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• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Build 2023: Microsoft wants developers to build IT with AI

  Software giant Microsoft is pushing the idea of next-generation business applications, powered by AI-based copilots with data feed plugins

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Sateliot, S4IoT look to increase global food security with beehive monitoring technology

  Low-Earth orbit nanosatellite constellation to deliver 5G satellite connectivity to allow beekeepers to monitor the temperature, weight and humidity of beehives and track pollination

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Contract wins in UK, Australia as Motorola unveils integrated public safety technology suite

  City of London Police, UK Department of Justice and Fire and Rescue New South Wales take on suite of services designed to offer seamless collaboration between frontline teams, vehicles and control rooms

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Almost all ransomware attacks target backups, says Veeam

  Some 93% of ransomware attacks go for backups and most succeed, with 60% of those attacked paying the ransom, according to a Veeam survey

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Kuwait bank introduces biometric payments card

  Middle East bank launches payment cards with fingerprint sensor technology embedded

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Two-thirds of all 2022 breaches resulted from spear phishing

  Research by Barracuda Networks has found that, despite the low volume of spear-phishing attempts, the attacks are highly successful and have major consequences

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank adds more than a million customers in a year

  The app-based bank launched in the UK by US giant JPMorgan has added one million customers in the past 12 months

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Nokia bolsters fixed network offer with SaaS suite, 10G broadband in Vietnam

  Global comms tech provider expands fixed network portfolio with AI-based SaaS suite, and works with leading Vietnamese operator to deploy fibre access nodes and fibre modems to connect homes and businesses in the eight largest provinces of the ...

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Visa to recruit 1,500 tech staff in Poland

  Visa’s latest global tech hub will recruit up to 1,500 staff, with focus on artificial intelligence, cyber security, and resilience in payments and ecommerce sectors

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

  Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Connectivity issues cost UK economy millions

  Study shows investment from UK government in cellular connectivity is holding back businesses, especially in rural areas

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Starmer pledges to reform the NHS through technology

  The Labour Party wants to create an NHS powered by ‘groundbreaking technology’, with genomics testing for every baby, modernising appointment booking and overhaul incentives for tech adoption

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Amazon’s Apprenticeship fund will support 300 SME roles this year

  The apprenticeship fund launched by retail tech giant Amazon in 2021 is set to fund 300 more across the next year

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  NTT and NARS claim mission-critical comms breakthrough at Narita International Airport

  Comms and IT tech giant partners with radio services provider to interconnect 5G service with the wireless infrastructure at Tokyo’s main airport in a move designed to level up integrated mission-critical communications at international travel hubs ...

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

  In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Post Office scandal – cover-up a ‘dark chapter’ in government, corporate and legal history

  Third phase of public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal reveals extent of Post Office and Fujitsu cover-up of software problems that went on to write ‘as dark a chapter in our governmental, corporate and legal history as can be imagined’

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Telstra makes 400Gbps services available through key Australian city routes

  Wholesale division of Australia-based global telco offers customers ability to use 400Gbps wavelength services after enhancements made to advanced, high-bandwidth optical infrastructure based on optical technology

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Facebook owner Meta fined record €1.2 billion over EU-US data transfers

  Decision could have implications for other companies using Standard Contractual Clauses to share data between Europe and the US

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Worker-focused AI Bill introduced by backbench MP Mick Whitley

  Using the 10-minute motion rule, backbench Labour MP Mick Whitley has introduced a worker-focused artificial intelligence (AI) bill to Parliament, which outlines a similar approach to AI being advocated by unions in the UK

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  NAO calls for clarity on government’s net-zero innovation spending plans

  The National Audit Office is calling on the government department responsible for overseeing the UK’s net-zero policy to clarify how the money set aside to support the endeavour will be spent

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  UK government announces tender for user services on emergency services network

  Next phase in controversial mobile network for UK emergency services sees request for Mobile Services Supplier to provide radio access network infrastructure and related services in contract valued over £900m

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  New entrants, established players spur spike in UK gigabit broadband availability

  UK comms regulator’s latest investigation of connectivity across the country finds that as of January 2023, gigabit broadband is now available to almost 22 million homes

• May 21, 2023 21 May'23

  AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables

  Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  ‘Dramatic’ shift in global broadband usage trends

  Quarterly survey from network improvement services provider unearths broadband first: usage-based consumption on par with flat-rate use

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  IBM aims to enable multicloud infrastructure control with Hybrid Cloud Mesh

  IT giant intros application-centric connectivity solution designed to allow business operations in a hybrid cloud environments to gain the ability to provide secured, dynamic access to workloads and services while maintaining granular visibility and...

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Spanish lawyers claim police hacking of EncroChat cryptophones breaches human rights law

  Lawyers speaking at the Madrid Bar Association question the legality of a cryptophone hacking which has led to arrests of organised criminals in multiple countries

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

  CBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  National semiconductor strategy: Balancing skills, migration and security

  The UK government is putting £1bn into semiconductor research and design over the next 10 years to develop a robust chip sector

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Mass job cuts planned for BT by 2030

  UK telco ends a year in which it said it was clear that customers love full-fibre, as it continues to build and connect ‘like fury’ and sets out plan to rationalise business to hit profit targets for end of decade

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Navigating artificial intelligence: Red flags to watch out for

  Lou Steinberg, founder of cyber security research lab CTM Insights, flags up the risks of the growing use of AI, and what organisations can do to tame the technology for good

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Campaigning former subpostmaster fears compensation for scandal victims will be delayed to 2025

  The man who exposed the Post Office scandal fears a long delay for victims due to compensation process being "bogged down by bureaucracy"

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Citymesh deploys Nokia turnkey 5G-connected drone platform for emergency services

  Comms tech provider’s drone platform to offer secure 5G-connected drone services across Belgium, with remotely managed, real-time aerial data collection to allow emergency services to make informed responses

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Eticas outlines approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing

  Algorithmic auditing firm Eticas speaks to Computer Weekly about its approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing, including its strengths and limitations, and how the process works

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government

  The Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

  Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  PTC stitches the digital thread for tomorrow’s Industry 4.0 digital transformation

  With the software-as-a-service genie well and truly out of the bottle, leading engineering design and manufacturing company outlines roadmap for next generation of digital transformation providing a more agile and collaborative environment of ...

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Home Office pushes for more police facial-recognition deployments

  An independent report commissioned by the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales reveals that the UK policing minister is pushing for wider adoption of facial-recognition technology by police, and further criticises the government’s proposed ...

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  How Rolls-Royce uses citizen developers

  The engineering company is using Microsoft Power Apps to democratise digitisation

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  CTO interview: Europe benefits from energy gains in AMD chips

  AMD’s chief technology officer explains how the latest chip technology can help European organisations solve the energy puzzle facing IT departments

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Altnets claim vital role in bringing competition to UK digital transformation

  Study by trade association for UK’s independent broadband suppliers shows further rapid progress in rolling out full-fibre networks, prompting calls to UK comms regulator to change national service pricing structures

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Pentera ups ante in penetration testing

  The Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Knowledge 2023: Ready for the exponential enterprise, says McDermott

  ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott called for IT and ‘the business’ to finally come together in what he called the ‘exponential enterprise’ at the supplier’s Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  CIO interview: Ravi Malick, Box

  Ravi Malick has always been a technologist at heart, and via political science, startups and consultancy, landed in his current role at Box

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Connexin makes key step in fulfilling full-fibre build plan for 2023

  IoT and digital Infrastructure specialist reveals onboarding of Tier 1 contractors to accelerate increasing full-fibre network expansion

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Vodafone to axe 11,000 jobs in Europe after ‘not good enough’ financial year

  Axe set to swing on Vodafone staff after fiscal year 2023 shows performance slowdown, with turnaround strategy to be based on customers, simplicity and growth

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Executive interview: DNS designer David Holtzman discusses net security

  How is it possible for criminals to lure people onto fake websites? Holtzman says it’s because DNS is fundamentally insecure