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August 01, 2023
01
Aug'23
UK government announces 5G Innovation Regions fund
Applications now open for £40m financing designed to unlock 5G benefits across the UK with aim of sparking local ‘digital revolutions’ and pioneer digital connectivity for residents and businesses
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July 31, 2023
31
Jul'23
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
Lancaster Uni lends cyber support to nuclear decommissioning body
Lancaster University’s cyber team has joined with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help support and protect its 300-year mission, while enhancing its own capabilities in the process
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
Risks of opening up AI
Meta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
Scottish university hit by Rhysida ransomware gang
Data allegedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland has been put up for sale on the dark web by a ransomware gang going by the name Rhysida
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July 28, 2023
28
Jul'23
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
ServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
European Commission starts investigation into Microsoft Teams bundling
The commission will investigate if the bundling of Microsoft’s collaboration software with its office productivity suite breaks competition rules
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers
The government tax collection agency has once again been forced to deny it has banned the use of outside IR35 contractors following the publication of its latest set of accounts
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
Cyber criminals pivot away from ransomware encryption
Cyber breaches that saw data theft and extortion without an encryption or ransomware component account for more and more incidents, in a possible indication that ransomware gangs are changing up their business models
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
US cyber breach reporting rules to have global impact
Organisations that operate as Foreign Private Issuers in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations handed down by the SEC in Washington
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
Post Office tried to convince independent IT witness that he was wrong about Horizon
‘Delusional’ Post Office tried to influence an expert witness and get him to change his view about IT evidence which was detrimental to its case against a subpostmaster
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy
The owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs
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July 27, 2023
27
Jul'23
Ant Group teams with NTU to advance privacy-preserving technologies
The Chinese fintech giant is partnering with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on a cryptographic protocol that ensures the privacy of transacting parties
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July 26, 2023
26
Jul'23
Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts
Ambulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system
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July 26, 2023
26
Jul'23
UK organisations lack confidence to carry out basic cyber tasks
Amid a shortfall of more than 10,000 cyber pros, UK businesses are still finding it difficult to fill their cyber security skills gaps, with even those in charge of security saying they lack confidence in themselves
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July 26, 2023
26
Jul'23
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition
Network Resilience Coalition focuses on bringing together global expertise to improve data and network security
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
CCRC refers two more subpostmaster convictions for appeal
Two more subpostmaster convictions referred to appeal court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation
With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Tetra radio users’ comms may have been exposed for years
A number of flaws in the encryption algorithms used in the secure Tetra radio communications standard have potentially left users exposed to snooping
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July 25, 2023
25
Jul'23
Mayor of London announces startup funding
Seven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia
In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity
Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Citrix NetScaler users told to patch new zero-day urgently
A vulnerability disclosed and patched last week by Citrix appears to be being exploited by China-backed threat actors as a zero-day, prompting warnings from government cyber bodies
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Tribunal investigates complaint that journalists’ phones were unlawfully monitored
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has agreed to investigate complaints by Northern Ireland investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey that they were unlawfully placed under surveillance
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Bank of England’s project to replace ‘beating heart’ is foundation for continuous development
The Bank of England has reached a major milestone in its core system replacement programme, with next landmark in sight
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July 24, 2023
24
Jul'23
Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches
Organisations that go all in on security AI and automation tend to incur lower financial costs when they experience a data breach incident, according to an IBM report
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July 21, 2023
21
Jul'23
SAP’s Klein sees $1tn market for AI business software
Enterprise software company embeds AI across product portfolio to improve efficiency in business processes
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Electronic Trade Documents Act receives royal assent
Digital trade documents are to be accorded the same status in law as paper ones under a law implemented to help reduce paper waste and speed up the UK’s foreign trade
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
The Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, DWP
Only 13 weeks into his new role, the Department for Work and Pensions’ CDIO speaks to Computer Weekly about plans for artificial intelligence, data modernisation and how to complete a business plan in record time
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
How the DSMA balances security and privacy with press freedom
In a world of information sharing and 24-hour news cycles, the Defence and Security Media Advisory committee have to balance national security and data privacy with freedom of the press
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services
TCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous
The KillNet DDoS gang seems to be becoming more dangerous, but its primary goal remains to create a lot of noise and draw media attention, according to latest analysis
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July 20, 2023
20
Jul'23
AI and data experts to be brought into government through secondment programme
The government has announced plans for a secondment programme designed to bring digital experts into government departments
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022
IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder
Cosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder is experiencing operational disruption in the wake of a cyber attack that seems to involve two different cyber crime gangs
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
Consortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute
UK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims
Approximately 55% of security professionals say they have engaged in behaviours they would more usually advise against in the workplace, according to a report
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results
A newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn
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July 19, 2023
19
Jul'23
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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July 18, 2023
18
Jul'23
NATO membership to drive Nordic cyber security sector growth
The Nordic cyber security sector will see increasing demand as Finland and Sweden joint NATO
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July 18, 2023
18
Jul'23
Critical Adobe ColdFusion flaws chained in ongoing cyber attacks
Two vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion have been chained by threat actors to target victim systems, apparently after one of them was accidentally disclosed
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July 18, 2023
18
Jul'23
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
Overall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Subpostmaster compensation deadline will be missed, warns public inquiry chair
Subpostmasters that successfully sued the Post Office and exposed the Horizon scandal are at the ‘back of the queue’ and won’t receive compensation by current deadline
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Home Office failures on £2bn ESN project see “significant” costs to emergency services
Public Accounts Committee slams government for appearance of complacency in its confidence over much delayed, over-budget emergency services network and calls for revised delivery plan
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July 17, 2023
17
Jul'23
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach...