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08 May 2024
Experts highlight progress, challenges for election security
By Alexander CulafiInfosec professionals at RSA Conference 2024 discussed digital and physical security challenges for election cycles across the globe in a post-COVID landscape.
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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08 May 2024
Panasas embraces software-defined storage, rebrands as Vdura
By Adam ArmstrongPanasas is now Vdura, a software-defined storage company that aims to make its cluster parallel file system work on a swath of storage media on premises and in the cloud.
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14 Aug 2023
Snowflake partner network takes on optimization
By John MooreSnowflake optimization spans cost reduction, infrastructure rightsizing and query reengineering. But will partner demand endure or decline as customers mature?
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14 Aug 2023
Network Rail uses Google AI to assess trackside biodiversity
By Cliff SaranThe rail network company has worked with London Zoo to monitor trackside bird and bat activity
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10 Aug 2023
MoD embarks on cloud-based push to digitise data protection request service
By Caroline DonnellyAfter previously finding itself on the receiving end of a reprimand from the UK data protection watchdog for taking too long to respond to subject access requests, the Ministry of Defence sets out how its turned the situation around with the help of cloud-based system eCase
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09 Aug 2023
AI interview: Krystal Kauffman, lead organiser, Turkopticon
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonRemote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face
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08 Aug 2023
Pentland Brands marshals Google BigQuery to improve customer insight
By Brian McKennaThe name behind Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand and Kickers turns to Google BigQuery to improve customer data understanding
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08 Aug 2023
Workplace monitoring needs worker consent, says select committee
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonEmployers looking to monitor their employees through connected devices should only to so with the consent of those affected due to negative impacts such surveillance can have on work intensification and mental health
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03 Aug 2023
SnapLogic launches generative AI tool for data integration
By Eric AvidonThe vendor released SnapGPT, a generative AI tool that lets data engineers more efficiently develop data pipelines by using natural language. An early user is Barnard College.
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02 Aug 2023
Wirral Council set to deploy Microsoft Fabric data platform
By Cliff SaranThe platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Simpson Associates, will be used to aid decision-making and improve operations
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01 Aug 2023
Vast Data Platform aims at storage everywhere for AI/ML workloads
By Antony AdsheadVast Data to offer storage with data lake and warehouse functionality built in natively, in anticipation of a huge surge in AI/ML workloads and a need for ever-larger data stores
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01 Aug 2023
Small language models emerge for domain-specific use cases
By Eric AvidonBecause LLMs suffer from accuracy and security problems, some organizations are developing generative AI systems trained with their own company data to address specific use cases.
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28 Jul 2023
Beyond generative AI, data quality a data management trend
By Eric AvidonVendors and users have mostly focused on generative AI so far in 2023, but observability to ensure quality and governance also remain key to successful pipelines for analytics.
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28 Jul 2023
Risks of opening up AI
By Cliff SaranMeta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions
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28 Jul 2023
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
By Brian McKennaServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships
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27 Jul 2023
Generative AI the dominant first half 2023 analytics trend
By Eric AvidonNumerous vendors have unveiled plans to integrate generative AI throughout their platforms, though few tools featuring the potentially transformative technology have been released.
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26 Jul 2023
AWS unveils generative AI tools for QuickSight BI platform
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant introduced two natural language processing features aimed at making dashboard developers more efficient and enabling more business users to work with data.
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26 Jul 2023
Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy
By Aaron TanCloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas
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26 Jul 2023
Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue
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25 Jul 2023
Wayfair and the generative AI boom
By Esther AjaoThe online home and furniture retailer is using the technology despite challenges such as unauthorized use of data and maintaining data privacy. It also released a room-planning tool.
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25 Jul 2023
Small satellite testing gets funding boost
By Cliff SaranA new facility has been established as part of the government’s £200m funding for Earth Observation
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24 Jul 2023
Oracle targets speed with launch of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse
By Eric AvidonThe tech giant's new lakehouse enables users of its database management suite to combine structured and unstructured data to develop a more complete view of their operations.
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20 Jul 2023
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
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19 Jul 2023
Lakehouse architecture the best fit for modern data needs
By Eric AvidonWhile data warehouses and data lakes each excel at handling certain types of data, a hybrid of the two is the best means of handling the increasing complexity of data management.
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19 Jul 2023
ISVs, AI and multicloud on Oracle channel chief’s to-do list
By Simon QuickeThe vendor is looking to make sure its partners deliver high levels of customer experience and can take advantage of emerging opportunities
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19 Jul 2023
Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence
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19 Jul 2023
‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute
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18 Jul 2023
Confluent partner plan aids streaming data platform delivery
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's Connect With Confluent program enables technology partners to deliver event data to end users in real time through integrations with Confluent Cloud.
