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15 Nov 2024
MinIO ups object storage ante for AI
By Adam ArmstrongMinIO 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
By Beth PariseauThere 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
By Beth PariseauRival 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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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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08 Aug 2024
Dell layoff part of repositioning for PC demand thaw
By Patrick ThibodeauDell continues to cut its workforce to become 'leaner,' as it repositions for changes in the enterprise PC market that are expected to drive future growth.
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08 Aug 2024
Royal ransomware crew puts on a BlackSuit in rebrand
By Alex ScroxtonThe Royal ransomware gang is back, with a new name and refreshed capabilities, including an apparently unique ‘partial encryption’ gambit, according to CISA
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08 Aug 2024
UK competition regulator looks into Amazon’s Anthropic funding
By Cliff SaranThe Competition and Markets Authority is continuing to look at big tech’s interconnected web of artificial intelligence partnerships
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08 Aug 2024
US lawmakers seek to brand ransomware gangs as terrorists
By Alex ScroxtonProposals from legislators in Washington DC could shake up the global ransomware ecosystem and give law enforcement sweeping new powers
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08 Aug 2024
Ofcom issues online safety warning to firms in wake of UK riots
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonOfcom has issued a warning reminding social media firms of their upcoming online safety obligations, after misinformation about the Southport stabbings sparked racist riots throughout the UK
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08 Aug 2024
Accountants predict AI-driven business surge
By Stephen PritchardArtificial intelligence looks likely to improve business, but ethics, data quality and skills shortages remain barriers to take-up
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07 Aug 2024
Walz, Harris' VP pick, made Minn. a leader in AI regulation
By Makenzie HollandMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz supports climate action and released a Climate Action Framework detailing steps for the state to become carbon neutral by 2050.
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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
Maintel strategy underpins progress made in H1
By Simon QuickeComms specialist Maintel shares trading update on its strategy to secure contracts, stating that it is heading in the right direction
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07 Aug 2024
Acronis signals increased support for MSPs after landing fresh backer
By Simon QuickeSecurity player intends to build on track record of developing programmes and products that support managed service provider community
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07 Aug 2024
Rocketing AI demand sees Lumen light up custom networks division
By Joe O’HalloranConnectivity provider shakes up corporate structure in response to artificial intelligence economy changing business operations and companies recognising need for powerful network to manage unprecedented data flows and demand
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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
Advanced faces fine over LockBit attack that crippled NHS 111
By Alex ScroxtonAdvanced Software faces a multimillion pound fine for a series of failings which directly led to a 2022 LockBit ransomware attack that disrupted NHS and social care services across the UK
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06 Aug 2024
Labour drops Edinburgh exascale supercomputer but funds more AI
By Cliff SaranThe £1.3bn pledge by the former government to build an £800m supercomputer in Edinburgh has gone – but there’s new money for artificial intelligence
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06 Aug 2024
Judge will face remedy challenge in Google antitrust case
By Makenzie HollandRemedies in the Google online search antitrust case could include eliminating the company's use of distribution contracts that cemented Google as a default setting.
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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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06 Aug 2024
The Prince’s Trust partners with tech company to draw kids into sector
By Clare McDonaldNew programme from The Prince’s Trust sees partnership with tech company encourage young people into the IT sector
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06 Aug 2024
Court document reveals Google’s strategy to dodge Department of Justice
By Cliff SaranGoogle got away with various practices to avoid scrutiny from regulators, but has been found guilty of acting in an anti-competitive way in the US
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06 Aug 2024
IR35 public sector reforms: Chancellor urged to review departmental costs generated by blanket bans
By Caroline DonnellyChancellor Rachel Reeves urged to review ‘non-essential’ departmental spend since the introduction of IR35 reforms in April 2017 as part of her push to close £22bn public spending gap inherited from the Conservatives
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06 Aug 2024
How Darussalam Assets is tapping AI in HR operations
By Aaron TanBrunei’s Darussalam Assets is leveraging the artificial intelligence capabilities in SAP SuccessFactors to generate job descriptions and optimise recruitment processes
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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
World’s largest companies at near-universal risk of supply chain breach
By Alex ScroxtonData from SecurityScorecard once again focuses on the interconnected nature of business supply chains and the risk posed to operational resilience by unexpected IT problems and cyber threats
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05 Aug 2024
Russia’s luxury car phish continues to prove effective
By Alex ScroxtonGovernment organisations and other bodies operating in Ukraine continue to be targeted by a relatively unsophisticated phishing campaign that has proven so effective for Russia’s cyber spooks that there are now multiple agencies involved
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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
Labour axes £1.3bn AI funding promised by the Conservatives
By Lis EvenstadGovernment scraps £1.3bn worth of AI and tech programmes launched by the Conservatives, but says it is committed to building technology infrastructure in the UK through its AI Opportunities Action Plan
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02 Aug 2024
UK broadband altnets unite to push for fairer access regulation, pricing
By Joe O’HalloranFive of the UK’s largest alternative fibre network operators have come together to create an alliance and call on UK comms regulator to ensure fair and equal access for all users of nation’s physical infrastructure
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02 Aug 2024
Second round of ChipStart sees 11 more companies receive support
By Cliff SaranGovernment-backed ChipStart initiative aims to support UK startups developing semiconductor technology
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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
Warren slams legal challenges to FTC noncompete ban
By Makenzie HollandAs the FTC noncompete ban faces legal challenges, some in Congress including Sen. Elizabeth Warren are supporting the FTC's authority to create such a rule.
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01 Aug 2024
Enterprises struggle to find business value with GenAI
By Antone GonsalvesEnterprises chase an impractical immediate payback from GenAI and miss opportunities to use less expensive machine learning to solve problems, experts say.
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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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01 Aug 2024
Scottish government to roll out digital evidence sharing
By Lis EvenstadFollowing a controversial pilot scheme, Scotland is investing £33m in deploying digital evidence sharing technology nationally
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01 Aug 2024
Community care neglected in national digital transformation efforts
By Lis EvenstadDigital technologies could help the government’s ambition of delivering care at home for longer, but community services suffer from a lack of basic technologies and access to funding, according to the King’s Fund
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01 Aug 2024
Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud
By Alex ScroxtonA Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud
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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
U.S. top science chief says federal AI R&D spending lagging
By Makenzie HollandWhile the U.S. spends billions on broader R&D efforts annually, the Office of Science and Technology Policy is advocating for increased funding for AI research.
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31 Jul 2024
Campaigners call for evidence to reform UK cyber laws
By Alex ScroxtonThe CyberUp Campaign for reform of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act launches an industry survey inviting cyber experts to share their views on how the outdated law hinders legitimate work
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31 Jul 2024
Court overturns Appian’s $2bn trade secrets award against Pegasystems
By Bill GoodwinBusiness process management software suppliers Pegasystems and Appian head for retrial after a judge finds flaws in trade secrets trial
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31 Jul 2024
Poor connectivity holding back rural Britain
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from leading UK operator warns the nation is sleepwalking into a countryside crisis, with 4.6 million rural residents considering moving to a town or city in the next 12 months
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31 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service confirms resignation of second director in two weeks
By Caroline DonnellyCompanies House filing states the Police Digital Service has said goodbye to non-executive director Allan Fairley, with a representative from the company confirming his departure is for ‘conflict of interest’ reasons
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31 Jul 2024
Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTo increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives
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31 Jul 2024
SysGroup backing artificial intelligence
By Simon QuickeFirm shares FY numbers and indicates it is committed to investing in artificial intelligence to position itself as an expert provider to the SME community
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31 Jul 2024
Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2024
By Clare McDonaldTell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2024 list of the 50 most influential women in UK technology
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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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31 Jul 2024
Microsoft set to spend more than $13bn on AI and cloud datacentres
By Cliff SaranArtificial intelligence is driving the Microsoft business, with the company investing in infrastructure to support AI inference workloads as demand picks up
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31 Jul 2024
Breach costs soar as record ransomware payment made
By Alex ScroxtonIBM publishes data on the spiralling costs of cyber attacks and data breaches, while researchers identify what appears to be the largest ransomware payment ever made
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30 Jul 2024
How India is driving road safety with technology
By Pratima HarigunaniTraffic departments, law enforcers and new-tech players are betting on technology tools such as AI-powered drones and mobile apps to improve road safety across India
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30 Jul 2024
Microsoft, SecOps pros weigh kernel access post-CrowdStrike
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft will explore alternatives to direct kernel access for partners following the CrowdStrike outage. But some IT pros worry that change could do more harm than good.
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30 Jul 2024
How to stop AI costs from soaring
By Cliff SaranGenerative AI promises to improve business efficiency, but Gartner has found many projects are failing to get beyond pilot roll-outs
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30 Jul 2024
UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up
By Cliff SaranThe Competition and Markets Authority is looking at whether Alphabet’s $2bn investment in AI startup Anthropic is anti-competitive
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30 Jul 2024
Core British Library services to return for new academic year
By Alex ScroxtonThe British Library’s recovery from a devastating ransomware attack that laid waste to its IT systems continues - with hopes that some of its most popular services will be running again in September
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30 Jul 2024
Lemongrass taking advantage of SAP cloud moves
By Simon QuickeVendor’s encouragement to customers to adopt its Rise technology has opened up opportunities for its channel
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30 Jul 2024
ADP and Khipu Networks partner to offer data protection
By Simon QuickeThe two managed service providers will work together to get data resilience options in front of more Khipu customers
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30 Jul 2024
GP digital tools could cause patients harm, says report
By Lis EvenstadInvestigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body finds some online tools used in general practices could cause risk to patient safety and impact GP workload
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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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30 Jul 2024
APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS
By Aaron TanAccenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS
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29 Jul 2024
UK government sets up AI action plan unit
New government has ambitious plans to use AI to grow the economy, and has hired a tech entrepreneur to help guide the strategy
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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
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
Exclusive heading back into private hands
By Simon QuickeDistributor’s board and founder back bid to usher in fresh majority shareholder
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
By Simon QuickeDistributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France
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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
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28 Jul 2024
Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC
By Aaron TanAt least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
Interview: Abhijit Dubey, global CEO, NTT Data
By Bryan GlickA merger between NTT Data and NTT Ltd has created a $30bn tech services and consulting business. We speak to its new CEO to find out what it has to offer IT leaders
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26 Jul 2024
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
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26 Jul 2024
T-Mobile, KKR form fibre joint venture to acquire Metronet
By Joe O’HalloranUS 4G LTE and 5G network teams with global investment firm to take control of ISP, serving more than 300 communities across 17 states with multi-gigabit products to businesses
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26 Jul 2024
Vince Cable says the Post Office ‘lied’ to the government over Horizon issues
By Karl FlindersIn the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearings, Vince Cable and Greg Clark reflected on their time as the minister heading the department responsible for the Post Office
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26 Jul 2024
Revenues slip but BT claims solid Q1 2024
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco reports financial quarter with full-fibre roll-out at pace with more than a million households covered and total coverage now reaching 15 million premises
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26 Jul 2024
APAC mobile industry to surpass $1tn by 2030
By Aaron TanThe APAC region’s mobile industry is expected to exceed $1tn by 2030 due to the rapid adoption of 5G and AI technologies
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25 Jul 2024
Split court decision on FTC noncompete ban adds uncertainty
By Makenzie HollandWhile a Texas court preliminarily decided the FTC noncompete ban isn't enforceable, a Pennsylvania court decided it is, leaving businesses without a set direction.
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25 Jul 2024
North Korean cyber APT targeting nuclear secrets
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant has upgraded the North Korean threat actor known as Andariel to APT status and warned of coordinated efforts to steal western military IP, including nuclear secrets
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25 Jul 2024
Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft has pointed the finger at EU regulators, blaming them for a ruling that means it needs to offer third parties access to the core Windows OS
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25 Jul 2024
Fortune 500 stands to lose $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident
By Alex ScroxtonThe largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike-Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars
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25 Jul 2024
India bolsters digital agriculture and space tech in Budget 2024
By Kavitha SrinivasaIndia will extend its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector and set up a venture capital fund for space startups, among other tech initiatives in its latest Budget
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24 Jul 2024
FTC seeks to shed light on 'surveillance pricing'
By Makenzie HollandThe Federal Trade Commission's study of surveillance pricing might lead to defining what kind of consumer data can be used to affect prices of products and services.
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42
By Alex ScroxtonMimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
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24 Jul 2024
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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24 Jul 2024
SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness
By Cliff SaranThe SAP CEO said the quiet part out loud while answering a question on the cloud backlog during the company’s most recent earnings call
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24 Jul 2024
ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford for introducing facial recognition and failing to conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment and obtain the explicit consent of students
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24 Jul 2024
The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship
By Bryan GlickComputer Weekly goes behind the scenes at the 152nd Open golf tournament to find out how private 5G, data visualisation and deep learning tools are enhancing the ancient traditions of the sport
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24 Jul 2024
New tech could help 18.6 million more NHS patients get better treatment
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from a leading UK operator calculates that almost two-fifths of NHS staff believe new digital tools could help the health service reach 3% to 5% more patients, potentially benefiting at least 51,000 more people daily
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24 Jul 2024
Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human
By Aaron TanQualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees
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24 Jul 2024
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
By Bill GoodwinDefence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
By Alex ScroxtonA three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
By Alex ScroxtonSecure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal
By Beth PariseauDatadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
By Cliff SaranThe ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
By Aaron TanHuawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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22 Jul 2024
Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
By Cliff SaranWe speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved