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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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09 Jun 2025
Government to create online platform for public sector tech buyers
The National Digital Exchange will be a one-stop shop for public sector tech buying, allowing organisations to rate and review products and gain access to pre-approved tech deals
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09 Jun 2025
Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace
Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff
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06 Jun 2025
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition
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06 Jun 2025
CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk
To manage risk effectively and secure board-level buy-in, CISOs must stop talking about technology and start speaking the language of business, according to a senior Check Point executive
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05 Jun 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store
The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet
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05 Jun 2025
Whitehall fails to recognise digital procurement challenge, says PAC
Committee concerned that Government Commercial Function doesn’t understand the scale of reform needed to address long-standing digital procurement issues, including lack of skills and leadership
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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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05 Jun 2025
HMRC phishing breach wholly avoidable, but hard to stop
A breach at HMRC saw innocent taxpayers tricked into letting scammers impersonate them through simple phishing attacks leading to account takeover. Such attacks are avoidable, but hard to stop
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05 Jun 2025
Citigroup cuts thousands of staff at China-based tech centres
Financial services giant Citigroup is drastically reducing headcount in its Chinese tech delivery centres as it restructures its technology operation
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05 Jun 2025
SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI
OpenAI’s recent acquisition heralds a new direction for generative AI, away from the screen-based user experience
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05 Jun 2025
CyberSentriq and Netgear both courting MSPs
Arrival of fresh brand in the security market and an acquisition move by networking player should provide managed service providers with options
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05 Jun 2025
UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’
People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy
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05 Jun 2025
CCS and Servium contribute to Advania UK growth
Channel player reveals how acquisitions contributed to its 2024 performance and how it has grown in the region
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05 Jun 2025
Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive
Putting all of its data in AWS cloud will support bank’s use of artificial intelligence to offer customers more personalised services
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05 Jun 2025
How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps
GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response
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04 Jun 2025
Put ROCs before SOCs, Qualys tells public sector
Putting risk operations before security operations may help government agencies and other public sector bodies better manage the myriad threats they face, and make better decisions for the security of all
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04 Jun 2025
NCSC sets out how to build cyber safe cultures
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has published guidance for security teams and leaders on how to foster accessible and appropriate cyber security cultures in their organisations
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04 Jun 2025
Investigatory powers: Guidelines for police and spies could also help businesses with AI
Computer Weekly talks to Muffy Calder, technology advisor to the UK’s investigatory powers commissioner, about privacy, intrusion and artificial intelligence
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04 Jun 2025
SXSW London: Risk of AI removing choice
The modern era, where AI speeds up day-to-day chores, is undermining creativity and the ability to make choices
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04 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval
The Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector
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04 Jun 2025
Microsoft outlines three-pronged European cyber strategy
Microsoft chair Brad Smith outlines an expansive cyber programme targeting governments across Europe with enhanced threat intelligence and support
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04 Jun 2025
European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy
Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards
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04 Jun 2025
Kaseya hires ‘passionate SME advocate’ as next CEO
Supplier of tools for managed service providers concludes its five-month search for its leader
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04 Jun 2025
Interview: Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer, Ordnance Survey
The UK mapping service has moved on a long way from paper maps as it now looks to use artificial intelligence to understand, interpret and derive insights from geographical data
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04 Jun 2025
Open source adoption faces reality checks
Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges
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04 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks
Project findings to be presented at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlight vulnerability of SMEs to cyber attack
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03 Jun 2025
HashiCorp Terraform leads IBM, Red Hat integration roadmap
HashiCorp and IBM have begun to knit together products such as Terraform and Ansible and divulged some roadmap details, but a few potential product overlaps are still unresolved.
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03 Jun 2025
Maintel shares progress ahead of AGM
Channel player Maintel provides update on how the first five months of the year have gone ahead of its annual general meeting
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03 Jun 2025
Fintech growth three times that of finance sector as a whole
Global fintech revenues reached £280bn in 2024, according to Boston Consulting Group report
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03 Jun 2025
HMRC aims to improve customer service with £1.5bn IT investment
The department is on the hunt for customer relationship management system and contact centre as a service suppliers, following criticism of its customer service
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03 Jun 2025
SailPoint charts course for AI-driven identity security
SailPoint is driving the use of agentic AI in identity security with its Harbor Pilot offering while preparing to help enterprises govern and secure AI agents
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03 Jun 2025
Analysis of job vacancies shows earnings boost for AI skills
Even when parts of a job are being automated, those who know how to work with artificial intelligence tools can expect higher salaries
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02 Jun 2025
US cyber agency CISA faces stiff budget cuts
CISA is one of several US agencies facing drastic budget cuts under the Trump administration
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02 Jun 2025
Microsoft Copilot AI saves civil service hours of admin work
Over a third of Microsoft 365 users who took part in trials across government departments claimed they saved more than half an hour in productivity a day
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02 Jun 2025
Cyber and digital get over £1bn to enhance UK’s national security
The government has set out plans to spend over a billion pounds on digital and cyber warfare capabilities to enhance the UK’s ability to defend itself and fight offensive wars
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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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02 Jun 2025
NPCC calls for better tech investment
The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities
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02 Jun 2025
AI should be used to improve boardroom efficiency
Artificial intelligence is not just for business efficiency. Company boards should deploy the technology to support their own processes
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02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach
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30 May 2025
Software supply chain security tools take on toil for users
Recent updates from software supply chain security vendors simply take over vulnerability management on behalf of IT orgs, rather than provide facilitating tools.
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30 May 2025
Dutch businesses lag behind in cyber resilience as threats escalate
While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers must prepare for change
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30 May 2025
Tech adaptability helps Zopa unwrap current account and test generative AI
Zopa Bank’s current account, already used by thousands of existing customers, will be made available to the wider public before end of 2025
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30 May 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Distology, Bitdefender, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, TD Synnex and Xledger UK
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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
CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness
A report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs
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29 May 2025
TXP expands reach with Metatech buy
Ambition to become the mid-market specialist in legacy system modernisation takes another step forward
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29 May 2025
Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal
Post Office accused of suppressing the views of victims of the Horizon scandal by deleting comments on social media platforms
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29 May 2025
Gov.uk Wallet open to public sector bodies
Government departments can soon begin to add documents to Gov.uk Wallet, as the Government Digital Service publishes guidance for public sector bodies on how to use the smartphone app
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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
UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public
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28 May 2025
Sophos warns MSPs over DragonForce threat
Example of a recent ransomware attack is a sobering one that underlines how criminals are trying to exploit channel vulnerabilities
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28 May 2025
Infinigate and Softcat provide investor cheer
Full-year results and a Q3 trading statement underline that growth is out there for channel players pitching in-demand services and technologies
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28 May 2025
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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28 May 2025
Remote purchase fraud surges 14%, says banking industry
Brits lost over £1bn to payment fraud in its many forms last year, according to the latest banking industry numbers
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28 May 2025
ANZ firms spending more on data management
Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds
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28 May 2025
Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers
Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps
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27 May 2025
How SAP sustainability software helps manage ESG programs
Gunther Rothermel, who leads engineering for the SAP sustainability line, explains the challenges of regulatory reporting and what AI-infused tools can do to automate the process.
