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19 Mar 2025
BianLian ransom demand hoax circulates via snail mail
The FBI and AHA warned of a ransom demand hoax in which the sender, who communicates through physical letters, claims to be part of the BianLian ransomware group.
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19 Mar 2025
Process mining vendor Celonis sues SAP over data access
Celonis slaps SAP with a lawsuit over third-party access to data for its process mining applications.
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19 Mar 2025
Interview: Cynthia Stoddard, CIO, Adobe
After nearly 10 years in post, Adobe’s CIO is still driving digital transformation and looking to deliver lasting change through technology
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19 Mar 2025
Softcat boss feeling optimistic as firm shares H1 results
As Softcat shares its H1 numbers, its CEO outlines why the channel player is well-positioned to take advantage of improving customer demand
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19 Mar 2025
HP announces improved compensation package
Vendor’s Amplify event used to talk of increased benefits, greater artificial intelligence support and progress on sustainability programme
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19 Mar 2025
Clop resurgence drives ransomware attacks in February
The exploitation of two new vulnerabilities in a popular file transfer service saw the Clop ransomware gang soar in February, according to NCC
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19 Mar 2025
Nokia unveils 25G PON fibre modems
In first of a series of launches of optical technologies, Nokia aims to make large-scale multi-gig and 10G+ modems viable and affordable
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19 Mar 2025
Optum RX targets cuts to prior authorization for some meds
The move to scrap reauthorization for 80 prescription drugs will ultimately eliminate 10% of prior authorization requirements.
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19 Mar 2025
Softcat ahead of expectations after solid first half
Channel player shares results for the first six months of its fiscal year with double-digit growth across all the key metrics
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19 Mar 2025
5M would lose coverage with national Medicaid work requirements
An analysis shows massive coverage losses if Congress passes national Medicaid work requirement as a way to reduce federal healthcare spending.
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19 Mar 2025
Zoom debuts new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion
AI-first work platform provider expands agentic skills across the entire portfolio using reasoning and memory to take action and orchestrate task execution, conversational self-service and custom agent creation
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19 Mar 2025
HPE teams up with Nvidia for enterprise AI solutions
Leading networking tech firm latest to get on board agentic AI road in partnership with GPU leader focusing on customer transformation with new enterprise AI solutions and enhancements encompassing data management and storage.
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19 Mar 2025
Deepmind founder warns of compounding AI agent errors
Artificial general intelligence may be years away, but in the meantime, organisations are being urged to adopt agent technology
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19 Mar 2025
Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation
After raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform.
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19 Mar 2025
How Telefónica avoided VMware price hike
While some some organisations look for alternatives to VMware, Telefónica Germany has taken a different approach based on third-party support
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19 Mar 2025
Former subpostmaster to sue Post Office and Fujitsu for judgment ‘obtained by fraud’
Lee Castleton, one of a group of seven former subpostmasters who began the fight against the Post Office in 2009, triggers ‘seismic’ shift in Post Office scandal
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19 Mar 2025
Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data
The vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications.
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18 Mar 2025
Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture
New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy
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18 Mar 2025
Nvidia aims at agents, physical AI with reasoning models
The AI hardware and software vendor launched Llama Nemotron, a family of open source models for agentic AI. It also introduced Cosmos Reason.
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18 Mar 2025
Local digital government needs overhaul, says Future Governance Forum report
Future Governance Forum calls for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government
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18 Mar 2025
As lawsuits pile up, Section 230 shields digital platforms
Section 230 immunity and First Amendment rights create a staggering challenge for legal teams looking to hold social media platforms accountable for alleged harms.
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18 Mar 2025
Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions
In a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments
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18 Mar 2025
Storage metadata services for AI apps trending at Nvidia GTC
Nvidia's GTC show once again places AI applications at center stage, with storage vendors seeing their platforms' metadata capabilities as a key development component.
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18 Mar 2025
Formula 1 accelerates decision response with team content delivery
AI services and digital transformation specialist claims to have halved crucial response times in Formula 1, redefining how teams analyse race data in real time
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18 Mar 2025
MedPAC proposes tying physician pay to inflation
MedPAC recommended that Congress link the 2026 physician payment update to the Medicare Economic Index minus one percentage point.
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18 Mar 2025
EXA Infrastructure, Ultranet build fibre route across key Italian cities
Dedicated digital infrastructure provider and independent carrier-to-carrier operator and fibre infrastructure owner team to enhance diversity on a key corridor for subsea cable data traffic
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18 Mar 2025
Adobe joins agentic AI fray with platform, prebuilt agents
2025 is the Year of Agentic AI -- and it's only March.
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18 Mar 2025
Prompt engineering takes shape for devs as agentic AI dawns
Real-world best practices are emerging at companies such as LinkedIn, Oracle and AWS, and agentic AI is poised to fundamentally alter the day-to-day work of software engineers.
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18 Mar 2025
Hospital financial performance stable as volumes rise
Hospital financial performance was offset by rising overall volumes in January 2025 despite increasing hospital expenses, especially drug costs.
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18 Mar 2025
Shares rise on North American performance at Computacenter
UK performance in contrast to North America is disappointing as customers continue to show hesitancy in signing off orders
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18 Mar 2025
Participation in rural hospital cybersecurity program grows
One-third of all U.S. rural hospitals are now participating in Microsoft's rural hospital cybersecurity program as cyber risks continue to grow.
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18 Mar 2025
IR35: Research highlights rise in outside IR35 engagements among contractors
Qdos research shows 'tide is turning' on company attitudes towards hiring outside IR35 contractors
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18 Mar 2025
AI will improve MSP profitability
Tools that increase automation and free up valuable time for partners with customers will improve life for channel players, says Kaseya
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18 Mar 2025
Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project
Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network
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18 Mar 2025
Bytes signals financial milestone has been hit
In a trading statement ahead of its full-year results, channel player Bytes indicates it has broken through the £2bn barrier on gross invoiced income
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18 Mar 2025
Everywoman announces 2025 Women in Technology Awards winners
Network for women in business, Everywoman, has announced the winners of this year’s technology awards, in partnership with Bupa
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18 Mar 2025
Cisco unveils Webex agentic AI systems to automate CX, EX
Mission to transform contact centres into customer experience centres sees systems for core collaboration platform designed to predict and automate customer and employee experiences
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18 Mar 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves of note over the past week at Six Degrees, Business Systems, MLL Telecom, Claroty and Sysdig
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18 Mar 2025
Interconnect infrastructure set for sixfold increase in bandwidth demand
Global survey explores networking needs for artificial intelligence era as more than half of IT professional believe AI workloads will place the biggest demand on datacentre interconnect infrastructure over the next three years
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18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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18 Mar 2025
Seaco charts course for unified security strategy
Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations
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17 Mar 2025
Baidu's low-priced new AI models bring questions about cost
The Chinese tech vendor said its reasoning model matches DeepSeek's performance, at half the price. It's unclear how much the vendor spent to build it.
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17 Mar 2025
GitHub Actions supply chain attack spotlights CI/CD risks
Experts say a GitHub Actions vulnerability should renew enterprises' attention to securing build pipelines the same way they secure production environments.
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17 Mar 2025
Cisco makes Webex AI updates widely available
The Cisco AI Assistant in Webex Contact Center and the Webex AI Agent for self-service customer support are now generally available. More AI features are coming.
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17 Mar 2025
PSNI’s ‘ridiculous’ withholding of evidence in spying operation delayed court hearings
Landmark ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal will decide whether the surveillance court can award costs against government bodies accused of unreasonable behaviour
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17 Mar 2025
Microsoft takes Teams Phone to Dynamics 365 Contact Center
Microsoft's updates for Teams Phone include Dynamics 365 Contact Center integration and Copilot features to improve customer service.
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17 Mar 2025
Zoom advances AI Companion with agentic AI
Zoom's AI Companion improvements include automated tasks, better action item detection and real-time note taking. The new features will be launched in stages through mid-2025.
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17 Mar 2025
Online Safety Act measures come into effect
Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material
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17 Mar 2025
Physicians lose the most from provider credentialing delays
With average provider credentialing delays of 90-120 days, healthcare professionals are losing substantial revenue, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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17 Mar 2025
Qualtrics releases employee, customer service AI agents
Qualtrics joins the agentic AI free-for-all in CX.
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17 Mar 2025
Who takes responsibility? Birmingham’s ERP extraordinary meeting
Council members took the opportunity to raise their concerns during the Birmingham City Council ERP meeting, which took place on 11 March
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17 Mar 2025
Private cellular network market projected to grow 114% by 2028
Global private cellular network revenue will reach $12.2bn by 2028, a significant increase from $5.7bn in 2025, but 5G tech sales are not taking off as quickly as expected
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17 Mar 2025
Genesys, Google add to contact center generative AI services
Genesys and Google roll out their next wave of AI tools for customer service.
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17 Mar 2025
Hetzner enhances datacentre core network infrastructure
Hosting company taps tech provider to futureproof datacentre and core network infrastructure to support growing digital demands with architecture supporting 400G and 800G interconnectivity
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17 Mar 2025
Satellite technology to provide broadband to remote areas of Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Council harnesses low Earth orbit technology to serve the most remote areas of the county with ultrafast broadband
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17 Mar 2025
Tech career interest higher among SEND pupils
Research by EngineeringUK and The Royal Society has found that students with special educational needs have more interest in tech careers than other pupils
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17 Mar 2025
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue
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14 Mar 2025
AI in the workplace: Businesses brace for new rules
States are tightening rules on AI in the workplace, while the federal government pushes for deregulation, setting up a battle over hiring and bias laws.
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14 Mar 2025
Apple encryption legal challenge heard behind closed doors despite calls for public hearing
Investigatory Powers Tribunal hearing held behind closed doors as press and civil society groups argue for open hearings
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14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out
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14 Mar 2025
Lawmakers reintroduce MATCH IT Act for patient matching
The bipartisan Match IT Act of 2025 aims to establish patient matching standards to enhance patient safety and reduce healthcare costs associated with duplicate medical records.
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14 Mar 2025
Sigma Computing launches Data Apps to boost analytics
The vendor's new application development feature enables users to create custom apps that combine data collection, insight generation and process automation to improve analysis.
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14 Mar 2025
New ML tool enables more equitable genomic research
A new machine learning tool could help reduce ancestral bias in genetic data, improving equity in genomic research and personalizing care across diverse populations.
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14 Mar 2025
Digital connectivity becomes catalyst for thriving farming in Wales
Investments in in high-speed broadband in rural communities across Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea enables introduction of internet of things technology to benefit businesses, including farms
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14 Mar 2025
Can a future digital NHS survive another change?
Computer Weekly looks at the prime minister’s decision to abolish NHS England and the potential impact on the progress of digitising the NHS
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14 Mar 2025
Amazon exec: New AWS S3 capabilities highly adopted by users
AWS Storage VP Andrew Warfield talks about how customers are using the latest feature launches from the Amazon S3 team as part of the vendor's Pi Day 2025 conference.
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14 Mar 2025
Microsoft, DE-CIX plot MAPS for SaaS enterprise connectivity
Noting that 82% of enterprises underestimate the lagging effect of packet loss on the performance of SaaS applications, global internet exchange operator and IT behemoth partner to optimise cloud connectivity
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14 Mar 2025
Will Whitehall withstand Starmer’s AI revolution?
As the prime minister sets out plans for the use of artificial intelligence to take over civil service tasks, Computer Weekly looks at potential challenges and concerns around the decision
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14 Mar 2025
AWS unifies analytics and AI development in SageMaker
In a move that brings previously disparate analytics and AI development tasks together in one environment with data management, Unified Studio is now generally available.
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14 Mar 2025
Minister asks for evidence of Post Office ECCO+ system problems
Subpostmaster federation is calling on former Post Office crown branch staff to come forward if they experienced problems with ECCO+
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14 Mar 2025
Qualcomm and Palantir extend AI to the edge for industrial IoT
Qualcomm Technologies teams with Palantir to run artificial intelligence capabilities on advanced edge computing platforms enabling real-time insights and data-driven decisions in industrial use cases
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14 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Exertis Supplies, Softcat, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Fivetran, SUSE and Centreon
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13 Mar 2025
Chinese espionage group UNC3886 targets Juniper routers
Advanced persistent threat group UNC3886 deployed custom backdoors on end-of-life Juniper Networks routers, underscoring the need for timely patching and advanced security monitoring
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13 Mar 2025
Medical device report delays raise safety concerns
A BMJ study finds nearly one-third of medical device makers submit adverse event reports late, with 54.8% linked to 3 manufacturers and 13 devices, raising safety concerns.
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13 Mar 2025
US Congress demands UK lifts gag on Apple encryption order
Apple and Google have told US lawmakers that they cannot tell Congress whether they have received technical capability notices from the UK
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13 Mar 2025
Sky Business finds louder voice for collaboration
Business-to-business division of media and entertainment company announces communications platform to help UK firms boost productivity and collaboration by integrating advanced features like video conferencing
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13 Mar 2025
Channel express concerns over lack of cloud skills
The pressure is on to meet customer demand for hosted services, but some resellers lack the cloud skills to meet that need
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13 Mar 2025
YouFibre takes 400G connectivity option at Manchester internet exchange
Independent full-fibre broadband provider becomes first ISP to take a 400G port at the London Internet Exchange’s regional interconnection hub in Manchester
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13 Mar 2025
Study: ML mortality prediction misses 66% of severe injuries
When given test cases with different injury levels, ML mortality prediction models gave inconsistent risk scores, overestimating moderate injuries and underestimating severe ones.
