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• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Stannah looks to enterprise cloud software to lift IT systems

  Major project the keystone of new IT strategy to modernise systems and support growth

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’

  Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  SITA enhances aviation SASE with automated multi-cloud networking service

  Leading IT provider in the air transport industry announces strategic collaboration with multi-cloud networking firm to gain enhanced access to secure cloud-based offerings

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Co-op signs TCS deal for cloud-first push

  The Co-operative Group has contracted IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services to support its move to a cloud-first IT environment

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  How Indian fintechs can address compliance issues

  Fintechs will need to bolster their know-your-customer practices and establish self-regulatory mechanisms, among other measures, to address compliance issues that have come under the spotlight

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Unisys investigating potential involvement in controversial Post Office system

  IT supplier wants to get to the bottom of its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software, linked to potential wrongful convictions

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Birmingham City Council needs a further £45m to fix ‘disastrous’ Oracle system

  Birmingham City Council’s ERP system is failing to deliver an accurate ledger, which means finance staff have spent months manually entering cost centre data

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Telefónica, Matsuko launch holographic meeting experience

  Telco and spatial computing firm to unveil holographic conferencing service to help users gain more effective communication and emotional connection in meetings

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’

  Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Vodafone teams with vcita to boost small business digital productivity

  Telco and software management firm launch digital business management service intended for small businesses, replacing time-consuming and manual tasks with automated and digital services

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio

  Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  UK government launches tech talent campaign

  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is encouraging people to sign up to digital skills bootcamps as government-funded research reveals huge demand for entry-level and junior tech talent

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Cradlepoint embedded IoT connects AI-driven sustainable intelligent waste system

  Collaboration shows how cellular-connected artificial intelligence can support environmental sustainability through secure, scalable IoT connectivity that merges cellular technology with AI for optimal waste diversion and profitability

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Controversial Post Office Capture system was developed in-house

  Second controversial Post Office system was the work of developers in its own IT operation

• February 18, 2024 18 Feb'24

  Singapore to invest S$1bn in AI over five years

  The funding will go towards compute, talent, and industry development to support Singapore’s national AI strategy

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Vonage unveils network API availability

  Comms platform provider announces network API availability, and claims first-to-market developer registration service to simplify network API access and adoption

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Government awards £10m to medtech developers

  The government has awarded £10m to eight technology companies to create innovative medical devices and bring them to market

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Green IT: How Google’s cloud and AI tools are supporting a methane-tracking satellite project

  Cloud and AI will help to analyse data from MethaneSAT, due to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March 2024

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Google claims AI advances with Gemini LLM

  Code analysis, understanding large volumes of text and translating a language by learning from one read of a book are among the breakthroughs of Gemini 1.5

• February 16, 2024 16 Feb'24

  Post Office IT insider and the software decision that lit the Horizon scandal

  As the Post Office replaces its controversial Horizon software, a former Post Office IT executive describes disastrous mistakes of the past

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Nokia intros first OT-compliant GenAI service for connected workers

  Comms tech provider says it has become the first company to adapt GenAI large language model technology for operational environments

• February 15, 2024 15 Feb'24

  Alan Turing Institute hits ‘key milestone’ in AI strategy

  The Alan Turing Institute reaffirms its commitment to addressing “grand challenges” in health, environment and security with the appointment of four new directors

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT

  Threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Microsoft patches two zero-days for Valentine’s Day

  Two security feature bypasses impacting Microsoft SmartScreen are on the February Patch Tuesday docket, among more than 70 issues

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Post Office CEO refused to meet government minister without her lawyer after 2015 Horizon report

  Post Office statements on the Horizon system, whether to journalists or the government, were routinely carefully crafted by lawyers

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  How DBS is industrialising AI across its business

  Southeast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI

  Is Oracle’s Fusion GenAI leap a bandwagon move or will it add real power to boost customer happiness?

• February 12, 2024 12 Feb'24

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used second faulty Post Office system

  More than 1,000 subpostmasters could have used a previous faulty computer system in their branches as more people come forward with information following Post Office scandal TV drama

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  The outlook for open source? Growing, but there are challenges

  While more companies are using open source technologies, not everyone may realise it

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium

  The FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  Digital experience becomes new boardroom metric

  Networking technology and services giant outlines new paradigm in experience economy, where next generation of chief digital officers demand unified understanding of every component of networked applications

• February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

  Europe carves out niche in quantum computing

  As the US, China and Europe accelerate investment in quantum computing, Europe is beginning to develop its own unique position in the fledgling global ecosystem

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  CIO interview: Sandy Venugopal, SentinelOne

  We speak to the former CIO of Uber and LinkedIn, current CIO of SentinelOne, about how artificial intelligence should be deployed in business

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence

  IT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use

• February 08, 2024 08 Feb'24

  Cisco taps Apple, Nvidia to achieve distance zero and propel collaboration in new workspace

  Networking and IT tech and services firm reveals solutions and partnerships with leading CE and processor manufacturer to support business in the new world of world where workspaces are being reimagined

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Dozens of surveillance companies are supplying spyware to governments, says Google

  Google’s Threat Analysis Group has identified 40 companies involved in selling and supplying security exploits and spyware services to governments

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  The challenges of open source in government

  Public sector bodies may find their policy decisions are stymied due to the inflexibility of the software they deploy. Is open source the answer?

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Government reaffirms commitment to hold off on AI laws

  The UK government reaffirming its commitment hold off on artificial intelligence legislation has been received positively by industry for balancing innovation and safety

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation

  The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Cisco unveils innovations for observability as it looks to future networking vision

  Networking and IT tech and services giant kicks off European flagship event with major enhancements to networking cloud vision, innovations in digital experience and user monitoring for cloud-native applications

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet

  The short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal: Phase four’s rogues’ gallery

  Phase four of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the teams investigating and prosecuting subpostmasters

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  What’s standing in the way of the UK being an AI superpower?

  Artificial intelligence (AI) could bring a big economic boost to the UK, says report, but there are still barriers to overcome

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  Is SAP on the rise?

  This year represents a tipping point for SAP to convince cagey customers of the value of cloud enterprise resource planning

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  ‘People are now listening,' Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

  The latest phase of the public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – closes with a bang

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  AI: House of Lords focuses on copyright and transparency

  Large language models promise to boost UK productivity, but the tech needs greater scrutiny and questions remain over intellectual property

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics

  Workers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Defra legacy IT: 180 applications refreshed, over 1,500 remain

  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has a 10-year plan to update technology. So far, 180 have been replaced or updated

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  UK government signs AI, science and innovation deals with Canada

  The agreements will see the two countries collaborate on AI compute – a development component of artificial intelligence – and work together on technology innovations such as quantum and semiconductors