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• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google AI targets programmer productivity

  Google is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push

  Long-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023

  Australia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  AI outcry intensifies as EU readies regulation

  Policymakers are battling to keep pace with AI developments, while experts warn of societal impact

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Fujitsu staff had ‘unrestricted and unauditable’ remote access to Post Office branch systems

  Fujitsu engineers could make changes to Post Office branch accounts without anyone knowing

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Secure Boot vulnerability causes Patch Tuesday headache for admins

  Applying the fix for a security bypass zero-day affecting the Windows Secure Boot feature will be a long process that will drag into 2024, but for good reason, says Microsoft

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

  A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

  OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Collaboration technologies to benefit from future of work investment drive

  Research finds that as businesses settle into hybrid work, UCaaS and other collaboration technologies are regarded by IT professionals as crucial tool for driving employee productivity and workflow optimisation

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  Chat control: EU lawyers warn plans to scan encrypted messages for child abuse may be unlawful

  Leaked legal advice warns that European ‘chat control’ proposals to require tech companies to scan private and encrypted messages for child abuse are likely to breach EU law

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Welsh Water turns on CPaaS tap for enhanced customer experiences

  Not-for-profit water company deploys CPaaS-based video comms services to optimise operations, budget control and solve customer issues more quickly

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Bing AI push rings in price change

  Microsoft’s large investment in OpenAI has seen an expansion of AI in Bing. This appears to be reflected in new Bing API licensing

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  CMA looks at competition in foundational AI

  The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating consumer protection and market forces related to the use of emerging artificial intelligence models

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  US competition watchdog issues generative AI warning

  Generative AI can be used to manipulate people into making harmful decisions, says US Federal Trade Commission in warning to firms building and using AI-powered tools

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks

  ChatGPT and other large language models can rewrite value, and business leaders now realise they need a plan

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Software development

  Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  More Post Office software-related convictions overturned takes total to 86

  A total of 86 former subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes after computer errors showed phantom losses have had convictions overturned

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings

  The chipmaker has been impacted by poor PC sales, but aims to drive adoption of its AI inferencing technology

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Tenable opens playground for generative AI cyber tools

  A set of generative AI cyber tools designed to help security researchers in reverse engineering, debugging and other areas of work have been made available for the community to experiment with

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Microsoft fails to get CMA thumbs-up on Activision deal

  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has decided that Microsoft‘s proposed $68.7bn acquisition of Activision would damage the cloud gaming market

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Zopa’s emotional journey to becoming a bank

  Zopa Bank’s CEO sees no reason why the app-based bank should not be as big as the high street giants

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  UK taskforce set to drive generative AI safety and opportunities

  The government has committed £100m to helping the UK develop and build out generative artificial intelligence capabilities

• April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23

  Cyber security and analytics propel jobs boost in Scotland’s tech sector

  A tech industry survey from ScotlandIS indicates the country’s tech sector is set to grow, with cyber security as the hottest domain

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

  Veritas InfoScale aims to provide high-performance block access storage despite limitations such as a maximum node count of 16 per cluster

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  How non-fungible tokens can be used to manage health data

  Non-fungible tokens will give patients more ownership and control over their health data and improve its transparency in healthcare research, according to SingHealth clinicians

• April 24, 2023 24 Apr'23

  Most IT staff uncomfortable deploying surveillance tech at work

  The IT teams responsible for deploying and running digital surveillance in workplaces say they are uncomfortable with “extremely common” practice of spying on colleagues, research finds

• April 24, 2023 24 Apr'23

  Amazon Web Services selects 14 startups for space accelerator

  The cohort of startups will use AWS and its resources to accelerate the research and development of their technologies and boost their growth

• April 24, 2023 24 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Balancing end user productivity and IT budgets

  End user computing is being driven by future of work initiatives to support hybrid work patterns

• April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23

  UK biometrics watchdog questions police cloud deployments

  The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate ‘immediately and unequivocally’ that their cloud deployments are lawful

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Online Safety Bill could pose risk to encryption technology used by Ukraine

  CEO of encrypted messaging service Element says Online Safety Bill could pose a risk to the encrypted comms systems used by Ukraine

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Banks don’t want to develop fintech in-house

  Banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs to gain access to their platforms, with few interested in developing such capabilities in-house

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  TUC says government is failing to protect workers from AI harms

  TUC issues warning about artificial intelligence leading to more widespread workplace discrimination if the right checks are not put in place

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Oracle dials up supply chain automation, adds ‘Grow’ to HCM

  Oracle announces enhancements to Fusion for supply chain automation and employee experience, coincident with Oracle CloudWorld Tour in London

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  QlikWorld 2023: Capone asserts expanded economic mission for data analytics

  Mike Capone, chief executive of data analytics supplier Qlik, marks company’s 30-year anniversary with claim for a mission expanded beyond data visualisation, at the supplier’s global conference in Las Vegas

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

  Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Tech companies and NGOs urge rewrite of Online Safety Bill to protect encrypted comms

  The Online Safety Bill faces amendments in the House of Lords amid concerns that it could weaken the security of end-to-end encrypted communications for UK citizens

• April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23

  Tech spending in India to grow by 9.6% in 2023

  Digital initiatives in the public sector along with investments in telecoms and other areas are expected to spur technology spending in India this year

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Zoom looks to bolster employee experience with Workvivo acquisition

  Latest part of continued expansion of communication and engagement platform sees acquisition of employee experience company to offer hybrid workers new ways to stay connected

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Government launches Smart Data Council to lower utility bills

  The council aims to find ways to use and encourage uptake of smart data to make it easier to switch utility providers and save money

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

  Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Global spending on IT and BPO down as cloud deals slow

  Spending on IT and BPO services drops as demand for cloud services slows

• April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23

  Former TSB CIO fined for migration meltdown

  Both TSB and its CIO have now been fined for the catastrophic migration of TSB’s core banking system

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Thousands at risk from critical RCE bug in legacy MS service

  Thousands of organisations worldwide are at risk from three vulnerabilities – one critical – in a legacy Microsoft service that they may not be aware they are running

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Webex brings cloud collaboration to US security and defence

  Leading collaboration technology provider announces air-gapped trusted cloud for defence industry use case allowing teams to work together through modern meeting, chat and calling experiences on Webex app

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  Italy to lift ChatGPT ban subject to new data protection controls

  Italian regulator will lift its ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT subject to a strict new data protection regime

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  AstraZeneca launches African healthtech hub

  AstraZeneca has launched its latest healthcare innovation hub, which will focus on using digital technology to improve healthcare in Africa