years with disputed but unresolved debts to the Post Office, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersContinued errors with the Horizon system mean subpostmasters have unresolved account shortfalls hanging over them for years
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25 Sep 2024
Harness DevOps tools add database, QA automation, AI agents
By Beth PariseauWith a series of updates this week, Harness claims unique support for database DevOps, as well as pipeline generation and UI test automation using AI agents.
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25 Sep 2024
CrowdStrike apologises to US government for global mega-outage
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers appears before a US government committee to explain the series of errors that led directly to one of the biggest IT outages in history
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25 Sep 2024
Splunk and Cisco integration moving apace
By Aaron TanSplunk is rapidly integrating with Cisco’s technology to enable seamless transitions between their platforms while delivering advanced threat detection capabilities
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24 Sep 2024
Post Office IT department’s focus on chasing a discount meant botched procurement
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT team and executives slammed for rushing into tech hardware purchase while eyeing a discount
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23 Sep 2024
Microsoft shares progress on Secure Future Initiative
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has published a progress report on its Secure Future Initiative, launched last year in the wake of multiple security incidents, and made a series of commitments to improve its internal cyber culture
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23 Sep 2024
Fujitsu faces financial challenges, with doubts over its commitment to righting Post Office wrongs
By Karl FlindersFujitsu worker tells Computer Weekly that firm only cares about shareholders and not subpostmaster suffering
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23 Sep 2024
Medtech startup brings Oracle AI to bear on cancer drug research
By Alex ScroxtonLearn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its cutting-edge AI features are bringing new benefits to cancer care by helping doctors identify better treatment options
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23 Sep 2024
Metro Bank outsources IT to Infosys to cut costs and digitally transform
By Karl FlindersIndian IT services giant taken on to support Metro Bank’s digital transformation in multi-year deal
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23 Sep 2024
Post Office system still causing unexplained shortfalls for over half of subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersA quarter of today’s subpostmasters are ‘very dissatisfied’ with how the current Horizon IT system works
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19 Sep 2024
Platform engineers embrace secrets management tool
By Beth PariseauPulumi's ESC, now GA, filled an automation gap in multi-cloud identity and permissions management for platform engineers well-versed in general-purpose programming languages.
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17 Sep 2024
First CyberBoost Catalyse startup cohort named
By Alex ScroxtonThe first group of companies named to a cyber incubator programme run by Plexal and the National University of Singapore includes two growing UK businesses
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13 Sep 2024
Cyber workforce must almost double to meet global talent need
By Clare McDonaldResearch from ISC2 finds global cyber workforce needs additional 4.8 million people to fully secure businesses
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12 Sep 2024
Docker pricing changes hike mid-tier costs
By Beth PariseauDocker adds features but raises Pro and Team prices and adds consumption-based Docker Hub pricing for container image pulls and storage.
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11 Sep 2024
How Sonar is elevating code quality in the age of AI
By Aaron TanSonar’s code quality platform helps developers maintain secure, high-quality code amid the rise of artificial intelligence-based coding assistants, now expanding into the Asian market
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10 Sep 2024
JFrog connects key software supply chain management dots
By Beth PariseauJFrog ties in with GitHub and Nvidia and ships Runtime Security to offer visibility into software supply chains from source code to production and back again, including AI apps.
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10 Sep 2024
JFrog and GitHub unveil open source security integrations
By Alex ScroxtonSecure software specialist JFrog is working with code development service GitHub to integrate the onboard capabilities of its Software Supply Chain Platform service into GitHub’s platform
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10 Sep 2024
Sony Research, AI Singapore to refine Sea-Lion for Tamil
By Aaron TanSony Research and AI Singapore are collaborating to enhance the Sea-Lion LLM for Tamil, a language spoken in Southeast Asia and India
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09 Sep 2024
Multiple Veeam vulns spark concern among defenders
By Alex ScroxtonVeeam users are urged to patch a series of vulnerabilities in the firm’s Backup & Replication product to get out ahead of potential exploitation by ransomware gangs
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09 Sep 2024
Post Office scandal victims given route to appeal unfair financial settlements
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters who feel they received inadequate financial redress in the Horizon Shortfalls Scheme can appeal the settlements through a new independent process
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09 Sep 2024
How MongoDB is driving AI adoption in ASEAN
By Aaron TanMongoDB field CTO Boris Bialek delves into how the company is supporting ASEAN organisations in their AI journey, highlighting the importance of data governance and real-time capabilities in driving successful adoption
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05 Sep 2024
IT vendors still search for open source license sweet spot
By Beth PariseauElastic returns Elasticsearch and Kibana to open source licenses while Sentry floats Fair Source, as balancing business and community success remains a work in progress.
