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• March 07, 2025 07 Mar'25

  Interview: Madoc Batters, head of cloud and IT security, Warner Leisure Hotels

  The hotel chain has embarked on a major cloud migration programme to improve innovation and enhance the security of its network and applications

• March 07, 2025 07 Mar'25

  Government to create digital sourcing strategy

  Government officials revealed to the Public Accounts Committee that it will develop a sourcing strategy for digital technology, steering departments on what to build themselves and what to procure

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Why did IT suppliers allow Birmingham City Council to go live with Oracle?

  Councillors at the local authority’s budget setting and audit committee meetings raised questions as Birmingham faces budget deficits

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  NHS chief data officers concerned by FDP roll-out

  The Chief Data and Analytical Officers Network has raised concerns over the way the NHS Federated Data Platform is being implemented and NHS England’s approach to its adoption

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play

  Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages

  Bank bosses forced to reveal extent of banking IT failures to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  IR35: Government outlines two-pronged approach to umbrella company regulation

  The government looks set to deliver on its long-promised vow to roll out regulation for umbrella companies

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software

  Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data

  NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Few UK organisations ready to seize agentic AI opportunity

  Agentic AI promises to automate manually intensive tasks intelligently, yet few business leaders feel their organisation is ready to deploy it

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

  India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Canadian businessman remains in French jail, accused of distributing Sky ECC cryptophones

  Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman has been held in pre-trial detention without trial for nearly four years – he has once again been refused bail

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

  A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

  The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce

  Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Aussie businesses ramp up security spending

  Australian organisations are set to spend A$6.2bn on security and risk management in 2025, a 14.4% jump from the previous year, driven by the rise of AI and a growing threat landscape

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity

  Leading light in women in fintech says Europe must take separate path to Trump’s US on diversity, equity and inclusion

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

  The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again

  A month after Barclays suffered online banking problems, customers at multiple banks report further issues

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  NHS staff lack confidence in health service cyber measures

  NHS staff understand their role in protecting the health service from cyber threats and the public backs them in this aim, but legacy tech and a lack of training are hindering efforts, according to BT

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims

  Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation

  Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

  The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard probes UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data

  A secret order issued by the UK against Apple would be a ‘clear and egregious violation’ if it provides back door access to Americans’ encrypted data, says US director of national intelligence

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  CISOs spending more on insider risk

  Insider risk management budgets have more than doubled in the past 12 months and look set to grow further still in 2025, according to a report

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database

  Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI

  The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience

  New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope

  While there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities

  The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract

  UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  European Union calls for more cyber data-sharing with Nato

  Updates to the EU’s Cyber Blueprint, establishing best practice for multilateral security incident response in Europe, include calls for more collaboration with Nato member states, as the geopolitical environment becomes ever more fractious

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates

  A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI

  Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Understanding intersectionality: Inclusion and employees’ whole life experience

  While businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing

  Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  A landscape forever altered? The LockBit takedown one year on

  The NCA-led takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang in February 2024 heralded a transformative year in the fight against cyber crime. One year on, we look back at Operation Cronos and its impact

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025

  Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car

  Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle

  It has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  How organisations can secure AI agents

  Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan

  Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

  Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties

  Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities

  The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

  Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents