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• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software.

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw

  Latest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users.

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  ICO investigates lawfulness of algorithms used in immigration enforcement

  The UK information commissioner is investigating claims that the use of algorithms by the Home Office to make recommendations on migrants breaches privacy laws

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m

  Metropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial

  The National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful

  The UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial-recognition (LFR) technology use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Reserve Bank of India proposes framework for AI adoption in India’s finance sector

  India’s central bank has proposed a framework to guide artificial intelligence adoption in the financial sector, along with recommendations to build shared infrastructure, implement safeguards and promote financial inclusion

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

  Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub

  Dell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption

  Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora

  The jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe

  Freedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant

  Analysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

  Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite

• 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

  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 Pet Nutrition’s head of digital innovation about making AI relevant across its brands to support pet health

• 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 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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 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

  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

  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

  Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India

  Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  EDGX closes €2.3m funding to boost AI compute for satellites

  Belgian space tech company gains funding to aid its mission to deliver the world’s fastest edge computing service for satellite constellations, enabling fast and efficient data processing from space

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?

  Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware

  When a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that

• August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

  OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5

  As OpenAI’s latest large language model delivers smarter AI, experts are wary of the risks GPT-5 poses to human creativity

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters

  As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity

  DeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand

  Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework

  Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

  Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

  The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities