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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
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18 Dec 2024
U.S. approach to misinformation, AI will shift under Trump
President-elect Donald Trump has been vocal in his criticisms of big tech's content censorship power and President Joe Biden's executive order on AI.
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12 Jan 2024
Logicalis CEO identifies reasons to be optimistic about 2024
Channel player’s boss outlines areas where customers are looking to make investments as the market picks up
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12 Jan 2024
Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year
Long-running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decades-long scandal
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12 Jan 2024
UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn
The government’s Pornography Review will look in part at the use of AI throughout the industry to generate sexually explicit content without people’s consent
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11 Jan 2024
Analysts anticipate fresh wave of enterprise technology M&A
CI/CD vendor Harness acquired Armory, reports surfaced of private equity takeover talks for PagerDuty, and that's just the start of more M&A to come, industry experts predict.
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11 Jan 2024
Apple, Google face tumultuous legal year ahead
Google has agreed to make changes to its app store, while Apple has remained largely unscathed after antitrust trials challenged both companies' app store operating models.
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11 Jan 2024
Channel facing a delicate AI pitch into SMEs
There is a clear appetite for artificial intelligence technology, but there is a gap in perceptions of its purpose between those buying the tech and those using it
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11 Jan 2024
Fujitsu UK employees working for HMRC to strike during self-assessment tax period over pay
Hundreds of Fujitsu UK staff working for HMRC are set to strike later this month over a pay rise dispute
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11 Jan 2024
Gartner: PC market collapsed in 2023
The post-Covid recovery of the PC industry is taking far longer than hoped, with businesses and consumers hanging onto devices
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11 Jan 2024
QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023
Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets
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11 Jan 2024
MHRA launches roadmap for medtech regulations
The roadmap covers plans for regulations on medical technologies, including implantable devices, artificial intelligence and healthcare software, with core elements of a new framework to be in place by 2025
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11 Jan 2024
Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform
Cisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product
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10 Jan 2024
Davos 2024: AI-generated disinformation poses threat to elections, says World Economic Forum
Disinformation and misinformation are the top risks facing businesses, governments and the public over the next two years
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10 Jan 2024
HPE nabs Juniper Networks in $14bn deal to boost networking
The two companies position the combined business as a major force in enterprise and datacentre networking
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10 Jan 2024
Logicalis looking to raise the managed services bar
Channel player ushers in a number of enhancements on its Managed Data Fabric Platform to provide users with deeper insights
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10 Jan 2024
Hundreds of subpostmasters to have convictions quashed in blanket exoneration
The government has chosen to introduce legislation that will enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group
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10 Jan 2024
Poor tech kills hybrid work productivity
People who work from home say the IT they use is failing or performs poorly, which reduces their productivity, leading to hours of work lost
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10 Jan 2024
Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors
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10 Jan 2024
CES 2024: Sony announces development of spatial content creation system
Sony is developing a device equipped with extended reality head-mounted display and controllers dedicated to interaction with 3D objects
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10 Jan 2024
SEC social media hack highlights value of MFA
The US SEC briefly appeared to approve new bitcoin trading rules after a social media account was targeted by troublemakers, proving the value of MFA once again
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10 Jan 2024
How Fujitsu became a central part of the Post Office scandal
As a TV drama brings the Post Office scandal to a wider audience, many are wondering how and why a Japanese IT company became embroiled in the story – we examine the troubled history behind Fujitsu’s role
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10 Jan 2024
Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill
The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK
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09 Jan 2024
Microsoft starts year with a subdued January Patch Tuesday
For the second month in a row, Microsoft had no zero-days and relatively few vulnerabilities for administrators to address.
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09 Jan 2024
Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available
A joint effort between Cisco Talos, Avast and the Dutch police will bring relief to many victims of a variant of the Babuk ransomware known as Tortilla
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09 Jan 2024
Wales makes headway with electronic prescriptions roll-out
Electronic prescribing will be deployed in both primary and secondary care, while a shared medicines record will be live by the end of March 2024
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09 Jan 2024
Study reveals cyber risks to US elections
With the 2024 US presidential election cycle beginning, a study produced by Arctic Wolf has highlighted big gaps in preparedness and resourcing at government bodies across the US
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09 Jan 2024
Former Post Office CEO hands back CBE amid public backlash
Former Post Office CEO hands back her CBE after public backlash following dramatisation of her role in Post Office Horizon scandal
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09 Jan 2024
‘Hero’ subpostmaster accuses government of diversion tactics through ‘weaselly’ statistics
Campaigning subpostmaster calls out government’s use of ‘weaselly’ statistics to hide its slow progress
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09 Jan 2024
Print managed services part of a sustainability pitch
It’s been pitched as a cost-controlling benefit, but the green benefits of MPS is growing, according to Kyocera Document Solutions UK
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09 Jan 2024
QuEra Computing sets out plan for error-correcting quantum computing
QuEra Computing is betting on transversal gates, a technology which it believes is key to simplifying error correction
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09 Jan 2024
Fujitsu gets stay of execution as MPs support exoneration of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters
Fujitsu will have to wait until the end of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry to hear how MPs will punish it
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08 Jan 2024
Government to push NHS roll-out of digital pathology
Department for Health and Social Care wants to increase use of digital pathology in cancer screening, following a recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee
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08 Jan 2024
British Library ransomware attack could cost up to £7m
The cost of recovering the British Library’s ransomware-stricken IT systems could be up to £7m, it has emerged
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08 Jan 2024
Post Office scandal furore is moment to change digital evidence rules
The current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history
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08 Jan 2024
Inside the Met Police’s investigation into EncroChat crime gangs
The Met’s senior investigating officer responsible for investigating criminals using the EncroChat encrypted phone network tells the inside story of the UK’s biggest organised crime bust in a BBC podcast series released this week
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08 Jan 2024
Datacentre operators form APAC industry group
The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals
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07 Jan 2024
India firms warm to responsible AI
Almost two-thirds of organisations said their responsible AI practices and policies were mature or they had taken steps towards responsible AI adoption, according to a Nasscom study
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07 Jan 2024
Metropolitan Police launches second criminal investigation in Post Office scandal
New investigation will examine potential crimes by the Post Office in its recovery of money from subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting
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05 Jan 2024
Information Commissioner questions DWP plan to monitor bank accounts of benefit claimants
The Information Commissioner has warned that legislation to give new powers to the Department of Work and Pensions to check bank accounts of benefit claimants for indications of fraud lacks appropriate safeguards
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05 Jan 2024
GTDC: More use cases add to AI expectations
The latest GTDC podcast includes talk of the prospects for the technology to have a major channel impact this year – artificial intelligence
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04 Jan 2024
Risks and opportunities for the UK chip sector
In May 2023, the UK government unveiled a national semiconductor strategy. We find out how it has been going
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04 Jan 2024
Stone and TD Synnex highlight ITAD benefits
With budgets remaining tight, the need for the channel to pitch a strong refurbished tech story remains a pressing one
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03 Jan 2024
Where AI and quantum computing meet
Quantum computing may be years away from practical enterprise applications, but it's getting closer. We talked with IBM's quantum adoption leader to see where we're at right now.
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03 Jan 2024
Dutch working to promote cooperation in Europe to keep internet safe
A Dutch cooperative approach offers national and international cooperation opportunities for ISPs to guard against DDoS attacks, lawful interception and detect abuse in networks
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03 Jan 2024
SonicWall adds more zero trust depth with Banyan buy
Security player dips back into the M&A market to add more zero trust and SSE coverage
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03 Jan 2024
Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy
Sweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy
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03 Jan 2024
Fighting money laundering with AI
Mike Foster, CEO of SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, talks up how AI can be used to fight financial crime and how the company’s technology can augment existing AML investments
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02 Jan 2024
China’s UNC4841 pivots to new Barracuda ESG zero-day
The Chinese state threat actor behind a series of cyber attacks on Barracuda Networks customers embarked on a campaign targeting the supplier’s email security products in the run-up to Christmas
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02 Jan 2024
Qualtrics supports Dow digital transformation
How US-based materials science company has used analytics tools from Qualtrics to target improvements to customer experience
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02 Jan 2024
Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI
Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 India IT stories of 2023
We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2023
As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023
We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 police technology stories of 2023
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 IT careers and skills stories of 2023
Looking back at the skills and hiring landscape in 2023, Computer Weekly shares the key moments for IT careers and skills over the past 12 months
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023
Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 government IT stories of 2023
In the year that gave life to four new government departments, Whitehall bosses have continued to fly the flag for technology, with mixed results and success. Here are the stories that made waves in 2023
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 Middle East stories of 2023
Middle Eastern countries are on digital journeys, with many pinning their futures on expertise in advanced technologies
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22 Dec 2023
Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2023
Generative AI is the buzzword on every financial services IT professional’s lips as the technology promises to accelerate the ongoing fintech revolution
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21 Dec 2023
Cisco Security Cloud adds Isovalent for multi-cloud networks
The commercial backer of open source networking and security projects Cilium and Tetragon comes under Cisco's control for cloud-native network security.
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21 Dec 2023
Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage
The UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
Ransomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage stories of 2023
In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023
In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing
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20 Dec 2023
Agencies support regulating commercial space industry
The White House wants to divide regulatory authority for new commercial space industry activities between the DOC and DOT, a move that has federal agency support.
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20 Dec 2023
Mercy Ships network transformation nears completion
The tech upgrade brings expanded network capabilities to the NGO's hospital ships, with improved remote consultation and dockside medical services among the expected benefits.
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20 Dec 2023
Compound natural disasters emerge as new HR risk
Compounding natural disasters is something businesses will need to plan for. Employees face physical recovery and mental health issues, affecting work performance.
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20 Dec 2023
Server-side Wasm to-do list lengthens for 2024
Server-side WebAssembly hype peaked in late 2022, but a year later, its path to general availability for key features remains long and cloud portability alternatives are emerging.
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20 Dec 2023
Post Office gets government handout as Horizon replacement costs increase ‘significantly’
The increasing costs associated with replacing the Post Office’s controversial IT system have forced the government to hand it over £100m extra
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20 Dec 2023
Giacom picks up Microsoft-focused intY
Move to bolster managed services proposition will add greater cloud depth and enhance UK market position
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20 Dec 2023
'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandal
MPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives
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20 Dec 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out
Multinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023
In the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 Benelux stories of 2023
The Benelux region is researching some of the latest digital technologies of the future with efforts to ensure the region keeps pace in quantum computing and artificial intelligence
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20 Dec 2023
Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy
Zoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 IT leadership interviews of 2023
The top technology executives – whether their job title is CIO, CDIO, CDO or something completely different – talk to Computer Weekly and share their plans and strategies for delivering digital success
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19 Dec 2023
U.S.-China relations will affect businesses in 2024
U.S.-China relations will affect U.S. businesses in 2024, whether it's through more export controls or building alliances with other countries on technology.
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19 Dec 2023
DevSecOps pros prep for GenAI upheavals in 2024
Generative AI models have been a hot topic of discussion in 2023, but their real-world impact on each of the major IT disciplines is just beginning.
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19 Dec 2023
Digital Ethics Summit 2023: The year in AI
At trade association TechUK’s seventh annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the state of AI regulation and the direction of travel set for 2024
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19 Dec 2023
Government reveals its own slow progress in compensating Post Office scandal victims
Few of the subpostmasters who unearthed the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history have been compensated so far, four years after their court victory
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 software development stories of 2023
There have been two main trends driving software development this year: artificial intelligence and low-code/no-code tooling
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber security stories of 2023
The past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides, but it was the chaotic state of global geopolitics that really made an impact
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 Nordic stories of 2023
Known for its advances in digital technology, the Nordic region continues to pioneer the startup sector while making serious waves in Quantum computing and artificial intelligence