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13 Mar 2025
SuperBlack ransomware may have ties to LockBit
Forescout researchers report on a new ransomware gang that appears to be keeping the legacy of the notorious LockBit crew alive
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13 Mar 2025
HMRC looks to upgrade SOC with advanced SIEM tech
HMRC issues a request for information notice ahead of opening up bids for a new security information and event management project that aims to reinforce its ability to respond to cyber threats
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13 Mar 2025
SCC steps up sustainability efforts
Channel player SCC works to share more emissions data with customers and provide asset disposal for those looking to upgrade devices to Windows 11
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13 Mar 2025
Starmer to send AI tech teams into government departments
In his plans to reform the state, the prime minister is pushing for artificial intelligence to take on tasks for civil servants and calling time on NHS England
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13 Mar 2025
Government announces inevitable end to Payments Services Regulator
The government has abolished the Payments Services Regulator and will move responsibilities to Financial Conduct Authority
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13 Mar 2025
Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies biometric data would be repurposed in this way
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13 Mar 2025
AT&T claims long-distance fibre network speed record
US communications giant completes ‘the highest speed’ across a single wavelength with 1.6 Tbps data transport on its commercial infrastructure
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13 Mar 2025
Cato claims end to network patching with SASE-native LAN NGFW
Leading SASE provider unveils ‘the world’s first’ SASE-native local area network next-generation firewall to address longstanding IT pain point for firewall appliances
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13 Mar 2025
IR35 reforms: HMRC’s assessment of private sector impacts called into question
HM Revenue & Customs recently published figures that show it generated £1.8bn more than expected from private sector roll-out of IR35 reforms, but those figures are being called into question
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13 Mar 2025
WBBA: AI, Net5.5G pivotal to achieving next-generation broadband networks
Whitepaper from broadband trade association WBBA outlines uses of AI during the pre-deployment phases of broadband networks and how this can assist in network planning and expansion decisions
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13 Mar 2025
Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC
Fujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer
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13 Mar 2025
Orange and Telesat team for LEO satellite connectivity and terrestrial infrastructure
Leading global telco inks multi-year partnership with satellite operators for low Earth orbit connectivity and terrestrial comms infrastructure
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13 Mar 2025
Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge
As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery
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12 Mar 2025
Intel appoints ex-Cadence CEO amid turnaround struggles
Intel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the next CEO responsible for revitalizing the struggling chipmaker and transforming it into a contract manufacturer.
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12 Mar 2025
Building AI agents a headache for tech leaders
While companies like OpenAI and Salesforce offer tools to build AI agents, tech leaders are struggling to understand and adapt the technology within their offerings.
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12 Mar 2025
Druva founder and CEO talks Azure integration, IPO and AI
In this Q&A, Druva founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh talks about the SaaS platform's latest integration with Azure, if an IPO is in the future and the Dru AI copilots.
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12 Mar 2025
Google's Gemma 3 can run on a single TPU or GPU
Google says the new models are user-friendly, tailored for edge devices and cost-effective.
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12 Mar 2025
N-Able CEO: MSPs are getting deeper into the enterprise
Following on from its recently published Horizons report, the N-Able’s boss shares his views on the state of the market
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12 Mar 2025
BT claims first successful trial of MAUD live streaming platform
UK telco’s multicast-assisted unicast delivery platform sees initial usage, demonstrating promised ability to flatten peaks of network traffic
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12 Mar 2025
Providers face $80B losses without Medicaid expansion
If states drop Medicaid expansion following funding cuts, providers could face substantial revenue losses and higher uncompensated care costs in 2026, according to a new analysis.
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12 Mar 2025
Apple slated in CMA mobile browser investigation
Apple policies are main focus, but Google doesn’t escape the regulator’s scrutiny either, with its business practices to promote Chrome coming under fire
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12 Mar 2025
Vast Data targets secure, speedy agentic AI development
The vendor is furthering its expansion into AI development with features such as vector search and event streaming aimed at enabling users to build and maintain agents.
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12 Mar 2025
Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play
Salesforce executives present its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a ‘whole system’ approach not hung up on large language models. They say it is a ‘holy trinity’ of data, apps and agents