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MPs and online safety experts have expressed concern about encryption-breaking measures contained in the Online Safety Bill as it returns to Parliament for the first time since its passage was paused in July

App-based bank Starling is adding 1,000 people to its workforce with technology professionals being recruited for its new operation in Manchester

Limitations in the UK’s passport office IT system led to delays in applicants receiving their documents during a recent period of high demand

Government’s new code of practice will impose new privacy and security measures on app store operators and developers

User-defined functions land in Cockroach Labs' new database update aiming to improve application development. The release also adds Intelligent Insights for performance monitoring.

The Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract allows DOD departments to acquire cloud services and technology from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Salesforce unveils new Slack and Sales Cloud integrations following news that Slack's cofounder and other executives at the company have stepped down.

Microsoft and AWS unveiled supply chain management platforms that are intended to enable businesses to build capabilities in their clouds and tackle supply chain problems.

Flux and Argo CD earned graduated status within CNCF after a year in which platform engineering adoption and DevOps advances put both in the enterprise spotlight.

Survey of IT decision-makers and 1,200 office workers across EMEA region reveals that infrastructure users are committed to change but demand more positive action and greater understanding from leadership

Vodafone announces European OpenRAN deployment first for a live urban environment, demonstrating the technology is a viable alternative to traditional RAN in all scenarios, not just rural locations

From the USPS to appliance company Conair, organizations employing machine learning technology sometimes need to determine whether it's better to buy or build capabilities.

Nokia forms secure mission-critical communications system behind four Grand Paris Express lines that will transport two million passengers per day, delivering enhanced capacity, reliability and performance, and contributing to efforts to boost operations, safety and rider experience

Distributor launches flexible finance options at a time when customers are focusing on budgets

Apple is launching a number of new security protections, including the addition of third-party-provided hardware security keys

New strategy to be developed by top cyber security experts aims to turn Australia into a global cyber leader, among other goals

Databricks is making it easier for organisations to adopt a data lakehouse architecture through support for industry-specific file formats, data sharing and streaming processing, among other areas

New research from Palo Alto Networks supports recent government warnings that Vice Society poses an increased risk to K-12 schools and higher education.

A tribunal hearing considering claims that an NHS trust destroyed email evidence and had put the safety of geriatric patients at risk, was cut short after clinicians faced “life-changing” costs

The bank is looking at how AI acceleration can process financial texts, accelerate risk analysis and support its plans for the metaverse

Vendor continues to add functionality and compatibility to its as-a-service portfolio at a time when customers are looking for help managing their data

IT – and storage in particular – consume huge amounts of energy but sustainability targets are proving to be elusive, according to a survey commissioned by Pure Storage

Firm Air IT continues to show its determination to use M&A as a way of bolstering its position in the UK managed services market

HPE continues investing in GreenLake for private and hybrid clouds as demand for those services increases. Meanwhile, competition in the cloud market heats up.

An ongoing outage affecting Rackspace email customers is the result of a ransomware attack

Vulnerabilities affecting the likes of Google, Microsoft and Oracle proved particularly troublesome in November

The second phase of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal raised more questions over who did what, when and where, with shocking revelations at every turn

The Vietnam conglomerate and EV maker is planning to migrate all its SAP systems to Google Cloud in a move that is expected to reap cost savings and improve product quality

While organizations like The Brookings Institution applaud the White House's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, they also want to know when enforceable AI rules will be coming.

Cisco SD-WAN 17.10 enhancements give enterprises the option of using security service edge providers Cloudflare and Netskope in secure access service edge deployments.

MegaRAC BMC software from American Megatrends, Inc. have a trio of serious security vulnerabilities that were discovered following an intellectual property leak.

Some 30% of Defra’s applications are currently unsupported, magnifying cyber risk as the government department struggles to make progress on a digital transformation programme

Research from Kaseya quizzing managed service providers has shone a light on the accelerated movement of workloads to the cloud

The NCSC for Startups programme is looking for innovative ideas to encrypt and secure the industrial internet of things

The cloud service provider said that because the investigation of the ransomware attack is in the early stages, it is unknown what, if any, customer data was stolen.

The future of the planet is uncertain, but more efforts are being made across the channel to ensure the IT industry is taking positive steps to improve the situation

Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s management of an aid fund

Researchers have turned up evidence that enterprise networks are being co-opted by Russian threat actors to launch attacks against targets in Ukraine. How can you avoid becoming an unwitting tool in a state-backed attack?

A couple of vendors with good intentions are looking to build up their channels

Online adverts for investment scams relating to property and crypto assets are still getting past measures designed to stop them

The education sector remained a popular target last month, particularly from Hive, a ransomware-a-as-a-service group, that even warranted a government alert in late November.

IT services providers use a mix of diesel generators, portable power stations, Starlink and creative work scheduling to press on when the power is off.

Salesforce is once again a single-CEO company. Bret Taylor has resigned, with plans to pursue a new venture.

The maker of popular household brands will decide whether an IoT system from DXC Technology will help reduce natural gas use in Reynolds' manufacturing operations.

Rackspace has not said what caused the security incident, but the cloud provider said it proactively disconnected its Hosted Exchange offering as it investigates the matter.

HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

As telco operator battles with delivering shareholder value, it has decided it needs a new CEO

Risk-based vulnerability management company is to establish a UK base of operations in the hope of expanding its enterprise client base

Bosch India is leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to detect manufacturing defects and plans to tap quantum computing for material simulation