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• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK’s McPartland Cyber Review to probe trust in technology

  The UK government has launched a cyber security review that will investigate how best to give businesses the confidence they need to use new technologies

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation

  The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Inquiry to explore cyber risk to Sunak-Starmer showdown

  The UK’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy is opening an inquiry into securing the democratic process ahead of the next general election

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  UK and France push for international agreement on spyware

  The UK and France are hosting diplomats, big tech companies and civil society groups, in a two-day conference in London targeting the proliferation of spyware tools and ‘hackers for hire’

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Cisco unveils innovations for observability as it looks to future networking vision

  Networking and IT tech and services giant kicks off European flagship event with major enhancements to networking cloud vision, innovations in digital experience and user monitoring for cloud-native applications

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet

  The short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal: Phase four’s rogues’ gallery

  Phase four of the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal revealed ‘a parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals’ that made up the teams investigating and prosecuting subpostmasters

• February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

  Inside NetApp’s cloud and AI strategy

  NetApp’s senior executives talk up the company’s efforts to support AI initiatives and deliver first-party storage services on public cloud platforms

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  Blackbaud blasted for failing to prevent customer breaches

  A supply chain attack at software supplier Blackbaud in 2020 saw data on multiple UK organisations compromised. The US authorities are now taking steps to ensure it can’t happen again

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  US sanctions Iranians behind CNI cyber attacks

  US government issues new sanctions against six Iranians suspected of being behind a series of cyber attacks targeting critical national infrastructure, notably water supply systems

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  Gigabit drives UK local authority connectivity priorities for 2024

  Research finds ultra-high speed broadband roll out remains top priority for local authority digital leaders, 5G continues to divide opinion, and apparent lack of focus on net-zero activities

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  UK quantum initiatives get funding boost

  Government funds new initiatives to drive quantum computing opportunities across the public sector

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  What’s standing in the way of the UK being an AI superpower?

  Artificial intelligence (AI) could bring a big economic boost to the UK, says report, but there are still barriers to overcome

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  Is SAP on the rise?

  This year represents a tipping point for SAP to convince cagey customers of the value of cloud enterprise resource planning

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  ‘People are now listening,' Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

  The latest phase of the public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in modern UK history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal – closes with a bang

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops

  Amazon Web Services clocked up double-digit revenue growth during the final quarter of 2023, but analyst figures show the company is losing market share to Microsoft

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  BT sees strong fibre uptake in third quarter

  Telco’s trading update for nine months to 31 December 2023 shows a quarter of revenue and EBITDA growth while upgrading customers to full-fibre broadband and 5G networks, staying on track to achieve financial outlook for full year

• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  AI: House of Lords focuses on copyright and transparency

  Large language models promise to boost UK productivity, but the tech needs greater scrutiny and questions remain over intellectual property

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  US government disrupts Chinese botnet containing hundreds of end-of-life Cisco and Netgear routers

  The US government has succeeded in halting a botnet comprised of hundreds of end-of-life routers that posed a threat to critical national infrastructure (CNI) organisations in multiple countries

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics

  Workers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  McArthurGlen gets tailor-made connectivity and security for fashion outlets

  Critical network infrastructure provider teams with bespoke network services company to deliver reliable and secure connectivity for McArthurGlen’s nine retail sites across the UK

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  UK ranks third in OECD Digital Government Index

  The UK has dropped from overall second to third place in the international digital government survey, but fails to feature in the top 10 countries when it comes to having a data-driven public sector

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Defra legacy IT: 180 applications refreshed, over 1,500 remain

  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has a 10-year plan to update technology. So far, 180 have been replaced or updated

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  UK government signs AI, science and innovation deals with Canada

  The agreements will see the two countries collaborate on AI compute – a development component of artificial intelligence – and work together on technology innovations such as quantum and semiconductors

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Government ‘dragging it out’ by refusing to share knowledge of Post Office trial ‘delaying tactic’

  Subpostmasters will have to wait to find out if the government knew of the Post Office’s plan to derail group litigation order, by trying to push managing judge out

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Aviva signs 15-year contract with Indian IT giant

  Tata Consultancy Services continues to make large gains in the UK life insurance and pensions sector

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push

  Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm

  Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure

  The company’s cloud business posted revenue of $33bn, with new AI inferencing workloads driving up demand

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Datacentre operators face capacity planning challenges as AI use soars

  A report by real estate consultancy JLL highlights the pressures datacentres operators are facing as they respond to the growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Seagate uses HAMR to hit 30TB in Exos hard drives

  HDD giant Seagate unveils 30TB Exos drives with higher areal density, aimed at hyperscaler customers, with products at 50TB promised for 2028 in its roadmap

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  User groups give SAP’s 50% Rise incentive the thumbs up

  SAP has changed tack, after the furore over its intention to make certain features available only to Rise customers on SAP Cloud

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Quantum computing in 2024: What are the challenges?

  Research shows that while there has been a big reduction in quantum computing investment, governments have been ploughing in funding

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise

  Oracle AI developments aim to blend enterprise data and LLMs across its technology stack and SaaS portfolio

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Juniper claims first AI-native networking platform

  AIOps and virtual network assistant expanded with first integrated digital experience twinning and end-to-end insight across campus, branch and data centre infrastructures to drive more speed, scale and value

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  We need backup! Pennsylvania police data loss shows why

  Police evidence systems data was lost during ‘routine maintenance’, with human error blamed – the case clearly illustrates why data protection can’t be left to chance

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Sporting events drive 2023’s biggest daily spikes in European and US network traffic

  Analysis from leading internet exchange operator reveals 23% rise in global data traffic in 2023 to 59 exabytes, showing clear seasonal impact of gaming and video conferencing

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  How Simplyhealth is using Salesforce’s take on generative AI to boost email response times

  Health and dental plan company is cutting response times to some common and recurring client queries – from 12 minutes to just one

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Inside India’s supercomputing journey

  India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Pre-Horizon users contacting lawyers as more Post Office IT horror stories emerge

  Lawyer says there is no reason to believe the Post Office treated unexplained shortfalls on systems prior to Horizon any differently to the way it dealt with unexplained Horizon shortfalls

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  UK 5G providers up service game across the board

  Latest UK mobile performance review reveals how competition among UK mobile network operators continued to heat up in the second half of 2023, leading to performance and availability seeing significant improvement

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Russian IT sector still under serious pressure

  Russian IT sector faces challenges on multiple fronts as Western sanctions widen

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Proposed changes to investment thresholds highlights lack of funding diversity

  The government is introducing a law to raise the income threshold for potential angel investors, potentially making it harder for people from underrepresented groups to fund startups

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  CityFibre hits £100m revenue milestone in 2023

  Trading update shows UK’s largest independent fibre network reaps benefit from adding one million ready-for-service (RFS) homes in 2023, taking total RFS premises to over 3.2 million

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives

  Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  Lords question legality of police facial recognition

  Lords committee ‘deeply concerned’ about the rapid expansion of live facial recognition by UK police, which it says is progressing without any real oversight or accountability

• January 29, 2024 29 Jan'24

  MP demands answers from government minister over second faulty Post Office IT system

  Kevan Jones MP highlighted evidence of injustices caused by a computer system used in Post Office branches prior to the introduction of the controversial Horizon system.

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

  AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly

• January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

  SAP puts the focus on AI, but cloud is still the key

  ERP giant wants to boost its AI capabilities, but there remains work to be done persuading customers to shift to its cloud offerings