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25 Apr 2024
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud gets GenAI for banking
By Don FluckingerIf Salesforce can talk the highly conservative, highly skeptical and highly regulated financial industry into adopting GenAI, the company could win over a lot more customers.
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24 Apr 2024
Lenovo, AMD broaden AI options for customers
By Adam ArmstrongLenovo is expanding its partnership with AMD to bring more options for servers and HCI devices aimed at AI. It also launched an AI advisory and professional services offering for customers.
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24 Apr 2024
Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community
By Alex ScroxtonMandating multifactor authentication for select developers has been a huge success for GitHub, the platform reports, and now it wants to go further
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07 Aug 2023
Solid Q2 results as Three builds 100th Shared Rural Network site
By Joe O’HalloranIn midst of dealing with strategic merger with erstwhile rival, telco announces construction completion of 100 sites as part of network build-out designed to provide 4G connectivity to 37,000+ rural premises across the UK
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07 Aug 2023
Google to discuss LLM benefits for threat intelligence programs
By Alexander CulafiLarge language models are the backbone of generative AI products launching in the security space. Google will discuss how best to integrate the technology at this week's Black Hat USA.
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07 Aug 2023
HPE’s Alletra MP marries storage to cloud and software-defined choices
By Yann SerraHPE’s Alletra was launched in April with an architecture that ties in with GreenLake consumption purchasing, SaaS configuration and addition of software-defined storage services
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07 Aug 2023
Dell goes partner-first on storage
By Simon QuickeVendor will hand channel significant amount of business as it looks to drive increased sales through partners
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07 Aug 2023
Global smartphone shipments decline year on year for eighth consecutive quarter
By Joe O’HalloranOmdia study reveals headwinds now buffeting the once unstoppable smartphone industry and predicts times will be tough for the industry until the end of 2023
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07 Aug 2023
Soracom expands partners for iSIM Commercial IoT growth
By Joe O’HalloranAdvanced internet of things connectivity provider collaborates with Israeli semiconductor division of CE giant, Kigen, Murat and Quectel to accelerate iSIM deployments
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07 Aug 2023
Rise in fraudsters spoofing the websites of leading UK banks
By Alex ScroxtonDespite safeguards to protect customers from scams, UK retail banks are still seeing high volumes of fake phishing websites exploiting their brands, and the problem seems to be increasing in scope and scale
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04 Aug 2023
AI cloud vendor Alibaba still has a long way to go
By Esther AjaoThe China-based vendor introduced two open source models: Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat. The models are smaller versions of Tongyi Qianwen, the LLM it released in April.
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04 Aug 2023
CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs
By Caroline DonnellyThe government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are coming under fire from the SME supplier community over accusations it could do more to make the £1.3 bn Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to smaller suppliers
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04 Aug 2023
SAP called out by German user group for Rise U-turn
By Cliff SaranGerman SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe calls on SAP for clarity around on-premise S/4Hana product enhancements
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04 Aug 2023
Tablet market under pressure
By Simon QuickeThe tablet form factor finds itself in a difficult position as shipments continue to fall and rival technologies emerge
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04 Aug 2023
SoutheastHEALTH Joins Mercy, Gaining Access to Epic EHR System
By Sarai RodriguezA definitive agreement between Mercy and SoutheastHEALTH will merge the health systems, providing the latter access to the Epic EHR system.
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04 Aug 2023
VMware Cloud on AWS expands to Melbourne cloud region
By Aaron TanMLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs
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04 Aug 2023
Log4Shell, ProxyShell still among most widely exploited flaws
By Alex ScroxtonStatistics released by the collective Five Eyes cyber agencies reveals insight into the most exploited vulnerabilities of 2022, and unsurprisingly there are some old ‘friends’ on the list
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04 Aug 2023
Amazon CEO cites enterprise shift in cloud spending priorities for upbeat Q2 results
By Caroline DonnellyAfter a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form
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04 Aug 2023
Biden’s SBOM mandate a ‘shot heard around the world’, report says
By Alex ScroxtonTwo years and three months after Joe Biden mandated new standards in supply chain security, over 40% of UK respondents to a survey say they have implemented new SBOM policies in direct response
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03 Aug 2023
MoveIt Transfer attacks dominate July ransomware disclosures
By Arielle WaldmanTraditional ransomware attacks took a back seat last month, as Clop operators continued to claim victims from the zero-day attacks on MoveIt Transfer customers.
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03 Aug 2023
IT pros mull observability tools, devx and generative AI
By Beth PariseauObservability as a common language for both developers and operations teams still has plenty of room for improvement in the era of platform engineering, according to experts.
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03 Aug 2023
White House receives feedback on national AI priorities
By Makenzie HollandThe White House plans to use public input on national priorities for AI to guide its adoption of a broad, comprehensive national AI strategy focused on AI's risks and benefits.
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03 Aug 2023
Lawmakers seek to restrict 'bossware'
By Patrick ThibodeauAI-enabled bossware and employee monitoring tech is getting increasing attention in the U.S. Senate and by the White House. An effort may be made to get a bill passed.
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03 Aug 2023
Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp
By Alex ScroxtonNHS Lanarkshire has been issued a formal reprimand by the ICO after staff members used WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data with one another
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03 Aug 2023
Plexal takes on new cohort for cyber security leadership scheme
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonSix more cyber security startup founders have been selected to take part in Plexal’s latest Cyber Runway Ignite programme, which is designed to help them develop their leadership skills
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03 Aug 2023
Vodafone teams with DCC to upgrade Britain’s smart meter system
By Joe O’HalloranUK operator provides 4G and IoT expertise to help company responsible for overseeing and managing the UK’s smart meter infrastructure deliver on strategy to develop, manage and optimise energy assets
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03 Aug 2023
Cozy Bear hijacks SME Microsoft 365 tenants in latest campaign
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft shares intelligence on a newly observed Cozy Bear campaign that saw the APT take over genuine Microsoft 365 tenants and subvert them to try to phish its victims
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03 Aug 2023
UK government recruits panel to focus on semiconductors
By Cliff SaranA panel of experts is being recruited as part of the government's national semiconductor strategy to ensure the UK’s chip sector can grow
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03 Aug 2023
SnapLogic launches generative AI tool for data integration
By Eric AvidonThe vendor released SnapGPT, a generative AI tool that lets data engineers more efficiently develop data pipelines by using natural language. An early user is Barnard College.
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03 Aug 2023
UK government explores plan to open £160m satellite broadband fund
By Joe O’HalloranSecond UK government connectivity funding announcement in two days sees plan to expand space-based broadband and 5G coverage for remote areas
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03 Aug 2023
Microsoft attacked over ‘grossly irresponsible’ security practice
By Alex ScroxtonThe CEO of Tenable has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft, asserting that the organisation is deliberately keeping its Azure cloud customers in the dark about dangerous vulnerabilities and accusing it of a culture of ‘toxic obfuscation’
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03 Aug 2023
Exclusive Networks delivers solid H1
By Simon QuickeDistributor continues to provide investors with cheer after sharing details of its first-half performance
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03 Aug 2023
UK altnets make further advances in gigabit
By Joe O’HalloranCityFibre passes 1,000km reach in growing south coast of England region, while independent mobile phone retailer to offer Welsh provider Ogi’s ultrafast full-fibre broadband and voice packages in its high street stores
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03 Aug 2023
India’s booming IT market driving up wages
By Aaron TanMajority of India’s IT pros expect their pay to increase in the next 12 months, underscoring the country’s tight IT labour market fuelled by a booming tech sector, study finds
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03 Aug 2023
Hybrid quantum workflow offers potential for hydrogen fuel cell efficiency
By Cliff SaranBMW, Airbus and Quantinuum have collaborated on a project to simulate a reaction that could pave the way to more efficient hydrogen fuel cells
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02 Aug 2023
Salesforce offers tighter Slack integration with Sales Cloud
By Mary ReinesThe CRM giant released tools that bring customer data and insights to the collaboration platform, such as instant account updates sent directly to channels for review.
