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• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  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

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  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

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  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?

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  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

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  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

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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’

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  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

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season

  For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

  One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI

  The market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs

  The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps

  The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab

  A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  Natural England clears clouds with machine learning

  Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons

  Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike

  Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism

• February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25

  UK broadband majors, altnets accelerate gigabit in non-metro areas

  Premises in Shropshire and Devon to gain access to gigabit services as part of £5bn government scheme and planned expansion by major comms provider

• February 09, 2025 09 Feb'25

  Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud

  Philippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches

• February 09, 2025 09 Feb'25

  Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones

  As part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones

• February 09, 2025 09 Feb'25

  HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems

  Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud

  The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool

  US politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024

  Several factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  Vietnam Air Traffic Management modernises comms for improved safety

  Southeast Asian country’s national aviation body to deploy multi-service network offering to upgrade its legacy network systems, and enhance the performance and flexibility of its air traffic network

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025

• February 07, 2025 07 Feb'25

  Tech job postings dropped in 2024, according to research

  Job postings for several IT roles returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, dropping when compared with 2023

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy

  One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work

  The Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

  James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice