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• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

  Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

  To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

  At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest

  Days after news emerged of a Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023’s infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Scattered Spider cyber gang turns fire on aviation sector

  Multiple reports are emerging of cyber attacks on airlines – Google Cloud’s Mandiant believes them to be linked

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach

  Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that more than two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

  Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the Armed Forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Glasgow Council services remain offline a week after cyber attack

  Disruption continues a week after core services at Glasgow City Council were forced offline following a cyber attack on a third-party IT services provider

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  Public sector spends £16.6bn directly with tech suppliers every year

  Government and public sector bodies spent big on technology last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers, with 84% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• June 25, 2025 25 Jun'25

  Latest Citrix vulnerability could be every bit as bad as Citrix Bleed

  A Citrix NetScaler flaw that was quietly patched earlier in June is gathering widespread attention after experts noted strong similarities to the Citrix Bleed vulnerability that caused chaos in late 2023

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  UK ransomware costs significantly outpace other countries

  UK organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid much higher ransoms than in other countries over the past 12 months, according to study

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

  We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Widening Middle Eastern war increases cyber risk

  With the entry of the US into the widening Middle Eastern conflict, cyber risk is likely to increase across the board

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations

  Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group

  We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily

  The number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts

  The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  UK data reforms become law

  UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Government hires chief data officer

  Former MoD data chief, Lindsay Mason, has taken on the role of chief data officer in earl on a temporary basis while government recruits for a permanent position

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  Execs shy away from open models and open source AI

  The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

  The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector

  UK government says its cyber growth action plan will provide a large boost to Britain’s security industry as it sets out to create a roadmap for future growth

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Scattered Spider widens web to target insurance sector

  Following a series of high-profile attacks on prominent retailers and consumer brands, the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective appears to be expanding its targeting to the insurance sector

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis

  IBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Patients to access clinical trials via NHS App

  As government plans a £50m upgrade of the NHS App, people will be able to sign up to clinical trials that will match them to available studies

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption

  Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data

• June 16, 2025 16 Jun'25

  Intelligence sharing key to cyber security in Europe, says EU Commission cyber expert

  Cyber criminals choose not to attack Europe due to its resilience and preparedness, says the EU Commission’s principal advisor for cyber security coordination, Despina Spanou

• June 16, 2025 16 Jun'25

  CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows

  Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions

• June 15, 2025 15 Jun'25

  Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot

  The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI

  Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative

  The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  France is committed to AI, says president Macron

  The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

  At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review

  The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands

  Calls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  How breaking things builds resilient systems

  To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems though chaos engineering practices

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders

  Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs

  An APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri

  Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

  From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

  The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Whitehall fails to recognise digital procurement challenge, says PAC

  Committee concerned that Government Commercial Function doesn’t understand the scale of reform needed to address long-standing digital procurement issues, including lack of skills and leadership

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  HMRC phishing breach wholly avoidable, but hard to stop

  A breach at HMRC saw innocent taxpayers tricked into letting scammers impersonate them through simple phishing attacks leading to account takeover. Such attacks are avoidable, but hard to stop

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’

  People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive

  Putting all of its data in AWS cloud will support bank’s use of artificial intelligence to offer customers more personalised services

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Put ROCs before SOCs, Qualys tells public sector

  Putting risk operations before security operations may help government agencies and other public sector bodies better manage the myriad threats they face, and make better decisions for the security of all

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  NCSC sets out how to build cyber safe cultures

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance for security teams and leaders on how to foster accessible and appropriate cyber security cultures in their organisations

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Microsoft outlines three-pronged European cyber strategy

  Microsoft chair Brad Smith outlines an expansive cyber programme targeting governments across Europe with enhanced threat intelligence and support