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20 Feb 2025
Sitecore, Adobe update customer data platforms
Adobe and Sitecore refresh CDPs for generative AI.
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20 Feb 2025
OCR: Warby Parker to pay $1.5M penalty for violating HIPAA
Warby Parker faces a $1.5 million penalty for violating HIPAA, OCR determined after launching an investigation into a 2018 credential stuffing cyberattack against the eyewear retailer.
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20 Feb 2025
CISA, FBI warn of Ghost/Cring ransomware attacks
Ghost is a China-based financially motivated ransomware group that has launched attacks against organizations in more than 70 countries -- including its own.
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20 Feb 2025
FDA approves Merilog, first NovoLog biosimilar for diabetes
The FDA approved Merilog (insulin-aspart-szjj), the first biosimilar to NovoLog, enhancing insulin accessibility and competition while potentially lowering costs.
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20 Feb 2025
Ambient scribing reduces cognitive burden of documentation
While ambient scribing shows promise for clinical documentation efficiency, the technology may be more suitable for certain specialties or workflows than others.
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20 Feb 2025
Zero-CVE Chainguard Images gain customization option
Chainguard opens its container image builder factory to let users mix and match hardened container components while preserving a zero-vulnerability SLA.
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20 Feb 2025
State of U.S. rural hospitals: No margin, no mission
Highlighting financial struggles, a new study reveals nearly half of U.S. rural hospitals face closures, service cuts and declining healthcare access for communities.
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20 Feb 2025
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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20 Feb 2025
Watchdog approves Sellafield physical security, but warns about cyber
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken Sellafield out of special measures for physical security, but harbours cyber security concerns
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle
It has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially
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20 Feb 2025
Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel
New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges.
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20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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19 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils world AI model for video games
The new type of foundation model is similar to Nvidia Cosmos. While it makes for a better gaming experience, it's also applicable to enterprises.
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19 Feb 2025
Healthcare cyberattacks continue to escalate in 2025
Healthcare cyberattacks, third-party data breaches and supply chain attacks remain top concerns for healthcare security professionals in 2025, Health-ISAC found.
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19 Feb 2025
Most patients do not trust health systems to use AI responsibly
Trust in health systems to use AI responsibility and protect them from AI harm is low among patients, indicating the need to improve health system trustworthiness.
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19 Feb 2025
Abortion bans affect access in states without restrictions
A new study showed that a Texas abortion ban led to care delays for everyone accessing the procedure in Colorado, a state without restrictions.
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19 Feb 2025
CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan
Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan
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19 Feb 2025
Kaseya boss looks back on his time at the helm
As he moves into a vice-chairman position, the boss at the managed service provider tools specialist reviews the progress made under his leadership
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19 Feb 2025
TD Synnex hands Andy Brown responsibility for driving AI programme
Distributor continues to put muscle behind data, analytics and artificial intelligence with latest senior appointment
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19 Feb 2025
ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity
Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap
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19 Feb 2025
European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties
Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities
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19 Feb 2025
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger
Russia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk
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18 Feb 2025
Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities
The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption
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18 Feb 2025
XAI's Grok-3 highlights openness and transparency concerns
The AI startup's new Grok model has 10 times more compute power than the previous generation. XAI also introduced reasoning capabilities that it says surpass reasoning models.
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18 Feb 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments
The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy AI on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story
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18 Feb 2025
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability exploited in the wild
Palo Alto Networks says threat actors used a publicly available PoC exploit in attack attempts against firewall customers with PAN-OS management interfaces exposed to the internet.
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18 Feb 2025
U.S. healthcare spending soars on diabetes, heart diseases
Cardiovascular diseases were the costliest conditions, while U.S. healthcare spending on type 2 diabetes beat out other single conditions, according to a new study.
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18 Feb 2025
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use
Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study
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18 Feb 2025
Evolve IP teams up with Cavell to share market insights
Comms channel player working with market watcher to make sure partners can identify opportunities provoked by an evolving landscape
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18 Feb 2025
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre
Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea
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18 Feb 2025
Cyber Monitoring Centre develops hurricane scale to count cost of cyber attacks
A non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1-to-5 scale borrowed from hurricane classification
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18 Feb 2025
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents
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18 Feb 2025
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
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18 Feb 2025
CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security
At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities
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17 Feb 2025
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery
Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years
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17 Feb 2025
The Security Interviews: Yevgeny Dibrov, Armis
Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov talks about how his military service and intelligence work opened the door into the world of cyber security entrepreneurship
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17 Feb 2025
AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research
Retailers should be using artificial intelligence to increase brand loyalty through personalisation, according to research
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17 Feb 2025
Rapid7 channel programme emerges from partner dialogue
Security player’s director of global partner programmes outlines the process and ambitions that supported its recently launched PACT offering
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17 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Last week saw ATSG solidify its management structure after the Evolve IP merger, plus some personnel moves at BCS, Fivetran, Armis and Rimes
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17 Feb 2025
Liverpool reinvents customer service through digital platform
Liverpool City Council wants to improve residents’ experience of dealing with the council, and sees digital technologies as key to achieving its goal
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14 Feb 2025
Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association
A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face
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14 Feb 2025
SailPoint IPO highlights importance of identity
Security player’s distributor views move as a moment that validates the market, as well as its involvement with the vendor
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14 Feb 2025
SAP data cloud, Databricks integration aims to unify AI data
SAP unveiled a Business Data Cloud platform and Databricks partnership to support customers in AI projects, which analysts bill as an important evolution of data management.
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14 Feb 2025
NHS launches breast cancer AI trial
The trial will see 700,000 women taking part in artificial intelligence-based screening for breast cancer, looking at whether use of technology can help identify signs of cancer earlier
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14 Feb 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Geographic expansion, partner programmes, fresh warehouses and attempts to increase trust levels in artificial intelligence have all been happening over the past few days
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14 Feb 2025
Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner
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14 Feb 2025
Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing
Government announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change
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14 Feb 2025
Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia
Doug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI
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14 Feb 2025
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic
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14 Feb 2025
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data
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13 Feb 2025
Trump actions could undermine EEOC AI bias efforts
The Trump administration has removed EEOC AI bias guidance. Experts say states and courts might take the lead in regulating AI hiring practices.
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13 Feb 2025
Users eye LaunchDarkly experiments boost with Houseware buy
LaunchDarkly customers envision fresh opportunities for app development and business alignment with a new data warehouse option on the back end.
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13 Feb 2025
Aggressive deregulation creates risky business environment
Through DOGE, President Donald Trump is cutting work and funding to federal agencies to overhaul business rules and regulations in the U.S.
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13 Feb 2025
Salt Typhoon compromises telecom providers' Cisco devices
Salt Typhoon's latest campaign exploits older vulnerabilities in Cisco edge devices to gain access to the networks of several telecom companies, including two based in the U.S.
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13 Feb 2025
Brightline to pay $7M to resolve Fortra hack lawsuit
A judge approved a $7M settlement to be paid by virtual mental health provider Brightline over the 2023 Fortra hack claimed by Clop ransomware actors.
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.
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13 Feb 2025
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
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13 Feb 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed as HHS Secretary
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary in a controversial vote, despite criticism over his anti-vaccine views and opposition from many physicians.
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13 Feb 2025
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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13 Feb 2025
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.
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13 Feb 2025
Exploring healthcare's third-party risk management gaps
Health IT practitioners understand the scope of third-party risks, but barriers to employing effective third-party risk management strategies persist.
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13 Feb 2025
Cisco rides the AI boon
Cisco reported a 9% revenue increase, driven by AI demand. The company plans to launch new AI infrastructure products, focusing on enterprise data center trends.
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13 Feb 2025
Advania UK unveils unified leadership team
To integrate its recent acquisitions, Microsoft partner Advania UK has established a structure to oversee all operations
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13 Feb 2025
Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa
Lithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills
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13 Feb 2025
Insight lists AI, security and 5G among channel opportunities
Channel player Insight is the latest to share its view of which trends are worth getting involved with this year
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13 Feb 2025
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
The launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University
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13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
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12 Feb 2025
Docker Inc. CEO swap has analysts anticipating a sale
Industry watchers see the takeover by a former Oracle exec as the precursor to merging with a broader software development portfolio at a larger company.
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12 Feb 2025
Thomson Reuters win not telling of other AI fair use lawsuits
A judge rules in favor of the media company. However, the decision will likely not significantly affect generative AI lawsuits still waiting for a court ruling.
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12 Feb 2025
Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products
Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings.
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12 Feb 2025
Fortinet discloses second authentication bypass vulnerability
Fortinet disclosed CVE-2025-24472 in an updated advisory that confused some in the infosec community because it stated that 'reports show this is being exploited in the wild.'
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12 Feb 2025
Physician enthusiasm for healthcare AI rises, concerns linger
While 68% of physicians report advantages to healthcare AI, many physicians have lingering concerns regarding privacy risks, EHR integration and a lack of oversight.
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
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12 Feb 2025
Emerging vision risks linked to semaglutide, tirzepatide
Recent data points to potential ophthalmic complications, including optic neuropathy and maculopathy, in patients treated with semaglutide and tirzepatide.
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12 Feb 2025
AvePoint increases MSP support as Acronis warns they are targets
Managed service providers set to benefit from improvement to vendor’s platform at a time when criminals have them firmly in their sights
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12 Feb 2025
Private equity behind large healthcare bankruptcies in 2024
Private equity played a major role in 2024 healthcare bankruptcies, accounting for 21% of cases, with critics blaming cost-cutting and short-term profit strategies.
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12 Feb 2025
Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending
Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets
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12 Feb 2025
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical
Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
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12 Feb 2025
Conscia expands UK presence as ITGL buys ISN
Danish player’s Portsmouth-based operation bolsters its position in the Cisco channel with M&A move
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12 Feb 2025
Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development
The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.
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12 Feb 2025
Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics
Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.
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12 Feb 2025
MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth
MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges
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12 Feb 2025
Crayon looking for public sector growth
Ahead of its tie-up with SoftwareOne, the firm’s CEO outlined its fourth quarter performance and touched on her hopes for 2025
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12 Feb 2025
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement
Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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12 Feb 2025
AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?
Thought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society
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12 Feb 2025
Preventive care access among women low amid info desert
Preventive care access among women was low in the past 12 months amid issues with information access and affordability.
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12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption
At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
Microsoft plugs two zero-days for February Patch Tuesday
The company corrects active exploits in vulnerable Windows systems, one of which could give the attacker complete control if successful.
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
CEO testifies on federal agencies as lawmakers clash on Musk
Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith testified that federal agencies like the FTC engage in regulatory overreach, and that their power should receive more oversight.
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11 Feb 2025
Cisco launches Smart Switches with AMD DPUs for security
Cisco introduces the Smart Switch series, as enterprises refresh networks in preparation for running AI models and applications.
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11 Feb 2025
OpenAI CEO says 'no, thank you' to Musk's $97B bid
The offer to buy OpenAI is the latest in a back-and-forth between two tech titans, and creates a distraction from bigger issues such as AI governance.
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11 Feb 2025
Apple zero day used in 'extremely sophisticated attack'
CVE-2025-24200 is a zero-day vulnerability that bypasses Apple's USB Restricted Mode in iPhones and iPads and was exploited in the wild against 'specific targeted individuals.'
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11 Feb 2025
Intel loses AI head Justin Hotard to Nokia
AI and data center chief Justin Hotard will leave Intel to become Nokia's CEO as the company struggles to regain its footing in the data center market.
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11 Feb 2025
MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash
Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years
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11 Feb 2025
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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11 Feb 2025
OUD patients on Medicaid face telehealth barriers
Medicaid patients with opioid use disorder were less likely to use telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic than those with private insurance, highlighting access barriers.