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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customer find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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08 May 2024
Panasas embraces software-defined storage, rebrands as Vdura
By Adam ArmstrongPanasas is now Vdura, a software-defined storage company that aims to make its cluster parallel file system work on a swath of storage media on premises and in the cloud.
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08 May 2024
New Arcserve CEO aims to rebuild trust with customers
By Tim McCarthyOutages, data loss and discontinued products have eroded trust in the Arcserve brand, but Arcserve's latest CEO, Chris Babel, wants to streamline its catalog and win back customers.
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22 Jun 2023
Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service
By Karl FlindersNHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system
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22 Jun 2023
NHS England hires internally to fill CIO role
By Cliff SaranThe merger of NHS England and NHS Digital resulted in job losses, which meant the new organisation needed to fill the role of IT chief
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22 Jun 2023
Lancaster University launches trailblazing cyber MBA
By Alex ScroxtonMBA programme at Lancaster University designed to deliver security leadership education to business leaders has received NCSC backing
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22 Jun 2023
Customers looking to MSPs to help consolidate security
By Simon QuickeThe channel is playing a role in helping managed service providers looking to deal with rising costs and a lack of skills
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22 Jun 2023
Manchester University students threatened by ransomware gang
By Alex ScroxtonStudents and staff members at the University of Manchester are being pressurised by an unnamed ransomware gang
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22 Jun 2023
UK pension scheme expands relationship with IT services giant TCS
By Karl FlindersTata Consultancy Services retains contract with UK pension scheme for another decade after extending a contract that was first signed in 2011
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22 Jun 2023
Lloyds Bank to open tech centre in India
By Karl FlindersUK bank taps into Hyderabad tech ecosystem by opening a tech centre focused on improving digital experiences for customers
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22 Jun 2023
How Vedanta is harnessing tech in aluminium production
By Pratima HarigunaniIndia’s largest aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is using industrial internet of things devices to improve emissions control and robotic process automation to improve efficiency, among other digitisation efforts
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21 Jun 2023
Kinaxis provides tool for sustainable supply chain
By Jim O'DonnellKinaxis debuted new applications designed to improve supply chain management, including sustainability reporting, planning and execution integration, and AI for demand sensing.
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21 Jun 2023
Retail companies gain DORA metrics ROI from specialist tools
By Beth PariseauDORA metrics and other measures of engineering efficiency are popping up in add-ons to existing DevOps tools. But third-party vendors added more value for Puma and Sensormatic.
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21 Jun 2023
CIO interview: Stuart Hughes, chief digital information officer, Rolls-Royce
By Mark SamuelsThe aerospace giant uses internet of things and sensor technology to create a personalised digital twin for the airlines that fly its engines, but the benefits of further data science and analytics could be even bigger
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21 Jun 2023
Nearly quarter of a million malicious websites reported and removed through NCSC service
By Karl FlindersA suspicious email and text message reporting service in the UK has directly led to a quarter of a million malicious websites being removed
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21 Jun 2023
Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023
By Karl FlindersBanks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed
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21 Jun 2023
Co-op Group adds nearshore engineering resources
By Karl FlindersManchester headquartered Co-op group adds additional engineering resources as competition for talent in the UK ramps up
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21 Jun 2023
The security interviews: Exploiting AI for good and for bad
By Cliff SaranThe chief product officer of AI security firm Darktrace explains how large language AI models are making it harder for people to spot email attacks
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21 Jun 2023
Belgian researchers build energy-efficient AI frameworks
By Pat BransResearchers in Belgium are working on a new generation of platforms to support artificial intelligence applications in an energy-efficient manner
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21 Jun 2023
CDO interview: Mary O’Callaghan, director of technology engagement, British Heart Foundation
By Mark SamuelsImplementing a new data strategy sits at the heart of the charity’s digital transformation as it looks to build on its status as the UK’s largest charity retailer and the highest-grossing charity on eBay globally
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20 Jun 2023
Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia
By Aaron TanOver half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds
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20 Jun 2023
Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance
By Karl FlindersJapanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance
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20 Jun 2023
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’
By Brian McKennaBill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
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20 Jun 2023
Post Office will not oppose potential Horizon conviction appellants
By Karl FlindersPost Office CEO told MPs that the organisation is telling some subpostmasters it won't oppose them if they appeal
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20 Jun 2023
EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive
By Cliff SaranThe energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development
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20 Jun 2023
Exclusive Networks continues to add depth to its on-demand platform X-OD
By Simon QuickeExclusive Networks looks to increase the on-demand options available through its as a service proposition X-OD
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20 Jun 2023
More than 50% of care providers have adopted digital records
By Lis EvenstadThe adoption of digital social care records has reached more than 50%, but the sector still has a way to go to reach the government’s target of 80% by March 2024
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20 Jun 2023
Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce
By Lis EvenstadThe government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology
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20 Jun 2023
Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house
By Karl FlindersUnison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests
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19 Jun 2023
Avaya prioritizes slow migration from on-prem to the cloud
By Mary ReinesThe longtime contact center vendor aims to rebound from double bankruptcy by focusing on highly regulated customers' needs, such as continuity of some on-premises communications.
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19 Jun 2023
United Airlines clears CI/CD pipelines for takeoff
By Beth PariseauIn an industry heavily affected by pandemic disruptions, United Airlines brought in a new orchestration tool to navigate fluctuating software delivery requirements.
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19 Jun 2023
Huawei slams EU high-risk supplier claims as against principles of free trade
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech giant comes out swinging against being singled out by EC commissioner as having high-risk supplier status in 5G mobile infrastructures
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19 Jun 2023
Salvation Army’s trading arm sets sights on helping enterprises reuse their IT devices
By Caroline DonnellyTrading arm of Christian church charity The Salvation Army is expanding beyond textile recycling to help businesses reuse and recycle their e-waste
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19 Jun 2023
Supreme Court sidesteps Section 230 -- for now
By Makenzie HollandAlthough the Supreme Court's recent decisions in cases against Twitter and Google avoided ruling on Section 230, the issue will likely be in front of the justices again soon.
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19 Jun 2023
Prime minister Rishi Sunak faces pressure from banks to force tech firms to pay for online fraud
By Karl FlindersThe UK’s major banks have told the prime minister to force tech firms to do more to prevent fraud that the banks end up paying for
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19 Jun 2023
How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge
By Aaron TanFastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals
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19 Jun 2023
Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit
By Alex ScroxtonInvestigations into recent outages on Microsoft Azure and Outlook services have turned up evidence of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack
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19 Jun 2023
Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform
By Karl FlindersMiddle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company
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19 Jun 2023
Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options
By Antony AdsheadBackup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible
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19 Jun 2023
UK to contribute up to £25m to Ukraine cyber defences
By Alex ScroxtonPrime minister Rishi Sunak announces an expansion to the Ukraine Cyber Programme, with a cash boost of up to £25m over the next two years
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19 Jun 2023
Visa takeover means economic turmoil won’t slow Tink’s progress
By Karl FlindersTink is one of the pioneers of the open banking sector, and under Visa’s light-touch ownership is continuing to think like a startup
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19 Jun 2023
Dutch government puts up €123m to address shortage of ICT workers
By Kim LoohuisFinancial injection aimed at improving cooperation between vocational education and business in the Netherlands, and making the tech professions more attractive
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16 Jun 2023
Customers want MSPs to give more cloud analytics
By Simon QuickeWith many users finding the cloud is costing them more than they expected, the call for increased insights is becoming an emerging theme
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16 Jun 2023
Core to Cloud signals shift to MSP approach
By Simon QuickeSecurity player cuts the ribbon on its first services, makes a major hire to support the moves and indicates more plans are in the pipeline
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16 Jun 2023
Collaboration in finance sector develops prototype API for digital currency
By Karl FlindersThe Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England worked with private sector on central bank digital currency experiment
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16 Jun 2023
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS
By Karl FlindersBBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data
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16 Jun 2023
Latest ONS data shows that 10% of UK businesses plan to adopt AI
By Cliff SaranThe Office for National Statistics has found that UK adults are aware they have been using AI-based chatbots, and approximately one in six businesses are implementing AI applications
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16 Jun 2023
Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments
By Aaron TanLenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner
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15 Jun 2023
Server prices drop while cloud costs rise in PPI data
By John MooreThe U.S. government's latest inflation reading shows moderating hardware prices, which spiked in mid-2022. Cloud costs, however, have been moving in the opposite direction.
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15 Jun 2023
CISA SBOM standards efforts stymied by confusion, inertia
By Beth PariseauEfforts to establish SBOM standards and guidance have progressed, but unanswered questions persist -- including how the federal government plans to enforce its own requirements.
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15 Jun 2023
Metaverse hype stalls while VR, AR technology advances
By Makenzie HollandThe metaverse hype has died down, but new advancements in virtual reality technology like Apple's new headset are regenerating some interest.
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15 Jun 2023
Enterprise software price hikes risk derailing digital transformation
By Cliff SaranBuying software and cloud services for strategic initiatives is all very well as long as the price is stable. But costs are escalating, which is impacting value
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15 Jun 2023
Exploitation of Barracuda ESG appliances linked to Chinese spies
By Alex ScroxtonIntelligence from Mandiant links exploitation of a flaw in a subset of Barracuda ESG appliances to a previously untracked China-nexus threat actor
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15 Jun 2023
Technology secretary Chloe Smith announces £54m package for AI
By Lis EvenstadIn her speech at London Tech Week, Smith launched funding to support a series of AI initiatives, including creating a research and innovation ecosystem for trustworthy and responsible AI, and developing AI technologies to help the UK reach its net-zero targets
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15 Jun 2023
NCSC warns over ‘enduring’ LockBit threat
By Alex ScroxtonAlthough its activity volumes have been lower of late, LockBit is still a highly dangerous ransomware gang and is now the subject of a new international cyber advisory
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15 Jun 2023
Clop begins naming alleged MOVEit victims
By Alex ScroxtonClop uploaded details of 12 new victims to its dark web leak site late on 14 June, many of them likely linked to the ongoing MOVEit cyber attack
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15 Jun 2023
Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth
By Caroline DonnellyThe Climate Tech Supercluster has been launched to aid the growth and development of the green tech startup scene in university towns across the UK and Europe
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15 Jun 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030: Progress report
By Pat BransHalfway into its plan to give the country a makeover by 2030, Saudi Arabia’s emphasis on technology is starting to pay off
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15 Jun 2023
Department for Education plans to assess AI risk and benefits
By Cliff SaranThe department has begun a consultation looking at the role of generative artificial intelligence in education
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15 Jun 2023
AWS GetIT competition aims to encourage girls into tech
By Clare McDonaldWinners of this year’s GetIT competition, designed for introducing girls to the world of STEM, have been announced
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15 Jun 2023
NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050
By Aaron TanAustralia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
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14 Jun 2023
US won't follow in EU's footsteps with AI regulation
By Makenzie HollandWhile the European Union tries to get in front of how companies use AI by adopting regulatory measures, the U.S. could take a different tack -- litigation.
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14 Jun 2023
Global cooperation on tech standards is falling apart
By Makenzie HollandIncreasing cooperation between the U.S. and EU on global tech standards will enable rather than hurt competition with China, experts argue.
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14 Jun 2023
Ransomware-stricken Capita to run Action Fraud successor
By Alex ScroxtonA £50m deal to replace the Action Fraud service has been handed to PwC and Capita, which is facing investigations over its handling of customer data in a ransomware incident
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14 Jun 2023
HashiCorp Vault trims SaaS; Boundary hooks up Enterprise
By Beth PariseauHashiCorp Vault's appeal to a broader field of users gets a boost from a new entry-level cloud service, while a new Boundary Enterprise targets the high end of the market.
