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Government 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

Why 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

Community connectivity programme takes advantage of funding options and Private CBRS networks to deliver affordable broadband and digital equity for the unconnected

Low-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

The personnel moves continue apace despite the summer focus on sun and sea

CEO 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

Financial 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

CISA said Friday that 'Submarine' is a novel persistent backdoor used in attacks against Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances vulnerable to CVE-2023-2868.

Researchers find they can trick AI chatbots including OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Bard into providing disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content.

Singtel teams up with Zscaler to offer a managed security service edge service as it looks to ramp up its enterprise business

Latest funding round designed to allow next-generation enterprise network provider to accelerate market expansion amid growing global customer demand

Applications 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

Vendor adds its backing for the technology to a growing list with the view it is a technology the channel needs to back

Because 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.

Australia’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

Shifting to a platform approach is about more than saving money, according to some of the findings from Tanium and IDC

Cloud-based system designed to support operator’s business arm’s move towards digital services

Vast Data, a storage software vendor, introduces a new data management platform that unites its software capabilities into a platform.

Vast 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

New Relic and Sumo Logic were both taken private by the same firm, as consolidation -- and attrition -- continues among observability tools.

Some companies are trying to make their events more environmentally responsible, but claims such as carbon offsetting must be examined carefully.

Study 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

Cubbit’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

Users 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

The platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Simpson Associates, will be used to aid decision-making and improve operations

The 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.

Operator 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

Romance scammers looking to con people out of their savings appear to be turning to generative AI tools to save time and effort

Firms 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

Low-cost plug-and-play private network launched to unlock connectivity for industries whenever and wherever they need it

Launch of partner programme that rewards expertise in those areas offers support and co-selling options to the channel

Channel player’s ambitions to meet net-zero goals bolstered by decision to use renewable energy at Birmingham site

The 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.

BMW, Airbus and Quantinuum have collaborated on a project to simulate a reaction that could pave the way to more efficient hydrogen fuel cells

Majority 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

CityFibre 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

Distributor continues to provide investors with cheer after sharing details of its first-half performance

The 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’

Second UK government connectivity funding announcement in two days sees plan to expand space-based broadband and 5G coverage for remote areas

The 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.

A panel of experts is being recruited as part of the government's national semiconductor strategy to ensure the UK’s chip sector can grow

Microsoft 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

UK 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

Six 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

NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a formal reprimand by the ICO after staff members used WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data with one another

AI-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.

The 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.

Observability 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.

Traditional ransomware attacks took a back seat last month, as Clop operators continued to claim victims from the zero-day attacks on MoveIt Transfer customers.

Two 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

Statistics 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

After a succession of downbeat quarterly results, Amazon's Q2 figures suggest a return to form

MLC Life Insurance is tapping the VMware Cloud on AWS service in the AWS Melbourne cloud region to exit its datacentre and reduce technology costs

The tablet form factor finds itself in a difficult position as shipments continue to fall and rival technologies emerge

German SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe calls on SAP for clarity around on-premise S/4Hana product enhancements

The 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

The 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.