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02 Aug 2023
Solar panels help reduce energy burden at SCC datacentre
By Simon QuickeChannel player’s ambitions to meet net-zero goals bolstered by decision to use renewable energy at Birmingham site
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02 Aug 2023
Virgin Media O2 claims UK 5G SA private network first
By Joe O’HalloranLow-cost plug-and-play private network launched to unlock connectivity for industries whenever and wherever they need it
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02 Aug 2023
NetApp focusing partners on cloud and flash
By Simon QuickeLaunch of partner programme that rewards expertise in those areas offers support and co-selling options to the channel
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02 Aug 2023
Hiring women could close tech skills gap, say tech professionals
By Clare McDonaldFirms sometimes struggle to find the technology talent they need, but encouraging women into the sector could help them to find the skills they’re looking for
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02 Aug 2023
Pig butchers caught using ChatGPT to con victims
By Alex ScroxtonRomance scammers looking to con people out of their savings appear to be turning to generative AI tools to save time and effort
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02 Aug 2023
Scotland’s most remote emergency services connected by 4G coverage
By Joe O’HalloranOperator reveals role in partnership to deliver hitherto unavailable 4G coverage across the Highlands and Islands to help close signal blackspots and connect emergency services across the most remote areas of Scotland
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02 Aug 2023
Microsoft, LexisNexis take partnership deeper with genAI
By Esther AjaoThe cloud provider and the legal research giant plan to create points of integration within Word, Outlook and Teams, while minimizing the risks that come with LLMs.
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02 Aug 2023
House Legislators Propose $1.9B VA EHR Budget for 2024
By Hannah NelsonIf passed by the Senate, the bill would allocate $1.9 billion to the VA EHR modernization in fiscal year 2024, including $253 million for program management.
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02 Aug 2023
Ivanti MDM users told to patch against two dangerous flaws
By Alex ScroxtonUsers of Ivanti’s mobile device management platform have been warned to act now to patch two vulnerabilities that were chained by a threat actor in a series of cyber attacks on the Norwegian government
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02 Aug 2023
Wirral Council set to deploy Microsoft Fabric data platform
By Cliff SaranThe platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Simpson Associates, will be used to aid decision-making and improve operations
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02 Aug 2023
Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage
By Antony AdsheadCubbit’s DS3 offers cloud at up to 20% the cost of the main providers via on-premise software that builds a cloud with other users and targets unstructured data use cases such as backup
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02 Aug 2023
Improved rural connectivity could add £65bn to UK economy
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from leading operator and economic consultancy points to potential massive economic boost to UK rural communities through increased digital connectivity and if long-standing obstacles are removed
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02 Aug 2023
83% of Acute Care Hospitals Engage in Some SDOH Data Collection
By Sarai RodriguezDespite a known link between addressing social needs and improved health outcomes, just 54 percent of acute care hospitals engage in routine SDOH data collection.
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01 Aug 2023
Tech events tout sustainability, need meaningful metrics
By Jim O'DonnellSome companies are trying to make their events more environmentally responsible, but claims such as carbon offsetting must be examined carefully.
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01 Aug 2023
Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition
By Beth PariseauNew Relic and Sumo Logic were both taken private by the same firm, as consolidation -- and attrition -- continues among observability tools.
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01 Aug 2023
Vast Data looks beyond storage to the data lakehouse
By Tim McCarthyVast Data, a storage software vendor, introduces a new data management platform that unites its software capabilities into a platform.
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01 Aug 2023
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
By Antony AdsheadVast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores
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01 Aug 2023
Vodafone, Nokia team to introduce business-focused converged charging
By Joe O’HalloranCloud-based system designed to support operator’s business arm’s move towards digital services
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01 Aug 2023
User security consolidation a continuing trend
By Simon QuickeShifting to a platform approach is about more than saving money, according to some of the findings from Tanium and IDC
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01 Aug 2023
Two million more Australian households ready to upgrade to nbn
By Joe O’HalloranAustralia’s national broadband network on track to enable up to 10 million premises, or up to 90% of homes and businesses, to access wholesale download speeds of 500Mbps to near 1Gbps by the end of 2025
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01 Aug 2023
Small language models emerge for domain-specific use cases
By Eric AvidonBecause LLMs suffer from accuracy and security problems, some organizations are developing generative AI systems trained with their own company data to address specific use cases.
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01 Aug 2023
Dell latest to signal generative AI channel opportunity
By Simon QuickeVendor adds its backing for the technology to a growing list with the view it is a technology the channel needs to back
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01 Aug 2023
UK government announces 5G Innovation Regions fund
By Joe O’HalloranApplications now open for £40m financing designed to unlock 5G benefits across the UK with aim of sparking local ‘digital revolutions’ and pioneer digital connectivity for residents and businesses
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01 Aug 2023
Investment flows towards Nile to redefine enterprise networks
By Joe O’HalloranLatest funding round designed to allow next-generation enterprise network provider to accelerate market expansion amid growing global customer demand
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01 Aug 2023
Singtel adds Zscaler SSE to managed security services portfolio
By Aaron TanSingtel teams up with Zscaler to offer a managed security service edge service as it looks to ramp up its enterprise business
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31 Jul 2023
Researchers bust ChatGPT guardrails, question gen AI safety
By Antone GonsalvesResearchers find they can trick AI chatbots including OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Bard into providing disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content.
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31 Jul 2023
CISA details backdoor malware used in Barracuda ESG attacks
By Alexander CulafiCISA said Friday that 'Submarine' is a novel persistent backdoor used in attacks against Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances vulnerable to CVE-2023-2868.
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31 Jul 2023
Mobile satellite connectivity soars for Eutelsat across fiscal year
By Joe O’HalloranFinancial year sees leading satellite operator bring into service three new craft, and also sees it justify business pivot to supporting fast-growing space connectivity sector
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31 Jul 2023
Telia president and CEO Allison Kirkby to take over as BT chief executive
By Joe O’HalloranCEO of leading Baltics and Nordics telco to take the reins at BT Group in early 2024, offering support for current business strategy and next phase of development
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31 Jul 2023
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeThe personnel moves continue apace despite the summer focus on sun and sea
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31 Jul 2023
Sateliot, Telefónica claim 5G first for roaming connection from space
By Joe O’HalloranLow-earth orbit 5G IoT satellite constellation provider teams with Spain-based global telco to extend cellular network roaming to space in test supervised by European Space Agency
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31 Jul 2023
SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play
By Aaron TanSUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code
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31 Jul 2023
Health IT Vendor Surescripts Settles Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC
By Hannah NelsonThe FTC has reached a settlement with Surescripts that prohibits the health IT vendor from executing non-compete agreements with employees.
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31 Jul 2023
Baicells, Alef, Sky Packets team to take LTE networks across unserved communities
By Joe O’HalloranCommunity connectivity programme takes advantage of funding options and Private CBRS networks to deliver affordable broadband and digital equity for the unconnected
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31 Jul 2023
Splunk .conf23: The dangers of party planning as a woman in tech
By Clare McDonaldWhy should women in tech seek mentors, mentees and male allies – and avoid party planning? Some of the women at Splunk and its customers explained at .conf23
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31 Jul 2023
G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through
By Caroline DonnellyGovernment procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites
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28 Jul 2023
Lancaster Uni lends cyber support to nuclear decommissioning body
By Alex ScroxtonLancaster University’s cyber team has joined with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help support and protect its 300-year mission, while enhancing its own capabilities in the process
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28 Jul 2023
Beyond generative AI, data quality a data management trend
By Eric AvidonVendors and users have mostly focused on generative AI so far in 2023, but observability to ensure quality and governance also remain key to successful pipelines for analytics.
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28 Jul 2023
Risks of opening up AI
By Cliff SaranMeta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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28 Jul 2023
Citrix hands partners options to meet customer demands
By Simon QuickeFirm rolls out single subscription covering several services that will make life easier for the channel and users
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28 Jul 2023
Three Provider Orgs Look to eClinicalWorks EHR for Workflow Upgrades
By Sarai RodriguezPrimary Care Joliet, Encore Health Group, UniVida Medical Centers have recently invested in eClinicalWorks EHR to advance workflow upgrades.
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28 Jul 2023
Scottish university hit by Rhysida ransomware gang
By Alex ScroxtonData allegedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland has been put up for sale on the dark web by a ransomware gang going by the name Rhysida
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28 Jul 2023
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
By Brian McKennaServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships
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28 Jul 2023
Fibre growth drives revenue uptick but BT sees broadband losses in first quarter
By Joe O’HalloranBT posts first-quarter 2024 results vindicating strategy of focus on core networks and benefit of inflation-linked price rises, but broadband division sees overall fall in customers
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28 Jul 2023
EHR Work Associated With Clinician Burnout Across Specialties
By Hannah NelsonA study found that a “pooling” system to triage patient portal messages did not reduce the odds of clinician burnout from EHR work.