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04 Sep 2024
PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise
By Alex ScroxtonThousands of PyPI packages are at risk of an attack technique dubbed Revival Hijack, which exploits a loophole in the platform’s package naming feature
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04 Sep 2024
Lloyds Bank uses artificial intelligence to check trade finance documents
By Karl FlindersBank is automating checks of digital and paper-based documentation in trade financing with the help of artificial intelligence
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04 Sep 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu malevolence and incompetence means huge final taxpayers’ bill
By Karl FlindersThe human tragedy caused by the Post Office scandal cannot be measured, but the total financial cost will be well beyond the £1bn set aside by the government
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03 Sep 2024
Swedish law firms debate AI’s future impact on profession
By Gerard O'DwyerSwedish law firms examine the use of artificial intelligence in their businesses as the sector sees a surge in take-up
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03 Sep 2024
Nationwide development platform uses Red Hat technology
By Karl FlindersBuilding society is speeding up its software releases through Red Hat cloud application development platform
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02 Sep 2024
Navigating the shifting sands of open source
By Aaron TanAs open source matures, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is grappling with issues ranging from licence rug-pulling and the rise of artificial intelligence to the changing dynamics of open source contributions
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29 Aug 2024
Study highlights secure software supply chain best practices
By Cliff SaranSecurity trends report from open source firm shows the approaches IT leaders take to secure their software supply chain
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29 Aug 2024
Primark adds five more years to IT outsourcing contract with TCS
By Karl FlindersRetailer has worked with Indian IT services giant for eight years and new agreement will take the relationship to 13 years at least
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28 Aug 2024
Global cyber spend to rise 15% in 2025, pushed along by AI
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity spending will increase at pace in 2025, with artificial intelligence, cloud and consultancy services all pushing outlay to new highs, according to Gartner
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27 Aug 2024
VMware Tanzu hones integration, but faces Broadcom backlash
By Beth PariseauVMware Tanzu now offers a single UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, a feature years in the making, but the improvement could get lost in post-Broadcom drama.
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27 Aug 2024
Government backs Danish version of ChatGPT
By Gerard O'DwyerDanish language version of ChatGPT to be developed in a project led by the country’s Chamber of Commerce
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27 Aug 2024
NHS partners with libraries to help people access NHS App
By Lis EvenstadThe scheme, which will launch in October, will train librarians to support people to download and use the NHS App and NHS.uk
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26 Aug 2024
Linus Torvalds discusses Linux development, security and AI at KubeCon
By Aaron TanLinus Torvalds delves into the challenges in Linux development, the importance of swift security responses, and artificial intelligence’s future role in kernel programming
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22 Aug 2024
New Qilin tactics a ‘bonus multiplier’ for ransomware chaos
By Alex ScroxtonSophos X-Ops caught the Qilin ransomware gang stealing credentials stored by victims' employees in Google Chrome, heralding further cyber attacks and breaches down the line.
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22 Aug 2024
The rise and rise of open source in China
By Aaron TanChina’s embrace of open source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other areas
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21 Aug 2024
How open source is shaping AI developments
By Aaron TanThe Linux Foundation outlines efforts to bolster enterprise AI adoption through a framework for managing and deploying AI applications, standardised tooling and open data alternatives
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21 Aug 2024
Post Office Horizon crash disconnected branches from datacentre
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office has apologised to subpostmasters affected by a major IT outage, which stopped them from doing business
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20 Aug 2024
Post Office systems crash hits 'collapsing' Horizon system
By Karl FlindersThousands of subpostmasters were unable to log into the controversial Horizon IT system at the start of business
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19 Aug 2024
Challenges of deploying PQC globally
By Cliff SaranQuantum computers will eventually be powerful and reliable enough to crack strong encryption. PQC is the answer, but it could take years to deploy
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19 Aug 2024
Popular Microsoft apps for Mac at risk of code injection attacks
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers at Cisco Talos turn up evidence suggesting that Microsoft apps running on the Apple macOS operating system are not as secure as they seem
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16 Aug 2024
Thousands of NetSuite customers accidentally exposing their data
By Alex ScroxtonMisconfigured permissions across live websites are leaving thousands of NetSuite users open to having their valuable customer data stolen, researchers say
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16 Aug 2024
Game development tech being keenly adopted by enterprises in other industries, research shows
By Caroline DonnellyPerforce research shows how enterprises in all sorts of sectors are tapping into the use of game development tools and technologies to unlock innovation
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14 Aug 2024
GitHub Copilot Autofix tackles vulnerabilities with AI
By Rob WrightGitHub says Copilot Autofix drastically reduced the median time to remediate vulnerabilities in beta testing from 90 minutes for manual fixes to 28 minutes with the GenAI tool.
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14 Aug 2024
August Patch Tuesday proves busy with six zero-days to fix
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft patches six actively exploited zero-days among over 100 issues during its regular monthly update
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13 Aug 2024
NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms
By Alex ScroxtonNIST has launched the first three quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and as the threat of quantum-enabled cyber attacks grows greater, organisations are encouraged to adopt them as soon as they can
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08 Aug 2024
Endor Labs ships Java 'Magic Patches' with SCA tools
By Beth PariseauUpgrade impact analysis and backported fixes will help one enterprise customer make a major Java upgrade manageable and keep compliant with FedRAMP.
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08 Aug 2024
Sysdig Sage early adopters kick the tires on CNAPP AI agents
By Beth PariseauAI agents in Sysdig Sage add more sophisticated multi-step reasoning than is available with generic LLMs. But it's meant to assist humans, not replace them.
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07 Aug 2024
CloudBees buys co-founder's AI test automation tools startup
By Beth PariseauJenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi rejoins CloudBees as co-CEO of Launchable, which aims to stem the tide of AI-generated code with AI-driven test optimization.
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07 Aug 2024
Microsoft and CrowdStrike hit back at Delta’s legal threats
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft and CrowdStrike have rejected claims by Delta Air Lines that it was left high and dry amid thousands of flight cancellations during July’s software outage, accusing the airline of ignoring their offers of help and running out-of-date IT systems
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07 Aug 2024
Navigating the data analytics and AI landscape
By Stephen WithersAnalysts at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney call for organisations to focus on business outcomes, extend data literacy to AI literacy and foster human-AI collaboration to benefit from the AI era
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06 Aug 2024
2024 seeing more CVEs than ever before, but few are weaponised
By Alex ScroxtonThe number of disclosed CVEs soared by 30% in the first seven-and-a-half months of the year, but a tiny fraction of these have been exploited by threat actors, a reminder of the importance of focused security strategies
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05 Aug 2024
DevOps platform aids app modernization, sets stage for AI
By Beth PariseauAmid a company rebranding and product consolidation, IT ops teams at Rival HR paved a path for DevOps velocity and AI-based automation with updates to legacy infrastructure.
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05 Aug 2024
Chinese cyber attack sparks alert over six-year-old MS vuln
By Alex ScroxtonAfter a proof-of-concept for a six-year-old Microsoft vulnerability emerged in a Chinese APT attack chain, defenders should be on the look-out for exploitation of CVE-2018-0824
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05 Aug 2024
ServiceNow expands footprint in APAC, doubles down on AI
By Aaron TanServiceNow has been building local teams, targeting customers in regulated industries and doubling down on AI to expand its presence in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region
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05 Aug 2024
What are the options when migrating from VMware?
By Cliff SaranBroadcom’s changes to VMware licensing means some people are facing big price increases – we look at how these can be avoided
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05 Aug 2024
Post Office scandal: Phases 5 and 6 had islands of conscientiousness in great depths of neglect
By Karl FlindersComputer Weekly rounds up the latest phase of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry after a marathon 16 weeks of questions
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02 Aug 2024
AWS CodeCommit, Cloud9 closure communication critiqued
By Beth PariseauAWS CodeCommit gives up the Git ghost to competitors, while a lack of advance notice to users has some IT pros questioning the future of other services.
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02 Aug 2024
How CrowdStrike is leveraging AI to empower security teams
By Aaron TanCrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev explains how the company’s multi-agent AI architecture can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
By Alex ScroxtonA US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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31 Jul 2024
API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation
By Aaron TanAkamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit
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31 Jul 2024
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
By Gerard O'DwyerDatacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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30 Jul 2024
Court reverses Appian's $2B espionage win against Pegasystems
By Bridget BotelhoTwo years ago, Appian was awarded damages in its lawsuit against Pegasystems, which it accused of spying. A court of appeals has reversed that decision.
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30 Jul 2024
Government commits at least £540m to financial redress for wrongfully convicted Post Office staff
By Karl FlindersHundreds of eligible former subpostmasters and branch staff are yet to come forward to have convictions overturned, but government hopes new scheme will encourage them to do so
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
By Alex ScroxtonHundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
By Alex ScroxtonThe vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
UK government invests £106m in five quantum tech hubs
By Cliff SaranFive university hubs are receiving funding to support the development of quantum applications that can support healthcare and businesses