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14 Feb 2025
Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face
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14 Feb 2025
SailPoint IPO highlights importance of identity
By Simon QuickeSecurity player’s distributor views move as a moment that validates the market, as well as its involvement with the vendor
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14 Feb 2025
SAP data cloud, Databricks integration aims to unify AI data
By Jim O'DonnellSAP unveiled the Business Data Cloud platform and Databricks partnership to support customers in AI projects, which analysts bill as an important evolution of data management.
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12 Jun 2024
Barracuda: MSPs under pressure to support AI
By Simon QuickeFirm’s latest survey of the managed services market revealed the pressures many partners are facing as artificial intelligence continues to dominate customer conversations
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12 Jun 2024
CIO interview: Career progression and business alignment
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the CIO of law firm Kingsley Napley about his progression from PC support to IT leadership
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12 Jun 2024
Advania adds services muscle with Servium addition
By Simon QuickeAcquisition of Servium adds more customers and greater software, hardware and services depth to Advania offering
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12 Jun 2024
IT witness was hidden away from Post Office court battle, but supported it from shadows
By Karl FlindersFormer Fujitsu chief architect provided evidence support to Post Office witnesses in High Court battle despite being unfit to provide it directly
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11 Jun 2024
Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption
By Aaron TanTableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI
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11 Jun 2024
PSNI ran secret unit to monitor journalists’ and lawyers’ phones, claims former senior officer
By Bill GoodwinThe Police Service of Northern Ireland denies claims that its anti-corruption unit used a standalone computer to ‘avoid scrutiny and control’
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11 Jun 2024
Microsoft delivers 51 fixes for June Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatA critical remote-code execution flaw in Windows and a DoS vulnerability affecting DNS in Windows Server top the list of patching priorities for admins.
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11 Jun 2024
Pure Storage hit by Snowflake credential hackers
By Alex ScroxtonPure Storage emerges as the latest victim of a fast-spreading breach of Snowflake customers targeting users with lax credential security measures in place
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11 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies
By Bryan GlickThe Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government
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11 Jun 2024
More than 160 Snowflake customers hit in targeted data theft spree
By Alex ScroxtonMandiant reports that more than 160 Snowflake customers have been hit in a broad data theft and extortion campaign targeting organisations that have failed to pay proper attention to securing valuable credentials
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11 Jun 2024
Dynatrace expanding channel reach
By Simon QuickeFirm following strategy of working closely with strategic partners and developing channel-led segment to access more customers
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11 Jun 2024
Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI
By Cliff SaranAt its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware
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11 Jun 2024
Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE
By Yann SerraFrench nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades
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11 Jun 2024
CDO interview: Sophie Gallay, global data and client IT director, Etam
By Mark SamuelsThe French retailer has some catching up to do on its data strategy and digital transformation – and its new data chief has an ambitious roadmap to deliver on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence
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11 Jun 2024
FluidOne refinances to support growth ambitions
By Simon QuickeChannel player aims to treble the business in the next five years and reveals a fresh partnership to fund that ambition
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11 Jun 2024
Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems
By Kim LoohuisExpertise in complex Cobol systems, critical to major financial institutions, is dwindling in The Netherlands, resulting in retired professionals returning work
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11 Jun 2024
Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech
By Bryan GlickBritain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology
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10 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Liberal Democrats thread digital commitments throughout manifesto
By Bryan GlickThe Lib Dems have promised a new industrial strategy and emphasised the importance of the digital sector, skills and regulating AI, as they lay out plans for the UK general election
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10 Jun 2024
NHS blood stocks running low after ransomware attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe NHS is appealing for people with O Positive and O Negative blood types to come forward to donate as hospitals in London struggle to keep critical services running after ransomware attack
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10 Jun 2024
AI firms can’t be trusted to voluntarily share risk information
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWorkers at frontier AI firms have warned that their employers – including OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic – can’t be trusted to voluntarily share information about their systems capabilities and risks with governments or civil society
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10 Jun 2024
Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems
By Karl FlindersPost Office branch managers have told Computer Weekly they had no training on how to use Capture software, which pre-dated Horizon
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10 Jun 2024
Driving customer experience through cloud and AI
By Aaron TanAutodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience
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07 Jun 2024
Businesses face growing patchwork of state AI laws
By Makenzie HollandAs U.S. states like Colorado pass their own AI laws, businesses will need to prepare compliance measures if they do business in those states.
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07 Jun 2024
Northern Irish police used covert powers to monitor over 300 journalists
By Bill GoodwinPSNI publishes report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers, but Northern Ireland’s Policing Board says it does not give the assurances needed
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07 Jun 2024
DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections
By Alex ScroxtonRussian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process
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07 Jun 2024
Salesforce boosts London AI scene
By Cliff SaranSaaS pioneer Salesforce has chosen London as the location of its new AI centre, enabling users to test-drive and work on AI-driven business innovation
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07 Jun 2024
HP loses in US fraud case against Autonomy's Mike Lynch
By Cliff SaranAutonomy founder cleared of fraud in US trial, following on from HP's $5bn write-down after tts acquisition of the data discovery firm
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07 Jun 2024
Lemongrass increases SAP services
By Simon QuickeLemongrass launches more advisory services to help guide users keen to migrate to the cloud
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07 Jun 2024
eSIM set to be next mobile industry disruptor
By Joe O’HalloranEven though its current acceptance and take-up is low, embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) pinpointed by industry report to be the next industry disruptor, bringing about lasting changes to the way people connect with mobile providers and manage subscriptions
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07 Jun 2024
Bitdefender makes MDR services free to NHS bodies hit by Qilin
By Alex ScroxtonBitdefender offers NHS bodies affected by a major cyber incident free access to its product suite, as the health service continues to deal with the impact of the Qilin ransomware attack on partner Synnovis
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07 Jun 2024
Rapid AI development poses supervisory challenges in the Netherlands
By Kim LoohuisIn the Netherlands, the financial regulator and the monetary authority are grappling with the pace of artificial intelligence development and its implications for the financial industry
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07 Jun 2024
Cisco makes Splunk the center of observability
By Antone GonsalvesCisco is integrating Splunk, AppDynamics and ThousandEyes to create a critical differentiator in the observability market. Networking integration will come later.
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07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
By Mark BallardData initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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07 Jun 2024
Sophos uncovers Chinese state-sponsored campaign in Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanSophos found three distinct clusters of activity targeted at a high-level government organisation that appeared to be tied to Chinese interests in the South China Sea
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07 Jun 2024
Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersPost Office scandal inquiry hears how board member believed Fujitsu was exploiting the Post Office
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06 Jun 2024
Users note testing, analysis as disaster recovery best practices
By Paul CrocettiAdministrators at VeeamON 2024 emphasize testing, having a business impact analysis and gaining support from management as key disaster recovery guidance.
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06 Jun 2024
FBI finds 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in blow to criminal gang
By Alex ScroxtonThe US authorities say they now have more than 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in their possession and are urging victims of the prolific ransomware gang to come forward
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06 Jun 2024
Darktrace, Workbooks and Kyndryl cut ribbon on managed service options
By Simon QuickeReacting to continuing customer demand for technology and support to be delivered as a service three firms provide their latest offerings
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06 Jun 2024
Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next
By Cliff SaranAfter posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects
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06 Jun 2024
Are diamonds a quantum computer’s best friend?
By Cliff SaranThe UK report on quantum tech is out, revealing that synthetic diamonds could play a key role in establishing a niche for the UK quantum sector
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06 Jun 2024
Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document
By Karl FlindersCapture software was used by about 2,000 subpostmasters in the 1990s, with allegations that errors in the software caused account shortfalls
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06 Jun 2024
Slack lists drops, edging it ever closer to project management
By Don FluckingerSlack isn't a full-fledged project management platform. But new features help users organize, assign and track tasks as they would in more sophisticated clouds.
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05 Jun 2024
Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers
By Stephen WithersAustralian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery
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05 Jun 2024
Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act
By Karl FlindersAlmost immediately after joining the Post Office, Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about an imbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu
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05 Jun 2024
Executive interview: Richard Wazacz, CEO, Travelex
By Mark SamuelsThe data-savvy chief executive is rebuilding Travelex as an omnichannel, digital business after the company foundered during the pandemic
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05 Jun 2024
HPE takes $4.5bn in enterprise IT AI server orders
By Cliff SaranThe server company is prepping everything for greater enterprise artificial intelligence demand
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05 Jun 2024
ANS opens apprenticeship scheme to channel
By Simon QuickeFirm adds its apprenticeship academy to the range of benefits available for its indirect partners to tap into
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05 Jun 2024
Customer base for GreenLake expanded
By Simon QuickeHPE shares Q2 numbers with details of how its as-a-service and hybrid cloud offerings sold by partners have fared
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05 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang likely behind crippling NHS attack
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity experts investigating a major cyber attack on an NHS partner that has caused frontline services across South London to grind to a halt say the Qilin ransomware gang appears to be the culprit
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05 Jun 2024
Lack of upfront specifications kill agile projects
By Cliff SaranResearch shows there is a high chance of failure when a software development project begins without a specification being signed off
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05 Jun 2024
How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’
By Aaron TanDataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business
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05 Jun 2024
Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress