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17 Jul 2023
Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach and the overall legality of using hyperscale public cloud technologies in a policing context
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14 Jul 2023
UCLH uses machine learning to cope with emergency beds demand
By Lis EvenstadUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a machine learning tool which uses real-time data to predict how many emergency beds will be needed
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13 Jul 2023
Civil society groups call on EU to put human rights at centre of AI Act
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of civil society groups are calling on EU institutions to prioritise people and human rights in AI legislation as secretive negotiations begin
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13 Jul 2023
MPs launch inquiry into government use of data
By Lis EvenstadThe Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee is to investigate the possibility of reforming the way government collects and analyses data, and whether the UK census could be scrapped
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13 Jul 2023
CaixaBank adds hundreds more IT professionals to support digital transformation
By Karl FlindersCaixaBank is recruiting 200 more IT professionals in Spain to support its ongoing digital transformation
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12 Jul 2023
Digital public services ‘riddled’ with problems, says TUC
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in how new technologies are being developed, deployed and controlled
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12 Jul 2023
Collins Aero reducing flight delays with Databricks platform
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse vendor's tools form the foundation of analytics products designed to help airlines predict and prevent maintenance that results in delays and cancellations.
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11 Jul 2023
Teradata makes VantageCloud Lake available on Azure
By Eric AvidonBy making its cloud-native platform natively available on Azure, the data management and analytics vendor aims to more smoothly enable users to run machine learning and BI tasks.
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11 Jul 2023
EU formally grants data adequacy to US
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe European Commission has formally granted the US data adequacy, allowing companies and organisations to freely transfer personal data across the Atlantic via the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. But privacy activist Max Schrems has already committed to legally challenging the decision
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11 Jul 2023
Finland’s VTT partners Nokia on data market
By Gerard O'DwyerFinish state’s involvement in Nokia project will add weight and capital to work on creating a market for data
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10 Jul 2023
Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri
By Brian McKennaThe Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change
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10 Jul 2023
How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming
By Aaron TanConfluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services
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07 Jul 2023
Dremio names former Splunk executive new CEO
By Eric AvidonThe former Splunk executive takes over as the data lakehouse vendor's leader, aiming to raise the company's profile to demonstrate its capabilities and compete for market share.
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06 Jul 2023
Biometrics watchdog calls for public space surveillance review
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner is calling for a review of public space surveillance to gain a clearer picture about the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology across the public sector, but warns against applying double standards on companies just because they are from China
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06 Jul 2023
Privacy campaigners call for UK data adequacy to be revoked
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe European Commission should revoke the UK’s data adequacy if its Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passes, which campaigners argue ‘flies in the face’ of the decision
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05 Jul 2023
Germany: European Court of Justice hears arguments on lawfulness of EncroChat cryptophone evidence
By Bill GoodwinThe European Court of Justice will decide whether the collection and sharing of data intercepted by law enforcement from EncroChat crypto phone network is compatible with European law
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05 Jul 2023
Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking
By Aaron TanIndonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers
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03 Jul 2023
CDO interview: Robert Michael, group head of data, DFS
By Mark Samuels‘Data Bob’ is transforming data strategy at furniture retailer DFS, aiming to build a digital twin of the company to improve business modelling – but his first task is to make sure people can trust data
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03 Jul 2023
Driving synergies in digital healthcare
By Pratima HarigunaniAs group CIO of API Holdings, Chandresh Dedhia has been driving synergies across a spectrum of digital healthcare businesses to create operational efficiency and other business outcomes
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03 Jul 2023
Salesforce to invest $4bn in its UK business over five years
By Brian McKennaAt its recent London conference, Salesforce UK managing director Zahra Bahrololoumi announced the supplier will invest $4bn in its own UK business over the next five years
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30 Jun 2023
AI can never be given control over combat decisions, Lords told
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonArtificial intelligence is technically incapable of distinguishing between the complex contextual factors of combat situations, and will likely never be able to, according to legal and software experts
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30 Jun 2023
How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market
By Aaron TanThe joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market
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28 Jun 2023
ThoughtSpot buying Mode for $200M to add deeper analysis
By Eric AvidonThe acquisition will extend the vendor's self-service BI platform with tools designed for data experts that enable data science, machine learning and predictive analytics.
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28 Jun 2023
Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues
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28 Jun 2023
Databricks introduces Delta Lake 3.0 to help unify data
By Eric AvidonAs part of the open source community developing the data storage platform, the vendor unveiled the platform's latest iteration with data unification the main goal of the update.
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27 Jun 2023
Snowflake targets generative AI with new capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor unveiled new features -- including new containerization capabilities in Snowpark -- to create a secure environment for developers to build LLM-infused applications.
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27 Jun 2023
Oracle shifts database support goalpost
By Cliff SaranOracle has updated its maintenance and support across its relational database family – we explore the implications
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27 Jun 2023
Why an ecosystem helps IT projects move forward
By Cliff SaranIt used to be the case that IT departments would build or buy, but now there’s an alternative to help organisations integrate different data sources
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27 Jun 2023
UK AI plans offer ‘inadequate’ human rights protection, says EHRC
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s equality watchdog says the government must properly consider human rights when implementing rules to regulate artificial intelligence, as current plan offers little protection
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26 Jun 2023
How Ikea is driving digital customer experience
By Aaron TanIkea franchisee in four Southeast Asian markets and Mexico taps chatbots, conversational commerce and remote planning, among other capabilities, to drive digital customer experience
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26 Jun 2023
Databricks acquiring MosaicML to add more generative AI
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse vendor's purchase of the generative AI vendor will enable customers to build and train language models specific to their needs by using their own data.
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25 Jun 2023
Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut
By Aaron TanMongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database
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23 Jun 2023
Government announces £21m AI diagnostic fund as NHS hits 75
By Brian McKennaTo coincide with the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the NHS, the government has announced a £21m fund for NHS trusts to buy diagnostic tools that use artificial intelligence
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22 Jun 2023
Qlik adds generative AI capabilities via OpenAI connectors
By Eric AvidonThe vendor launched OpenAI Analytics Connector and OpenAI Connector for Application Automation so that users can import generative AI and LLM technology to their Qlik deployments.
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22 Jun 2023
Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service
By Karl FlindersNHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system
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22 Jun 2023
MongoDB unveils new AI, migration tools for database
By Eric AvidonThe vendor, with its latest slate of new and updated capabilities, is adding generative AI with its partnership with Google Cloud and launching a new data migration tool.
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22 Jun 2023
How Vedanta is harnessing tech in aluminium production
By Pratima HarigunaniIndia’s largest aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is using industrial internet of things devices to improve emissions control and robotic process automation to improve efficiency, among other digitisation efforts
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21 Jun 2023
CIO interview: Stuart Hughes, chief digital information officer, Rolls-Royce
By Mark SamuelsThe aerospace giant uses internet of things and sensor technology to create a personalised digital twin for the airlines that fly its engines, but the benefits of further data science and analytics could be even bigger
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21 Jun 2023
CDO interview: Mary O’Callaghan, director of technology engagement, British Heart Foundation
By Mark SamuelsImplementing a new data strategy sits at the heart of the charity’s digital transformation as it looks to build on its status as the UK’s largest charity retailer and the highest-grossing charity on eBay globally
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20 Jun 2023
Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia
By Aaron TanOver half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds
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20 Jun 2023
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’
By Brian McKennaBill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
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20 Jun 2023
Starburst Galaxy update targets governance, data access
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest update includes the public preview of Gravity, a centralized access and governance layer that enables users to better control and connect data across clouds.
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20 Jun 2023
Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce
By Lis EvenstadThe government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology
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19 Jun 2023
8 ways to drive business value with advanced analytics
By George LawtonIt can be difficult to get buy-in for analytical operations. These eight bottom-line benefits of data analytics -- with real-world examples -- can win over execs.
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19 Jun 2023
How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge
By Aaron TanFastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals
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16 Jun 2023
Dremio adds first generative AI-infused tool, intros others
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's initial generative AI-infused tool is Text-to-SQL, which enables customers to work with data using natural language that automatically gets translated to code.
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16 Jun 2023
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS
By Karl FlindersBBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data
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16 Jun 2023
Citi US Personal Banking turns to AI to ‘delight’ customers with personalised services
By Bill GoodwinCitigroup’s US Personal Banking business has created a repository of customer data and is rolling out a decision engine to provide customers with personalised services
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15 Jun 2023
Tableau analytics platform tightens connection to Salesforce
By Eric AvidonThe update includes a tightened connection to Salesforce aimed at making it easier for joint customers to work with their customer data. The update also provides more functions.
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15 Jun 2023
Monte Carlo boosts data observability with generative AI
By Eric AvidonThe vendor unveiled tools aimed at improving engineering efficiency, one enabling data engineers to more easily fix code and another enabling code generation with natural language.
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15 Jun 2023
Clop begins naming alleged MOVEit victims
By Alex ScroxtonClop uploaded details of 12 new victims to its dark web leak site late on 14 June, many of them likely linked to the ongoing MOVEit cyber attack
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14 Jun 2023
Informatica adds data governance with Privitar acquisition
By Eric AvidonBy acquiring the access control specialist, the data management vendor hopes to better enable users to ensure data security amid the growing complexity of their data operations.
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14 Jun 2023
Smart meter value eroded by tech issues
By Cliff SaranThe smart meter roll-out, which is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the UK, is facing a number of long-term technical challenges
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14 Jun 2023
Clop’s MOVEit ransom deadline expires
By Alex ScroxtonA seven-day deadline set by Clop for victims of its latest attack to contact it to arrange payment passes today
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13 Jun 2023
Analytics best practices include automation, cloud migration
By Eric AvidonWhile successful use of modern BI remains elusive for many organizations, those that derive value from their data share common traits, such as executive buy-in.
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12 Jun 2023
Ofcom data stolen in MOVEit cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonCommunications regulator Ofcom says data on employees and regulated communications companies was stolen by the Clop gang
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12 Jun 2023
Progress Software releases patch for second MOVEit Transfer vulnerability
By Alex ScroxtonProgress Software releases a patch for a second MOVEit Transfer issue, which was uncovered by third-party security specialist Huntress Security during post-incident code scanning
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12 Jun 2023
How Dell is easing edge deployments
By Aaron TanDell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases
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09 Jun 2023
MicroStrategy partners with Microsoft to add generative AI
By Eric AvidonThe longtime independent analytics vendor revealed plans to integrate with the Azure OpenAI Service to infuse its platform with generative AI and large language model capabilities.
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08 Jun 2023
CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has published a variety of case studies to show how different assurance techniques can build and maintain trust in artificial intelligence systems
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08 Jun 2023
Government and industry figures meet to discuss AI regulation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTech industry figures are broadly supportive of the need for artificial intelligence to be regulated, but despite growing consensus, there is still disagreement over what effective AI regulation looks like
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07 Jun 2023
Ascend.io, Databricks integration improves data visibility
By Eric AvidonThe update includes support for Databricks' Unity Catalog to enable joint customers to better organize and view datasets that can be used to inform data science and BI projects.
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07 Jun 2023
NatWest and University of Edinburgh form partnership to research data use in banking sector
By Karl FlindersScottish university and banking group set up research centre that will aim to improve the use of banking data
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06 Jun 2023
Snowflake launches Government & Education Data Cloud
By Eric AvidonThe industry-specific platform is the vendor's seventh and includes data sets and other pre-built capabilities to meet the needs of government agencies and educational institutions.
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06 Jun 2023
Collibra update targets data quality, lineage and discovery
By Eric AvidonThe data management vendor's Data Intelligence Cloud now includes pushdowns that enable work within Snowflake and Databricks and prebuilt workflows focused on data visibility.
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06 Jun 2023
Tibco data virtualization, integration tools add visibility
By Eric AvidonNo longer focused on analytics following a recent reorganization, the vendor updated its data management platforms with new multi-cloud and change data capture capabilities.
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06 Jun 2023
TechUK publishes ‘UK tech plan’ for next government
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonTechnology businesses are calling on UK politicians to devise a ‘comprehensive, forward-thinking strategy’ to realise the benefits of technology ahead of the next general election
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05 Jun 2023
Workers ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with digital surveillance at work
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonEmployees express discomfort towards employers’ use of various digital surveillance and monitoring techniques, which are often powered by artificial intelligence
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05 Jun 2023
Medical regulator drops probe into NHS whistleblower Peter Duffy amid dispute over email evidence
By Tommy GreeneThe General Medical Council has dropped an investigation into an NHS whistleblower who exposed widespread clinical harm at Morecambe Bay Trust amid questions over disputed email evidence
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01 Jun 2023
AI interview: Dan McQuillan, critical computing expert
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan speaks to Computer Weekly about the top-down imposition of artificial intelligence on society, and how AI is a fundamentally political technology shaped by humanity’s most reactionary tendencies
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01 Jun 2023
Met Police director of intelligence defends facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Met Police’s director of intelligence has appeared before MPs to make the case for its continuing use of facial-recognition technology, following announcements from the force and the Home Office that they intend to press on with its adoption
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01 Jun 2023
CIO interview: Adam Warne, CIO, River Island
By Mark SamuelsThe privately owned fashion retailer places a premium on its high street presence, but sees digital innovation as key to improving customer service in stores
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01 Jun 2023
How India’s DICV is tapping smart manufacturing
By Pratima HarigunaniDaimler India Commercial Vehicles has deployed augmented and virtual reality, advanced sensors, data analytics and other technologies to improve manufacturing processes and customer fleet management
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30 May 2023
Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI
By Cliff SaranIt took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads