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27 Feb 2026
News brief: Attackers gain speed in cybersecurity race
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team
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27 Feb 2026
Harness Artifact Registry strengthens supply chain governance
By Beth PariseauHarness makes its artifact registry generally available beyond early preview customers, with a security twist that could challenge established players such as JFrog.
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26 Feb 2026
ServiceNow touts AI governance for its Autonomous Workforce
By Beth PariseauAs an enterprise trust gap persists for autonomous AI agents, ServiceNow pledges strong platform controls for a new set of specialist agents, beginning with the L1 service desk.
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26 Aug 2025
Q&A: Simon West, Network Group
By Simon QuickeGeneral manager at managed service provider organisation outlines where things are going and how things have evolved over its 30 year history
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25 Aug 2025
Experts: Intel government stake won't fix long-term woes
By Beth PariseauA deal giving the U.S. federal government a 10% stake in Intel in exchange for funds won't necessarily ensure the company's ultimate survival, according to industry analysts.
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25 Aug 2025
DOJ targets state laws in latest inquiry
By Makenzie HollandIn another effort to further President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda, the DOJ is seeking public comment on state laws that burden U.S. businesses.
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25 Aug 2025
How to secure the identity perimeter and prepare for AI agents
By Stephen WithersPing Identity CEO Andre Durand explains why identity has become the critical security battleground, how decentralised credentials will reduce data breach risks, and why AI agents will need their own identities to be trusted
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25 Aug 2025
Ransomware attack volumes up nearly three times on 2024
By Alex ScroxtonDuring the first six months of 2025, the number of observed and tracked ransomware attacks far outpaced the volume seen in 2024
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21 Aug 2025
Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI
By Alex ScroxtonUS authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software
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21 Aug 2025
Scale of MoD Afghan data breaches widens dramatically
By Alex ScroxtonMany more data breaches at the MoD's Arap programme to relocate at-risk Afghan citizens to Britain have emerged following an FoI request by BBC journalists
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21 Aug 2025
Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw
By Alex ScroxtonLatest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users
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21 Aug 2025
U.S. could feel effects of EU AI Act as companies comply
By Makenzie HollandThe U.S. may be making a deregulatory push on AI, but the EU AI Act means large U.S. AI developers must comply with AI regulations that will affect their models regardless.
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21 Aug 2025
U.S. could feel effects of EU AI Act as companies comply
By Makenzie HollandThe U.S. may be making a deregulatory push on AI, but the EU AI Act means large U.S. AI developers must comply with AI regulations that will affect their models regardless.
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21 Aug 2025
Police investigation into Post Office scandal to cost more than £50m
By Karl FlindersMetropolitan Police-led investigation into Post Office scandal is expected to run to 2030 and cost taxpayers tens of millions of pounds
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21 Aug 2025
Subpostmaster federation accepted money from Fujitsu in run-up to High Court Post Office trial
By Karl FlindersThe National Federation of Subpostmasters accepted sponsorship money from Fujitsu in the run-up to a High Court case examining the IT firm’s faulty Post Office system
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21 Aug 2025
Judge throws out NHS whistleblower’s challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails
By Tommy GreeneAppeal tribunal dismisses doctor’s bid to quash decision that cleared London hospital trust of concealing evidence through attempted destruction of electronic documents during live court proceedings
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21 Aug 2025
UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial-recognition (LFR) technology use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully
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21 Aug 2025
Number of girls taking GCSE computer science drops amid fall in overall candidates
By Clare McDonaldThe number of students taking GCSE computing has fallen this year, with fewer girls and boys choosing the subject compared with 2024
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21 Aug 2025
Reserve Bank of India proposes framework for AI adoption in India’s finance sector
By Mastufa AhmedIndia’s central bank has proposed a framework to guide artificial intelligence adoption in the financial sector, along with recommendations to build shared infrastructure, implement safeguards and promote financial inclusion
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21 Aug 2025
Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank
By Karl FlindersRedwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet
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21 Aug 2025
Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub
By Aaron TanDell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore
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20 Aug 2025
Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft updates on its post-quantum cyber strategy as it continues integrating quantum-safe algorithms into some of the core foundations underpinning its products and services
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20 Aug 2025
Commvault users told to patch two RCE exploit chains
By Alex ScroxtonStorage firm Commvault fixes four vulnerabilities that, when combined, create a pair of RCE exploit chains that could be used to target on-premise customers with ransomware and other nasties
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20 Aug 2025
Warlock claims more victims as cyber attacks hit Colt and Orange
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gang Warlock is adding more victims to its data leak site as the impact of a spreading wave of cyber attacks continues to be felt
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20 Aug 2025
Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora
By Mark SamuelsThe jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure
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20 Aug 2025
Metropolitan Police contract with Fujitsu is ‘potential conflict of interest’ amid Post Office probe
By Karl FlindersFreedom of information request reveals sub-contract between Fujitsu and the police force leading nationwide investigation of the IT firm’s part in the Post Office scandal
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20 Aug 2025
UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant
By Cliff SaranAnalysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics
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20 Aug 2025
Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos
By Stephen WithersSnowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust
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20 Aug 2025
India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche
By Mastufa AhmedIndia is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark
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19 Aug 2025
Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite
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19 Aug 2025
Deepfake AI scammers target the Big Yin
By Alex ScroxtonCyber criminal scammers exploiting GenAI to create deepfake AI tools are targeting one of the UK’s most beloved comics, and one of its strongest accents
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19 Aug 2025
ISACA launches AI security management certification
By Alex ScroxtonISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential
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19 Aug 2025
Interview: Differentiating with AI in pet care
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Mars Pet Nutrition’s head of digital innovation about making artificial intelligence relevant across its brands to support pet health
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19 Aug 2025
US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘backdoor’ demands against Apple
By Bill GoodwinUS and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘backdoor’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advanced encryption services to UK users
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19 Aug 2025
Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training
By Aaron TanThe Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis
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18 Aug 2025
Workday hit in wave of social engineering attacks
By Alex ScroxtonA campaign of voice-based social engineering attacks targeting users of Salesforce’s services appears to have struck HR platform Workday
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18 Aug 2025
Extremist hacker who defaced websites and stole data imprisoned
By Alex ScroxtonHacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pled guilty to attacking multiple websites based on extremist political and religious ideology
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18 Aug 2025
L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons
By Alex ScroxtonL’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice
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18 Aug 2025
AI advances clear path to software development careers
By Cliff SaranProgramming skills are always in demand, but with artificial intelligence, people will have to adapt their approach to writing code
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18 Aug 2025
Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform
By Aaron TanDocusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts
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15 Aug 2025
Trump shifts U.S. competition policy
By Makenzie HollandWhile revoking former President Joe Biden's executive order on competition may make M&A more favorable for tech companies, it doesn't hand the industry a pass for future deals.
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15 Aug 2025
Warlock claims ransomware attack on network services firm Colt
By Alex ScroxtonUK network services firm Colt is attempting to recover various customer-facing systems following a cyber attack that has been claimed by the Warlock ransomware gang and may have arisen via a SharePoint flaw
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15 Aug 2025
UK cyber leaders feel impact of Trump cutbacks
By Alex ScroxtonThe ripple effects of US cyber security cutbacks have reached this side of the Atlantic, according to a report
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15 Aug 2025
US trade body calls on Washington to cut cyber red tape
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Information Technology Industry Council has called on the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director to cut burdensome regulations in areas such as AI and incident reporting, and to do more to build a unified security regime
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15 Aug 2025
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience
By Aaron TanZendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
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15 Aug 2025
Network assessments a key plank in MSP security efforts
By Simon QuickeIndustry figures call on the channel to get on top of their own networks to reduce vulnerabilities
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15 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at ANS, Node4, Cohesity, Phoenix Software, Dell and Chainguard
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15 Aug 2025
Whitehall IT projects face complex challenges, Nista report finds
By Lis EvenstadThe annual report from the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority gives major police IT project ‘red’ rating, while several others are rated ‘amber’, including Gov.uk One Login and Making Tax Digital
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15 Aug 2025
Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence
By Mark BallardUS-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech
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15 Aug 2025
India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push
By Mastufa AhmedThe government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy
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15 Aug 2025
Vodafone Greece automates deals for customers, saves 500 staff-days of work
By Bill GoodwinVodafone Greece hired an implementation partner for a business process management project while its own staff observed and learned how to use the technology
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15 Aug 2025
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
By Aaron TanThe South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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14 Aug 2025
What’s going on inside Intel?
By Cliff SaranChipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive
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14 Aug 2025
More girls take A-level computing despite overall dip in numbers
By Clare McDonaldWhile there was an overall dip in the number of people taking computing A-levels this year, the number of girls taking the subject is still on the up
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14 Aug 2025
SMEs yet to embrace cyber insurance
By Simon QuickeAlthough managed service providers are being told they need to work with the insurance industry, the message has yet to get to a vast number of customers
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13 Aug 2025
BlackSuit ransomware payment recovered in takedown operation
By Alex ScroxtonUS authorities reveal how over a million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency assets laundered by the BlackSuit ransomware gang were seized ahead of a July takedown operation
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13 Aug 2025
SonicWall backs MSPs with unified approach
By Simon QuickeThe security player launches a wave of products as JumpCloud’s latest market survey reveals the benefits of consolidating IT tools
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13 Aug 2025
Santander will make AI training mandatory for all staff in 2026
By Karl FlindersSpanish banking giant announces mandatory AI training for staff, and collaborates with OpenAI on a ‘data and AI-first transformation’
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13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersThe German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
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13 Aug 2025
Fujitsu orders staff to retain Post Office-related documentation as it braces for legal action
By Karl FlindersJapanese supplier tells all UK staff to preserve documents related to its work with the Post Office
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12 Aug 2025
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack
By Aaron TanThe Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
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12 Aug 2025
August Patch Tuesday addresses 107 vulnerabilities
By Tom WalatAdmins have no zero-days this month, but organizations that still rely on Exchange Server or SharePoint Server will have several serious flaws to resolve.
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12 Aug 2025
Eight critical RCE flaws make Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday list
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft rolls out fixes for over 100 CVEs in its August Patch Tuesday update
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12 Aug 2025
Researchers firm up ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider link
By Alex ScroxtonReliaQuest researchers present new evidence that firms up a potential link, or outright partnership, between the ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider cyber gangs
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12 Aug 2025
UK work visa sponsors are target of phishing campaign
By Alex ScroxtonMimecast identifies a phishing campaign targeting UK organisations that sponsor migrant workers and students, opening the door to account compromise and visa fraud
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12 Aug 2025
UK state-owned bank goes cloud-native
By Karl FlindersState-owned National Savings and Investments bank used contract renewal as an opportunity to keep pace with changes in the market
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12 Aug 2025
Norway fixing Big Bang e-health botch with fintech security
By Mark BallardExperts call for Europe’s health sector to protect medical APIs with security originated from UK open banking as officials take urgent measures against unprecedented attacks
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12 Aug 2025
Obituary: Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist
By Clare McDonaldDame Stephanie Shirley, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist known in the technology sector as Steve, has passed away
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12 Aug 2025
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
By Aaron TanKrutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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11 Aug 2025
Why Intel’s woes show the fragility of the European Chips Act
By Cliff SaranIntel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties
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11 Aug 2025
Aspire sets sights on £100m revenue
By Simon QuickeStrength of channel player’s 2024 fiscal year gives it the confidence to go for an ambitious growth target
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11 Aug 2025
McCullough Review into PSNI spying on journalists and lawyers delayed
By Bill GoodwinAngus McCullough KC is to present findings of an independent review of police spying on phone data of lawyers, journalists and NGOs in Northern Ireland in October
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11 Aug 2025
Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?
By Bill GoodwinDame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?
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08 Aug 2025
Intel CEO's potential China links a warning for U.S. companies
By Makenzie HollandPresident Donald Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign, another signal of the administration's heightened focus on competition and support of domestic manufacturing.
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08 Aug 2025
MSPs encouraged to tighten up security defences
By Simon QuickeFears of attacks that exploit VPN vulnerabilities and compromise networks has underlined the need for the channel to remain vigilant
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08 Aug 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Lenovo, Exertis Enterprise, Phoenix Software, NTT DATA and WatchGuard Technologies
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08 Aug 2025
Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware
By Cliff SaranWhen a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that
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08 Aug 2025
OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5
By Cliff SaranAs OpenAI’s latest large language model delivers smarter AI, experts are wary of the risks GPT-5 poses to human creativity
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08 Aug 2025
Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom
By Aaron TanAt its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform
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07 Aug 2025
Credit Karma leader shares AI governance lessons learned
By Beth PariseauStart slow and break things -- that's how the head of data and AI at the fintech says enterprises should start building AI governance frameworks.
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07 Aug 2025
Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters
By Mark SamuelsAs a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI
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07 Aug 2025
Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore
By Cliff SaranThe chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States
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07 Aug 2025
DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity
By Cliff SaranDeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream
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06 Aug 2025
Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand
By Cliff SaranForecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid
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06 Aug 2025
Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms
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06 Aug 2025
Cyber criminals would prefer businesses don’t use Okta
By Alex ScroxtonOkta details a phishing campaign in which the threat actor demonstrated some unusually strong opinions on what authentication methods they would like their targets to use
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06 Aug 2025
Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025
By Alex ScroxtonCompanies House plans to start vetting director identities from mid-November, but its reliance on the troubled One Login digital identity service may be cause for concern
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06 Aug 2025
NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework
By Alex ScroxtonUpdates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles
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06 Aug 2025
OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk
By Cliff SaranOpen models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models
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06 Aug 2025
Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft
By Aaron TanThe five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities
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06 Aug 2025
Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records
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06 Aug 2025
Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel
By Aaron TanThe Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom
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05 Aug 2025
How Australian firms are using graph databases
By Stephen WithersBanks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production
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05 Aug 2025
Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable
By Alex ScroxtonCisco Talos discloses five vulnerabilities in cyber security firmware used on Dell Latitude and Precision devices, including one that could enable an attacker to log on with a spring onion
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05 Aug 2025
Investing in diverse business could boost UK equity market
By Clare McDonaldIt’s difficult for female-led businesses to find investment, but if more funds were made available, it could boost UK equity, according to research
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05 Aug 2025
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security
By Aaron TanAlvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
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04 Aug 2025
Black Hat USA: Halcyon and Sophos tag-team ransomware fightback
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware experts Halcyon and Sophos are to pool their expertise in ransomware, working together to enhance data- and intelligence-sharing and bringing more comprehensive protection to customers
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04 Aug 2025
Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks
By Alex ScroxtonResearch finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams
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04 Aug 2025
Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2025
By Clare McDonaldTell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2025 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology
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04 Aug 2025
Advania integrates Servium and CCS Media
By Simon QuickeChannel player completes the process of bringing together its acquired businesses on time and is already reaping the benefits
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04 Aug 2025
Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector
By Aaron TanA partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures
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04 Aug 2025
Interview: How ITSM helps deliver results at McLaren Racing
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Dan Keyworth, director of business technology at McLaren Formula One Team, about how IT keeps the F1 team on track
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03 Aug 2025
NUS and Google team up on AI research centre
By Aaron TanThe National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state
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01 Aug 2025
Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s largest police force is massively expanding its use of live facial recognition technology as it prepares to lose 1,700 officers and staff