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27 Jun 2025
ACIP votes to remove thimerosal from flu vaccines
By Alivia Kaylor, MScThe CDC's newly restructured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) votes to recommend against flu vaccines containing thimerosal.
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26 Jun 2025
Vibe coding with AI sparks debate, reshapes developer jobs
By Beth PariseauThe 'vibe coding' catchphrase shows that GenAI is transforming software developer jobs -- but just how much change is coming? It depends on who you ask.
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26 Jun 2025
Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited
By Esther ShittuWhile the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider.
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26 Jun 2025
Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe
By Karl FlindersThe national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise
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25 Jun 2025
Google touts free tier for multimodal AI terminal
By Beth PariseauGoogle intends to differentiate Gemini CLI with multimodal support, including video, and an expansive free tier for individual users.
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20 Jun 2025
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
By Brian McKennaOxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online
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20 Jun 2025
Report on integrity of current Post Office Horizon system due in autumn
By Karl FlindersInvestigation into the integrity and discrepancy identification capabilities of Post Office core system being carried out by independent specialists
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19 Jun 2025
Interview: Tech innovation at Bet365
By Cliff SaranAlan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology platform, discusses the role of generative AI in tech innovation
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17 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
By Karl FlindersIBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business
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16 Jun 2025
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
By Aaron TanOpen source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
By Bill GoodwinAlan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications
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13 Jun 2025
Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman
By Lis EvenstadAlibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future
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13 Jun 2025
Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER
By Pat BransWhen commercial AI meets the world’s most ambitious science experiment, nuclear fusion, surprising things start to happen
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12 Jun 2025
Datadog AI agent observability, security seek to boost trust
By Beth PariseauAs AI agents mature, new tools aim to bolster their reliability and security with fresh visibility into automation workflows and more detailed troubleshooting.
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12 Jun 2025
Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up
By Mark BallardUrgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund
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11 Jun 2025
AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
By Aaron TanAt the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges
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11 Jun 2025
DevOps pros eye Datadog developer portal for ITSM
By Beth PariseauDataDog advances onto Atlassian and ServiceNow's turf with a self-service developer portal that draws on real-time data about the observed state of IT resources.
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11 Jun 2025
West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands
By Karl FlindersCalls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project
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11 Jun 2025
How breaking things builds resilient systems
By Aaron TanTo prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems though chaos engineering practices
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11 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders
By Alex ScroxtonBarely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention
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11 Jun 2025
Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs
By Alex ScroxtonAn APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy
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10 Jun 2025
UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI
By Karl FlindersFCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence
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10 Jun 2025
HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
By Karl FlindersWhile victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government
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09 Jun 2025
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone
By Karl FlindersThe government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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06 Jun 2025
CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk
By Stephen WithersTo manage risk effectively and secure board-level buy-in, CISOs must stop talking about technology and start speaking the language of business, according to a senior Check Point executive
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05 Jun 2025
How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps
By Aaron TanGitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response
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04 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval
By Karl FlindersThe Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector
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04 Jun 2025
Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT
By Bill GoodwinLegacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman
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04 Jun 2025
Open source adoption faces reality checks
By Aaron TanIndustry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges
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04 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks
By Brian McKennaProject findings to be presented at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlight vulnerability of SMEs to cyber attack
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03 Jun 2025
HashiCorp Terraform leads IBM, Red Hat integration roadmap
By Beth PariseauHashiCorp and IBM have begun to knit together products such as Terraform and Ansible and divulged some roadmap details, but a few potential product overlaps are still unresolved.
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03 Jun 2025
HMRC aims to improve customer service with £1.5bn IT investment
By Lis EvenstadThe department is on the hunt for customer relationship management system and contact centre as a service suppliers, following criticism of its customer service
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02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
By Aaron TanCompany CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach
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30 May 2025
Software supply chain security tools take on toil for users
By Beth PariseauRecent updates from software supply chain security vendors simply take over vulnerability management on behalf of IT orgs, rather than provide facilitating tools.
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30 May 2025
Dutch businesses lag behind in cyber resilience as threats escalate
By Kim LoohuisWhile non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers must prepare for change
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28 May 2025
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
By Cliff SaranWith so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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27 May 2025
Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane
By Pat BransIn a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers
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23 May 2025
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals
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21 May 2025
Red Hat, HashiCorp reveal Ansible, Terraform and Vault plans
By Beth PariseauRed Hat Ansible and HashiCorp reps filled in the blanks about how infrastructure automation tools will more deeply integrate, news welcomed by financial services customers.
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21 May 2025
Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search
By Cliff SaranAs Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
By Aaron TanEnterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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20 May 2025
Red Hat amps up open source AI infrastructure pitch
By Beth PariseauWith a new AI Inference Server and a distributed inference open source project, Red Hat hopes to capitalize on the surging popularity of open source AI.
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20 May 2025
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
By Cliff SaranWindows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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19 May 2025
New GitHub Copilot agent edges into DevOps
By Beth PariseauThe GitHub Copilot coding agent can take on toilsome tasks such as bug fixes and code reviews with its own GitHub Actions pull requests.
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19 May 2025
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
By Stephen WithersOrganisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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19 May 2025
Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon
By Karl FlindersPost Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s
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16 May 2025
Security tests reveal serious vulnerability in government’s One Login digital ID system
By Bryan GlickA ‘red teaming’ exercise to simulate cyber attacks on the government’s flagship digital identity system has found that One Login can be compromised without detection
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16 May 2025
Kissflow finds its place in low-code market
By Aaron TanThe supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years
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14 May 2025
Enisa launches European vulnerability database
By Alex ScroxtonThe EU’s new vulnerability database is designed to offer a broader, more transparent source of information on new cyber vulnerabilities
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14 May 2025
New security paradigm needed for IT/OT convergence
By Aaron TanIndustry leaders and policymakers highlight growing cyber threats from the integration of IT and operational technology systems, calling for collaboration and regulatory frameworks to protect critical systems, among other measures
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13 May 2025
May Patch Tuesday brings five exploited zero-days to fix
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft fixes five exploited, and two publicly disclosed, zero-days in the fifth Patch Tuesday update of 2025
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09 May 2025
ServiceNow shops share AI copilot results, prep for agents
By Beth PariseauIT ops teams have often already laid the groundwork for generative AI automation with platform consolidation and the previous wave of AIOps tools.
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09 May 2025
Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy and research, Bloomberg
By Karl FlindersHallucinating AI, which lies through its teeth, keeps Amanda Stent busy at data analytics and intelligence giant Bloomberg
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08 May 2025
UK government websites to replace passwords with secure passkeys
By Bill GoodwinGovernment websites are to replace difficult-to-remember passwords with highly secure passkeys that will protect against phishing and cyber attackers
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07 May 2025
Meta awarded $167m in court battle with spyware mercenaries
By Alex ScroxtonWhatsApp owner Meta is awarded millions of dollars in damages and compensation after its service was exploited by users of mercenary spyware developer NSO’s infamous Pegasus mobile malware
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07 May 2025
Europe leads shift from cyber security ‘headcount gap’ to skills-based hiring
By Kim LoohuisResearch from Sans Institute reveals European organisations are leading a global shift in hiring priorities, driven by regional regulatory frameworks
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06 May 2025
Options for Google as DoJ seeks divestiture
By Cliff SaranThe US Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its adtech business. Google says it’s impossible. But is there an alternative?
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06 May 2025
EU acts to mend ailing AI competitiveness
By Mark BallardLack of private investors, malformed markets and over-regulation present a big challenge for European officials trying to turn the continent into a global AI superpower
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02 May 2025
Independent lab crowns new WAAP product among its leaders
By Beth PariseauAn API security specialist's newly launched WAAP product outranked more established WAF competitors during independent benchmark testing.
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01 May 2025
Tariffs could cost Meta $8bn in extra datacentre costs
By Cliff SaranThe owner of Facebook and WhatsApp has forecast an increase in CapEx due to higher IT infrastructure costs to power its AI strategy
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30 Apr 2025
Current SaaS delivery model a risk management nightmare, says CISO
By Alex ScroxtonJPMorgan Chase security chief Patrick Opet laments the state of SaaS security in an open letter to the industry and calls on software providers to do more to enhance resilience
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30 Apr 2025
FCA wants ‘safe place’ for finance firms to test artificial intelligence
By Karl FlindersFinancial services regulator proposes artificial intelligence testing environment as part of its AI Lab
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29 Apr 2025
Kaspersky calls for cyber immunity amid growing cyber threats
By Aaron TanThe rise of professional cyber crime groups and state-sponsored actors targeting critical infrastructure requires a move towards inherently secure ‘cyber immune’ systems, says Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky
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28 Apr 2025
Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout
By Karl FlindersEmployees will receive bonuses as Fujitsu UK reaches sales target - suggesting that its pause on bidding for public sector business has had limited impact
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28 Apr 2025
Cisco AI Defense embeds with ServiceNow SecOps tools
By Beth PariseauCisco AI Defense will feed in data and automate AI governance in ServiceNow SecOps products as enterprises seek a platform approach to cybersecurity.
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28 Apr 2025
Cisco, former Google, Meta experts train cybersecurity LLM
By Beth PariseauCisco's new Foundation AI group, which includes engineers from multiple companies, has released a compact AI reasoning model based on Llama 3 for cybersecurity to open source.
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24 Apr 2025
Software supply chain security AI agents take action
By Beth PariseauThree software supply chain security vendors join the AI agent trend that is sweeping tech, as AI-generated code threatens to overwhelm human security pros.
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23 Apr 2025
Datadog sees data observability join DevOps, adds Metaplane
By Beth PariseauDatadog has customers already bringing data science under DevOps and, with its latest acquisition, aims to create a unified tool set for the newly converged combo.
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23 Apr 2025
Amid uncertainty, Armis becomes newest CVE numbering authority
By Alex ScroxtonAmid an uncertain future for vulnerability research, exposure management company Armis has been given the authority to assign CVE IDs to newly discovered vulnerabilities
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22 Apr 2025
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
By Aaron TanFujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments
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22 Apr 2025
Docker plans Model Context Protocol security boost
By Beth PariseauDocker said it plans new tools integrating the emerging agentic AI standard protocol into existing workflows, including security controls.
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22 Apr 2025
AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe growth of AI is proving a double-edged sword for API security, presenting opportunities for defenders to enhance their resilience, but also more risks from AI-powered attacks, according to report
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21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
By Aaron TanCitic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco
By Eileen YuThe digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI
By Ai Lei TaoFacing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs
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18 Apr 2025
Availity eyes GitLab Duo with Amazon Q for code refactoring
By Beth PariseauThe healthcare network's release engineering team is testing the new AI agent pairing to help with code consolidation, modernization and risk mitigation.
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17 Apr 2025
JetBrains, GitHub add coding agents to IDEs
By Beth PariseauCoding agents that can take on whole tasks with a natural language prompt are now tied in with widely used IDEs, including a JetBrains free tier.
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16 Apr 2025
CISA extends Mitre CVE contract at last moment
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has ridden to the rescue of the under-threat Mitre CVE Programme, approving a last-minute, 11-month contract extension to preserve the project’s vital security vulnerability work
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16 Apr 2025
CVE Foundation pledges continuity after Mitre funding cut
By Alex ScroxtonWith news that Mitre’s contract to run the world-renowned CVE Programme is abruptly terminating, a breakaway group is setting up a non-profit foundation to try to ensure the project’s continuity
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16 Apr 2025
Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats
By Aaron TanExperts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices
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15 Apr 2025
Mitre warns over lapse in CVE coverage
By Alex ScroxtonMitre, the operator of the world-renowned CVE repository, has warned of significant impacts to global cyber security standards, and increased risk from threat actors, as it emerges its US government contract will lapse imminently
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15 Apr 2025
Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity
By Cliff SaranThere has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon
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14 Apr 2025
Computer and law experts respond to call for opinions on computer evidence
By Karl FlindersIT and legal experts have made submissions to a government consultation on the use of computer evidence in court
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14 Apr 2025
SUSE CEO champions open source choice
By Stephen WithersDirk-Peter van Leeuwen warns against suppliers diluting open source to lock in customers, and touts SUSE’s commitment to providing choice and support across multiple Linux and Kubernetes distributions
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11 Apr 2025
Atlassian Data Center stops multiyear license renewals
By Beth PariseauThe company confirmed that new on-premises product licenses are now limited to one year as it adds high-security cloud offerings. Users see the writing on the wall.
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11 Apr 2025
More than 100 Horizon victims are challenging Post Office offers on complex claims
By Karl FlindersCalls for advanced dispute resolution meetings by victims of the Post Office Horizon system have been ignored by the Department of Business and Trade
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11 Apr 2025
Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers
By Aaron TanWidespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025
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10 Apr 2025
Agentspace vs. Rovo: A new battlefront in enterprise search
By Beth PariseauAligning DevOps and business teams using agentic AI prioritizes effective data and knowledge management and prompts fresh enterprise search offerings.
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10 Apr 2025
Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain
By Alex ScroxtonAt Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points
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10 Apr 2025
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
By Karl FlindersBanking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud
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09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
By Brian McKennaMicrosoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’
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09 Apr 2025
Atlassian Rovo pricing shifts amid industry AI struggles
By Beth PariseauAtlassian's Rovo, including revamped Search and a new automation Studio, will be built into its cloud products as enterprises grapple with getting AI into production.
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09 Apr 2025
Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol
By Esther ShittuThe tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models.
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09 Apr 2025
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro extends on-prem GenAI support
By Beth PariseauGoogle Gemini is the first proprietary frontier model that can be run on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud for privacy- and cost-conscious enterprises.
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08 Apr 2025
AI agents raise stakes in identity and access management
By Beth PariseauIT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally.
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07 Apr 2025
NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures
By Alex ScroxtonThe National Institute of Standards and Technology is deferring future updates to thousands of cyber vulnerabilities discovered prior to 2018 amid surging volumes of new submissions
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07 Apr 2025
Post Office can’t find evidence for over 1,000 Horizon scandal redress claimants
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office has no evidence of errors for more than 1,000 subpostmasters applying for compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
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07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
By Cliff SaranDeveloper overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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04 Apr 2025
Norway and Nordic financial sector ramps up cyber security
By Gerard O'DwyerFinans Norge sets up cyber security unit CTSU to support the finance sector in Norway amid increasing threats
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04 Apr 2025
Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses
By Cliff SaranOn 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all
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03 Apr 2025
Virtual reality enterprise journey a marathon, not a sprint
By Karl FlindersIT supplier is using virtual reality in not-for-profit projects that demonstrate its wider potential
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02 Apr 2025
Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
By Beth PariseauThe Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.
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02 Apr 2025
Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn
By Mark SamuelsThe professional social network’s product chief is leading the introduction of artificial intelligence for the firm’s in-house development processes and to enhance services for users