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Just as it carries build-out momentum of 2022 to key towns in Suffolk and Berkshire, UK’s largest independent full-fibre provider protests to UK regulatory authorities about behaviour of arch-rival in gigabit broadband

HMRC claims work on a ‘potential legislative solution’ is underway to ensure it does not collect more tax than is due when end-user organisations are found to have made errors in determining the IR35 status of their contractors

London calling for BT-owned broadband provision division as it makes next step in plan to reach 25 million homes with full fibre by December 2026 and launches simplified online map showing when and where full-fibre network is being built

Police Digital Service announces that a new cloud-based fingerprint system developed under its Transforming Forensics programme is nearly complete, but data protection concerns around the use of US-based cloud providers remain

Data deduplication, edge caching, encryption key management and permanent delete all empower administrators in the new Ctera 7.5 global file system update.

In an advisory Monday, Fortinet urged customers to take steps to immediately mitigate the critical flaw, which was disclosed earlier by French infosec firm Olympe Cyberdefense.

Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023

Europe’s first 5G hybrid mobile private network opens at Nardò Technical Centre, a leading automotive proving ground in Italy, to offer customers an improved infrastructure to develop and test intelligent, autonomous, connected vehicles

Rackspace says it is making progress on restoring services following a ransomware attack on its Hosted Exchange business, but customers are becoming frustrated with a lack of communication

Students on the autistic spectrum are using virtual reality to help them prepare for real-world interaction

Report from data consultancy Carruthers and Jackson finds a significant majority of data function leaders consider their organisations’ employees lack adequate data literacy

A second incident affecting ride-sharing app Uber appears to have originated through a third party in a supply chain attack

Finland’s government is offering businesses financial support to help them improve their cyber security

As cyber risk outpaces organisational defences, and cyber attacks and breaches cause more and more damage, the nature of the CISO role is entering a state of flux, according to a report

UK universities awarded £28m to develop next-generation 6G network technology, and an £80m fund will help set up a lab for testing network equipment, as government aims to boost telecoms infrastructure

Vendor is keen to make sure no one misses out with latest changes to its partner reward programme

Comms tech provider and leading German operator claim industry-first milestone achieved on live 5G network with Nokia’s commercial 5G AirScale portfolio and MediaTek’s mobile platform

The European Commission has concluded that the United States does ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union and will now launch the process towards the adoption of an adequacy decision

Security player continues with its plans to build a partner network to support growth ambitions across EMEA

In four-plus years since its acquisition, MuleSoft has emerged as vital connective tissue inside and outside the Salesforce platform. Interview with CEO Brent Hayward.

For better or for worse, the world re-opened this year, renewing geeks' need for business travel accessories, while others sought to explore their musical creativity.

The database vendor updates its hybrid transactional and analytical database with new JSON data query acceleration technology and developer support for WebAssembly.

If the industry wants to thwart software supply chain attacks and prevent another Log4Shell, the way forward is to pay open source maintainers, Tidelift GC Luis Villa says.

The NSA said that APT5, a suspected Chinese nation-state threat group, is actively exploiting the Citrix zero-day flaw, which affects the vendor's ADC and Gateway products.

The open source database cloud services vendor continues to expand the number of technologies it supports, adding new analytics capabilities in a managed offering.

December's Patch Tuesday features fixes for 48 new bugs, including several critical vulnerabilities and two zero days, one of which is currently being exploited in the wild.

Reporting tool will enable the public to share crime-related information with law enforcement agencies to support policing in Tasmania

Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

Newly launched industry specification group on Terahertz holds kick-off meeting and decides on work priorities for new candidate technology for 6G communications infrastructures

Orange will give users of Mediterranean submarine cable system the ability to access datacentres in French city and interconnect through fully redundant infrastructure

Research from managed workplace services provider finds current IT setup is preventing effective collaboration, putting remote workers at a disadvantage and driving up cyber risks

Enterprises need to be aware of the group's partial encryption technique because the less data it encrypts, the less chance the activity will be detected by a security product.

