TechTarget News

All News from the past 365 days

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Perplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm

  By Esther Shittu

  The vendor faces many complex situations that might prevent users from setting it as their devices' default voice assistant. Users may instead move toward Siri.

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Evidence that telehealth cuts carbon emissions grows

  By Anuja Vaidya

  Telehealth use was associated with a significant reduction in carbon emissions, roughly equating to the monthly emissions of 60,000 to 130,000 cars, new research reveals.

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Yale New Haven Health notifies nearly 5.6M people of breach

  By Jill Hughes

  Yale New Haven Health reported a March hack and data breach to HHS impacting nearly 5.6 million individuals.

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Kingston Council taps Boldyn to improve digital infrastructure

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Partnership between London borough council, regional transport authority and leading large-scale network provider to see high-speed fibre links to CCTV locations, enabled through the construction of a 10km network covering main town centres

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  As the FDA targets synthetic dyes in food, will drugs be next?

  By Alivia Kaylor, MSc

  The FDA and HHS plan to revoke authorization of two synthetic food dyes and urge the food sector to drop six more by 2026, hinting drug makers could soon face similar pressure.

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns

  By Sebastian Klovig Skelton

  The Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will commit murder, but critics say the profiling in these systems raises ‘serious concerns’ over racism, classism and data inaccuracies

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  M&S suspends all online sales as cyber attack worsens

  By Alex Scroxton

  M&S shuts down online sales as it works to contain and mitigate a severe cyber attack on its systems

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Trust in healthcare wanes as patients turn to social media

  By Sara Heath

  As patient trust in social connections and online, uncredentialed creators grows, experts fear a growing medical misinformation issue.

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Channel catch-up: News in brief

  By Simon Quicke

  Developments this week at Datatonic, Parallels, Central Technology Group, Cowbell and FiberLocator

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Channel catch-up: News in brief

  By Simon Quicke

  Developments this week at Datatonic, Parallels, Central Technology Group, Cowbell and FiberLocator

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  Omdia: All-photonics infrastructure key to safer, smarter, more sustainable world

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Research revealed at Innovative Optical and Wireless Network global forum outlines future of digital economy, powered by all-photonics networks

• 25 Apr 2025
  

  How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

  By Aaron Tan

  At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Policymakers look to state laws for federal data privacy law

  By Makenzie Holland

  Twenty U.S. states have adopted comprehensive data privacy laws, meaning that businesses face a complex network of laws with varied privacy requirements and definitions.

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Software supply chain security AI agents take action

  By Beth Pariseau

  Three software supply chain security vendors join the AI agent trend that is sweeping tech, as AI-generated code threatens to overwhelm human security pros.

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Nvidia, OpenAI intro tools for agentic AI, creating images

  By Esther Shittu

  The vendors add to the numerous tools available in the generative AI market with a new system for building and managing agents and a high-quality image generator.

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  IT pros share disaster preparedness, VMware migration plans

  By Paul Crocetti

  IT pros at VeeamON shared disaster preparedness strategies, including DR planning, using immutable storage and moving away from VMware.

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Saudi Arabia to be global kingpin of AI grunt work for US leader Groq

  By Mark Ballard

  Saudi Arabia is positioning itself to take on huge volumes of the grunt work required by the artificial intelligence sector

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Nokia seals strategic 5G RAN deal with T-Mobile US

  By Joe O’Halloran

  US ‘un-carrier’ deploys enhanced radio access network technology to boost 5G network, expanding footprint, modernising cell sites and enhancing connectivity to additional subscribers across the country

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  M&S systems remain offline days after cyber incident

  By Alex Scroxton

  M&S is still unable to provide contactless payment or click-and-collect services amid a cyber attack that it says has forced it to move a number of processes offline to safeguard its customers, staff and business

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  VMware patches put spotlight on support

  By Cliff Saran

  Recent security updates in VMware products have highlighted the challenge IT decision-makers face as they navigate Broadcom licensing changes

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Data breach class action costs mount up

  By Alex Scroxton

  Organisations exposed to the US market paid out over $150m in class action settlements in just six months. Security leaders must do more to address cyber gaps, respond better to incidents and demonstrate compliance

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  AI algorithm determines probability of heart condition

  By Anuja Vaidya

  New research shows that calibrating the scores of an AI algorithm can help clinicians identify and triage high-risk hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients.

• 24 Apr 2025
  

  Dropbox users get Dash generative AI video, image search

  By Don Fluckinger

  Dropbox search extends to other apps such as Slack, Canva and Teams.