By Karl FlindersCampaigner says former subpostmasters may have to resort to legal action in pursuit of the money they are owed
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04 Jun 2024
OAIC files civil penalty action against Medibank
By Aaron TanThe OAIC alleges that Medibank failed to take reasonable steps to protect the personal information of 9.7 million Australians in the October 2022 data breach
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04 Jun 2024
Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWebsites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent
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04 Jun 2024
NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonA major cyber attack at NHS services provider Synnovis is disrupting frontline care at hospitals across London
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04 Jun 2024
Print channel continuing services shift
By Simon QuickeResearch from Quocirca highlights areas for potential growth and identifies challenges for channel firms in adapting to meet changing customer needs
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04 Jun 2024
Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team
By Karl FlindersFujitsu is reducing staffing levels at its UK Oracle Practice in a move cited as ensuring its competitiveness
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04 Jun 2024
Having female AI decision-makers is a priority for 37% of UK business leaders
By Clare McDonaldResearch from IBM reveals almost 40% of UK business leaders think getting women into decision-making positions is increasingly important in the era of artificial intelligence
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04 Jun 2024
Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI
By Yann SerraOne supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI
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04 Jun 2024
Russia used fake AI Tom Cruise in Olympic disinformation campaign
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft threat researchers report a surge in Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the 2024 Summer Olympics, including AI-enhanced propaganda
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04 Jun 2024
Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters were reassured by Post Office executives that the Horizon replacement project was satisfactory the day before Computer Weekly reported news to the contrary
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03 Jun 2024
Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers
By Bill GoodwinPNSI chief constable appoints lawyer to conduct review into police phone surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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03 Jun 2024
97 FTSE 100 firms exposed to supply chain breaches
By Alex ScroxtonBetween March 2023 and March 2024, 97 out of 100 companies on the UK’s FTSE 100 list were put at risk of compromise following supply chain breaches at third-party suppliers
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03 Jun 2024
Major breaches allegedly caused by unsecured Snowflake accounts
By Alex ScroxtonSignificant data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander appear to have been orchestrated through careful targeting of the victims’ Snowflake cloud data management accounts
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03 Jun 2024
Researchers demonstrate value of AI in predicting heart disease
By Cliff SaranA decade-long study using an AI-based risk score of 40,000 people has shown it’s possible to detect the level of inflammation of heart arteries
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03 Jun 2024
Dell launches PowerStore Prime and hints at PowerScale AI boost
By Yann SerraArray range launched at Dell World 2024 in Las Vegas as PowerScale gets OS upgrade and new Intel Xeon CPUs, while Dell CEO hints at acceleration for PowerScale NAS
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03 Jun 2024
AI Seoul Summit review
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDozens of governments and tech companies attending the second global AI Safety Summit have committed themselves to the safe and inclusive development of the technology, but questions remain around whether the commitments made go far enough
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03 Jun 2024
Uktech50 2024: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadUKtech50 received a record-breaking 434 nominations for the 2024 list. Unfortunately, there wasn’t space for everyone in the top 50, and as you can see for yourself in this year’s longlist, it was a difficult decision for the judges
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03 Jun 2024
AI partnerships forming to arm channel with technology options
By Simon QuickeIndustry reaction to growing interest in artificial intelligence is to enter into relationships that ensure the right technology and support is being offered to partners
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03 Jun 2024
How poor IT project management failed Birmingham Oracle implementation
By Cliff SaranBirmingham City Council’s Oracle system – the biggest of its kind in Europe – went live in April 2022, resulting in a catastrophic IT failure. We investigate
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03 Jun 2024
Sellafield local authority slammed over response to North Korean ransomware attack
By Tommy GreeneThe local authority for Europe’s biggest nuclear site has been slammed by auditors for its response to a North Korea-linked cyber attack that temporarily crippled its operations
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02 Jun 2024
Ticketek Australia hit by data breach
By Aaron TanCustomer names, dates of birth and email addresses of Ticketek Australia account holders reportedly impacted in latest data breach affecting event ticketing firm
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31 May 2024
Big tech invests billions in AI data centers globally
By Makenzie HollandPresident Joe Biden throws his support behind Microsoft to build an AI data center in Racine, Wis., as big tech companies invest in AI infrastructure to compete.
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31 May 2024
Fujitsu set for further £180m deal as Post Office Horizon replacement delayed
By Karl FlindersProblems with the Post Office project to replace its controversial Horizon IT system mean Fujitsu is set to receive up to £180m more in taxpayers' cash to support the system for another five years
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31 May 2024
Skills shortages exposing MSPs to security risks
By Simon QuickeFindings from Sophos research indicates that managed servicer providers are struggling to keep on top of industry developments
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31 May 2024
Law student ‘unfairly disciplined’ after reporting data breach blunder
By Tommy GreeneA law student has accused a leading legal college of unethical behaviour and a “lack of integrity” after it brought misconduct proceedings against him when he reported a data security blunder
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31 May 2024
IBM, AI Singapore to bolster Sea-Lion LLM
By Aaron TanIBM will work with AI Singapore on technical exchanges to enhance Sea-Lion and make the region’s first LLM available to data scientists and engineers through its AI use case library
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30 May 2024
Dell exec looks back at history when considering AI's future
By Adam ArmstrongIn this Q&A, Dell's Matt Baker lays out how its AI Factory is designed for faster AI adoption, why there are so many chatbots and how AI might affect the workforce of the future.
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30 May 2024
Post Office Horizon replacement project labelled 'unachievable' as taxpayer bill reaches £1bn
By Bryan GlickThe project to replace the Horizon IT system in Post Office branches is late, over budget and lacking quality – and government auditors sent in to assess a request for £1bn funding say it is currently unachievable
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30 May 2024
Europol sting operation smokes multiple botnets
By Alex ScroxtonMalware droppers including Bumblebee and Smokeloader were among those targeted in one of the largest ever joint operations against cyber criminal botnets
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30 May 2024
The challenges of supporting Copilot+ PCs in the enterprise
By Cliff SaranWindows PCs generally use x86 compatible hardware, with Intel or AMD processors. Microsoft is now propelling Windows on Arm for AI
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30 May 2024
FWD teams up with AWS on cloud
By Aaron TanThe pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services
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29 May 2024
JFrog-GitHub partnership eyes software supply chain security
By Nicole LaskowskiJFrog and GitHub released a set of focused integrations that provide better visibility across the software supply chain and advance the idea of 'EveryOps.'
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29 May 2024
Storebrand divests from IBM over supply of biometrics to Israel
By Andrew KersleyNorwegian asset manager Storebrand’s decision to divest from IBM comes amid growing scrutiny of the role technology companies play in Israel’s human rights abuses
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29 May 2024
Proofpoint exposes AFF scammers’ piano gambit
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware and nation state actors dominate the headlines, but fraud and scams still net career cyber criminals thousands from unsuspecting members of the public. Proofpoint reports on a campaign targeting victims of a musical inclination
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29 May 2024
Organisations value digital trust, but aren’t working at it
By Alex ScroxtonThree quarters of organisations believe digital trust is relevant to their businesses, yet clear gaps in strategies still seem to persist
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29 May 2024
Survey reveals generative AI employee fear
By Cliff SaranIBM/Oxford Economics global CEO survey shows generative AI success relies on employee training and business leader vision
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29 May 2024
Next UK government must be prepared to legislate on AI, say MPs
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe House Science, Innovation and Technology Committee says the next government should be ready to legislate on artificial intelligence to plug any regulatory gaps
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29 May 2024
How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves
By Stephen WithersLarge organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy
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29 May 2024
Interview: EU data chief Ulrich Ahle on obstacles to Europe’s digital single market
By Mark BallardEU data scheme Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into Europe’s planned digital single market as opposition mounts to efforts to extend the reach of Europe’s vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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28 May 2024
Executive Interview: Why Dell wants to be your one-stop AI shop
By Alex ScroxtonAt Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was the talk of the town as Dell staked out an all-encompassing strategy ahead of an anticipated goldrush. Dell’s Nick Brackney explains why the tech giant believes it's onto a winner
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28 May 2024
Why reliable data is essential for trustworthy AI
By Stephen PritchardIn little over two years, generative AI has changed the shape of the technology industry. Now is the time for proper due diligence
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28 May 2024
Westcon-Comstor continuing shift to software, services and subscriptions
By Simon QuickeDistributor Westcon-Comstor shares full-year results that underline the direction of travel and the benefits of a data-driven approach
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28 May 2024
Government appoints investigators to analyse Post Office Capture software used before Horizon
By Bryan GlickPC-based accounting software used by subpostmasters in the 1990s will be investigated by forensic specialist Kroll after reports that Post Office workers may have been wrongly prosecuted in the years before Horizon
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28 May 2024
Post Office scandal: Met Police investigation set to go national
By Bryan GlickThe police investigation into Post Office and Fujitsu executives is about to gain the status of a major national investigation – but it could be years before any individuals are charged with crimes or face trial
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26 May 2024
Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI
By Stephen WithersNutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments
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24 May 2024
Over 700 wrongful subpostmaster convictions overturned by new legislation
By Karl FlindersParliament has approved a law that will see hundreds of subpostmasters with wrongful convictions exonerated as one of the government’s final acts before the general election
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24 May 2024
Paula Vennells boasted about removing Horizon risk reference in Royal Mail flotation prospectus
By Karl FlindersA reference to Horizon was removed from Royal Mail prospectus by Paula Vennells in the eleventh hour
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24 May 2024
Kaseya: MSPs benefiting from supporting and using AI
By Simon QuickeVendor’s chief product officer shares thoughts around the current position MSPs and customers have around the emerging technology
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24 May 2024
HMRC boosts data scientist numbers
By Steve RangerData scientists play a key role in boosting tax compliance rates, government tax collection agency states