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• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

  The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI

  The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities

  The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates

  A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project

  Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  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

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  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

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  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

• 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

  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

  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 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

  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

  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 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

  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 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 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 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025

  Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos

  The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?

  Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  India Budget: Tech takes centre stage with AI and infrastructure boost

  India has earmarked significant investments in artificial intelligence, global capability centres and digital public infrastructure while boosting training and education in its latest budget

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  New Relic extends observability to DeepSeek

  The observability tools supplier now offers enhanced monitoring for DeepSeek models to help businesses reduce the costs and risks of generative AI development

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Government sets out cyber security practice code to stoke AI growth

  The government has set out a cyber security code of practice for developers to follow when building AI products

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  How Zebra is empowering frontline workers through tech

  Zebra Technologies’ CEO Bill Burns discusses the company’s growth strategy and how it is enhancing frontline worker capabilities through machine vision, artificial intelligence and robotics

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  ServiceNow vaunts agentic AI and announces 22% annual revenue growth

  ServiceNow has declared full-year revenue close to $11bn, representing 22% year-on-year growth, as it announces a battery of agentic AI product updates

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  First international AI safety report published

  A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  NAO: UK government cyber resilience weak in face of mounting threats

  The National Audit Office has found UK government cyber resilience wanting, weakened by legacy IT and skills shortages, and facing mounting threats

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland

  Under-scrutiny IT services firm has escalated fears over problems with one of its applications, used at a Republic of Ireland energy firm, to its headquarters in Japan

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Review of legal rule on computer evidence long overdue, say Post Office scandal victims

  Computer Weekly talks to people who suffered miscarriages of justice at the hands of flawed computer evidence, as well as to experts in law and IT, as the government commits to review the legal presumption that computers work all the time

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  High Court: Sky Betting ‘parasitic’ in targeting problem gambler

  UK High Court rules that Sky Betting acted unlawfully after breaching a customer’s data protection rights when it obtained his personal data through cookies and used it to profile him for the purposes of direct marketing, despite his ‘impaired’ ...

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  CISOs boost board presence by 77% over two years

  A global research study, from Splunk and Oxford Economics, into how chief information security officers interact with boards finds greater participation but enduring gaps

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Zebra gallops ahead in APAC, driven by automation and e-commerce

  Zebra Technologies is riding the wave of e-commerce and automation in APAC, fuelling strong growth with RFID technology, tablets and scanners that boost business productivity and efficiency

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  How smartphones are transforming global health

  Shyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future

  According to research from management consultancy Kearney and analyst firm Futurum, big company CEOs are buying into AI hopes and dreams, with a dash of prudence

• January 19, 2025 19 Jan'25

  ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses

  The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Takeda opens innovation centre in Bengaluru

  Global biopharmaceutical giant Takeda opens its first Asian Innovation Capability Centre in Bengaluru to speed up drug discovery and development

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Government, Nesta and ODI issue £600k smart data challenge to technologists

  Department for Business and Trade, Challenge Works and the Open Data Institute have issued a Smart Data Challenge to app developers and entrepreneurs with a total prize fund of £600,000

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Cyber security dovetails with AI to lead 2025 corporate IT investment

  Cyber security and GenAI top enterprise IT investment plans for 2025, whether singly or together, according to research from Enterprise Strategy Group

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Barings Law enleagues 15,000 claimants against Google and Microsoft

  Barings Law has signed up 15,000 claimants in a data breach suit against Microsoft and Google. The firm says the tech giants use personal data without proper consent to train AI models

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Metro mayors face similar digitisation challenges to banks, but lack their resources

  UK regional leaders want to be independent of central government when it comes to digital transformation decision-making, but don’t fully understand what’s ahead

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Gramedia speeds up inventory checks with RFID

  Indonesian bookstore giant has sped up inventory checks, minimised shrinkage and improved customer experience with RFID-powered checkout kiosks and exit gates

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Software AG shrinks with sale of Alfabet and Cumulocity

  Software AG, Germany’s number two business software company, after SAP, has announced the latest turn in its shrinkage under the umbrella of private equity group Silver Lake

• January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25

  How StarHub is tapping OpenShift in its cloud strategy

  StarHub is harnessing Red Hat OpenShift to power its hybrid multi-cloud platform, balancing control over critical infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 India stories of 2024

  India embraced AI in 2024, developing its own large language models, boosting supercomputing capabilities and applying the technology across sectors from healthcare to governance