Financial watchdog warns broadcaster that it may lack resources to achieve its desired digital ambitions, with particular worry over best practice in acquiring, storing and securing personal data and potential exposure to reputational risks

December’s Patch Tuesday is typically a light month for Microsoft, and this year proved no exception, but there are still several critical issues worth addressing, and two zero-days for defenders to pore over

The London Stock Exchange is building on its acquisition of financial data provider Refinitiv through a deal with Microsoft

Ethical hackers working through HackerOne programmes found 21% more vulnerabilities in 2022 than in 2021

NHS national data guardian Nicola Byrne has published new guidance on how health and social care bodies should approach the task of evaluating public benefit when using data for purposes beyond individual care

Check Point deep dives into an emergent data wiper strain known as Azov, which is making waves with hundreds of new samples being submitted to VirusTotal daily

Plans are advancing to create a single source of healthcare data in England combining both private providers and the NHS to avoid a repeat of the Ian Paterson scandal

As the tech skills gap persists, research shows many hiring managers in the UK are now looking for talent in other countries

The vendor's fourth-quarter update includes an integration with Salesforce Flow that enables users to trigger actions in business applications directly from their BI dashboards.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission wants more former subpostmasters to come forward if they think they were prosecuted by the Post Office based on data from the error-prone Horizon computer system

Leading Australian operator taps global comms tech provider to support network-as-a-service (NaaS) strategies, enabling an enhanced experience for business customers through reusable and shared platform for improved network management and operational efficiency

Gigabit broadband provider Truespeed switches focus from delivering high-speed connectivity to building and to around them, striking partnership with provider of wireless connectivity devices for homes and businesses

Live Edit not only enables collaboration during the decision-making process but also lets data engineers and business users work together as they develop new data products.

T-Mobile has expanded its mid-band 5G coverage across most of the nation, pulling further ahead of rivals Verizon and AT&T.

The SEC charged cryptocurrency firm FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with fraud Tuesday, shortly before a House committee met to discuss cryptocurrency industry regulation.

Recent advancements in AI portend the rise of the robot coder. Developers will need new skills to succeed in an AI-based industry, experts say.

EncroChat hacking warrant was unlawful and in breach of human rights law, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hears

Integrated terrestrial positioning support to the fore as Qualcomm launches IoT-optimised LTE modem with integrated positioning support for greater connectivity, location and compute processing capabilities on device and at the edge

Thin client specialist promised channel its alliance strategy would add more options and its latest move underlines that ambition

The Chinese cloud supplier is readying a blockchain node service to simplify and speed up blockchain technology deployments

An operation combining law enforcement from the UK, US, Netherlands and Europol has disrupted 48 of the world’s most popular DDoS booter websites

The Lego Group has remediated two potentially serious API vulnerabilities in its BrickLink digital resale platform, just in time for Christmas

Comms tech provider’s analytics software selected by leading UK network provider in five-year deal to improve operators’ fixed access customer experience

The open source Cassandra database is out with its first major update in 18 months, bringing with it an improved consensus protocol to boost transaction performance.

Ofcom’s latest investigation of connectivity across the country finds full-fibre broadband now available to more than 12 million homes and 5G reaching seven in ten properties, while the number of households without access to decent broadband has fallen by a third

Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public’s near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector

Spotify Plugins for Backstage improves the development environment, but it can also help users tackle the developer shortage, according to one industry expert.

New collaboration through IT giant’s Airband Initiative designed to increase satellite broadband availability for people across Africa and the rest of the world by the end of 2025

Zero trust has been used regularly in security conversations and has been making a difference to both channel partners and customers

What's old is new again: Lego site BrickLink was found vulnerable to cross-site scripting and other well-understood types of attacks, intensifying scrutiny on API security.

While Azov was initially considered ransomware, Check Point researchers warned the polymorphic malware is designed to inflict maximum damage to targeted systems.

The Biden administration is reversing a business-friendly Trump administration rule on independent contractors. Some 55,000 comments on the proposed change have been logged.

Google joined Mozilla and Microsoft in removing support for TrustCor Systems certificates following a Washington Post report on TrustCor's connections to spyware vendors.

Consultants and analysts say SaaS and cloud sales will dominate enterprise storage market into 2023. But hardware innovations are still possible and on the horizon.

The Eagle Act, which would have eliminated per-country caps for employment-based visas, failed to find enough support for passage and was pulled from consideration.

The app generates avatars from users' images. While the terms and conditions worry critics, the avatars provide representation of racial groups not usually seen in art.

Jisc will introduce new measures to protect UK universities and research institutions from ransomware attacks that exploit the Remote Desktop Protocol remote-access feature

National Crime Agency argues that the lawfulness of surveillance warrants issued to hack the EncroChat phone network should only be considered in the light of facts and assessments known at the time

Employees and former employees of cosmetics firm Shiseido whose data was stolen in a recent breach are planning group legal action after their information was used to establish fraudulent companies in their names

Engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin has consolidated its global datacentre estate and implemented private cloud to support the unique demands of its business

Salesforce DevOps Center rolled out with features meant to bring low-code and pro-code custom apps on its CRM platform up to date with current software development practices.

The channel is already seen as a repository of security expertise, and the pressure to deliver that is only set to increase in 2023

The U.S. Senate, federal agencies and state governments have banned TikTok from government devices due to concerns about data collection and China's access to U.S. data.