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• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Singapore to expand 5G coverage to seaport

  The maritime hub will be testing the use of 5G in a range of maritime operations including remote pilotage of vessels and drone delivery of components to ships

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Regional tech hub leaders want more support with levelling-up from next prime minister

  Several senior leaders from the regional-focused UK Tech Cluster Group have shared their views on what they think the next prime minister should do to ensure tech funding is distributed more evenly across the UK

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Google debuts open source bug bounty programme

  Google is calling on hackers to take pot-shots at its open source projects for the first time through a new vulnerability research programme

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware and IBM forge closer ties to build industry-specific hybrid cloud services

  Tech giants reinforce commitment to working together with pledge to co-develop industry-specific cloud services for regulated enterprises

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  NTT, VMware team to develop fully managed Edge+Private 5G offering as a service

  Edge-as-a-service offer designed to enable Industry 4.0 to gain instant access to data where it is generated or collected and harness it to drive positive, powerful business outcomes

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• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Norway has NOK200m plan to bolster cyber defences

  Norway is investing heavily in its cyber defences amid heightened threat from Russia

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  NHS staff fall further behind amid ransomware attack

  While some NHS bodies are now recovering their services after the ransomware attack on a crucial software supplier, others are still being forced to rely on pen and paper, and some will be waiting months to recover

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Four years into GDPR, Norway hopes for safer data transfer to US

  Much of the data on the internet ends up on US servers at some point, and that is not always compatible with the General Data Protection Regulation, says Norwegian data protection authority

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Quantum computing: Industrial opportunities

  Mainstream quantum computing may be years away, but some companies are finding ways to pilot the technology now, to see if it can deliver tangible business benefits

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  Orange and Equinix bring cloud agility to telco infrastructure

  Digital infrastructure company makes advances in development of software-defined networking to speed global telco’s cloud model through what they claim is ‘groundbreaking as-a-service capability’

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware CEO: Broadcom acquisition is on track

  Raghu Raghuram claims VMware customers are getting more comfortable with the Broadcom acquisition while employees are ‘more or less focused’ on the job at hand

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  HPE supply chain issues drive up server prices

  HPE’s latest quarterly results show the company is trying to combat its order backlog by encouraging customers to buy next-gen servers

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  VMware beefs up Tanzu portfolio, adds OpenShift support

  The Tanzu Application Platform will include support for Red Hat OpenShift, air-gapped installations and other capabilities to improve developer productivity and code security

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Virgin Media O2, NEC, Rakuten Symphony drive multi-supplier Open RAN in UK

  Open radio access technology project aiming to maximise future synergies in global telco supply chain, headed by global telecoms network IT provider and leading UK mobile operator, enters field phase

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  IAM house Okta confirms 0ktapus/Scatter Swine attack

  Following last week’s disclosureby Group-IB researchers of a major phishing campaign, Okta has warned its customers to be on their guard

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  UK government presses on with new cyber rules for telcos

  Government has finalised new security rules for telecoms companies and will move to make them binding in the near future

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Project Gigabit broadband plan covers 70% of UK homes, businesses

  Project Gigabit contract awarded on UK’s Jurassic coastline, putting more than 7,000 hard-to-reach properties in the broadband fast lane by 2025

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Growing importance of the data strategist in South Holland

  Much has been written about the work of data scientists, but the lesser-known role of data strategist is just as essential – as is being demonstrated in the Netherlands

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  LastPass breach limited in scale and well-managed, say experts

  A breach of LastPass’s developer environment does not seem to have affected users of the password management service, but it may still be time for a credential reset

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Move will bring up to 50% decrease in TCO for customers running VMware apps in the Amazon cloud, says NetApp. No date yet for extension of the service across other public clouds

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Confronting the unique challenges of hiring IT professionals in Saudi Arabia

  As Saudi Arabia undergoes an economic transformation, new mandates are being implemented to help Saudi nationals keep up with global talent requirements

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  One Login digital identity project makes headway

  Government services are lining up to work with the GDS on its One Login digital identity system, according to its director of digital identity, Natalie Jones

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  McKinsey advisory council highlights huge impact of tech on business

  Advanced AI and new communications promise to revolutionise business, and IP ownership and code quality may hold back adoption of low-code tools

• August 29, 2022 29 Aug'22

  Thinxtra teams up with Hong Kong’s LBS on smart hygiene

  Australia’s Thinxtra will supply its battery-powered IoT devices to monitor hygiene and environmental conditions in residential and commercial venues in Hong Kong

• August 28, 2022 28 Aug'22

  Apple to make iPhone 14 in India

  Tech giant Apple is ramping up iPhone production in India through contract manufacturer Foxconn in a move that will benefit local consumers and the country’s burgeoning manufacturing industry

• August 26, 2022 26 Aug'22

  Making her mark in financial technology

  Archana Manjunatha’s career in financial technology took her to the trading floors in India, where she learned the ropes of futures and options trading and the back offices of some of the world’s largest banks

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  British broadband boosted further by Swish Fibre and Truespeed

  Fast-growing UK altnet signals long-term ambition to become a national broadband provider with the launch of a new Yorkshire subsidiary, while Bath-based full-fibre provider claims step-change in its mission to bring the south-west out of the ...

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Nokia, Google trial slicing service for 5G networks

  Service from comms tech provider and IT giant connects smartphones to multiple network slices simultaneously

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  CIOs: Geopolitics impacts your IT strategy

  Research from analyst Gartner illustrates how geopolitics is influencing IT strategies

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Increase in number of girls taking GCSE computing exams in 2022

  After two years of declines in the number of girls taking the GCSE computing exam, figures out today show a rebound to 2019 levels of participation in the subject

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack

  Researchers at Group-IB have published research on a major phishing campaign that ensnared victims at the likes of Cloudflare and Twilio

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  HelloFresh serves up data insights to in-house tech team with Informatica’s help

  Meal kit company is working with cloud-based data management firm to make sense of its data after a business growth spurt

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform

  Kaspersky researchers have shared new intelligence on two emergent cyber criminal groups that have adapted their ransomwares to target different operating systems at the same time

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Dell’s deep learning model to support coral reef conservation

  Dell Technologies has developed a deep learning model to speed up labelling and analysis of images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in move to support coral reef conservation

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Millions of Plex users may be at risk in password breach

  Up to half of Plex’s 30 million users may have had their personal data stolen by an unknown threat actor

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Security pros fret about stress and promotion over cyber attacks

  CIISec’s annual report on the state of the security profession reveals some home truths for security leaders

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  Bristow takes off with Speedcast multi-year connectivity agreement

  Communications and IT services provider to deliver technology upgrades and SD-WAN solution to a leading global aviation services provider, connecting more than 40 onshore energy and search and rescue sites

• August 25, 2022 25 Aug'22

  LockBit 3.0 cements dominance of ransomware ecosystem

  Ransomware attacks were up 47% in July compared with the previous month, according to the latest threat data from NCC Group, with the LockBit family largely to blame

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Juniper unveils AI-driven switch and enhanced AIOps capabilities

  Network provider announces series of enterprise-grade wired access switches to connect to modern microservices cloud and artificial intelligence platform

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Nokia, Furukawa accelerate Optical LAN in Latin America

  Leading global communications technology provider strikes up partnership with network cabling specialist to bring benefits of optical local area network connectivity to Latin American enterprise market

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Most CISOs think they’ve been attacked by a nation state

  Most organisations have made changes to their cyber strategies and policies following Russia’s invasion, and almost two-thirds suspect they have been directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyber attack

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Subway puts Zen on broadband menu

  Leading UK food chain confirms long-standing ISP as an accredited partner to supply its stores across the country with a bespoke connectivity offering that facilitates a delivery line of service that was not previously possible

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alleged Twitter security failings spell trouble ahead

  Twitter’s former security head, Peiter Zatko, has alleged a number of serious cyber failures at the social media platform, raising the spectre of investigations and sanctions

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  UK drought: Thames Water asks datacentres to consider using 'raw water' to cool their sites

  Utility provider Thames Water is probing the water consumption habits of datacentres within its jurisdiction, as it seeks collaboration opportunities with the server farm industry to ease pressure on supplies

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2022: Entrants to the Hall of Fame

  Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements in the technology sector

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alibaba Cloud unveils RISC-V chip development platform

  The Wujian 600 chip development platform will help developers build systems-on-chip to support edge applications such as home robots, medical imaging and video conferencing

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Altice gets regulatory green light for added stake in BT

  Despite previous worries by UK government of potential threat to levelling-up agenda on broadband, corporate regulatory probe finds no issue with increase in stakeholding by long-rumoured potential buyer of UK incumbent telco

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Giganet taps Neos Networks to drive UK gigabit broadband expansion

  UK fibre connectivity supplier provides what it says is crucial back-haul capability to allow growing established internet service provider to offer regional and national high-speed fibre connectivity

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  DevSecOps: Software developers lack sufficient security focus

  GitLab survey shows developers want to produce high-quality code, but ‘shifting’ security left is hard to achieve

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Home Office announces Scale-up visa for fast-growth firms

  Scale-up visa launched to help high-growth businesses employ talent from overseas, but sponsorship requirements could undermine effectiveness