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08 Dec 2023
Recruiting tech glitch adds to military's recruiting struggles
The U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force all faced recruiting shortfalls this year thanks to labor market competition. But challenges include inadequate recruiting technology.
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08 Dec 2023
Fossil's experience building an internal AI image generator
AI hallucinations are generally considered a bug of the technology to be worked out as it evolves. But uncanny and imaginative AI-generated output can sometimes be a benefit.
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08 Dec 2023
Knime updates analytics platform with new GenAI capabilities
The vendor's latest release improves the accuracy of its GenAI chatbot, including citations so users can know the source of the chatbot's responses, and features a new UI.
Application Development News from the past 365 days
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06 Dec 2023
Google Gemini, AWS GenAI tools face uphill battle for devs
Google's Gemini model claims performance advantages over GPT-4, while AWS touts foundational model choice, but Microsoft still has the advantage in developer tools, IT pros say.
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06 Dec 2023
Government launches UK-wide Cyber Explorers Cup
Schoolkids across the UK are being called on to team up and defeat Herbert the Hacker in a new government-backed competition
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01 Dec 2023
Post Office lawyer with his fingerprints all over IT scandal spreads blame
Senior Post Office criminal lawyer was just following orders and claims his only mistake was believing those that told him the Horizon system was robust
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28 Nov 2023
CCRC refers two posthumous subpostmaster appeals to Crown Court
CCRC refers posthumous appeals against convictions to Crown Court for first time
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28 Nov 2023
Volume of unique malware samples threatens to overwhelm defenders
A massive increase in malware volumes could cause problems for security teams tasked with adapting their defences against them
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27 Nov 2023
NCSC publishes landmark guidelines on AI cyber security
The NCSC and its US counterpart CISA have brought together tech companies and governments to countersign a new set of guidelines aimed at promoting a secure-by-design culture in AI development
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23 Nov 2023
North Korean APTs go all in on supply chain attacks, warns NCSC
Threat actors linked to the North Korean regime are becoming more adept at targeting software supply chains in the service of their cyber attacks
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23 Nov 2023
Australia ups ante on cyber security
Australia’s new cyber security strategy will focus on building threat blocking capabilities, protecting critical infrastructure and improving the cyber workforce, among other priorities
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21 Nov 2023
The ‘application generation’ demands more from developers
The latest Cisco AppDynamics poll of consumers has identified a new breed of app user that has emerged post-pandemic
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20 Nov 2023
Software engineers worry about speaking out
A culture of fear exists in many software teams, preventing individuals from raising concerns over problems
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17 Nov 2023
IT pros wary as Microsoft Copilot juggernaut gains steam
Microsoft is now 'The Copilot company,' along with GitHub. But concerns linger about the accuracy of AI-generated results, code lineage and long-term job security.
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16 Nov 2023
Cancer Research uses AWS for payments and trial search function
Charity Cancer Research has been using AWS to make its donations platform more scalable, as well as making it easier for patients to find clinical trials
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15 Nov 2023
November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days
Microsoft pushes fixes for five new zero-days in its latest monthly update
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15 Nov 2023
How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability
Gigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth
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13 Nov 2023
Shawbrook Bank slashes mortgage processing time through low code
Specialist business lending and savings bank is using Pegasystems’ low-code platform to rewrite and automate the customer journey
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10 Nov 2023
Orange Business shifts towards digital, aims to transform SD-WAN with VMware
Business services division of leading connectivity provider unveils strategy to offer end-to-end stack of digital solutions through B2B portfolio and strikes partnership with cloud computing company for software-defined wide-area network offer
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09 Nov 2023
Visa launches artificial intelligence advisory service
Visa is giving its customers the opportunity to tap into its global network of AI experts through its AI Advisory Practice.
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08 Nov 2023
Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts
Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.
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08 Nov 2023
SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations
SAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives
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07 Nov 2023
Post Office disclosure failures delay Horizon scandal inquiry again
Many of the 300,000 emails unearthed could be relevant to evidence from future and past witnesses in the Post Office scandal inquiry
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07 Nov 2023
Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress
Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.
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07 Nov 2023
Researchers ‘break’ rule designed to guard against Barracuda vulnerability
Vectra AI researchers found that a Suricata rule designed to detect exploitation of a dangerous Barracuda Email Security Gateway flaw was not entirely effective
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07 Nov 2023
VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona
VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes
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06 Nov 2023
NatWest taps IBM skills for generative AI
NatWest and IBM are developing generative AI capabilities to expand the capabilities of the bank’s virtual customer assistant
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06 Nov 2023
Netherlands starts building its own AI language model
Dutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.
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03 Nov 2023
Executive interview: Sergio Gago, Moody's
Why should companies invest in quantum computing? We speak to Sergio Gago, managing director for AI, machine learning and quantum at Moody’s
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02 Nov 2023
IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform
As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?
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02 Nov 2023
Admins told to take action over F5 Big-IP platform flaws
Two vulnerabilities in the widely used F5 Networks Big-IP platform are now being exploited in the wild
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02 Nov 2023
SAP lays out generative AI strategy
SAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers
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01 Nov 2023
Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
As the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park takes place, Computer Weekly caught up with Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to find out what one of the UK’s most prominent AI advocates wants from proceedings
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31 Oct 2023
SEC sues SolarWinds, alleging serious security failures
SolarWinds and its CISO have been charged with fraud and internal control failures by the US authorities amid allegations of a series of cyber security failings leading up to the 2020 Sunburst attacks
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31 Oct 2023
How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?
Without the ongoing work of developers, open source projects would become stale and riddled with unfixed bugs and security issues. We look at the issues of funding and fairness
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27 Oct 2023
Google launches bug bounties for generative AI attack scenarios
Google expands its bug bounty programme to encompass generative AI and takes steps to grow its commitment to supply chain security as it relates to the emerging technology
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26 Oct 2023
LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows
Large enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.
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26 Oct 2023
Rancher founders' new venture recasts Kubernetes management
While Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.
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26 Oct 2023
Facebook pins future on Quest 3 and AI development
Parent company Meta has focused on establishing Twitter rival Threads and its new augmented reality headset Quest 3
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24 Oct 2023
Cisco hackers likely taking steps to avoid identification
Cisco confirms that a drop in detections of devices compromised by two zero-days was likely the result of reactive measures taken by the threat actors to avoid discovery
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24 Oct 2023
Research team tricks AI chatbots into writing usable malicious code
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have demonstrated that so-called Text-to-SQL systems can be tricked into writing malicious code for use in cyber attacks
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24 Oct 2023
Kaspersky opens up over spyware campaign targeting its staffers
Kaspersky has shared more details of the TriangleDB spyware that was used against its own workforce by an unknown APT group
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight
Las Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements
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24 Oct 2023
OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot
Singapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation
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23 Oct 2023
Cisco pushes update to stop exploitation of two IOS XE zero-days
Cisco releases updates to thwart exploitation of two flaws affecting users of its IOS XE software
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20 Oct 2023
Computer Weekly contributor named Godfather of UK Security
Advent IM founder Mike Gillespie was among those honoured at the eighth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards
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19 Oct 2023
Fears grow over extent of Cisco IOS XE zero-day
Researchers have identified spiking numbers of victims of a recently disclosed Cisco zero-day, as users of the networking supplier’s IOS XE software are urged to take defensive measures
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19 Oct 2023
Loughborough Uni to create five cyber AI research posts
Supported by Darktrace, Loughborough University is to recruit five doctoral researchers focusing on cross-disciplinary research in AI and cyber security
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18 Oct 2023
Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed
Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.
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17 Oct 2023
Alert sounded over dangerous Cisco IOS XE zero-day
Cisco warns customers using its IOS XE software of a newly discovered vulnerability that could enable a threat actor to take over their systems
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17 Oct 2023
What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps
Providing engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey
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12 Oct 2023
Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms
Developer platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.
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11 Oct 2023
Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL
HashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.
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10 Oct 2023
Google's DORA DevOps report warns against metrics misuse
This year's DORA DevOps report echoes the experiences of one organization that has applied them in practice: DORA metrics can be powerful but aren't always an exact science.
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09 Oct 2023
VMware reaffirms commitment to Tanzu
VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram emphasises the importance of having an infrastructure stack capable of supporting applications, with VMware Tanzu playing a pivotal role
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05 Oct 2023
Docker enters GenAI development fray with new tools
Docker jumps aboard the generative AI bandwagon with a pre-built set of tools to jump-start app development using LLMs and a Docker AI productivity tool.
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04 Oct 2023
Docker Scout GA leads 'local plus cloud' push
Docker Scout replaces open source Docker Scan with an event-driven vulnerability management system in a bid to boost the vendor's value beyond developers' local laptops.
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03 Oct 2023
The AI developer opportunity
Given the need for new software to support digitisation, we look at how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall
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03 Oct 2023
CIISec scores DSIT funding to expand successful CyberEPQ scheme
DSIT has committed to enhanced funding to expand CIISec’s CyberEPQ education programme after recording excellent results to date
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28 Sep 2023
Businesses disconnected from realities of API security
Business leaders feel confident they’ve got a handle on API security, but at the same time, incidents are through the roof, according to a report
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28 Sep 2023
Yahoo picks Intigriti to run crowdsourced bug bounty programme
Digital media brand Yahoo is setting up a crowdsourced bug bounty programme with ethical hacking specialist Intigriti, and is reaching out to the Capture the Flag community to participate
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26 Sep 2023
Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO
SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO
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22 Sep 2023
How ready does the world need to be for the quantum era?
Great use cases may exist for quantum computing, but no one knows for sure how long they will need to wait for a production-ready machine
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21 Sep 2023
New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts
CI/CD pipeline vendor Harness faces two challenges as it launches Gitness: a market dominated by GitHub and GitLab as well as concerns about vendor-led open source projects.
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21 Sep 2023
Cisco snaps up Splunk in $28bn application observability deal
The acquisition builds out Cisco’s observability portfolio, with AI-based full-stack observability for hybrid cloud environments
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20 Sep 2023
Linux Foundation ups ante on HashiCorp, hosts Terraform fork
All eyes are on HashiCorp's response now that a community-driven fork of its Terraform infrastructure as code tool has been officially relaunched as a Linux Foundation project.
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19 Sep 2023
38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
An accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing
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15 Sep 2023
Dunelm's journey to micro front ends
We find out how Dunelm has modernised its platform and web development with in-house ecommerce and serverless systems
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14 Sep 2023
CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform
About a year after acquiring ReleaseIQ, CloudBees prepares the fruits of its integration for launch and adds long-awaited scale-out to its commercial version of Jenkins.
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14 Sep 2023
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla push browser updates to foil zero-day
A zero-day in Google’s Chrome browser was first reported by surveillance researchers at The Citizen Lab and Apple, but also affects other browsers
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14 Sep 2023
As vehicle safety regulations loom, carmakers fret over cyber risks
Global, UN-backed car safety and security regulations come into force next year, and automotive bosses say they are not only unprepared, but “swamped” by a tide of compliance and security risks
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13 Sep 2023
Meet MLSecOps: Industry calls for new measures to secure AI
Open source security, already in the software supply chain spotlight, must expand to include AI models, according to the OpenSSF and DevSecOps vendor JFrog.
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13 Sep 2023
GitHub fixes race condition that could have led to ‘repojacking’
A subtle flaw in how GitHub handled repository creation and user renaming could have had serious consequences for the open source community, but has now been fixed. Learn more about how it worked
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13 Sep 2023
Banks less focused on metaverse technology than last year
Senior banking executives have reduced their focus on investigating metaverse technology in the past 12 months
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13 Sep 2023
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service
September 2023 brings a light Patch Tuesday, with two zero-days and five critical vulnerabilities listed in the latest release
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13 Sep 2023
Cisco tightens link between observability and security
The company's observability platform now offers a way for IT decision-makers to understand the impact of security issues
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11 Sep 2023
Salesforce and Zoom embrace ethical hackers. You should, too
Software companies Salesforce and Zoom discuss their successful bug bounty programmes, what they learned at a recent in-person hackathon in which they participated, and why others shouldn’t be scared of hackers
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08 Sep 2023
Executive interview: Richard Moulds, Amazon Braket
We speak to Richard Moulds, who heads up Amazon’s Braket quantum computing services, about how the technology is progressing
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07 Sep 2023
Server-side WebAssembly takes shape, but faces challenges
Server-side Wasm's release next quarter will provide a cleaner way to connect apps, followed by further improvements in early 2024. Will it be enough to convince skeptics?
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07 Sep 2023
Duplicate waypoints root cause of Nats subsystem failover
Processing of waypoints that determine when a flight enters and leaves UK airspace caused the air traffic system to report a critical error
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07 Sep 2023
Mainframe remains a positive force among IT leaders
BMC’s annual survey of mainframe users finds there is continued demand, but some are concerned over DevOps tooling
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06 Sep 2023
Saudi Arabian fintech gets Mastercard boost
Saudi-based fintechs could soon benefit from Mastercard's extensive payments network
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06 Sep 2023
CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, Adobe
Adobe's IT chief is looking to build on its cloud migration with widespread adoption of AI, machine learning and robotic process automation – as well as low-code/no-code software development tools
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05 Sep 2023
Researchers find flaw in Mend.io security platform
WithSecure’s research team uncovered an authentication flaw in an application security platform developed by Mend.io, which has now been fixed
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01 Sep 2023
Threat actors exploiting unpatched Juniper Networks devices
A series of vulnerabilities in Juniper Networks firewalls and switches appear to be being exploited in the wild to enable remote code execution, with thousands of devices thought to be exposed
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30 Aug 2023
Google AI plans could spur low-code/no-code faceoff with AWS
Google's generative AI products play catch-up with Copilot and others, but the upcoming addition of Duet AI to AppSheet might fill a market gap as AWS scraps Honeycode.
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30 Aug 2023
NCSC warns over possible AI prompt injection attacks
The UK’s NCSC says it sees alarming potential for so-called prompt injection attacks driven by the large language models that power AI chatbots
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30 Aug 2023
July sees huge jump in open banking payments
The number of open banking payments in the UK have doubled over the past year, according to latest figures
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30 Aug 2023
Zurich Insurance slashes ServiceNow application development time
Insurance giant cuts time it takes to complete development of ServiceNow applications by days
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30 Aug 2023
Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers
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29 Aug 2023
Nats resorts to fail-safe manual process after technical hitch
Just a few hours of manual processing has resulted in a massive backlog in flights
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24 Aug 2023
NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework
NHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024
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23 Aug 2023
Six subpostmaster appeals to be heard in Scottish court
Scottish court will hear appeals against the convictions of six former subpostmasters based on evidence from a Post Office computer system
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23 Aug 2023
Innovative UK SMEs spend half of turnover on tech
UK SMEs are increasing spending on technology, with dedicated IT teams set up to enable them to keep pace with tech change
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22 Aug 2023
VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close
VMware Tanzu incorporates Aria AIOps and FinOps products as a $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom looms, putting the product line's future in question.
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22 Aug 2023
IBM uses generative AI to modernise mainframe Cobol
In combination with code discovery, IBM plans to offer artificial intelligence-based Cobol to Java application modernisation
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22 Aug 2023
Singapore to bolster OT security capabilities
Cyber Security Agency of Singapore teams up with Dragos and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to bolster the country’s OT security capabilities
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21 Aug 2023
Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle
Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code
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17 Aug 2023
Researchers demo fake airplane mode exploit that tricks iPhone users
Exploit chain that tricks a victim into believing their iOS device is offline in airplane mode when it is not could open the door to grave privacy concerns
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17 Aug 2023
MP calls for review of computer evidence rule which led to subpostmasters being wrongly convicted
MP writes to minister in charge of courts requesting he looks at the controversial rules on the use of computer evidence in court
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16 Aug 2023
CyberArk eyes growth beyond PAM
CyberArk is seeing exponential growth in the broader identity security market as the company expands its capabilities beyond privileged access management
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15 Aug 2023
TSB and Fintech Scotland lab open for applications
High street bank opens applications to its latest fintech programme in partnership with Fintech Scotland
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12 Aug 2023
Datacentre management vulnerabilities leave public clouds at risk
At the annual DEF CON hacking convention, researchers from Trellix have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in key datacentre products underpinning the world’s public cloud infrastructure