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• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  Alibaba debuts LLMs for Southeast Asia

  Alibaba’s SeaLLMs are built to address the linguistic diversity and nuances in Southeast Asia, enabling businesses to deploy localised chatbots and translation applications

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Government plans to regulate to tackle datacentre threats

  DSIT outlines a range of proposals designed to protect data storage facilities from cyber attacks, as well as physical threats and the effects of climate breakdown

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  CDO interview: Andy Moore, chief data officer, Bentley Motors

  Data sits at the heart of the luxury car maker’s plans for a future with electric vehicles and a ‘hyper-personalised’ customer experience

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  The Security Interviews: Talking identity with Microsoft’s Joy Chik

  Microsoft’s president of identity and network access, Joy Chik, joins Computer Weekly to discuss the evolving threat landscape in identity security, using innovations in artificial intelligence to stay ahead, and advocating for the coming ...

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  NCSC CEO Lindy Cameron to step down in 2024

  NCSC chief exec Lindy Cameron, who helped lead and elevate the national dialogue on cyber security through major events such as Covid-19, SolarWinds Sunburst and Colonial Pipeline, is to step down in the New Year

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  ICO complaint seeks answers from prosecutors over deleted Assange emails

  An Italian journalist has complained to the data protection watchdog after the Crown Prosecution Service gave conflicting explanations over its deletion of key emails on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Current Post Office executive in denial of Horizon cover-up

  Executives at the Post Office today are still in denial of the part they played in destroying the lives of thousands of people

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Cisco eyes opportunities in AI, sustainability in Australia

  Cisco is looking to tap opportunities in sustainability, AI and cyber security as it navigates Australia’s economic headwinds

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Developer burnout caused by flawed productivity metrics

  Software development methodologies that provide a framework to improve productivity may be inadvertently leading to project delays and stress

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Nokia hails Deutsche Telekom Open RAN, BT API wins

  Leading German operator works with Nokia and Fujitsu for open radio access network products integrated into its live commercial network with initial cluster to provide 2G, 4G and 5G commercial services to customers in Neubrandenburg, Germany

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

  The UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  How ransomware gangs use the tech media against their victims

  Ransomware gangs are increasingly media-savvy operators, and this means incident response plans now need to account for communications and PR strategies too

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days

  Barely 30 vulnerabilities, and no zero-days, have been fixed in the final Patch Tuesday drop of 2023

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Critical UK infrastructure a ‘hostage of fortune’ to ransomware

  A lack of ransomware planning and preparedness at the highest levels of government is leaving UK operators or critical national infrastructure dangerously exposed, according to a Joint Committee report

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey

  The Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  MoD fined after breach of Afghan staffers’ data put lives at risk

  The MoD has been fined £350,000 by the ICO after an email blunder exposed data on Afghan nationals who had worked with British forces and were at risk of Taliban reprisals

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Outdated data protection practice key factor in PSNI data breach

  The August 2023 data breach at the Police Service of Northern Ireland arose chiefly from an outdated approach to data protection and compliance at the force, according to an independent review

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  NTT reveals acceleration to the future for photonics comms innovation

  NTT releases annual report on the development of photonics-based wired and wireless communications infrastructure, claiming breakthrough in distributed datacentres and addressing communications for AI and LLM use cases

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support

  Customers are being offered a big discount to migrate onto a VMware subscription service

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024

  Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024

• December 12, 2023 12 Dec'23

  Nokia, du look to lead in UAE with 5G-Advanced RedCap

  Leading MENA operator says trial of low-load next-generation mobile wireless standard shows readiness to trial innovative use cases that could unlock revenue opportunities in the internet of things and Industry 4.0

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  BT Group makes net neutrality call as it looks to improve network efficiency

  Telco claims breakthrough technology that improves quality and reliability of live content for viewers while driving down costs for broadcasters and network operators, but calls for rethink in net neutrality debate

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Nordic governments join forces to protect data transfers

  Nordic countries deepen their cooperation over cyber security amid heightened threat from neighbouring Russia

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  EU AI Act: The wording of the act is finalised

  The EU AI Act has climbed another rung up the legislative ladder, with its wording having been finalised

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Competition and Markets Authority looks into Microsoft/OpenAI after Altman fiasco

  The firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s CEO, and the fallout, which could have seen Microsoft hire all its staff, has the regulator spooked

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Vodafone: 5G SA to accelerate UK net-zero journey

  Research reveals 5G-enabled technologies could help deliver huge emissions savings, which could accelerate the UK’s renewable energy transition, especially in wind power generation

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs

  Scale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Telent to boost critical communications for Greater Manchester

  Telent offers support for Greater Manchester’s aim to become a world-class digital city-region with network to provide faster and more reliable connectivity to public sector organisations across the region

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  UK networks glow as Openreach hits halfway point in UK broadband upgrade plan

  Full-fibre forges ahead as Openreach progresses towards plan to extend gigabit to vast majority of UK promises over next three years, as it reveals its biggest ever hourly peak for network traffic was on 6 December

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Former Post Office investigator called subpostmaster campaigners ‘crooks’

  Former Post Office investigator labelled subpostmasters attempting to clear their names as ‘crooks’

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Fancy Bear targets Nato entities via critical Outlook flaw

  A vulnerability patched in March has likely been exploited by the Russian state actor Fancy Bear, for over two years, according to the latest intelligence

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  AMD goes after Nvidia with AI accelerator and software library

  AMD has signed up major hardware companies to support its latest initiative to build out datacentre AI optimisation

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Executive interview: Handling vanilla S/4Hana change management

  We speak to the transformation lead at household goods manufacturer McBride about moving people onto a non-customised S/4Hana implementation

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  SAP strategy: Why customers need an innovation plan

  Rise appears to be the place where SAP has promised customers the latest innovations, raising the question of what happens to everyone else

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  UK names Russian FSB agents behind political hacking campaign

  Russian hacking group, Star Blizzard, was part of a Russian intelligence operation aimed at interfering with UK politics and the democratic process, says government.

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  UK government quietly renews public sector preferential pricing agreement with AWS

  The UK government has renewed an agreement that will ensure public sector IT buyers can still procure AWS services at discounted prices for another three years, despite anti-competitive concerns

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  CIO interview: Keith Woolley, chief digital information officer, University of Bristol

  With Bristol set to host the UK’s biggest supercomputer, its technology chief is looking to make the most of internal and international collaboration to drive digital improvements

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  NCSC exposes Russian cyber attacks on UK political processes

  The NCSC has firmly attributed a long-running campaign of cyber attacks targeting UK political processes to a group run out of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, known as Star Blizzard

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  Concerns raised over Home Office's £450m mega cloud deal with AWS

  The Home Office's latest three-year contract with AWS is valued at nearly half a billion pounds, but questions are emerging about the contents of the contract and how it has been arranged

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  2023 may have seen highest ransomware ‘body count’ yet

  Ransomware, or cyber extortion as it is increasingly being termed, remained the most prominent security threat in 2023 – and thanks to large-scale supply chain attacks, the past 12 months may have seen the most victims ever

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How server makers are surfing the AI wave

  While hyperscalers extend the life of their x86 equipment, the industry’s desperate pleas to find a new killer application to drive up server sales may well be coming true

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  Finnish IT industry talent fears amid government restrictions

  Finnish businesses concerned over the immigration plans of the country’s right-wing government

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How Proofpoint is helping to mitigate AI security threats

  Proofpoint is offering monitoring tools to prevent leakage of sensitive information in generative AI models and other capabilities to mitigate AI mediated attacks

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  How a Node4 virtual datacentre proved better than MS cloud for mental health charity

  Charity Together For Mental Wellbeing managed to migrate legacy servers into a new virtual environment and fix a major disaster recovery issue

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Nokia unveils gigabit multi-dwelling unit solution for cable operators

  Comms tech provider looks at increasingly important sector of fixed comms to offer solution designed to enable cable operators to deliver multi-gigabit services using existing coaxial cables in MDUs and buildings too difficult to serve with fibre

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Verizon Business, Zebra Technologies team to accelerate private 5G

  Business comms provider certifies mobile device manufacturer to work with private 5G and LTE networks throughout the US to enable frontline workers in multiple industries to manage projects and comms on job sites more efficiently

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  NHS whistleblower Peter Duffy threatens trust with legal action in row over alleged email tampering

  NHS whistleblower warns his former employer of potential litigation over a dispute concerning allegations of email tampering

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  AT&T taps Ericsson Open RAN to pioneer path to networks of the future

  US comms giant inks five-year network transformation agreement with Swedish comms tech company as it aims to pioneer path to programmable and intelligent networks of the future

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Government launches UK-wide Cyber Explorers Cup

  Schoolkids across the UK are being called on to team up and defeat Herbert the Hacker in a new government-backed competition

• December 06, 2023 06 Dec'23

  Post Office prioritised its ‘bottom line’ over justice

  The Post Office was more concerned with saving money and recovering unexplained losses than getting to the bottom of subpostmaster claims that Horizon errors caused shortfalls, inquiry told