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28 Jul 2023
Church of England gives blessing to Vodafone Open RAN to boost rural mobile
By Joe O’HalloranLeading UK operator joins hands with church to improve 4G mobile coverage in rural UK locations
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28 Jul 2023
How Indian organisations are keeping pace with cyber security
By Pratima HarigunaniIndian organisations are shoring up their defences to improve their cyber resilience amid intensifying cyber threats targeted at key sectors such as healthcare and logistics
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27 Jul 2023
Google: 41 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2022
By Arielle WaldmanWhile attackers increasingly exploited zero-day flaws last year, one of the most notable findings from the report emphasized how inadequate patches led to new variants.
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27 Jul 2023
Security a concern for MSPs
By Simon QuickeManaged service providers are a target of cyber criminals so taking steps to protect data is a major ambition
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27 Jul 2023
European Commission starts investigation into Microsoft Teams bundling
By Cliff SaranThe commission will investigate if the bundling of Microsoft’s collaboration software with its office productivity suite breaks competition rules
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27 Jul 2023
Generative AI the dominant first half 2023 analytics trend
By Eric AvidonNumerous vendors have unveiled plans to integrate generative AI throughout their platforms, though few tools featuring the potentially transformative technology have been released.
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27 Jul 2023
Box unveils plugin for Microsoft Copilot, tighter integration
By Mary ReinesThe new integration lets joint customers use the tech giant's generative AI assistant to collaborate quicker with shared content summarization and querying.
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27 Jul 2023
HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers
By Caroline DonnellyThe government tax collection agency has once again been forced to deny it has banned the use of outside IR35 contractors following the publication of its latest set of accounts
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27 Jul 2023
Cyber criminals pivot away from ransomware encryption
By Alex ScroxtonCyber breaches that saw data theft and extortion without an encryption or ransomware component account for more and more incidents, in a possible indication that ransomware gangs are changing up their business models
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27 Jul 2023
Daisy: Customers keeping a continuing eye on costs
By Simon QuickeComms player shares research that underlines the ongoing impact the economic landscape is having on customer behaviour
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27 Jul 2023
AWS Releases Generative AI Service for Clinical Documentation
By Hannah NelsonThe new AWS service will support generative AI clinical documentation capabilities for general medicine and orthopedics specialties.
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27 Jul 2023
N2WS now supports cross-cloud backup between Azure and AWS
By Tim McCarthyN2W Software's Backup and Recovery 4.2 adds new capabilities for AWS and Azure versions with a new cross cloud replication feature to store data at a potentially lower cost.
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27 Jul 2023
US cyber breach reporting rules to have global impact
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations that operate as Foreign Private Issuers in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations handed down by the SEC in Washington
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27 Jul 2023
Post Office tried to convince independent IT witness that he was wrong about Horizon
By Karl Flinders‘Delusional’ Post Office tried to influence an expert witness and get him to change his view about IT evidence which was detrimental to its case against a subpostmaster
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27 Jul 2023
Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy
By Cliff SaranThe owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs
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27 Jul 2023
IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions
By Caroline DonnellyTech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities
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27 Jul 2023
Smallsat market defies challenges to fly higher
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds that despite supply challenges and market leader moving to larger form factors, small-form satellite market keeps growing in all metrics due to increasing government investments and new commercial entrants
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27 Jul 2023
Xcel Energy deploys Nokia private LTE for US grid modernisation
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider’s private LTE network technologies to see use in supporting new levels of automation
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27 Jul 2023
Ant Group teams with NTU to advance privacy-preserving technologies
By Aaron TanThe Chinese fintech giant is partnering with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on a cryptographic protocol that ensures the privacy of transacting parties
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26 Jul 2023
Microsoft 365 backup, archive cloud services due in 2024
By Tim McCarthyA highly adopted SaaS package in the enterprise will gain cloud-native data backup and archival services sold by Microsoft itself in Q4 2024, with new APIs for third-party tools.
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26 Jul 2023
AWS targets generative AI at NYC Summit
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant updated its Bedrock Platform with new foundation models and a new foundation model provider. It also introduced new services for developers and health professionals.
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26 Jul 2023
U.S. senators sharpen focus on AI regulations
By Makenzie HollandLicensing AI systems, creating a federal AI agency, and establishing third-party testing and auditing regimes are just some of the AI regulation ideas U.S. senators are pursuing.