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15 Nov 2024
MinIO ups object storage ante for AI
MinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst said the market has yet to decide.
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15 Nov 2024
AI gateways, Kubernetes multi-tenancy loop in LLMOps
There are many areas of IT infrastructure affected by the emergence of LLMOps; for each, there were products and projects rolled out this week at KubeCon.
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15 Nov 2024
Intel, Nvidia vie for dominance with agentic AI blueprints
Rival sets of tools meant to better support AI apps on developer platforms have hit the market as an even bigger wave of change looms in agentic AI.
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10 Oct 2024
Post Office dragging its feet getting rid of tainted staff, despite government ‘green light’
Former minister gave Post Office ‘green light’ to take robust action against existing staff with links to Post Office scandal wrongdoing
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10 Oct 2024
Vendor cyber skills gap threatens to underline MDR
Managed service providers require high levels of support, but a gap remains, and is threatening to reduce the ability to deliver some cyber solutions
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10 Oct 2024
Advania extends UK coverage with CCS Media buy
Just four months after its last acquisition to extend its position in the UK, Microsoft specialist Advania has bought again to widen its reach
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10 Oct 2024
Afas leads the way with four-day work week in the Netherlands
Dutch labour unions want a shorter working week and software company Afas is leading the way, introducing a four-day work week from 1 January 2025
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09 Oct 2024
DOJ focuses on AI in search, weighs Google breakup
While the DOJ assesses remedies for Google's illegal control over online search, it's also heavily focused on AI and the future.
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09 Oct 2024
Government use of AI by key U.S. military branches
The Air Force and Army are exploring applications of GenAI including using their own large language models. While some use cases are successful, others are not.
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09 Oct 2024
Atlassian 'cloud-first' becomes 'enterprise-first'
Atlassian'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
Zoom expands AI Companion capabilities, adds customisation options
Zoom reveals major advancements in AI Companion, including customisation options, personalised avatars and integration across the entire Zoom workplace platform
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09 Oct 2024
Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge
Post 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
MoneyGram customer data breached in attack
MoneyGram confirms that customer data has been stolen in an incident that appears to have started with a social engineering attack on its IT helpdesk staff
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09 Oct 2024
Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
Stand-out vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday drop include problems in Microsoft Management Console and the Windows MSHTML Platform
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09 Oct 2024
Canalys: The glory days of hardware are over
Channel warned that the industry is changing and the domination once enjoyed by the hardware world is coming to an end
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09 Oct 2024
OpenAI to open office in Singapore to spearhead APAC expansion
OpenAI will establish a regional hub in Singapore later this year, partnering with the government and AI Singapore to boost AI development across the region
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09 Oct 2024
UK Cyber Team seeks future security professionals
Young people from across the UK have a chance to represent the country in international competitions and advance their future careers in cyber security
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08 Oct 2024
Microsoft repairs 2 zero-days on October Patch Tuesday
Administrators will have to tackle 117 new vulnerabilities, including three rated critical, in this month's batch of security updates.
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08 Oct 2024
Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals
The number of active cyber criminal ransomware gangs has surged by almost a third in the space of 12 months, according to the latest intelligence from Secureworks
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08 Oct 2024
Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer
The 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
Post 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
UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
The UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses
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08 Oct 2024
DWP CIO Rich Corbridge leaving to join property developer
The digital chief at the Department for Work and Pensions is moving on only 18 months after starting his role in the civil service
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08 Oct 2024
How AI is permeating enterprise IT
The industry is ramping up efforts to help enterprise IT deliver artificial intelligence-based business applications
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08 Oct 2024
Google to appeal Play Store ruling
Google’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?
Evidence 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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08 Oct 2024
Government accepts most quantum regulation recommendations
Three of the 14 recommendations on quantum regulations put forward by the Regulatory Horizon Council have been accepted in principle
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08 Oct 2024
HP outlines workspace opportunities for partners
HP’s latest insights into what makes a happy worker signals areas where the channel can make an impact
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07 Oct 2024
Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regulations
The newly formed Regulatory Innovation Office has been set up to ensure existing regulations do not become barriers to emerging tech innovations
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07 Oct 2024
Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry
Outgoing Post Office boss Nick Read faces public inquiry for three days this week, with no shortage of questions to answer
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07 Oct 2024
Getronics ushers in fresh CEO to drive growth
Managed services specialist Getronics shuffles management team and brings in experienced candidate to run the global channel player
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07 Oct 2024
IBM: Data breach cost in ASEAN hits new high
The average cost of a data breach in ASEAN grew by 7% from last year, as organisations grapple with increasingly distributed IT environments and complex security systems
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06 Oct 2024
Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter
A 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
UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities
A series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis
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04 Oct 2024
Companies invest in climate technology to reduce emissions
Analyst firm GlobalData identified four major climate tech investments businesses are making now to reach 2030 carbon emission reduction goals.
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04 Oct 2024
NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in
Outgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne
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04 Oct 2024
Post Office senior executive suspended over allegations of destroying evidence
Statement to public inquiry reveals that investigation is underway over allegations that a senior Post Office executive instructed staff to destroy evidence
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04 Oct 2024
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
The 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
Public 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
Evidence failed to reach investigators in time for report into controversial pre-Horizon Post Office software
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04 Oct 2024
Data and technology key to the future of the subsurface, report says
The report highlights the important role of the subsurface, but lack of accessible data and the likely need for new policy and regulation on the use of new technologies are barriers to future sustainable and efficient use
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04 Oct 2024
Non-traditional routes will increase tech diversity, says Tech Returners
Research by organisations Women in Tech North and Tech Returners finds that women believe developing alternative routes into tech jobs will help close the industry’s diversity gap
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04 Oct 2024
Meta fuels AI innovation in APAC with accelerator programme
Meta 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
Ex-PSNI officer seeking legal advice over comments made at Investigatory Powers Tribunal
Ex PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists
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03 Oct 2024
Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks
Microsoft has been given permission to seize multiple domains used by the Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard as part of a coordinated disruption effort undertaken ahead of the US elections
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03 Oct 2024
Rising IT talent costs shadow Sweden’s skills shortage and market reforms
Swedish businesses face challenges recruiting the right IT staff, as salary demands increase
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03 Oct 2024
SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
Security operations centre practitioners are fed up of being flooded with pointless alerts and many no longer have much confidence in their threat detection tools, according to a report
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03 Oct 2024
Kerv deepens Microsoft expertise with Inciper buy
Kerv’s acquisition is its first struck since the managed services player attracted a fresh backer earlier this year
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03 Oct 2024
Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
The Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest
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03 Oct 2024
DSIT launches digital government panel
The panel, which is being co-chaired by Martha Lane Fox and Paul Willmott, will help government create a 10-year vision for a ‘digital centre’
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03 Oct 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
Former 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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03 Oct 2024
Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns
Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership
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02 Oct 2024
UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims
At the fourth Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit in the US, both the UK and Singapore have committed to working on new guidance designed to better support victims and undermine cyber criminal business models
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02 Oct 2024
Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions
A former detective claimed Irish judges were ‘sectarians in robes’ after a court found police had unlawfully arrested journalists who produced a film exposing collusion with paramilitary murderers
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02 Oct 2024
Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains
More people than ever are joining the cyber security profession in the UK, according to a report, but there is still a serious shortage even with a doubling in numbers
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02 Oct 2024
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay
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02 Oct 2024
GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity
While 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
Revelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches
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02 Oct 2024
India’s fintechs find fortune in underserved segments
Indian fintech companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and blockchain to address underserved customer segments, unearth hidden revenue opportunities and create innovative products
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02 Oct 2024
‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office
Money transfer fintech wrote to subpostmasters expressing its disappointment with the Post Office over end of contract
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01 Oct 2024
APAC organisations embrace generative AI
Study reveals a surge in GenAI adoption across APAC, with businesses looking to train their own models, likely to address specific regional needs and market dynamics
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01 Oct 2024
Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case
Former Durham detective Darren Ellis told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that he had concerns about lawyers acting for journalists placed under surveillance by Northern Irish police
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01 Oct 2024
Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit
The NCA has named and shamed a prominent member of the Evil Corp cyber crime collective who also worked as an affiliate of the LockBit ransomware gang as the UK unveils new sanctions against 16 Russian cyber criminals
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01 Oct 2024
Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale
Survey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation
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01 Oct 2024
Iomart strikes ‘game-changing’ acquisition
Channel player iomart continues to use M&A to bolster its position in the cloud services market
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01 Oct 2024
Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue
Businesses are seeing greater value from open source software, such as greater levels of productivity and reduced operational costs
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01 Oct 2024
Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack
The Post Office offered a short extension to enable it to asses the impact of the MoneyGram cyber incident, but the contract has now expired and MoneyGram services are no longer available in Post Office branches
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01 Oct 2024
Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
Over 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA
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30 Sep 2024
Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future
The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy
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30 Sep 2024
California bill veto might push Congress to act on AI
California Governor Gavin Newsom took issue with SB 1047's broad regulation of AI systems without addressing specific concerns such as deployment in high-risk environments.
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30 Sep 2024
Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
An 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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30 Sep 2024
Channel supporting dual-speed AI adoption trend
One of the themes emerging from a recent IBM SI partner get-together was the varying responses of users to GenAI
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27 Sep 2024
UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC
The NCSC and counterpart agencies in the US have issued a warning over enhanced Iranian spear phishing activity targeting politicians, journalists, activists and others with an interest in Middle Eastern affairs
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27 Sep 2024
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
Security 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
TD Synnex Q3 results show signs of industry recovery
Distributor TD Synnex’s CEO talks of an improving market after sharing numbers for the third quarter that included revenue improvements across all geographies
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27 Sep 2024
How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI
Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy
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27 Sep 2024
More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
Post 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
Emerging 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
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
Police have revealed that this week’s racist cyber attack on public Wi-Fi networks at stations across the UK appears to have been the work of a malicious insider, after arresting an employee of one of the service providers
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26 Sep 2024
Subpostmasters living years with disputed but unresolved debts to the Post Office, inquiry told
Continued errors with the Horizon system mean subpostmasters have unresolved account shortfalls hanging over them for years
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26 Sep 2024
Islamophobic cyber attack downs Wi-Fi at UK transport hubs
An apparent hacktivist attack disrupted public-facing Wi-Fi networks at UK rail stations to display Islamophobic content
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26 Sep 2024
SMEs fear AI and are looking for support
Findings from Indeed research underline the role the channel needs to play to help customers adopt AI technology
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26 Sep 2024
Government plans reverse pitch events to drive digital change
The government will hold three events for startups to showcase and collaborate with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice to solve key problems faced by the departments
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26 Sep 2024
Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims
Victims of the Horizon scandal believe Fujitsu’s offer of support to be a 'box-ticking' exercise with no commitments, nine months after seemingly heartfelt pledges
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26 Sep 2024
Comms giants unite to deliver more energy-efficient fibre networks
Broadband Forum-led project including BT Group, Orange, Calix, Futurewei, Huawei and Nokia seeks to lower energy consumption when accessing the internet through more energy-efficient networks
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25 Sep 2024
Harness DevOps tools add database, QA automation, AI agents
With 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
CrowdStrike 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
Vote: Who should be the 2024 Most Influential Woman in UK Tech?
Each year, we ask our audience who should be named the most influential woman in UK technology. Tell us what you think – the deadline for voting is 18 October
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25 Sep 2024
NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO
We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it
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25 Sep 2024
Splunk and Cisco integration moving apace
Splunk is rapidly integrating with Cisco’s technology to enable seamless transitions between their platforms while delivering advanced threat detection capabilities
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25 Sep 2024
Post Office IT procurement mess saw £35m spent on air conditioner, says board member
Post Office IT procurement mistakes have wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money, non-executive board member tells public inquiry
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24 Sep 2024
Proposed ban on connected vehicle tech from China too broad
The U.S. Commerce Department's proposal to ban software and hardware for connected vehicles imported from China or Russia might face enforcement issues down the road.
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24 Sep 2024
Money transfer firm MoneyGram rushes to contain cyber attack
Money transfer specialist MoneyGram services remain down several days after a network outage developed into a full-blown cyber security incident
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24 Sep 2024
New Grafana Labs features aim to simplify observability
The vendor's latest set of capabilities includes prebuilt applications and automated features aimed at making it easier to use observability tools to monitor data and IT processes.
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24 Sep 2024
Unique malware sample volumes seen surging
BlackBerry’s latest ‘Global threat intelligence’ report details a surge in unique malware samples as threat actors ramp up the pace of targeted attacks
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24 Sep 2024
Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object
Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level
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24 Sep 2024
Post Office IT department’s focus on chasing a discount meant botched procurement
Post Office IT team and executives slammed for rushing into tech hardware purchase while eyeing a discount
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp maintains push to data management for AI
From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays
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24 Sep 2024
How VMware is supporting AI workloads
VMware claims its Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform that speeds up AI deployment in private cloud environments is gaining significant traction in the Asia-Pacific region
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23 Sep 2024
Fears grow about big tech guiding U.S. AI policy
Apple joined a list of big tech companies voluntarily committing to responsible AI. But without regulation, there is no legal requirement for companies to meet those commitments.
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23 Sep 2024
Microsoft shares progress on Secure Future Initiative
Microsoft 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
Nebula flexes services muscles with Verkada tie-up
Channel player Nebula will be plugging the services gap and delivering support to resellers in an approach it intends to replicate with further partnerships
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23 Sep 2024
Fujitsu faces financial challenges, with doubts over its commitment to righting Post Office wrongs
Fujitsu worker tells Computer Weekly that firm only cares about shareholders and not subpostmaster suffering