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14 Jun 2023
EU AI act passes a significant milestone
By Cliff SaranThe European Union’s AI Act will ban the use of artificial intelligence to profile people based on race or gender and prohibit use of biometric identification in public spaces
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14 Jun 2023
Smart meter value eroded by tech issues
By Cliff SaranThe smart meter roll-out, which is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the UK, is facing a number of long-term technical challenges
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14 Jun 2023
Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays
By Antony AdsheadFlash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre
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14 Jun 2023
No zero-days for June Patch Tuesday, but plenty to chew over
By Alex ScroxtonOn the face of it, Microsoft’s monthly round of updates is a lighter-than-usual load for security teams, with no zero-days in evidence, but there are still plenty of issues needing attention
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14 Jun 2023
TSB calls on Meta to intervene and protect users from fraud losses of £250m this year
By Karl FlindersTSB is the latest bank to demand more action from social media sector in helping to reduce online fraud
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14 Jun 2023
Clop’s MOVEit ransom deadline expires
By Alex ScroxtonA seven-day deadline set by Clop for victims of its latest attack to contact it to arrange payment passes today
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14 Jun 2023
Banks still investing heavily in legacy payments systems
By Karl FlindersBanks are missing out on additional revenues through payment services because they are stuck with inflexible legacy payments systems.
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14 Jun 2023
How an ML engineer cut his teeth in AI
By Pratima HarigunaniMachine learning engineer Saurabh Agarwal talks up his career journey in artificial intelligence and what it takes for one to succeed in the field
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14 Jun 2023
Cyber attacks against APAC commerce sector surpass 1.1 billion
By Aaron TanRetailers, hotels and travel-related organisations in the region saw over a billion cyber attacks last year amid the surge in e-commerce activity and online travel bookings
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14 Jun 2023
June Patch Tuesday settles two Exchange Server bugs
By Tom WalatMicrosoft's plans for upcoming security hardening in Kerberos and Netlogon protocols will have admins busy with testing over the next several weeks.
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13 Jun 2023
AWS shuffles DevSecOps deck with CodeGuru Security SAST
By Beth PariseauA new DevSecOps service links AWS security code scanning to third-party pipeline tools, potentially a shot at GitHub Copilot that increases overlap with AWS SAST partners.
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13 Jun 2023
Artificial intelligence creates 40,000 new roles at Accenture
By Karl FlindersAccenture is planning to add thousands of AI experts to its workforce as part of a $3bn investment in its data and artificial intelligence practice
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13 Jun 2023
Belgian bank leaps forward in digital transformation through core banking outsourcing deal
By Karl FlindersOnline bank moves to a software-as-a-service core banking platform to ‘leapfrog’ in-house development
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13 Jun 2023
Arnold Clark data leak victims prepare legal action
By Alex ScroxtonMore than 10,000 people who had their data stolen and leaked in a ransomware attack on the Arnold Clark car dealer network have signed up to a group legal action after facing elevated amounts of fraud
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13 Jun 2023
GoCardless cuts jobs and wants its ‘startup spirit’ back
By Karl FlindersPayments fintech unicorn GoCardless will cut its workforce in the UK as part of a 15% reduction in its global workforce
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13 Jun 2023
London Tech Week: Keir Starmer calls for AI job loss discussion
By Cliff SaranLabour leader sees a need for a broad regulatory framework and a frank discussion with business to inform policy around job losses arising from artificial intelligence
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13 Jun 2023
Delivery charges and slow payments have customers abandoning baskets
By Clare McDonaldCustomer expectation has been on the rise, both on and offline, and no-code automation firm Primer finds there are several reasons why consumers are choosing not to checkout
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13 Jun 2023
iomart signals M&A activity will continue
By Simon QuickeCloud player delivers full-year numbers and CEO comments on a strategy of making selective acquisitions
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13 Jun 2023
Delayed Making Tax Digital programme to cost taxpayers extra £1.5bn
By Lis EvenstadHM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Making Tax Digital programme, which is running several years behind schedule, is expected to cost five times more than planned, National Audit Office (NAO) report finds
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13 Jun 2023
RISC-V rises to software ecosystem challenge
By Cliff SaranThe open source hardware and software system on a chip specification has recognised the need to coordinate low-level software development
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13 Jun 2023
Umbrella market regulation: Government seeks contractor guidance on how to proceed
By Caroline DonnellyThe government has published the results of its long-awaited consultation into the inner workings of the umbrella market, and followed it up with another one that seems to suggest sector regulation is moving one step closer
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13 Jun 2023
(ISC)² and CIISec set out to make cyber language more inclusive
By Alex ScroxtonNewly published guide on appropriate use of language in cyber security aims to help make the profession more inclusive for all
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12 Jun 2023
Ada Lovelace Institute warns against Covid app reuse
By Cliff SaranThere are a number of lessons policy-makers should take away from the use of apps developed as part of the Covid-19 response
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12 Jun 2023
Ofcom data stolen in MOVEit cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonCommunications regulator Ofcom says data on employees and regulated communications companies was stolen by the Clop gang
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12 Jun 2023
Rishi Sunak calls for urgency in building out UK tech
By Cliff SaranThe UK prime minister used his speech during London Tech Week to discuss funding tech, attracting talent and AI safety
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12 Jun 2023
Annual spend on regtech to reach more than £200bn by 2028
By Karl FlindersGlobal corporates will spend over $200bn in 2028 as the technology is used to help organisations in more industries comply with complex regulations.
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12 Jun 2023
Progress Software releases patch for second MOVEit Transfer vulnerability
By Alex ScroxtonProgress Software releases a patch for a second MOVEit Transfer issue, which was uncovered by third-party security specialist Huntress Security during post-incident code scanning
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12 Jun 2023
How Dell is easing edge deployments
By Aaron TanDell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases
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09 Jun 2023
Extreme Networks emerges as victim of Clop MOVEit attack
By Alex ScroxtonNetwork equipment and services supplier Extreme Networks has revealed its instance of Progress Software’s MOVEit tool was compromised in the ongoing Clop cyber attack
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09 Jun 2023
UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration
By Cliff SaranJoe Biden and Rishi Sunak agree greater collaboration on responsible artificial intelligence, quantum computing and Open RAN
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09 Jun 2023
Barracuda ESG users told to throw away their hardware
By Alex ScroxtonOwners of Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances are being told that they will need to throw out and replace their kit after it emerged that a patch for a recently disclosed vulnerability had not done the job
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09 Jun 2023
UK and US move closer to transatlantic data bridge deal
By Alex ScroxtonThe British and American governments have committed, in principle, to a new data bridge agreement that will ease the free flow of personal data across the Atlantic
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09 Jun 2023
University of Manchester hit by cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe University of Manchester has been hit by a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature
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08 Jun 2023
U.S. doesn't need a new AI regulator, experts argue
By Makenzie HollandInstead of establishing a new AI regulator in the U.S., it's crucial for existing agencies to conduct a review and determine their existing capacity for handling AI-related cases.
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08 Jun 2023
CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has published a variety of case studies to show how different assurance techniques can build and maintain trust in artificial intelligence systems
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08 Jun 2023
Dell UK boss talks of channel benefits
By Simon QuickeThe recently appointed senior vice-president and general manager of Dell Technologies UK shares an update and discusses the major themes in the market
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08 Jun 2023
Sweden’s Ikano Bank outsources core banking to TCS
By Karl FlindersIkano Bank moves to cloud banking platform from Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services
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08 Jun 2023
Sysdig CNAPP runtime threat detection wins over BigCommerce
By Beth PariseauSysdig's fast, comprehensive data collection, now part of a larger CNAPP product, sealed the deal with the e-commerce company. Next, it might replace vulnerability management tools.