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July 29, 2025
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Jul'25
European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy
The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’
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July 29, 2025
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Jul'25
Global cyber spend will top $200bn this year, says Gartner
Worldwide spending on cyber security will hit another record high in 2025, and will go higher still next year
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July 28, 2025
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Jul'25
Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market
Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits
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July 28, 2025
28
Jul'25
European digital market figurehead pleads to Westminster
Big EU industry joins with Europhile MP to persuade obstinate government officials to join the dataspaces intended to become the bedrock of Europe’s digital single market
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July 25, 2025
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Jul'25
Post Office will not compensate subpostmasters for IT outage
Subpostmasters were unable to trade for nearly two hours last week when a problem at a Fujitsu datacentre put the Horizon system offline, but they will receive no payment for lost business
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July 25, 2025
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Jul'25
Fujitsu to cut at least 100 more UK staff
Some Fujitsu employees feel they are suffering for the actions of the company’s management in the Post Office scandal
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July 24, 2025
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Jul'25
US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance
US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence
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July 24, 2025
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Jul'25
SharePoint users hit by Warlock ransomware, says Microsoft
Microsoft’s security analysts confirm a number of cyber attacks on on-premise SharePoint Server users involve ransomware
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July 24, 2025
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Jul'25
IBM chief confident AI isn’t eroding other parts of the business
Chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna talks of growth and margin expansion as Big Blue expects artificial intelligence to deliver internal savings of $4.5bn this year
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July 24, 2025
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Jul'25
UK loses second spot in global fintech to UAE
The UK has been pushed into third spot on global fintech market size data for the first half of this year
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July 24, 2025
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Jul'25
Dutch researchers use heartbeat detection to unmask deepfakes
Dutch method to counter deepfakes analyses blood flow patterns in faces that current deepfake generation tools cannot yet replicate
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July 23, 2025
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Jul'25
Judge questions HP’s ‘exaggerated’ Autonomy loss claim
Did HP pay 10% more than it needed to for Mike Lynch’s company?
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July 23, 2025
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Jul'25
Subpostmasters shoulder costs of Fujitsu’s Post Office IT outage
Fujitsu datacentre outage hit subpostmaster sales for two hours, leaving subpostmasters to seek compensation
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks
Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
Chinese cyber spies among those linked to SharePoint attacks
Exploitation of the ToolShell RCE zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint continues to gather pace, with evidence emerging of exploitation by nation state-backed threat actors
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
UK government signs partnership with OpenAI
Deal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have
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July 22, 2025
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Jul'25
Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that police spied on the phone of investigative journalist Chris Moore amid further claims of a sustained monitoring operation against BBC reporters in Northern Ireland between 2006 and 2022
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July 21, 2025
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Jul'25
Patch ToolShell SharePoint zero-day immediately, says Microsoft
The active exploitation of a dangerous zero-day vulnerability chain in Microsoft SharePoint – which was disclosed over the weekend – is underway. Immediate action is advised
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July 21, 2025
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Jul'25
The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent
Jason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, discusses the psychological side of cyber and online safety, why placing blame on users as ‘the weakest link’ is wrong – and why security pros should think about user needs more
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July 18, 2025
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Jul'25
Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts
According to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported
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July 17, 2025
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Jul'25
Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system
Japanese IT giant’s time serving the Post Office is due to end next year, but problems persist
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July 17, 2025
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Jul'25
Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration
The foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud
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July 17, 2025
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Jul'25
Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’
UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited
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July 16, 2025
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Jul'25
Scattered Spider playbook evolving fast, says Microsoft
Microsoft warns users over notable evolutions in Scattered Spider’s attack playbook, and beefs up some of the defensive capabilities it offers to customers in response
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July 15, 2025
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Jul'25
UKtech50 2025 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind
From chess prodigy to AI visionary, this year’s most influential person in UK technology is far from ordinary. From using AI to win video games to discovering the structure of proteins, Demis Hassabis is a force to be reckoned with
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July 15, 2025
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Jul'25
UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK technology
Computer Weekly has announced the 15th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector
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July 15, 2025
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Jul'25
Current approaches to patching unsustainable, report says
Organisations are struggling to prioritise vulnerability patching appropriately, leading to situations where everything is a crisis, which helps nobody, according to a report
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July 15, 2025
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Jul'25
Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation
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July 14, 2025
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Jul'25
Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC
Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC
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July 14, 2025
14
Jul'25
Home Office dumps Fujitsu from IT services contract
Home Office to take IT service desk contract in-house, with staff set to transfer from Fujitsu
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July 11, 2025
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Jul'25
MoD supply chain cyber scheme gets up and running
The Ministry of Defence and IASME have launched a certification scheme for organisations working in the UK defence supply chain, with construction firm Morgan Sindall the first business to achieve compliance
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July 11, 2025
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Jul'25
Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team
Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software
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July 11, 2025
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Jul'25
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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July 10, 2025
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Jul'25
Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP
Scheme will see SMEs and innovative startups working in sensitive sectors receive advice on enhancing cyber and physical security measures to protect their valuable intellectual property
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July 10, 2025
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Jul'25
Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff
Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company
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July 08, 2025
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Jul'25
July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address
Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days
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July 08, 2025
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Jul'25
SEC and SolarWinds to settle lawsuit over 2020 breach
The US SEC and SolarWinds have reached a settlement in principle to resolve litigation over alleged security failings that led to the 2020 compromise of the supplier’s Orion platform by Russian cyber spies
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July 08, 2025
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Jul'25
Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides
Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process
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July 07, 2025
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Jul'25
Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur
A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘...
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July 04, 2025
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Jul'25
NHS to be ‘digital by default’
Single Patient Records, a digitally enabled neighbourhood health service, and the NHS App becoming a ‘doctor in your pocket’ are all part of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS
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July 02, 2025
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Jul'25
Google fixes type confusion flaw in Chrome browser
An actively exploited type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser needs immediate attention from users
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July 02, 2025
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Jul'25
Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions
Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions
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July 02, 2025
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Jul'25
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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July 01, 2025
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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.
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June 27, 2025
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Jun'25
MPs propose ban on predictive policing
MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems
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June 27, 2025
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Jun'25
UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS
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June 27, 2025
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Jun'25
Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made
The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come
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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’