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• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Deepfake AI scammers target the Big Yin

  Cyber criminal scammers exploiting GenAI to create deepfake AI tools are targeting one of the UKs most beloved comics, and one of its strongest accents.

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  ISACA launches AI security management certification

  ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Lumen lights up 400GB datacentre connectivity to fuel AI

  Network expansion across 16 major US metro markets and more than 70 third-party datacentres designed to support AI-first planning and multi-cloud architectures aimed to ensure high-performance environment for business applications

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  O2 to upgrade Haven holiday parks mobile networks

  O2 continues programme of mobile upgrades at holiday locations with announcement of enhancements to networks at 22 UK sites, aimed at ensuring connectivity can keep up with increasing customer demand

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  HPE taps into AI market demand with Nvidia Blackwell-powered servers

  HPE’s latest Nvidia Blackwell-powered GPU servers are due to start shipping soon, but could enterprises face delays when trying to get hold of them?

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  AI, streaming to deliver ‘network crunch’ by 2030

  Research from carrier routing software provider finds that despite significant investment in AI, operators admit they can’t fully optimise networks without access to more real-time data and network modernisation delayed through staff issues

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Interview: Differentiating with AI in pet care

  We speak to Mars Petcare’s head of digital innovation about making AI relevant across its brands to support pet health

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘back door’ demands against Apple

  US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘back door’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advanced encryption services to UK users

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Concierge now on call 24/7 for Zoom Phone

  AI-first work platform provider unveils integration of virtual agent with phone platform to deliver concierge experience for organisations that ‘goes beyond’ basic call answering services or auto-attendants

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training

  The Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  China Unicom 5G-A network powers world’s first humanoid robot games

  Leading Chinese telco offers robot showcase next-gen 5G network that supports embodied AI realising seamless connectivity for both spectators and robots even during peak usage

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  Workday hit in wave of social engineering attacks

  A campaign of voice-based social engineering attacks targeting users of Salesforce’s services appears to have struck HR platform Workday

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  Extremist hacker who defaced websites and stole data imprisoned

  Hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pled guilty to attacking multiple websites based on extremist political and religious ideology

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

  L’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  UK fibre broadband continues progress

  Study reveals continued pace of development of UK broadband market, with the number of fibre-to-the-premises locations rising 15.3% on an annual basis and the country’s leading provider passing fibre tipping point

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  AI advances clear path to software development careers

  Programming skills are always in demand, but with artificial intelligence, people will have to adapt their approach to writing code

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  Okta: AI adoption fuels problems for identity management

  Okta research indicates the emergence and growth of novel security problems, connected with the spread of AI agents and non-human identities

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  EE continues UK mobile leadership in first half of 2025

  Study of UK mobile market reveals ‘measurable’ performance differences between operators, with median 5G download speeds varying by more than 140Mbps between the fastest and slowest networks in some cities

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  DocuSign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

  DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Warlock claims ransomware attack on network services firm Colt

  UK network services firm Colt is attempting to recover various customer-facing systems following a cyber attack that has been claimed by the Warlock ransomware gang and may have arisen via a SharePoint flaw

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  UK cyber leaders feel impact of Trump cutbacks

  The ripple effects of US cyber security cutbacks have reached this side of the Atlantic, according to a report

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  US trade body calls on Washington to cut cyber red tape

  The US Information Technology Industry Council has called on the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director to cut burdensome regulations in areas such as AI and incident reporting, and to do more to build a unified security regime

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

  Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Whitehall IT projects face complex challenges, Nista report finds

  The annual report from the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority gives major police IT project ‘red’ rating, while several others are rated ‘amber’, including Gov.uk One Login and Making Tax Digital

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence

  US-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push

  The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  Vodafone Greece automates deals for customers, saves 500 staff-days of work

  Vodafone Greece hired an implementation partner for a business process management project while its own staff observed and learned how to use the technology

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

  The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  Private 5G market ‘nears mainstream’ with $5bn surge

  Study finds private cellular networks based on 3GPP-defined 5G specifications are just on the cusp of becoming a mainstream technology, with a market potential exceeding that of established private LTE

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  Zen Internet, Sky Business Wholesale ink Ethernet partnership

  Strategic partnership to see business customers gain access to Ethernet-enabled exchange footprint

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  What’s going on inside Intel?

  Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  More girls take A-level computing despite overall dip in numbers

  While there was an overall dip in the number of people taking computing A-levels this year, the number of girls taking the subject is still on the up

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  AST SpaceMobile hits launch button on satellite expansion

  Space-based cellular broadband network reveals plans to expand its satellite fleet by almost 10 times over the next 18 months

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  Professional services firms stuck in network security IT doom loop

  Survey reveals a widening disconnect in the professional services sector where, despite near-universal adoption of SaaS and cloud strategies, core network and security services are failing to keep up through the likes of SASE

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Fuel leak prompts Openreach full-fibre broadband upgrade

  UK’s leading broadband provider deploys full-fibre infrastructure to enhance rural England village’s connectivity following leak that diminished comms services

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  BlackSuit ransomware payment recovered in takedown operation

  US authorities reveal how over a million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency assets laundered by the BlackSuit ransomware gang were seized ahead of a July takedown operation

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Santander will make AI training mandatory for all staff in 2026

  Spanish banking giant announces mandatory AI training for staff, and collaborates with OpenAI on a ‘data and AI-first transformation’

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI

  The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  Fujitsu orders staff to retain Post Office-related documentation as it braces for legal action

  Japanese supplier tells all UK staff to preserve documents related to its work with the Post Office

• August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25

  ODI tells EU to balance AI safeguards with innovation promotion

  The Open Data Institute has published a manifesto to guide European Union data and artificial intelligence policy formation

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Eight critical RCE flaws make Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday list

  Microsoft rolls out fixes for over 100 CVEs in its August Patch Tuesday update

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Researchers firm up ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider link

  ReliaQuest researchers present new evidence that firms up a potential link, or outright partnership, between the ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider cyber gangs

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK work visa sponsors are target of phishing campaign

  Mimecast identifies a phishing campaign targeting UK organisations that sponsor migrant workers and students, opening the door to account compromise and visa fraud

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it

  Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want it to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native

  State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  MX Fiber extends gigabit access across south-east Mexico with optical network

  New photonic net in region traditionally underserved by digital infrastructure set to transform connectivity for datacentres, industrial zones and subsea hubs, while laying groundwork for smarter commerce, transportation and public services

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Norway fixing Big Bang e-health botch with fintech security

  Experts call for Europe’s health sector to protect medical APIs with security originated from UK open banking as officials take urgent measures against unprecedented attacks

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI

  A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Obituary: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist

  Dame Stephanie Shirley, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist known in the technology sector as Steve, has passed away