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26 Apr 2024
Google delays third-party 'Cookiepocalyse' until at least 2025
By Don FluckingerGoogle has yet again delayed the depreciation of third-party cookies. Marketers and advertisers now have until 2025 to remediate their ad tech.
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26 Apr 2024
IBM offers storage hardware subscription program
By Adam ArmstrongIBM Storage Assurance offers a new subscription model centered around on-premises hardware, while FlashSystem 5300 introduces an entry-level all-flash array to the portfolio.
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26 Apr 2024
Microsoft, SAP add more AI to manufacturing, supply chain
By Jim O'DonnellAt the Hannover Messe industrial show, Microsoft debuted Fabric AI for OT and IT data, and the copilot template for factory operations; SAP unveiled AI capabilities for manufacturing.
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28 Feb 2024
Google unfazed by advertiser criticism of third-party cookie plan
By Don FluckingerGoogle is working with U.K. regulators on its plan to phase out third-party cookies this year, despite pushback from an advertisers group. Meanwhile, bots are affecting ad traffic.
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28 Feb 2024
Biden aims to protect data, calls for U.S. data privacy law
By Makenzie HollandPresident Joe Biden is aiming to stop the sale of Americans' sensitive data to countries of concern, while also pushing for a U.S. data privacy law.
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28 Feb 2024
New version of ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware hits victims
By Alex ScroxtonAn updated version of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware has been spotted in the wild amid a series of attacks on American healthcare providers, prompting a new alert from the authorities
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28 Feb 2024
Alphv/BlackCat attacking hospitals following FBI takedown
By Alexander CulafiThe ransomware attacks against hospitals and the healthcare sector come after law enforcement agencies, led by the FBI, disrupted Alphv/BlackCat's network in December.
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28 Feb 2024
75% of third-party breaches target software, IT supply chains
By Alex ScroxtonData drawn from SecurityScorecard’s telemetry reveals how supply chain breaches are becoming a weapon of choice for threat actors
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28 Feb 2024
Users love their cyber teams, but find them frustrating
By Alex ScroxtonDespite strong support for security teams, a good number of ordinary workers see them as obstructive to business goals, and would like to see them operate more transparently
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28 Feb 2024
IR35 reforms: PAC concerned HMRC’s ‘tough’ enforcement is harming contractors
By Caroline DonnellyThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised red flags over how HMRC is policing the IR35 rules out of concern its actions might be putting public and private sector organisations off hiring contractors
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28 Feb 2024
Intel, Nvidia aim latest systems-on-a-chip at AI workstations
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's RTX 500 and RTX 1000 GPUs are for the lightest mobile workstations. Intel's Core Ultra with a built-in GPU can handle many AI-powered tasks on the workhorse computers.
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28 Feb 2024
Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration
By Marc Ambasna-JonesMicrosoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI
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28 Feb 2024
IT leaders spend on cutting-edge to refactor legacy tech
By Cliff SaranOrganisations carry around a huge amount of technical debt, which holds back innovation and limits application architectural decisions
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28 Feb 2024
Regenstrief Updates LOINC with 800 Concepts for Health Data Exchange
By Hannah NelsonLOINC release 2.77 reflects Regenstrief Institute’s work with partners like HL7 International and CMS to advance health data exchange across the care continuum.
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28 Feb 2024
Rimini Street Custom offers expanded third-party support
By Jim O'DonnellRimini Custom pushes beyond Rimini Street's usual support of SAP, Oracle and Salesforce systems by customizing packages specific to a customer's enterprise applications.
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28 Feb 2024
SambaNova Systems intros Samba-1 generative AI model
By Esther AjaoThe new model is aimed at enterprises wanting to use generative models without compromising privacy. It also uses the best open source model for a given application.
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28 Feb 2024
Alation broadens ecosystem with spate of new integrations
By Eric AvidonThe data catalog specialist is adding integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Apache Kafka -- among others -- to broaden the connectivity of its data ecosystem.
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28 Feb 2024
Cohesity Gaia enables GenAI content creation using backups
By Tim McCarthyA new generative AI capability in the Cohesity Data Cloud platform enables content creation from backup data and aims to eliminate data warehouses for common enterprise uses.
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28 Feb 2024
Government urged to take a pro-innovation approach to quantum regulation
By Cliff SaranResponsible innovation, learning from AI and the use of foresight techniques should inform policymaking
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28 Feb 2024
‘Pathetic’ Post Office spat detracts attention and fuels ‘disdain’ for authority
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office chair’s row with the government and Post Office cannot be allowed to deflect attention away from achieving justice and recompense for former subpostmasters
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28 Feb 2024
UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan
By Stephen WithersThe University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap
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28 Feb 2024
Mid-market customers feeling ignored and mis-sold
By Simon QuickeResearch from Microsoft partner Advania has revealed that users are struggling with legacy tech, management headaches and a lack of support from vendors
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28 Feb 2024
Caroline Dinenage signs letter calling for angel law change
By Clare McDonaldThe MP has signed a letter calling for the government to reconsider recently changed laws making it harder for women to be angel investors
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28 Feb 2024
CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike
By Caroline DonnellyThe Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m
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28 Feb 2024
BT launches smart city NB-IoT offer
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading comms provider launches multi-million-pound narrowband internet of things network to pave way for more smart cities and industries, creating cost-efficiency gains and costs savings for public sector
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27 Feb 2024
Westcon-Comstor adds private Cisco listings to AWS Markeplace
By Simon QuickeDistributor moves quickly to flex status as valued partner of public cloud giant
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27 Feb 2024
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
By Aaron TanTeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories
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27 Feb 2024
US tech used in Russian weapons, despite export controls
By Makenzie HollandU.S. export controls aren't keeping technology produced by Intel, AMD, Analog Devices and Texas Instruments from ending up in weapons systems used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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27 Feb 2024
Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise vulns
By Alex ScroxtonMore ransomware gangs have been observed exploiting two dangerous vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect software, prompting new warnings for users to get patching
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27 Feb 2024
Ransomware gangs exploiting ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws
By Arielle WaldmanRansomware activity is ramping up against vulnerable ScreenConnect systems as Black Basta and Bl00dy threat actors were observed exploiting the vulnerabilities.
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27 Feb 2024
VulnCheck bug listing to help track new threats quicker
By Alex ScroxtonExploit intelligence firm VulnCheck launches a proprietary Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in hopes of improving end-user access to intel on emerging threats and reaching those that the likes of CISA do not
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27 Feb 2024
Cohesity CEO on customer choice following Veritas merger
By Tim McCarthySanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, talks about his company's recent purchase of Veritas, what customers should expect in the year ahead and if other mergers are possible.
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27 Feb 2024
IBM FlashSystem update focuses on ransomware detection
By Adam ArmstrongIBM FlashSystem builds on the ransomware fight in primary storage by adding AI to its FlashCore Module storage media and to Storage Defender, its data protection SaaS.
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27 Feb 2024
Government should face legal deadlines on paying Post Office victims
By Karl FlindersThe government should face a legal deadline on paying Horizon scandal victims and unfair previous settlements should be reopened, MPs have been told - amid further boardroom controversy at the Post Office
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27 Feb 2024
Birmingham sets aside £25m for Oracle transformation
By Cliff SaranCouncil’s budget report shows that £5.3m is needed to continue support and manual intervention on troubled Oracle system
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27 Feb 2024
Keepit cuts ribbon on London base
By Simon QuickeBackup and recovery player is the second Danish firm to set its sights on growing its position in the UK market in the space of a week
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27 Feb 2024
Majority of UK employees ‘willingly gamble’ with security
By Alex ScroxtonHuman-centric threats originating from employees continue to damage organisations both financially and reputationally, according to a report
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27 Feb 2024
Executive interview: David Wong, Thomson Reuters
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the chief product officer of Thomson Reuters about working with artificial intelligence and embedding Microsoft Copilot for Word
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27 Feb 2024
Hycu uses AI to develop APIs for SaaS application backup
By Yann SerraSaaS applications don’t usually come with built-in data protection, but Hycu plans to tackle that gap in the market with AI to generate the connectors needed to backup user data
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27 Feb 2024
AI fuelling cloud infrastructure services growth
By Simon QuickeCanalys’ analysis of the market and year-long prospects indicate that the effects of artificial intelligence technology are already being felt in cloud infrastructure services
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27 Feb 2024
Managers want generative AI, but workers need more help getting to grips with it
By Steve RangerStaff given artificial intelligence guidelines are more likely to experiment with the technology than those who are given none, according to a survey
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27 Feb 2024
MWC 2024: Huawei looks to advance 5.5G opportunity
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech giant lays out course it will follow to take advantage of forthcoming next standard in 5G mobile communications offering the prospect of native 10Gbps connectivity, native green technology and native intelligence
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators
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27 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Nigel Richardson, European CIO, PepsiCo
By Mark SamuelsThe food and drinks giant is targeting customer engagement, supply chain improvements and greater sustainability as it works on its digital transformation plans
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27 Feb 2024
Microsoft president commits to Azure open platform for AI
By Cliff SaranBrad Smith sets out Microsoft’s ambitions to make Azure the best platform to host foundational AI models, and train and run AI applications
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27 Feb 2024
Cozy Bear and other APTs changing tack as cloud adoption increases
By Alex ScroxtonA change in APT tactics has been observed resulting from greater adoption of cloud-based services, according to the NCSC
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27 Feb 2024
Global telcos team up on large language models
By Aaron TanGlobal Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain
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26 Feb 2024
Microsoft allies with OpenAI rival Mistral AI
By Esther AjaoThe tech giant is investing in the open source startup. The partnership means Mistral's premium models, including its new model, Mistral Large, will be available on Azure.
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26 Feb 2024
Broadcom to sell VMware EUC division to KKR for $3.8B
By Don FluckingerCustomers that pair VMware's hypervisor with Horizon and Workspace One desktops might feel licensing jitters, but the deal could lead to more flexibility.
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26 Feb 2024
New merger guidelines, crackdown affect business strategies
By Makenzie HollandThe FTC and DOJ will be closely scrutinizing mergers and acquisitions heading into 2024 based on new merger guidelines released in December 2023.
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26 Feb 2024
Octopus Deploy reels in Codefresh for GitOps expertise
By Beth PariseauBy joining forces in CI/CD and GitOps, the combined companies look to even the odds with bigger competitors, but this will be a daunting task, experts predict.
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit restores servers following law enforcement takedown
By Alexander CulafiLaw enforcement agencies last week announced a takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang that involved the seizure of servers, websites and decryption keys, as well as two arrests.
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26 Feb 2024
CISA: APT29 targeting cloud accounts for initial access
By Arielle WaldmanU.K. and U.S. government agencies have observed the Russian nation-state group increasingly target dormant and inactive cloud service accounts to gain initial access.
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26 Feb 2024
Government won’t rush to include Post Office Capture convictions in overturning legislation
By Karl FlindersThe government said it does not yet have the 'right body of evidence' to include users of the Post Office's Capture software in Horizon compensation schemes and legislation to overturn convictions
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26 Feb 2024
LockBit bids to save face after NCA takedown
By Alex ScroxtonThe LockBit gang’s ringleader resurfaces with new infrastructure and new victims, claiming to have shrugged off a multinational police sting
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26 Feb 2024
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
By Antony AdsheadThe TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay
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26 Feb 2024
Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP
By Cliff SaranCity council audit committee meeting shows Birmingham City Council plans to follow Oracle best practices
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26 Feb 2024
Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle
By Karl FlindersJanuary saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward
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26 Feb 2024
SC Health System Invests $40M in Epic EHR Platform for Interoperability
By Hannah NelsonThe Epic EHR implementation is set to advance interoperability across the health system, allowing providers to access patient data more easily for care coordination.
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26 Feb 2024
Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe analytics database vendor's trio of new AI capabilities, including the ability to pull in GenAI models, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making.
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26 Feb 2024
Podcast: 2024 the year of ROI for generative AI
By Shaun SutnerGenerative AI technologies are proliferating rapidly, but vendors and investors are looking to monetize AI models, a pivot from last year's innovative frenzy.
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26 Feb 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
By Simon QuickeMoves this week at Mitel, Auxilion, VeUP, Eco group, Planon, Saidot and VIPRE Security Group
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26 Feb 2024
Ericsson, Telefónica claim to redefine 5G experiences with on-demand slicing
By Joe O’HalloranProof of concept from telco and leading comms tech provide said to provide superior service experience for mobile consumers, enhancing performance of 5G services
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26 Feb 2024
5G, IoT roaming traffic soars in 2023
By Joe O’HalloranData from international communications enabler reveals 156% spike in year-on-year 5G non-standalone roaming for consumer and IoT devices
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26 Feb 2024
Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists
By Bill GoodwinJournalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom
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26 Feb 2024
TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse
By Caroline DonnellyUK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes
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23 Feb 2024
Reading long PDFs less painful with Adobe AI Assistant tool
By Don FluckingerThe first beta version of Adobe's generative AI tools for search, summary, attribution and copy-pasting is available for Acrobat, with more features to come.
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23 Feb 2024
GitHub Copilot replicating vulnerabilities, insecure code
By Rob WrightResearch from Snyk shows that AI assistants such as GitHub Copilot, which offer code completion suggestions, often amplify existing bugs and security issues in a user's codebase.
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23 Feb 2024
King Charles strips disgraced Post Office CEO of her CBE
By Karl FlindersDisgraced former Post Office CEO, central to the Horizon scandal, has her CBE formally stripped
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23 Feb 2024
Channel marketing scope has widened
By Simon QuickeThose looking after industry brands are increasingly taking on sustainability as an area of responsibility
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23 Feb 2024
ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonConnectWise ScreenConnect users who have yet to patch against a critical vulnerability are now being targeted by a barrage of cyber attacks, including ransomware
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23 Feb 2024
NCA trolls under fire LockBit gang leaders
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCA has teased details of the identity of LockBit's main admin via the gang’s compromised dark web site, and hinted that he has been engaging with law enforcement
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23 Feb 2024
Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel
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23 Feb 2024
Global households shift toward 5G fixed wireless access
By Joe O’HalloranReport finds that nearly three-quarters of homes with 5G fixed wireless access choose it as a full replacement for previously used connectivity
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23 Feb 2024
IR35 legislative tweak to remedy settlement offset issue by April 2024
By Caroline DonnellyLong-standing issue with how IR35 rules work to be resolved in April, thanks to Finance Act change
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23 Feb 2024
CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association
By Mark SamuelsEngland men’s and women’s football teams have had a good few years – and like any successful organisation, they are supported by technology. We meet the IT chief behind football in England and Wales
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23 Feb 2024
NAO report finds UK mobile connectivity programme behind schedule
By Joe O’HalloranFinancial watchdog report slams progress of government in flagship mobile roll-out scheme to expand 4G mobile connectivity in rural UK areas, casting doubt on whether it will be delivered on time
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23 Feb 2024
Audi revs up customised private 5G environment to gain edge
By Joe O’HalloranAuto giant’s private network aims to replicate connectivity environments found across the world to give it a competitive advantage by ensuring connected technology is sound and functional on public roads
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23 Feb 2024
Singtel rolls out network slicing on 5G network
By Aaron TanSingtel’s app-based network slicing capabilities will boost the performance of 5G applications and cater to different experience, security and privacy requirements
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22 Feb 2024
Arcitecta leverages metadata to move critical data faster
By Adam ArmstrongArcitecta has found a way to increase the data transfer speed of its Mediaflux Livewire software, which can be valuable for projects that demand significant collaboration.
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22 Feb 2024
Stability AI adopts new architecture in Stable Diffusion 3
By Esther AjaoThe new version of the image model uses a different architecture than previous versions. It comes in different sizes and has better spelling capabilities.
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22 Feb 2024
Intel Foundry launches as enterprise AI surges
By Antone GonsalvesIf the trend continues, enterprises will need more AI chip suppliers to help stabilize prices and meet the demand for AI processing at the edge and the data center, experts said.
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22 Feb 2024
Linkerd paywall prompts online debate, CNCF TOC review
By Beth PariseauLinkerd's decision to charge for access to stable builds of its service mesh code sparks objections and debate about open source governance, along with an official CNCF response.
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22 Feb 2024
Tableau launches Pulse, a GenAI-fueled insight generator
By Eric AvidonThe tool, which monitors data for metric changes and uses natural language to alert users, is the longtime analytics vendor's first generally available GenAI capability.
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22 Feb 2024
AI vendor finds opportunity amid AI computing problem
By Esther AjaoThe GPU cloud provider recently raised $320 million. It has found an opportunity as more enterprises seek to run generative models and the demand for infrastructure is high.
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22 Feb 2024
ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws under attack, patch now
By Alexander CulafiHuntress said in a blog post this week that the ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws, which have come under attack, were 'trivial and embarrassingly easy' for a threat actor to exploit.
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22 Feb 2024
Cyber experts alarmed by ‘trivial’ ConnectWise vulns
By Alex ScroxtonThe disclosure of two dangerous vulnerabilities in the popular ConnectWise ScreenConnect product is drawing comparisons with major cyber incidents, including the 2021 Kaseya attack
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22 Feb 2024
EU sets sail with undersea connectivity drive in digital infrastructure initiative
By Joe O’HalloranEuropean Commission announces digital connectivity package to advance development of integrated connectivity and collaborative computing infrastructures and shape future EU policy action
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22 Feb 2024
Law to clear hundreds of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters expected in July
By Karl FlindersLaw to overturn Post Office convictions based on computer evidence set to be introduced in July following unprecedented legislation
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22 Feb 2024
Ignition Technology adds human risk management with CultureAI
By Simon QuickeDistributor known for helping firms grow a channel base and increase market position is given the chance by CultureAI to deliver human risk management
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22 Feb 2024
Stannah looks to enterprise cloud software to lift IT systems
By Steve RangerMajor project the keystone of new IT strategy to modernise systems and support growth
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22 Feb 2024
Virgin Media O2 switches on 5G Standalone
By Joe O’HalloranUK operator continues to advance 5G roll-out in line with UK government’s Wireless Infrastructure Strategy
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22 Feb 2024
New Hammerspace capability sets up enterprise AI
By Tim McCarthyThe latest update to Hammerspace's software-defined storage system removes metadata from data path, enabling HPC to use data from any storage source without specialized hardware.
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22 Feb 2024
UK government breaks one million mark for gigabit broadband upgrades
By Joe O’HalloranTwo more Project Gigabit contracts signed to connect a further 32,400 premises in rural UK and further support announced through £70m Future Telecoms programme and Very Hard to Reach Alpha Trials
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22 Feb 2024
Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network
By Cliff SaranResearchers used QKD on a fibre-optic network spanning 184km to show how the technology could be used to secure networks cost-effectively
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22 Feb 2024
Mid and South Essex sets out plans for shared care record
By Lis EvenstadThe Essex-based integrated care system is developing a shared care record for health and social care, aiming to go live in spring 2024
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22 Feb 2024
Bytes Group CEO resigns
By Simon QuickeUndisclosed trades in Bytes Group’s shares lead long-standing staffer to walk away from the business
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22 Feb 2024
HIE, NextGen Aid Compliance with Health Data Exchange Framework
By Hannah NelsonSCHIO is using health data exchange tools from NextGen Healthcare to simplify compliance with HIE requirements that became mandatory across California on January 31, 2024.
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22 Feb 2024
Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’
By Cliff SaranJensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia
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22 Feb 2024
Tech consortium teams with Vodafone to deploy live Open RAN massive MIMO
By Joe O’HalloranChipmakers, tech firms, networking provider and telco team to demonstrate open virtualised radio access networks and 5G Core virtual User Plane Function using Arm-based CPUs
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22 Feb 2024
Inside LockBit: A ransomware gang in decline?
By Alex ScroxtonThe LockBit ransomware gang was already on the ropes prior to the NCA-led takedown, according to security researchers
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21 Feb 2024
Australian data breach report highlights supply chain risks
By Aaron TanThe OAIC has called for organisations to proactively address privacy risks from outsourcing personal information handling to third parties
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21 Feb 2024
Acronis Cyber Protect adds new capabilities for remote users
By Tim McCarthySMB IT teams can now empower users to restore endpoints such as laptops with Acronis Cyber Protect 16 and protect against ransomware with new immutable backups.