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27 Jun 2025
ACIP votes to remove thimerosal from flu vaccines
The CDC's newly restructured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) votes to recommend against flu vaccines containing thimerosal.
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26 Jun 2025
Vibe coding with AI sparks debate, reshapes developer jobs
The 'vibe coding' catchphrase shows that GenAI is transforming software developer jobs -- but just how much change is coming? It depends on who you ask.
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26 Jun 2025
Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited
While the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider.
IT Management News from the past 365 days
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27 Jun 2025
Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest
Days after news emerged of a new Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023's infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability.
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27 Jun 2025
Scattered Spider cyber gang turns fire on aviation sector
Multiple reports are emerging of cyber attacks on airlines – Google Cloud’s Mandiant believes them to be linked.
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27 Jun 2025
Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach
Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that over two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack.
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27 Jun 2025
Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence
We speak to Chris Loake, group CIO at Hiscox, about the roll-out of Microsoft Copilot and how to succeed with AI projects
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27 Jun 2025
MPs propose ban on predictive policing
MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems
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27 Jun 2025
UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS
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27 Jun 2025
Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made
The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come
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27 Jun 2025
Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit
Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the Armed Forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’
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26 Jun 2025
Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe
The national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise
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26 Jun 2025
Sky ECC distributor released from French custody pending trial
Canadian businessman accused of distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones has been released on bail after over four years in custody without a trial
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26 Jun 2025
British hacker IntelBroker faces years in a US prison cell
US authorities have unsealed charges against 25-year-old hacker Kai West, aka IntelBroker, accusing him of being behind multiple cyber attacks
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26 Jun 2025
Next phase of fintech reflected in strong financials, says World Economic Forum
Digital-powered finance firms might not be growing their customer base as fast as the immediate post-pandemic period, but revenue and profits are strong
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26 Jun 2025
Glasgow Council services remain offline a week after cyber attack
Disruption continues a week after core services at Glasgow City Council were forced offline following a cyber attack on a third-party IT services provider
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26 Jun 2025
Cyber insurers adding to MSP challenges
The prospect that some managed service providers could fall foul of the needs of the insurance industry is a concern raised by Canalys
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26 Jun 2025
Public sector spends £16.6bn directly with tech suppliers every year
Government and public sector bodies spent big on technology last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers, with 84% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell
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26 Jun 2025
UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years
A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community
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25 Jun 2025
Google settlement may affect DOJ antitrust remedies
Google faces numerous antitrust challenges and has agreed to spend $500 million revamping its regulatory compliance structure in a settlement with shareholders.
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25 Jun 2025
Latest Citrix vulnerability could be every bit as bad as Citrix Bleed
A Citrix NetScaler flaw that was quietly patched earlier in June is gathering widespread attention after experts noted strong similarities to the Citrix Bleed vulnerability that caused chaos in late 2023
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25 Jun 2025
Jitterbit expanding indirect business
Artificial intelligence and automation expert cuts ribbon on partner programme as it looks to generate more revenues via the channel
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25 Jun 2025
HPE arming partners with latest AI technology
Vendor keen to ensure its channel is up to speed on agentic AI as it unveils a number of product enhancements
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25 Jun 2025
Google touts free tier for multimodal AI terminal
Google intends to differentiate Gemini CLI with multimodal support, including video, and an expansive free tier for individual users.
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24 Jun 2025
Wrongly convicted subpostmasters may have to wait another year for redress
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the government has not done enough to contact all those who qualify for Post Office scandal compensation schemes
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24 Jun 2025
Trump wants to axe rules affecting business competition
As the FTC and DOJ work to assess what rules to cut, lawmakers disagree on how deregulation will affect U.S. markets.
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24 Jun 2025
UK ransomware costs significantly outpace other countries
UK organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid much higher ransoms than in other countries over the past 12 months, according to study
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24 Jun 2025
Zopa Bank launches current account earlier than expected
Zopa launches its UK current account, five years after reinventing itself as a challenger bank
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24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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24 Jun 2025
Westcon-Comstor marks 40th birthday with look ahead
Distributor outlines the main trends that are shaping the channel as it plans to share more insights to prepare partners for the future
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24 Jun 2025
One year since being freed, Julian Assange still a victim of state secrecy
If the State Department’s arguments prevail in FOIA litigation, the truth about US action against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks journalists will never be known
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24 Jun 2025
CMA consults on Google’s search dominance
The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on whether Google should be designated with strategic market status
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23 Jun 2025
Widening Middle Eastern war increases cyber risk
With the entry of the US into the widening Middle Eastern conflict, cyber risk is likely to increase across the board
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23 Jun 2025
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation
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23 Jun 2025
Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads
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23 Jun 2025
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process
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23 Jun 2025
Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops
Academics and civil liberties experts say that proposed ‘authoritarian’ powers to allow police to trawl online and cloud services used by owners of seized devices should require approval from a judge
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20 Jun 2025
Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily
The number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme
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20 Jun 2025
M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts
The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty
The Netherlands’ ambitious talk of digital independence meets the unforgiving economics of global cloud dominance
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20 Jun 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at AvePoint, Nebula Global Services, Pulsant, Skyhawk Security and HackerOne
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20 Jun 2025
Government hires chief data officer
Former MoD data chief, Lindsay Mason, has taken on the role of chief data officer in earl on a temporary basis while government recruits for a permanent position
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20 Jun 2025
SMEs embracing subscription model
Research from Uswitch.com highlights how small businesses are starting to take advantage of more services
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20 Jun 2025
Report on integrity of current Post Office Horizon system due in autumn
Investigation into the integrity and discrepancy identification capabilities of Post Office core system being carried out by independent specialists
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20 Jun 2025
Richer people look forward to cutting-edge tech to help save time
Research for Lloyds Banking Group has found high-paid workers are looking forward to tech like robotic vacuum cleaners, autonomous cars and drone deliveries
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20 Jun 2025
Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost
Seafood chain Red Lobster opted for Pure Storage as-a-service for rapid failover between datacentres. A fully cloud-based option was on the table, but would have been six times the cost
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19 Jun 2025
Inca warns of ‘unjustified’ Openreach prominence in comms review
Trade association for UK’s independent broadband providers urges regulator to ensure forthcoming legislation secures the future of infrastructure investment, fosters regulatory consistency and promotes a fair and competitive landscape
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19 Jun 2025
MSPs remain confident over security
Despite being inundated with attacks, the vast majority of managed service providers are upbeat about their abilities to fend off breaches
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19 Jun 2025
Interview: Tech innovation at Bet365
Alan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology platform, discusses the role of generative AI in tech innovation
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19 Jun 2025
Government announces details of Post Office Capture redress scheme
The government says it wants new scheme to take a ‘common sense’ approach to redress for former Capture users
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19 Jun 2025
UBS employee data leaked after cyber attack on supplier
UBS and fellow Swiss bank Pictet have been affected by a cyber attack on a procurement service provider
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18 Jun 2025
U.S. senators offer perspectives on U.S. energy policy
Nuclear energy dominates the discussion among lawmakers and the tech industry as a top potential power source for AI data centers, which consume large amounts of electricity.
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18 Jun 2025
Execs shy away from open models and open source AI
The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products
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18 Jun 2025
Traditional fake news detection fails against AI-generated content
As generative AI produces increasingly convincing text, Dutch researchers are exploring how linguistic cues, model bias, and transparency tools can help detect fake news.
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17 Jun 2025
Microsoft declares era of logical qubits
The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery
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17 Jun 2025
Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector
UK government says its cyber growth action plan will provide a large boost to Britain’s security industry as it sets out to create a roadmap for future growth
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17 Jun 2025
Scattered Spider widens web to target insurance sector
Following a series of high-profile attacks on prominent retailers and consumer brands, the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective appears to be expanding its targeting to the insurance sector
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17 Jun 2025
Big tech, UAE make U.S. energy investments to support AI
The Trump administration has pointed to key partnerships, including with the United Arab Emirates and U.S. tech companies, to bolster U.S. power needs to keep up with AI advances.
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17 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
IBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business
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17 Jun 2025
Patients to access clinical trials via NHS App
As government plans a £50m upgrade of the NHS App, people will be able to sign up to clinical trials that will match them to available studies
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17 Jun 2025
Integris seals largest deal yet to expand MSP offering
Channel player makes another acquisition to bolster business on the other side of the Atlantic as it continues to increase its offering for SME customers
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17 Jun 2025
UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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17 Jun 2025
Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption
Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data
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16 Jun 2025
Intelligence sharing key to cyber security in Europe, says EU Commission cyber expert
Cyber criminals choose not to attack Europe due to its resilience and preparedness, says the EU Commission’s principal advisor for cyber security coordination, Despina Spanou
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16 Jun 2025
CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows
Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions
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15 Jun 2025
Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot
The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications
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13 Jun 2025
Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman
Alibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future
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13 Jun 2025
Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative
The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities
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13 Jun 2025
Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER
When commercial AI meets the world’s most ambitious science experiment, nuclear fusion, surprising things start to happen
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13 Jun 2025
AI Summit London: Managing legacy IT and the pace of AI development
While there appears to be no stopping the progress of AI, businesses need to get a handle on technical debt and decide when to build or buy AI
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12 Jun 2025
Datadog AI agent observability, security seek to boost trust
As AI agents mature, new tools aim to bolster their reliability and security with fresh visibility into automation workflows and more detailed troubleshooting.
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12 Jun 2025
Policymakers assess nuclear energy for AI data centers
Big tech vendors are recognizing the energy demands of their AI services, causing them to make significant energy investments.
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12 Jun 2025
UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025
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12 Jun 2025
Tomlin outlines ambitions in Northern European role at Exclusive Networks
Exclusive Networks executive Rob Tomlin shares his thoughts after being given an extended leadership role at the security specialist distributor
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12 Jun 2025
Apple encryption row: Does law enforcement need to use Technical Capability Notices?
History shows that law enforcement can bring successful prosecutions without the need for the Home Office to introduce ‘backdoors’ into end-to-end encryption
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12 Jun 2025
France is committed to AI, says president Macron
The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’
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12 Jun 2025
Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up
Urgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund
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11 Jun 2025
AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation
At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges
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11 Jun 2025
Cisco Isovalent Load Balancer takes aim at Broadcom's VMware
The new product promises to simplify disparate network traffic across cloud, hybrid and on-premises workloads.
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11 Jun 2025
NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review
The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase
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11 Jun 2025
WhatsApp seeks to join Apple in legal challenge against Home Office encryption orders
WhatsApp today applied to intervene in an Investigatory Powers Tribunal case that is considering the UK’s ability to issue a technical capability notice on Apple to ‘weaken encryption’
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11 Jun 2025
DevOps pros eye Datadog developer portal for ITSM
DataDog advances onto Atlassian and ServiceNow's turf with a self-service developer portal that draws on real-time data about the observed state of IT resources.
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11 Jun 2025
Pax8 enhances AI support for MSPs
Marketplace player Pax8 uses Beyond 2025 event to unveil offerings designed to make life easier and more profitable for managed service providers
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11 Jun 2025
Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row
Senior conservative MP David Davis says the Home Office should disclose how many secret orders it has issued against telecoms and internet companies to Parliament
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11 Jun 2025
West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands
Calls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project
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11 Jun 2025
How breaking things builds resilient systems
To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems though chaos engineering practices
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11 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders
Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention
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11 Jun 2025
Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs
An APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy
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11 Jun 2025
London Tech Week: More funding, fellowships and skills
The government wants to make the UK the best place for tech and AI, opening pathways for global talent and venture capital funding
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10 Jun 2025
June Patch Tuesday resolves Windows zero-day
Microsoft fixes 66 bugs, including an actively exploited WebDAV remote-code execution flaw, but the BadSuccessor vulnerability remains unpatched.
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10 Jun 2025
U.S. will need policy to navigate EU rules
Protecting U.S. tech companies from the EU's regulatory regime will present a challenge to U.S. officials, who have pursued antitrust cases against big tech.
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10 Jun 2025
UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI
FCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence
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10 Jun 2025
Channel continues to deliver security training and support
Research and MSP training platforms from security players underline the position of partners to deliver threat awareness
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10 Jun 2025
UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri
Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology
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10 Jun 2025
Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era
Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference
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10 Jun 2025
Docusign rolls out fresh programme to arm partners with IAM answers
Agreement management specialist enhances channel offering in reaction to changing market dynamics
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10 Jun 2025
HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline
While victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government
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10 Jun 2025
IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing
Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time
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10 Jun 2025
Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation
From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
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10 Jun 2025
Third-party security weaknesses threaten Europe’s big banks
Security breaches via third parties increased by 25% at Europe’s largest finance firms
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09 Jun 2025
Labour commits £17.2m to support Spärck AI scholarships
The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence