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15 Aug 2025
HHS revives defunct task force on childhood vaccine safety
HHS reinstates a defunct childhood vaccine safety task force following a lawsuit funded by Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group previously led by HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
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15 Aug 2025
News brief: Rising OT threats put critical infrastructure at risk
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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15 Aug 2025
Nvidia introduces entry-level RTX Pro GPU
The company's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU and RTX Pro Server offer companies using smaller-scale enterprise infrastructure a way to do more AI on-premises.
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15 Aug 2025
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience
Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
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15 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at ANS, Node4, Cohesity, Phoenix Software, Dell and Chainguard
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15 Aug 2025
Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence
US-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech
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15 Aug 2025
Vodafone Greece automates deals for customers, saves 500 staff-days of work
Vodafone Greece hired an implementation partner for a business process management project while its own staff observed and learned how to use the technology
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13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
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13 Aug 2025
Fujitsu orders staff to retain Post Office-related documentation as it braces for legal action
Japanese supplier tells all UK staff to preserve documents related to its work with the Post Office
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13 Aug 2025
ODI tells EU to balance AI safeguards with innovation promotion
The Open Data Institute has published a manifesto to guide European Union data and artificial intelligence policy formation
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12 Aug 2025
Eight critical RCE flaws make Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday list
Microsoft rolls out fixes for over 100 CVEs in its August Patch Tuesday update
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12 Aug 2025
'AI receptionist' IVR takes flight with customer service
Traditional rules-based interactive voice response technology could be on its way out.
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12 Aug 2025
'AI receptionist' IVR takes flight with customer service
Traditional rules-based interactive voice response technology could be on its way out.
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12 Aug 2025
Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it
Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want it to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key
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12 Aug 2025
UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native
State-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market
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12 Aug 2025
Forrester: Marketeers leaning toward smaller B2B events
Analyst house Forrester shares its insights into the state of the global events market, with pressure is mounting to make them rewarding and cost-effective
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12 Aug 2025
Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI
A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies
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12 Aug 2025
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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11 Aug 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note this week at Noma Security, Maintel, Quest Software, JumpCloud and Panasonic Connect
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08 Aug 2025
Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware
When a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that
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06 Aug 2025
OVHcloud rejigs partner team and increases support
Cloud player makes a fresh hire and a couple of promotions to change the lineup responsible for delivering partner programmes
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06 Aug 2025
OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk
Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models
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06 Aug 2025
ADP shuffles executive pack to drive growth
Assured Data Protection makes management changes to build on the momentum the managed service provider has seen in recent years
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06 Aug 2025
Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel
The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom
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05 Aug 2025
How Australian firms are using graph databases
Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production
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05 Aug 2025
Salesforce, ServiceNow invest in Genesys agentic AI workflow
Two rivals pump cash into CCaaS leader Genesys in hopes that their respective AI agents grow roots into its users' contact centers.
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05 Aug 2025
AI saves time and delivers efficiencies at Advania
A year on from rolling out artificial intelligence tools across the business, Advania’s CEO shares the positive impact the technology has had
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05 Aug 2025
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security
Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
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04 Aug 2025
SAP hopes SmartRecruiters buy will bolster SuccessFactors
SAP is betting that acquiring SaaS talent acquisition provider SmartRecruiters will revive SuccessFactors in the agentic AI era.
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04 Aug 2025
Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks
Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams
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04 Aug 2025
Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025
At Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers
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04 Aug 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves of note at CDW, Nexer Enterprise Applications, GCX Managed Services and Sweep
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04 Aug 2025
Advania integrates Servium and CCS Media
Channel player completes the process of bringing together its acquired businesses on time and is already reaping the benefits
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04 Aug 2025
Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector
A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures
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03 Aug 2025
NUS and Google team up on AI research centre
The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state
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01 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at TD Synnex, Insight Enterprises, Kite Distribution, Cynomi, Fortinet and Confluent
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01 Aug 2025
Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme
Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents
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31 Jul 2025
Microsoft reports massive cloud uptick as CMA questions licensing
The company’s latest quarterly results show that the Microsoft cloud is booming. But the CMA is not happy with how it’s winning business
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31 Jul 2025
ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play
The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market
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30 Jul 2025
Be wary of enterprise software providers’ AI
IT leaders need to assess lock-in risk, data silos, a lack of openness, removal of discounts and product bundling in AI offerings
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30 Jul 2025
GTDC: Improving vendor distribution onboarding will accelerate results
Distribution organisation GTDC has shared research with suggestions of best practices that the industry can follow to improve the environment around signing partners
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29 Jul 2025
European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy
The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’
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29 Jul 2025
Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services
The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region
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28 Jul 2025
Tesco IT problems lead to undelivered groceries and angry customers
Tesco customers have been left without groceries after IT problems disrupted deliveries from stores and fulfilment centres
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28 Jul 2025
European digital market figurehead pleads to Westminster
Big EU industry joins with Europhile MP to persuade obstinate government officials to join the dataspaces intended to become the bedrock of Europe’s digital single market
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28 Jul 2025
Context: UK distribution shows strength in Q2
Second-quarter growth enjoyed by UK distributors was better than that experienced by continental counterparts
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28 Jul 2025
Microsoft opens first Southeast Asia research lab
Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore facility will pursue breakthroughs in domain-specific foundation models and agentic AI for sectors like healthcare and finance, aligning with the country’s AI strategy
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25 Jul 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Westcoast, Exertis, TD Synnex, Orange Cyberdefense, Iomart, Source Code Control and Pentest People
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25 Jul 2025
Post Office will not compensate subpostmasters for IT outage
Subpostmasters were unable to trade for nearly two hours last week when a problem at a Fujitsu datacentre put the Horizon system offline, but they will receive no payment for lost business
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25 Jul 2025
Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises
Cambridge Consultants is a technology and consulting business unit of Capgemini. Its chief executive, Monty Barlow, talks about its heritage and vision for the future of digital technology
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24 Jul 2025
How Salesforce deploys its AI agents internally
Is 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce really done by AI, as CEO Marc Benioff claimed? We put that question to the company's chief digital officer.
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24 Jul 2025
SAP Q2 2025: 9% revenue growth to €9bn, with steady pace in cloud ERP
Amid what SAP CEO Klein has called this year’s ‘economic uncertainty’, the supplier posted 9% revenue growth for Q2 2025, with cloud revenue up 24%
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24 Jul 2025
IBM chief confident AI isn’t eroding other parts of the business
Chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna talks of growth and margin expansion as Big Blue expects artificial intelligence to deliver internal savings of $4.5bn this year
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24 Jul 2025
UK loses second spot in global fintech to UAE
The UK has been pushed into third spot on global fintech market size data for the first half of this year
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24 Jul 2025
PUMA makes tracks to cloud-based telephony on Microsoft Teams
Multinational cloud telephony provider selected by leading global sports brand to accelerate its global move to cloud telephony by introducing local telco contracts with a fully cloud-based collaboration solution
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24 Jul 2025
Avaya accelerates Model Context Protocol for customer experience
Latest part of corporate evolution sees enterprise software provider accelerate innovation-first ‘moonshot’ initiative into core customer experience platform’s 2025 roadmap
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24 Jul 2025
ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy
ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications
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23 Jul 2025
Salesforce rewires Slack for agentic AI, enterprise search
Slack gets AI infusion in Salesforce's runup to Dreamforce, chief product officer explains what's going on with data sharing outside Slack.
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23 Jul 2025
Red Hat announces range of partner programme enhancements
Red Hat refreshes specialisations and rebates, along with stepping up available marketing support, in its announcement of enhancements
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23 Jul 2025
Judge questions HP’s ‘exaggerated’ Autonomy loss claim
Did HP pay 10% more than it needed to for Mike Lynch’s company?
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23 Jul 2025
Subpostmasters shoulder costs of Fujitsu’s Post Office IT outage
Fujitsu datacentre outage hit subpostmaster sales for two hours, leaving subpostmasters to seek compensation
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22 Jul 2025
Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity
Connectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones
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22 Jul 2025
German AI player osapiens investing in UK
Firm will be looking to increase its channel base as it outlines plans to spend millions to expand its presence
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22 Jul 2025
AI-driven predictive maintenance gaining traction
Study reveals recent technological trends, including digital twin technology, IoT and edge computing, are increasingly being used in predictive maintenance and AI
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21 Jul 2025
Microsoft SharePoint attacks target on-premises servers
Thousands of organizations, including government agencies, running SharePoint on-premises are vulnerable after Microsoft issued a security alert warning of active attacks.
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21 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who's gone where?
Moves of note in the past week at Pax8, SAS, Zero Networks, Vanta and the Chester Business Club
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21 Jul 2025
Interview: Alexandra Willis, director of digital media and audience development, The Premier League
Digital media is core to engaging nearly two billion fans of Premier League football around the world, with data analytics and AI playing an ever-more important role
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21 Jul 2025
Netherlands calls for European shift to post-tracking internet as privacy laws fail
Dutch research institute argues decade of regulation hasn’t curbed surveillance capitalism, proposes fundamental business model change
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18 Jul 2025
DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny
Amnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny
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18 Jul 2025
Peer warns IT suppliers against partnering with Fujitsu in government contracts
According to publicly available figures, Fujitsu has won over half a billion pounds in government business as prime contractor since January 2024, but there is more than what has been reported
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18 Jul 2025
First Post Office Capture conviction referred to Court of Appeal
A former Capture software user’s 1998 theft conviction is the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal
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17 Jul 2025
Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA
Research from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act
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17 Jul 2025
Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system
Japanese IT giant’s time serving the Post Office is due to end next year, but problems persist
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17 Jul 2025
Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration
The foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud
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17 Jul 2025
Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’
UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited
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16 Jul 2025
Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief
The data protection commissioner for Hamburg believes Meta’s AI training should be stopped
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15 Jul 2025
Businesses say they are getting four Oracle Java audits a year
Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed enterprise platform
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15 Jul 2025
Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation
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15 Jul 2025
Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth
The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share
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14 Jul 2025
Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC
Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC
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14 Jul 2025
Channel Recruiter and Nebula team up with talent offering
Partnership between Nebula and The Channel Recruiter will help the channel tap into skilled staff on demand to bolster their capabilities
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14 Jul 2025
Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services
The UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm
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14 Jul 2025
DCC sells Exertis to private equity firm Aurelius
A deal for Exertis is struck eight months following DCC’s announcement that it was divesting its IT distribution business
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14 Jul 2025
AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs
As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president
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11 Jul 2025
'Click to Cancel' left to the states, for now
'Click to Cancel' laws are still on the books in many states.
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11 Jul 2025
ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI
Panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development
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11 Jul 2025
Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team
Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software
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11 Jul 2025
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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10 Jul 2025
Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff
Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company
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09 Jul 2025
Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures
The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems
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09 Jul 2025
CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl
Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation
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08 Jul 2025
July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address
Microsoft patched well over 100 new common vulnerabilities and exposures on the second Tuesday of the month, but its latest update is mercifully light on zero-days
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08 Jul 2025
AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw
Secure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything
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08 Jul 2025
Post Office inquiry chair 'cannot rule out' scandal caused 13 suicides
Post Office scandal public inquiry publishes its first report after three years of gathering and analysing evidence, examining the human impact on victims and the compensation process
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07 Jul 2025
Financial services giant Prudential crafts agentic AI strategy
Like all technology deployments in highly regulated industries, agentic AI must be approached carefully.
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07 Jul 2025
Zopa to embed into Manchester’s tech ecosystem
Challenger bank Zopa plans to eventually have 500 staff in its Manchester office, which will launch next month
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07 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this past week at BCS, 8x8, Leaseweb, Alteryx, CyberArk and TrafficGuard
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04 Jul 2025
Dassault Systèmes accelerates virtual twin offer with Ascon Qube acquisition
Leading engineering technology provider acquires core technology to advance its virtual twin strategy for factories, with AI-powered, SaaS-ready tech set to enable software-defined automation at the machine level
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04 Jul 2025
Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore
The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters
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03 Jul 2025
How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future
The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages
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02 Jul 2025
IFS snaps up AI agent platform vendor TheLoops
IFS beefs up its industrial AI agentic capabilities by acquiring TheLoops.
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02 Jul 2025
TSB faces another risky IT migration as Santander eyes UK bank
TSB’s customers were moved to the in-house-developed platform of its parent, Sabadell, in a disastrous migration in 2018
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02 Jul 2025
Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation
Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms
