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June 02, 2025
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Jun'25
Roig Arena to open with 6GHz Wi-Fi network and advanced analytics
State-of-the-art sports and events arena set to open in Valencia in September 2025 reveals connectivity set up to guarantee expected fan experience with high-speed connectivity plus optimised venue operations
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June 02, 2025
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Jun'25
NPCC calls for better tech investment
The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities
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June 02, 2025
02
Jun'25
AI should be used to improve boardroom efficiency
Artificial intelligence is not just for business efficiency. Company boards should deploy the technology to support their own processes
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June 02, 2025
02
Jun'25
Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends
Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers
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June 02, 2025
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Jun'25
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach
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May 30, 2025
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May'25
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud
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May 29, 2025
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May'25
Wildix rolls out embedded agentic AI for UCaaS
UCaaS provider offers real-time, codeless automation with shared memory, native privacy controls and ‘proven’ return on investment, live across more than 1,000 environments
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May 29, 2025
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May'25
Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana
Germany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times
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May 29, 2025
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May'25
CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness
A report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs
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May 29, 2025
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May'25
Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal
Post Office accused of suppressing the views of victims of the Horizon scandal by deleting comments on social media platforms
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May 29, 2025
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May'25
Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions
Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
ANZ firms spending more on data management
Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers
Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Maturing UK fintechs increase tech and cyber security hiring
Increased hiring reflects that fintechs are maturing and now require more cyber security and compliance experts
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers
As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic
The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI
At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane
In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers
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May 27, 2025
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May'25
Immersive content to stretch wireless networks to breaking point
Research finds video accounts for 69% of all internet data traffic, far surpassing social media and gaming, and that by 2031, limitations of current networks are already apparent
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May 26, 2025
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May'25
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors
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May 26, 2025
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May'25
Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting
Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Data embassies and US embargo halt give Saudi AI hope
Gulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Labour puts Humphrey AI to work for council admin
A tool built on the government’s Humphrey AI toolset is being piloted by 25 councils to take notes during meetings
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Enterprise to the fore as Zoom claims strong Q1
First quarter of 2026 financial year sees AI-first work platform provider break $1bn revenue barrier, with especially strong rise in enterprise business and AI Companion usage, up nearly 40%
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals
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May 22, 2025
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May'25
Virgin Media O2 Business offers Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile
UK operator’s business division looks to offer companies seamless, secure collaboration to support flexible working and gain enhanced productivity
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May 22, 2025
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May'25
Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM
Industry-specific large language models could improve customer services, strengthen security and support regulatory compliance
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May 22, 2025
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May'25
Google gets in gear with Volvo to drive connected vehicle AI
Swedish car giant and IT behemoth expand partnership with integration of Gemini artificial intelligence to accelerate automotive innovation
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May 22, 2025
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May'25
Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board
SAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search
As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The IT chief of one of the world’s biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right – and he’s building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Capital One pushes out data tokenisation
Organisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One
Leading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Hacking contest exposes VMware security
In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse
Millions more pounds of public money spent by the Post Office as a result of an IT error that exposed the personal details of Horizon victims
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC
Computer Weekly speaks to Jatin Aythora, director of BBC Research and Development, about self-belief and learning from different industries
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Trump visit bolsters Saudi AI
A new AI datacentre is among the initiatives the White House announced during the president’s Middle East visits
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Dutch universities call for reduced dependence on Big Tech
Dutch universities are calling for greater digital autonomy as more research and educational data is stored in American clouds, posing risks to academic freedom, privacy and accessibility
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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May 19, 2025
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May'25
Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon
Post Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s