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• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

  Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Northern Irish police used covert powers to monitor over 300 journalists

  PSNI publishes report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers, but Northern Ireland’s Policing Board says it does not give the assurances needed

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Juniper Networks claims first with AIOps to WAN routing

  Juniper Networks announces industry leadership with enhancements to cloud-native Mist AI engine for all network domains, claiming to deliver insight for exceptional experiences

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Cisco Live: ThousandEyes on the prize in digital experience age

  Networking giant sets out strategy to empower customers to see everything across complex digital supply chain, turning data into intelligence and actions to support digital experiences that businesses base operations on

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections

  Russian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Salesforce boosts London AI scene

  SaaS pioneer Salesforce has chosen London as the location of its new AI centre, enabling users to test-drive and work on AI-driven business innovation

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  HP loses in US fraud case against Autonomy's Mike Lynch

  Autonomy founder cleared of fraud in US trial, following on from HP's $5bn write-down after tts acquisition of the data discovery firm

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  eSIM set to be next mobile industry disruptor

  Even though its current acceptance and take-up is low, embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) pinpointed by industry report to be the next industry disruptor, bringing about lasting changes to the way people connect with mobile providers and ...

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Bitdefender makes MDR services free to NHS bodies hit by Qilin

  Bitdefender offers NHS bodies affected by a major cyber incident free access to its product suite, as the health service continues to deal with the impact of the Qilin ransomware attack on partner Synnovis

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Rapid AI development poses supervisory challenges in the Netherlands

  In the Netherlands, the financial regulator and the monetary authority are grappling with the pace of artificial intelligence development and its implications for the financial industry

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market

  Data initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Sophos uncovers Chinese state-sponsored campaign in Southeast Asia

  Sophos found three distinct clusters of activity targeted at a high-level government organisation that appeared to be tied to Chinese interests in the South China Sea

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told

  Post Office scandal inquiry hears how board member believed Fujitsu was exploiting the Post Office

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  FBI finds 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in blow to criminal gang

  The US authorities say they now have more than 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in their possession and are urging victims of the prolific ransomware gang to come forward

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next

  After posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Zoom opens immersive Experience Centre in London

  Leading collaboration and communications technology firm looks to raise bar of international footprint and strengthen UK commitment with major investment

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  UK firms still struggling to enable hybrid work

  Survey reveals UK firms are still struggling to make hybrid work effective, with 62% of workplaces changing policy in the past four years and failure to adopt suitable digital tools leading employees to feel overwhelmed and frustrated

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Are diamonds a quantum computer’s best friend?

  The UK report on quantum tech is out, revealing that synthetic diamonds could play a key role in establishing a niche for the UK quantum sector

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Vodafone, i2CAT unveil Open RAN management system

  Vodafone reveals development of open RAN technology in series of joint research projects with academia and research institutions at expanding Innovation Centre in Málaga

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document

  Capture software was used by about 2,000 subpostmasters in the 1990s, with allegations that errors in the software caused account shortfalls

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act

  Almost immediately after joining the Post Office, Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about an imbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Executive interview: Richard Wazacz, CEO, Travelex

  The data-savvy chief executive is rebuilding Travelex as an omnichannel, digital business after the company foundered during the pandemic

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  HPE takes $4.5bn in enterprise IT AI server orders

  The server company is prepping everything for greater enterprise artificial intelligence demand

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Qilin ransomware gang likely behind crippling NHS attack

  Security experts investigating a major cyber attack on an NHS partner that has caused frontline services across South London to grind to a halt say the Qilin ransomware gang appears to be the culprit

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Lack of upfront specifications kill agile projects

  Research shows there is a high chance of failure when a software development project begins without a specification being signed off

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

  Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Nokia, Telia claim successful outdoor trial in 6 GHz range with massive MIMO

  Global comms tech provider teams with leading Nordic operator to complete field pilot in upper 6 GHz spectrum band range to add capacity and coverage to existing macro cell sites in dense urban environments for 5G-Advanced and 6G networks

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Collaboration suffers as businesses fail to adapt workplace technology

  Research reveals critical gaps in workplace tech affecting productivity and collaboration among workers in the UK, with businesses failing to adapt IT infrastructure to suit different personality types

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Cisco Live: AI to fuel Cisco mission to connect and protect everything

  Networking giant plots future where harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data will allow companies to connect and protect everything across a global network where data is the ultimate differentiator

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress

  Campaigner says former subpostmasters may have to resort to legal action in pursuit of the money they are owed

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  OAIC files civil penalty action against Medibank

  The OAIC alleges that Medibank failed to take reasonable steps to protect the personal information of 9.7 million Australians in the October 2022 data breach

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Cisco gears up to cash in on AI innovation and investments

  Networking giant plots out artificial intelligence-powered future within networks to build digital resilience and offer secure visibility, observability and insight across digital footprints, with $1bn global AI investment fund

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

  Websites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack

  A major cyber attack at NHS services provider Synnovis is disrupting frontline care at hospitals across London

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team

  Fujitsu is reducing staffing levels at its UK Oracle Practice in a move cited as ensuring its competitiveness

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  HPE looks to simplify deployment of private enterprise 5G

  Edge-to-cloud global enterprise infrastructure company launches dedicated service designed to remove the complexity of managing, deploying and purchasing enterprise private cellular networks

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Having female AI decision-makers is a priority for 37% of UK business leaders

  Research from IBM reveals almost 40% of UK business leaders think getting women into decision-making positions is increasingly important in the era of artificial intelligence

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI

  One supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Haier Europe taps Orange Business to build responsive SD-WAN

  Looking to offer a scalable, secure networking infrastructure to support its growth, Fortune 500 home appliances company works with business arm of telco to deploy cloud-first platform enhancing security, visibility and agility

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  T-Mobile bolsters connected workplace with FWA

  Expanded fixed FWA offering combines Cradlepoint 5G networking solutions and T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to offer more choice to more customers 

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Russia used fake AI Tom Cruise in Olympic disinformation campaign

  Microsoft threat researchers report a surge in Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including AI-enhanced propaganda

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Sateliot to launch four satellites in 5G IoT programme

  Leading satellite operator continues on its programme of delivering 5G communications by deploying the first 5G-IoT satellite constellation

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed

  Subpostmasters were reassured by Post Office executives that the Horizon replacement project was satisfactory the day before Computer Weekly reported news to the contrary

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers

  PNSI chief constable appoints lawyer to conduct review into police phone surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  97 FTSE 100 firms exposed to supply chain breaches

  Between March 2023 and March 2024, 97 out of 100 companies on the UK’s FTSE 100 list were put at risk of compromise following supply chain breaches at third-party suppliers

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Major breaches allegedly caused by unsecured Snowflake accounts

  Significant data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander appear to have been orchestrated through careful targeting of the victims’ Snowflake cloud data management accounts

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Researchers demonstrate value of AI in predicting heart disease

  A decade-long study using an AI-based risk score of 40,000 people has shown it’s possible to detect the level of inflammation of heart arteries

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Dell launches PowerStore Prime and hints at PowerScale AI boost

  Array range launched at Dell World 2024 in Las Vegas as PowerScale gets OS upgrade and new Intel Xeon CPUs, while Dell CEO hints at acceleration for PowerScale NAS

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  AI Seoul Summit review

  Dozens of governments and tech companies attending the second global AI Safety Summit have committed themselves to the safe and inclusive development of the technology, but questions remain around whether the commitments made go far enough