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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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24 Oct 2024
Prudential taps AI to improve health insurance experience
Insurance giant Prudential teams up with Google Cloud to streamline claims processing, personalise healthcare journeys and improve health outcomes
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24 Oct 2024
Softcat CEO talks opportunities, expansion and the impact of AI
With the channel player sharing its full-year numbers, its boss has talked in greater depth about the business
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24 Oct 2024
Warning shots fired as former subpostmasters have ‘useful’ meeting with Post Office CEO
Acting CEO meets two campaigning former subpostmasters emphasising need for their input into the Post Office’s future direction, including its branch system development
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24 Oct 2024
Softcat provides investor cheer with solid FY24
Channel player continues almost two decades-long stretch of delivering double-digit growth, despite tough market conditions
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24 Oct 2024
Datatec shares H1 2025 numbers
Results shine light on progress being made by Westcon-Comstor and Logicalis towards increasing recurring revenue
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24 Oct 2024
Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem
Nvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals
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23 Oct 2024
Agentic AI sparks need for more orchestration, oversight
Orchestration all the way down: Experts say multiple levels of autonomous coordination and oversight will guide the near- and mid-term evolution of AI and computing.
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23 Oct 2024
Interview: Why Java is the future of cloud applications
The CEO of Azul speaks to Computer Weekly about Java’s performance and its ability to run on different server chips in the datacentre
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23 Oct 2024
Government hails Cyber Essentials success
Scheme to help keep organisations’ IT safe and secure has given businesses more confidence they won’t fall victim to a cyber attack
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23 Oct 2024
How AI helps junior programmers and senior managers
Many believe artificial intelligence will not replace human software developers but will instead offer a way to help coders deliver software more easily
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23 Oct 2024
Federation requests government investigation into third Post Office branch system
Following public anger over the Horizon scandal and the subsequent unravelling of the controversial Capture system, subpostmaster federation wants third branch IT system to be reviewed
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23 Oct 2024
ServiceNow touts Now platform as AI engine for transformation
At the ServiceNow World Forum in Melbourne, company executives touted the transformative power of AI in streamlining workflows, improving user experiences and driving business value
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23 Oct 2024
Democracy campaigner to sue Saudi Arabia over Pegasus and QuaDream spyware in UK court
Pro-democracy campaigner Yahya Assiri given permission to file legal action in London court against Saudi Arabia over its use of Israeli spyware
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22 Oct 2024
Disinformation campaigns pose risk to enterprise businesses
Spotting and stopping disinformation campaigns often involve multiple entities within an enterprise business, including security, marketing and social media teams.
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22 Oct 2024
SME reluctance to spend hits Bechtle Q3 numbers
Channel player updates the market with a sober assessment of the consequences of trading in a surprisingly weak market
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22 Oct 2024
Government ‘resets’ pension dashboard programme
Following a National Audit Office report highlighting failings in the project, the government has set out a revised plan
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22 Oct 2024
Change to rules on computer evidence will be an ‘outcome’ of Post Office scandal
The executive currently heading up the Post Office’s investigations department has told public inquiry that rules on computer evidence have to change
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22 Oct 2024
Exclusive Networks launches finance offering
After a successful UK pilot, the distributor is ready to make XPS available to partners across Western Europe
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22 Oct 2024
Danish government reboots cyber security council amid AI expansion
Denmark’s government relaunches digital security initiative to protect business sectors and society at large
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22 Oct 2024
Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025
After a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese
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22 Oct 2024
Labour’s 10-year health service plan will open up data sharing
To save the health service, Labour is focusing on bolstering the NHS app and enabling greater sharing of patient records in England
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22 Oct 2024
Former Post Office IT boss alleged to have misrepresented alternative to in-house build
Internal Post Office document reveals allegations that former transformation boss misrepresented off-the-shelf option to replace Horizon
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21 Oct 2024
Post Office worker who allegedly told staff to destroy evidence could return, as police investigate
Post Office to allow employee, who allegedly told staff to destroy evidence of possible interest to public inquiry, to return to work during police investigation
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21 Oct 2024
Techcombank’s tech investments set to fuel record profit
The Vietnam bank is targeting $1bn in profit in 2024 while maintaining a flat headcount and reducing physical branches, thanks to its investments in artificial intelligence and a data engine
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21 Oct 2024
Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage
Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too
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21 Oct 2024
Can AI be secure? Experts discuss emerging threats and AI safety
International cyber security experts call for global cooperation and proactive strategies to address the security challenges posed by artificial intelligence
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21 Oct 2024
Review of late evidence doesn’t change Post Office Capture system report
Conclusions reached in government-commissioned report into pre-Horizon software are unchanged after late evidence reviewed
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18 Oct 2024
Cloud providers escape regulatory scrutiny -- for now
Though U.S. and EU regulators aren't zeroed in on cloud competition, Google has raised its own concerns about Microsoft's cloud licensing practices.
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18 Oct 2024
Blackberry pushing MDR and growing OT channel
Firm’s EMEA channel lead shares an update on the current partner strategy at the security vendor
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18 Oct 2024
Schneider Electric shares French lessons with the UK
Power specialist shares progress made in circular efforts on the continent, and will bring them to this side of the channel
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18 Oct 2024
How Philippine Airlines is transforming customer experience
The flag carrier of the Philippines discusses how its digital transformation journey has improved customer experience and streamlined internal processes
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17 Oct 2024
HashiCorp Vault scalability updates target big enterprises
HashiCorp Vault 1.18 updates make it more suited to large companies, which the vendor is courting with a lighter cloud migration push than with Terraform.
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17 Oct 2024
Met Police investigating senior Post Office worker over evidence destruction allegation
Public inquiry evidence confirms that the Metropolitan Police are investigating a senior Post Office staff member regarding instructions to destroy evidence
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17 Oct 2024
NCSC chief warns of gap in cyber threats and defence capabilities
The UK and its allies must take collective action to improve their cyber resilience and repel the increasing volume of severe cyber attacks, says NCSC chief
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17 Oct 2024
Sir Alan Bates tells Prime Minister to guarantee Post Office scandal victim redress by March 2025
Campaigner 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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17 Oct 2024
CloudCoCo selling MSP business to Aspire
CloudCoCo board concludes a sale is the best course of action to secure the future of what will remain an IT reselling and e-commerce operation
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17 Oct 2024
EU cyber security bill NIS2 hits compliance deadline
The EU’s NIS2 bill will harmonise how companies and member states approach cyber security, but its success will depend on how well it is implemented and enforced
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16 Oct 2024
Philippines leaps forward in e-government with cloud-first strategy
A common infrastructure and a ‘once-only’ principle have propelled the Philippines up the UN’s E-Government Development Index, streamlining services and bolstering data sovereignty
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16 Oct 2024
Digitisation forum launched ahead of Norway’s digital strategy
Norway's government is preparing itself for the future by establishing an advisory hub to support its digital strategies
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16 Oct 2024
Terraform Stacks, HCP Waypoint prompt migration questions
HashiCorp 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
SUSE 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
Logicalis rolls out sustainability blueprint offering
Channel player keen to share range of green services with users to support their drive to reduce emissions
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16 Oct 2024
Google Cloud Summit: Unifying data, data residency and agent-driven AI
Google Cloud’s London summit underpinned a focus on artificial intelligence with some significant infrastructure updates
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16 Oct 2024
Applying IT observability to deliver business metrics
The 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
Former chief operating officer did nothing when action could have put a stop to the Post Office wrongful prosecutions
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15 Oct 2024
Tech and digital skills key to improving police productivity
The Policing Productivity Review sees data and technology as a way of improving productivity and outcomes, as well as a potential means of restoring diminishing legitimacy, but warns there needs to be a revamp in digital skills, investment and coordination to harness the full range of benefits
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15 Oct 2024
UK government unveils AI safety research funding details
Through its AI Safety Institute, the UK government has committed an initial pot of £4m to fund research into various risks associated with AI technologies, which will increase to £8.5m as the scheme progresses
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15 Oct 2024
Hillingdon Council commits £9m to tech revamp in digital strategy
Hillingdon’s three-year digital strategy will see the council fund attempts to modernise its systems and infrastructure, change how residents interact with the local authority and make better use of data
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15 Oct 2024
Google prepares for nuclear to power AI datacentres
As part of its drive towards sustainable energy and to meet ever-increasing power demands, Google is planning to use small nuclear reactors
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15 Oct 2024
Distributors taking steps to widen reach
Moves made by Arrow, Ingram, Westcon-Comstor, Climb and Exclusive, plus an APAC opening at Nebula, show the desire to extend growth opportunities across the channel
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15 Oct 2024
NCSC expands school cyber service to academies and private schools
The National Cyber Security Centre is expanding its PDNS for Schools service to encompass a wider variety of institutions up and down the UK
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15 Oct 2024
Bytes H1 numbers show benefits of software and services strategy
Channel player shares results for its first half, revealing a decline in hardware but improvements in other parts of the portfolio
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15 Oct 2024
UK sees over £6bn boost in datacentre investments
Following moves to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, a number of US tech providers have announced new UK investments
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15 Oct 2024
Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training
Originally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud
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14 Oct 2024
How Zoom is charting its course towards an AI-first platform
Zoom 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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13 Oct 2024
Half of UK tech workers planning to leave role, finds Harvey Nash
A large number of people in the UK, and globally, are looking to switch tech roles, according to research by Harvey Nash
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses
The 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
In 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
Canalys: There are reasons for optimism
Chief analyst shares reasons why the channel should be positive, but encourages investment in emerging technology and services to remain relevant
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office set to axe in-house-developed New Branch IT software
Troubled 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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11 Oct 2024
TD Synnex: AI and security top channel technology investments
Distributor shares its latest report on the areas where partners are spending money and looking to support customers
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10 Oct 2024
Gartner: AI can be catalyst for new business models
Gartner expert Nicholle Lindner explains how companies like Klarna are leveraging AI to drive new revenue, and what businesses need to consider when embracing the technology
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10 Oct 2024
NCSC issues fresh alert over wave of Cozy Bear activity
The NCSC, FBI and NSA publish updated warning about Cozy Bear’s activities, highlighting a range of vulnerabilities the threat actor is using to set up its cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
Government launches cyber standard for local authorities
Local government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
Internet Archive web historians target of hacktivist cyber attack
The Internet Archive nonprofit digital library and Wayback Machine operator has been attacked by pro-Palestinian hacktivists
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10 Oct 2024
How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit
Threat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them
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10 Oct 2024
UK and US pledge closer working on children’s online safety
In their first agreement on the subject of children’s online safety, the UK and US governments have said they will create a new working group to boost cooperation
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10 Oct 2024
Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The technology chief reflects on a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games – and how what he learned as a former Olympic medallist helped him be a better IT leader
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10 Oct 2024
Australia bolsters cyber defences with security bill
Legislation tackles IoT security and establishes a Cyber Incident Review Board to bolster Australia’s cyber resilience
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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