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22 Aug 2025
U.S.-EU trade framework caps pharma tariffs on branded drugs at 15%
A new U.S.-EU trade framework caps pharma tariffs at 15% for branded pharmaceuticals and places generics and their ingredients under the "most-favored nation" rate system.
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22 Aug 2025
News brief: Safeguards emerge to address security for AI
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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21 Aug 2025
Proposed U.S. law targets contact center AI, offshoring
Contact centers are in the sights of bills before the House and Senate with bipartisan support.
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20 Aug 2025
Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption
Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI
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20 Aug 2025
Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe
Freedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal
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20 Aug 2025
UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant
Analysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics
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20 Aug 2025
India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche
India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark
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19 Aug 2025
HPE taps into AI market demand with Nvidia Blackwell-powered servers
HPE’s latest Nvidia Blackwell-powered GPU servers are due to start shipping soon, but could enterprises face delays when trying to get hold of them?
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18 Aug 2025
Workday hit in wave of social engineering attacks
A campaign of voice-based social engineering attacks targeting users of Salesforce’s services appears to have struck HR platform Workday
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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
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
India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push
The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy
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15 Aug 2025
India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push
The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy
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15 Aug 2025
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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14 Aug 2025
What’s going on inside Intel?
Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive
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12 Aug 2025
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack
The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
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11 Aug 2025
Trump fee for Nvidia, AMD China exports could face legal battle
The administration's unprecedented move may conflict with the U.S. Constitution's rules against export taxes.
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11 Aug 2025
Why Intel’s woes show the fragility of the European Chips Act
Intel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties
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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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08 Aug 2025
The UK government’s AI Growth Zones strategy: Everything you need to know
Plans to make the UK an AI superpower imply pervasive use of the technology. Ramping up adoption of AI will require more datacentres to host compute-intensive workloads, which is where the AI Growth Zone strategy comes in
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07 Aug 2025
Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore
The chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States
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07 Aug 2025
Ingram Micro CEO addresses ransomware attack
Paul Bay, CEO of Ingram Micro, shared an update while discussing the distributor’s second-quarter numbers
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06 Aug 2025
Biglobe selects DE-CIX for faster Japan, Europe connectivity
One of Japan’s leading IT companies connects to Frankfurt-based internet exchange for remote peering services, looking to optimise intercontinental data routing without needing a physical presence in Europe
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05 Aug 2025
Broadcom's Jericho4 boosts data center AI networking
The company's latest networking chip promises better bandwidth, security and connectivity throughout and between data centers.
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05 Aug 2025
Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres
Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits
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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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01 Aug 2025
AWS sees revenue and profit rise in Q2, bats away competitive concerns
AWS has filed its Q2 results, reporting another quarter of revenue and profit rises, but questions are being asked about how the company is coping with the rising competitive pressure it is under
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31 Jul 2025
DOJ firings spark fresh HPE-Juniper deal scrutiny
Reported involvement from intelligence agencies, lobbyists may have helped push the merger through before a planned antitrust trial, causing infighting at the Justice Department.
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31 Jul 2025
Datacentre operators ‘faltering’ on collecting sustainability data, Uptime Institute data shows
Datacentre operators are ‘quietly retiring’ their net-zero strategies, as Uptime Institute data shows downturn in the number tracking key server farm sustainability metrics
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31 Jul 2025
Meta prepares for gigawatt datacentres to power ‘superintelligence’
Meta’s latest results show a big jump in datacentre costs as it builds out personal AI capabilities
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30 Jul 2025
UK flights suspended after air traffic control outage
Flights arriving and departing from the UK were disrupted by an outage affecting technical systems at air traffic control body NATS’ Swanwick facility
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30 Jul 2025
AWS tables Virginia data center after community pushback
The proposed 7.2 million-square-foot operation -- one of the world's largest -- would have added to Amazon's $35 billion data center plan in Virginia.
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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
Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market
Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits
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25 Jul 2025
Intel cuts spending, eyes data center recovery after mixed Q2
CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company's layoff plan is mostly complete as Intel tries to rebound after financial woes in recent years.
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24 Jul 2025
Trump's fossil-fueled AI Action Plan pushes deregulation
The Trump administration's AI Action Plan and executive orders include deregulation that would fast-track data center and chip buildouts while boosting the power grid.
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24 Jul 2025
US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance
US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence
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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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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
FuriosaAI to fuel LG Exaone LLM: Is it a challenge to Nvidia?
The South Korean semiconductor startup scored LG as its first major customer, as companies compete to take advantage of the AI boom.
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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
Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks
Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server
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22 Jul 2025
UK government signs partnership with OpenAI
Deal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities
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22 Jul 2025
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases
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22 Jul 2025
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have
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21 Jul 2025
Linx, Megaport expand connectivity for London networks
London Internet Exchange announces a strategic partnership with global network-as-a-service provider offering one invoice, one port and one point of contact for engineering support
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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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17 Jul 2025
UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity
Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030
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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
LG adds extra gear to automotive content platform for Kia
Electronics giant’s Automotive Content Platform to power in-car streaming for European models of all-electric SUV, marking an expansion of in-car experience to key region following successful deployments in Korea
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15 Jul 2025
Meta, Google unveil massive AI data center investment plans
Meta and Google tout aggressive AI infrastructure investments focused on data center builds and power.
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10 Jul 2025
Oracle, AWS partner for cloud database boost
Oracle Database@AWS combines the companies' tools to eliminate costly and complex data pipeline buildouts while adding to its collection of agreements with hyperscalers.
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10 Jul 2025
UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties
The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing
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09 Jul 2025
Broadcom discontinues vVols storage capability for VMware
The vVols capability, a VMware storage feature for the past decade, is being sunset in VCF 9 and discontinued in VCF 9.1 as Broadcom continues to winnow the VMware catalog.
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08 Jul 2025
Google slams claims it’s ‘misleading’ the public with its GHG emissions data
Internet search giant Google stands accused of “cherry-picking” data from its environmental sustainability report to portray itself as a “good climate actor”, after campaigners from Kairos Fellowship picked holes in the publication
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology
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02 Jul 2025
Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts
A developing cyber attack at Australian airline Qantas that started at a third-party call centre is already being tentatively attributed to Scattered Spider. Find out more and learn about the next steps for those affected
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02 Jul 2025
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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01 Jul 2025
The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits
Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres
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30 Jun 2025
Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand
Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope
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30 Jun 2025
How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape
Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing
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26 Jun 2025
UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community
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25 Jun 2025
HPE launches software push with CloudOps bundle
At HPE Discover, the infrastructure vendor promises a 'great VM reset' on HPE Private Cloud and touts a new software push.
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24 Jun 2025
Agentic AI at the core of HPE networking, GreenLake updates
The infrastructure titan launched several new products and services aimed at bolstering customers' appetite and abilities for AI workload optimization.
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24 Jun 2025
HPE offerings dive into AI features and new bundle packages
The new HPE Cloud Ops Software suite bundles pieces of the vendor's private cloud data centering offerings, and HPE expands AI capabilities in software and hardware.
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24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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23 Jun 2025
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation
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23 Jun 2025
Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads
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23 Jun 2025
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process
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18 Jun 2025
Texas Instruments injects $60B into U.S. chip manufacturing
The company will partner with Nvidia, Apple, Ford, SpaceX and others to spur domestic semiconductor production.
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18 Jun 2025
Execs shy away from open models and open source AI
The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products
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17 Jun 2025
Microsoft declares era of logical qubits
The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery
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17 Jun 2025
Wait is over for Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9
The first major revision of the VMware platform under Broadcom's ownership is now available to all VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation subscribers.
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16 Jun 2025
HPE doubles Nonstop server platform memory, bandwidth
The company says its latest releases will fuel efficiency for enterprise customers, with the help of Intel Xeon processors.
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16 Jun 2025
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
Open 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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12 Jun 2025
France is committed to AI, says president Macron
The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’
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11 Jun 2025
NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review
The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase
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11 Jun 2025
UK government recommits to Edinburgh supercomputer plan with £750m funding pledge
After pulling the plug on plans by the previous government to build a supercomputer in Edinburgh, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology commits £750m to a very similar initiative
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10 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday resolves Windows zero-day
Microsoft fixes 66 bugs, including an actively exploited WebDAV remote-code execution flaw, but the BadSuccessor vulnerability remains unpatched.
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10 Jun 2025
UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri
Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology
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10 Jun 2025
Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era
Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference
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10 Jun 2025
IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing
Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time
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10 Jun 2025
Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation
From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
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10 Jun 2025
Microsoft given until 25 July to respond to UK cloud licensing legal claim
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has given Microsoft just over a month to prepare a response to a group legal claim over its cloud licensing practices
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09 Jun 2025
Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost
Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills
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06 Jun 2025
FTC sends message with Synopsys, Ansys divestiture order
To prevent the creation of a monopoly in software tools used to design semiconductors, the FTC wants the two companies to divest assets before merging.
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06 Jun 2025
CSC, Surf and Nokia achieve 1.2 Tbps data transfer in supercomputer trial
Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains
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05 Jun 2025
UK backdoor order to Apple raises bipartisan concerns
U.S. officials fear that gaps in existing law may enable countries to target U.S. companies with data access requests that harm user privacy and security.
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04 Jun 2025
Amazon to launch $10B data center upgrade in North Carolina
As Amazon races to compete with Big Tech rivals for AI dominance, its Tar Heel State investment is part of a $100 billion capital expenditure effort slated for 2025.
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04 Jun 2025
Meta inks 20-year nuclear deal to power data center
The tech giant's agreement with Constellation Energy will secure an alternative source for power-hungry AI ambitions -- likely saving a once-doomed nuclear energy plant.
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03 Jun 2025
National Grid starts building large-scale substation to support growth of West London datacentres
The National Grid has started work on building a new substation on the outskirts of Greater London to ease pressure on local electricity transmission and distribution networks
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02 Jun 2025
Planning permission sought for UK’s largest AI datacentre campus
North Lincolnshire Council has received a planning permission application for another large-scale datacentre development, in support of its bid to become an AI Growth Zone
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02 Jun 2025
AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth
While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from generative AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers are prepared for change
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30 May 2025
Noisy quantum hardware could crack RSA-2048 in seven days
Research highlights the need for quantum safe cryptography given the speed with which quantum computing is evolving
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30 May 2025
Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy
Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud
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29 May 2025
Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions
Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities
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28 May 2025
HPE Aruba Networking expands distributed services switch platform
Leading network tech and services provider extends offer with distributed services switches, and expanded wired and wireless portfolio, to meet increasing AI and high-performance computing demands
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28 May 2025
DSIT tells Ofcom to prepare to expand regulatory remit to include datacentres
During a recent audience with the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Ofcom confirmed preparations are underway for it to start regulating the datacentre sector
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27 May 2025
Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers
As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI
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27 May 2025
Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI
At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it
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26 May 2025
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors
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26 May 2025
Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting
Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing
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23 May 2025
Data embassies and US embargo halt give Saudi AI hope
Gulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there
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22 May 2025
Dell Technologies customers building real-world AI apps
Enterprises and nonprofits at Dell Tech World 2025 are already deploying advanced AI, as Dell Technologies readies a new wave of products to meet future demand.