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27 May 2025
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy
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27 May 2025
Maturing UK fintechs increase tech and cyber security hiring
Increased hiring reflects that fintechs are maturing and now require more cyber security and compliance experts
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27 May 2025
US makes fresh indictments over DanaBot, Qakbot malwares
US charges the operators of two malwares, DanaBot and Qakbot, whose actions led to millions of dollars worth of cyber theft and fraud
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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
Armed forces charity steps in to address cyber mental health crisis
CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals
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27 May 2025
Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic
The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience
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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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27 May 2025
Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane
In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers
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27 May 2025
Security growth buoys Westcon-Comstor
Distributor shares full-year results that underline the benefits of operating in security, networking and cloud
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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
Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory
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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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23 May 2025
Labour puts Humphrey AI to work for council admin
A tool built on the government’s Humphrey AI toolset is being piloted by 25 councils to take notes during meetings
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23 May 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Kiteworks, CrowdStrike, Exertis, e92plus, Climb Channel Solutions UK, Pulsant and Westcon-Comstor
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23 May 2025
HP’s UK&I managing director stresses importance of partner dialogue
The recently appointed country manager shares her views on the importance of maintaining close links with the channel
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23 May 2025
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
Southeast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals
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22 May 2025
U.S. policy moves reflect big tech issues with state AI laws
House Republicans proposed a 10-year moratorium on state AI rules, reflecting a concern among tech companies about the growing patchwork of state AI and data privacy measures.
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22 May 2025
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization roadmap chases VMware
Red Hat touted big converts to OpenShift Virtualization during Summit, but it's still working to add resiliency features VMware has had for more than a decade.
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22 May 2025
Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware
Microsoft, along with a consortium of partners, has seized and disrupted a significant part of the Lumma malware-as-a-service network used to steal data and funds
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22 May 2025
DSIT makes £5.5m of funding available to new projects
The government is focusing on easing the regulatory burden that can often hamper the introduction of innovative technologies in the public sector
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22 May 2025
Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM
Industry-specific large language models could improve customer services, strengthen security and support regulatory compliance
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22 May 2025
TXP offers a fresh name in the mid-market
Rebranded group that includes two channel firms will provide digital transformation services from the West Midlands across the UK
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22 May 2025
Former ICAEW operations chief heads up BCS
BCS CEO Sharon Gunn wants to open up membership to broadest range of people to promote professional and ethical practices
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22 May 2025
Lack of practical learning bad for STEM careers
A lack of hands-on learning could prevent children from being interested in science and tech careers in the future
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22 May 2025
HMRC begins escape from Fujitsu’s grip through £500m contract
HMRC looking for a supplier to support its planned exit from three Fujitsu datacentre contracts
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22 May 2025
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt
Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades
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22 May 2025
Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI
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21 May 2025
Red Hat, HashiCorp reveal Ansible, Terraform and Vault plans
Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp reps filled in the blanks about how infrastructure automation tools will more deeply integrate, news welcomed by financial services customers.
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21 May 2025
State AI law moratorium shapes congressional debate
While some policymakers argue that protecting consumers from AI-related harms means regulation, others say existing rules offer sufficient protection.
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21 May 2025
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July
M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks
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21 May 2025
NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations
The NCSC and its partner agencies have blown the whistle on an extensive campaign of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by the Russian state Fancy Bear operation
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21 May 2025
Crayon Q1 hit by underperforming Nordics
Channel player Crayon shares first-quarter numbers that show a decent performance across Europe, APAC and the US, but softer conditions in the firm’s home markets
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21 May 2025
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The IT chief of one of the world's biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right - and he's building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users
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21 May 2025
Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal
HM Revenue & Customs described as a UK ‘cash cow’ for the Japanese IT giant at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Capital One pushes out data tokenisation
Organisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data
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21 May 2025
Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One
Leading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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21 May 2025
Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month
Reported ransomware attacks eased off during April following a dramatic spike in the first quarter of 2025
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21 May 2025
Strong fintech security posture at risk via third-party weak links
Despite having a strong security posture, the financial technology sector could be open to attack via third parties
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20 May 2025
Court to weigh divestiture in Google ad tech antitrust case
Forcing Google to divest assets in the DOJ's advertising market antitrust case against it will present a challenging issue to the court during the upcoming remedies trial.
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20 May 2025
Early-stage tech companies comb through data, software code
Software startups participating in the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium's Innovation Showcase take on the challenge of picking out the key signals from vast amounts of data.
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20 May 2025
Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems