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29 Apr 2025
Scattered Spider on the hook for M&S cyber attack
The infamous Scattered Spider hacking collective may have been behind the ongoing cyber attack on Marks and Spencer that has crippled systems at the retailer and left its ecommerce operation in disarray.
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29 Apr 2025
RSAC 2025: Cisco Debuts Latest AI Cybersecurity Innovations
In terms of innovation, Cisco says it's 'just getting warmed up.'
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29 Apr 2025
RSAC: Fortinet's Latest Threat Report, Google Cloud-Mandiant, More
Many vendors are showcasing their latest AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities.
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29 Apr 2025
Acceldata launches agentic AI-powered anomaly detection
The data observability specialist's new feature uses agentic AI to ensure that the data used to inform analytics and AI tools is high quality and won't lead to poor decisions.
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29 Apr 2025
Edinburgh University evaluation of NHS AI Lab finds early promise
A report into the NHS AI Lab from the University of Edinburgh identifies early signs of return on investment amid barriers to scaling and implementation
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29 Apr 2025
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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28 Apr 2025
Pharma leaders see AI revolutionising medicine
Pharmaceutical industry experts at Gitex Asia 2025 discuss how AI is revolutionising drug discovery, from accelerating clinical trials and diagnosing rare diseases to validating traditional medicines
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25 Apr 2025
UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns
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
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24 Apr 2025
Yellowfin joins GenAI fray, launches new NLQ capabilities
The longtime BI vendor is the latest to add generative AI-powered natural language query capabilities aimed at enabling more users within organizations to use complex capabilities.
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23 Apr 2025
DOJ rule aims to block adversaries' access to personal data
The new federal measure could apply to companies beyond data brokers. It stems from an executive order signed by former President Joe Biden.
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23 Apr 2025
Datadog sees data observability join DevOps, adds Metaplane
Datadog 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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21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
Citic 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: Finding revenue gains from parked cars
Singapore real estate investment firm CapitaLand Investment taps machine learning models to optimise space utilisation across 23 commercial buildings and business parks
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Taking the big bang approach to reporting
A company-wide SAP revamp has transformed Bosch Global Software Technologies’ financial and HR processes, delivering granular insights and streamlined operations
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17 Apr 2025
Monte Carlo launches first agents for data observability
Though the vendor already provides monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities, generative AI-powered agents for each aim to make instantaneous tasks that previously took days.
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17 Apr 2025
Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance
The bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives
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16 Apr 2025
Footballers object to processing of performance data
Football players are seeking to gain more control of their performance data through ‘stop processing’ requests, in an attempt to strike a better balance between firms’ commercial interests and the data rights of footballers
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16 Apr 2025
Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim
The pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing
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15 Apr 2025
Tableau enters the agentic AI era with the launch of Next
The new platform features agents addressing needs such as data preparation and natural language-based analysis, and includes a semantic layer that targets relevancy and accuracy.
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15 Apr 2025
Innov8 and Sage mark 25 years of partnership
The channel player and vendor provide an example of trust and value over more than two decades
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15 Apr 2025
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure
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14 Apr 2025
Meta settles lawsuit over surveillance business model
Meta settles lawsuit over use of personal data in targeted advertising, opening up the possibility of other UK users raising legal objections to its processing
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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11 Apr 2025
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities
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10 Apr 2025
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
At its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers
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09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
Microsoft 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
Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents
Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient.
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08 Apr 2025
Snowflake embraces open source with full support for Iceberg
Three years after providing limited support for open data storage, the data platform vendor is signaling its embrace of open source with full support for the open table format.
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08 Apr 2025
New AI-powered tools from Dremio target data discovery
With relevant data key to developing accurate AI and analytics applications, the data lakehouse specialist's latest features target making data faster and easier to find.
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08 Apr 2025
Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow
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07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
IT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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02 Apr 2025
Databricks simplifies data ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
With preconfigured connectors to Salesforce and Workday -- and more to follow -- the data cloud and AI vendor is taking aim at streamlining data ingestion.
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02 Apr 2025
Informatica adds to Claire lineup of GenAI capabilities
New copilots for data integration and iPaaS highlight the vendor's Spring 2025 release, along with a tool aimed at simplifying access to unstructured data to fuel AI development.
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01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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31 Mar 2025
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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27 Mar 2025
UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation
Most of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes
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27 Mar 2025
AWS boosts Q in QuickSight with AI-powered scenario analysis
Driven by customer feedback, the BI platform now enables nontechnical and expert users alike to model data and perform deep analytics using generative AI-fueled natural language.
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26 Mar 2025
Databricks partners with Anthropic to aid GenAI development
With the Claude line of models natively available in the Data Intelligence Platform, developers can securely combine data and AI models to build agents and other applications.
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25 Mar 2025
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
It is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation
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24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
Oracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant
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24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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20 Mar 2025
Domo unveils agentic AI toolkit to simplify development
Agent Catalyst provides users with a four-step process for developing agentic applications, including selecting an LLM and connecting it to relevant proprietary data.
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20 Mar 2025
DBT Labs launches AI copilot to boost developer efficiency
The assistant includes features such as autogenerated documentation and testing to relieve developers and engineers of repetitive tasks and free them up for more innovative work.
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20 Mar 2025
Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data
Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation
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20 Mar 2025
Oracle launches new AI Agent Studio in Fusion suite
The studio is designed for Oracle customers that already have most of their data situated in the Fusion suite. It includes new libraries and a trust and security framework.
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19 Mar 2025
Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation
After raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform.
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19 Mar 2025
Former subpostmaster to sue Post Office and Fujitsu for judgment ‘obtained by fraud’
Lee Castleton, one of a group of seven former subpostmasters who began the fight against the Post Office in 2009, triggers ‘seismic’ shift in Post Office scandal
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19 Mar 2025
Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data
The vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications.
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17 Mar 2025
Online Safety Act measures come into effect
Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material
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17 Mar 2025
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue
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14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out
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14 Mar 2025
Sigma Computing launches Data Apps to boost analytics
The vendor's new application development feature enables users to create custom apps that combine data collection, insight generation and process automation to improve analysis.
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14 Mar 2025
AWS unifies analytics and AI development in SageMaker
In a move that brings previously disparate analytics and AI development tasks together in one environment with data management, Unified Studio is now generally available.
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13 Mar 2025
Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies biometric data would be repurposed in this way
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12 Mar 2025
Vast Data targets secure, speedy agentic AI development
The vendor is furthering its expansion into AI development with features such as vector search and event streaming aimed at enabling users to build and maintain agents.
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12 Mar 2025
Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play
Salesforce executives present its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a ‘whole system’ approach not hung up on large language models. They say it is a ‘holy trinity’ of data, apps and agents
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11 Mar 2025
Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce
Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences
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11 Mar 2025
UK government under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack, hears PAC
The Commons Public Accounts Committee heard government IT leaders respond to recent National Audit Office findings that the government’s cyber resilience is under par
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10 Mar 2025
New Databricks tools tackle lingering GenAI accuracy issues
Features such as centralized model governance and real-time monitoring aim to improve the accuracy of outputs so that enterprises can confidently scale beyond experimentation.
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07 Mar 2025
Government to create digital sourcing strategy
Government officials revealed to the Public Accounts Committee that it will develop a sourcing strategy for digital technology, steering departments on what to build themselves and what to procure
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06 Mar 2025
NHS chief data officers concerned by FDP roll-out
The Chief Data and Analytical Officers Network has raised concerns over the way the NHS Federated Data Platform is being implemented and NHS England’s approach to its adoption
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06 Mar 2025
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation
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06 Mar 2025
TDX 2025: Salesforce vaunts Agentforce 2dx as evolved agentic AI platform
Salesforce unveils Agentforce 2DX as further development of its autonomously agentic AI platform at its developer conference in San Francisco
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05 Mar 2025
Solving specific problems driving enterprise adoption of AI
When weighing the benefits and risks of deploying AI at scale, whether the tools solve specific problems can accelerate deployment, Sisense CEO Ariel Katz says.
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04 Mar 2025
Qdrant update adds security measures for AI development
The vector database specialist's update includes features that enable secure AI development such as role-based access control and an API for managing cloud deployments.
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03 Mar 2025
Alation unveils AI agents plus SDK for agentic development
The data catalog vendor's new agents for documentation and data quality monitoring represent innovation among metadata management vendors and could force competitors to respond.
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03 Mar 2025
Teradata unveils vector store to fuel AI development
The longtime data management and analytics vendor's new feature will enable developers to discover the relevant data needed to train business-specific generative AI applications.
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02 Mar 2025
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications
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27 Feb 2025
MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation
Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation
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26 Feb 2025
Snowflake adds OpenAI models with Microsoft integration
In a move that adds more model choices for AI developers, models including GPT-4o are now natively available in Cortex AI alongside models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others.
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26 Feb 2025
Google boosts AlloyDB with added vector search capabilities
New features address the accuracy and performance of the in-database vector searches that discover relevant data for feeding and training AI models and applications.
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26 Feb 2025
Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database
Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population
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26 Feb 2025
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes
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25 Feb 2025
IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax
The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products.
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25 Feb 2025
Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions
The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions.
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24 Feb 2025
Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development
By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier.
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21 Feb 2025
Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project
Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco
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21 Feb 2025
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities
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20 Feb 2025
Watchdog approves Sellafield physical security, but warns about cyber
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken Sellafield out of special measures for physical security, but harbours cyber security concerns
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20 Feb 2025
Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel
New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.
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20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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19 Feb 2025
European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties
Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities
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18 Feb 2025
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use
Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study
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14 Feb 2025
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.
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13 Feb 2025
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.
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13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
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12 Feb 2025
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical
Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
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12 Feb 2025
Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development
The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.
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12 Feb 2025
Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics
Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.
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12 Feb 2025
MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth
MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges
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12 Feb 2025
Crayon looking for public sector growth
Ahead of its tie-up with SoftwareOne, the firm’s CEO outlined its fourth quarter performance and touched on her hopes for 2025
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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10 Feb 2025
Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike
Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency
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06 Feb 2025
Super Bowl teams show analytics gaining ground in NFL
As data-driven decision-making gains ground in pro football, both the Eagles and Chiefs have gained advantages from using advanced statistical analysis.
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06 Feb 2025
Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy
One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement