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30 Apr 2025
Government bags 200 bids from local authorities wanting AI growth zones in their areas
By Caroline DonnellyThe government has received 200 expressions of interest in response to its AI growth zones application push, and is now seeking to progress some bids
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29 Apr 2025
Scattered Spider on the hook for M&S cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe infamous Scattered Spider hacking collective may have been behind the ongoing cyber attack on Marks and Spencer that has crippled systems at the retailer and left its ecommerce operation in disarray.
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29 Apr 2025
RSAC 2025: Cisco Debuts Latest AI Cybersecurity Innovations
In terms of innovation, Cisco says it's 'just getting warmed up.'
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10 Apr 2025
Investigative reporter files legal action over police surveillance and social media monitoring
By Cormac KehoeJournalist complains to Investigatory Powers Tribunal after Northern Irish police placed him under surveillance as he investigated their handling of a high-profile death
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09 Apr 2025
Trump puts stamp on CHIPS Act deals with new office
By Makenzie HollandPresident Donald Trump tasks a new U.S. Investment Accelerator office with managing the CHIPS Program Office and reducing businesses' regulatory burdens.
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09 Apr 2025
Exploited Windows zero-day addressed on April Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatMicrosoft delivers fixes for 121 vulnerabilities with 11 rated critical this month. Admins will have extra mitigation work to correct three flaws.
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09 Apr 2025
Atlassian Rovo pricing shifts amid industry AI struggles
By Beth PariseauAtlassian's Rovo, including revamped Search and a new automation Studio, will be built into its cloud products as enterprises grapple with getting AI into production.
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09 Apr 2025
US tariffs drive PC sales boost
By Cliff SaranIT buyers appear to have spent the past few months refreshing PCs in preparation for the new US tariffs
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09 Apr 2025
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro extends on-prem GenAI support
By Beth PariseauGoogle Gemini is the first proprietary frontier model that can be run on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud for privacy- and cost-conscious enterprises.
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09 Apr 2025
Post Office gets extra £136m towards tech transformation as clock ticks on Horizon
By Karl FlindersLatest handout means government has given the Post Office more than a quarter of a billion pounds in ‘further’ funding, with half destined to support its technology transformation
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08 Apr 2025
NCSC issues warning over Chinese Moonshine and BadBazaar spyware
By Alex ScroxtonTwo spyware variants are being used to target the mobile devices of persons of interest to Chinese intelligence, including individuals in the Taiwanese, Tibetan and Uyghur communities
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08 Apr 2025
AI agents raise stakes in identity and access management
By Beth PariseauIT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally.
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08 Apr 2025
Labour MPs launch digital ID campaign
By Lis EvenstadA large group of Labour MPs have called for the introduction of a digital ID system to crack down on illegal migration and benefits fraud
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08 Apr 2025
Spoofing vuln threatens security of WhatsApp Windows users
By Alex ScroxtonMeta has disclosed and patched a potentially dangerous spoofing flaw in WhatsApp for Windows that could have caused big problems for unwitting users
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08 Apr 2025
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
By Cliff SaranIBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities
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08 Apr 2025
Current funding models prevent health and social care integration, according to report
By Lis EvenstadWhitepaper by telecare provider Tunstall calls for government to develop a national strategy to resolve fragmentation between health and social care
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08 Apr 2025
What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?
By Cliff SaranMoore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price
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08 Apr 2025
Interview: Sarah Hawkins, CEO, National Family Mediation
By Lis EvenstadThe CEO of the not-for-profit talks to Computer Weekly about how the organisation has finally automated referrals, after years of being told it was impossible, and launching its own mediation app
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08 Apr 2025
Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
By Brian McKennaThe Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow
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08 Apr 2025
Over £18m stolen from Santander UK customers in first three months of year
By Karl FlindersBank’s latest quarterly report on scams said over £18m was stolen from its UK customers by scammers
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08 Apr 2025
UK authority’s search for answers over deleted Julian Assange emails comes too late to retrieve data
By Stefania MauriziThe Crown Prosecution Service has finally searched for information about the destruction of emails from the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer – but too late to retrieve data about the deleted documents
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07 Apr 2025
UK SMEs losing over £3bn a year to cyber incidents
By Alex ScroxtonA lack of access to technology, little to no staff training, and competing priorities are losing UK SMEs up to £3.4bn to cyber incidents every year
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07 Apr 2025
NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures
By Alex ScroxtonThe National Institute of Standards and Technology is deferring future updates to thousands of cyber vulnerabilities discovered prior to 2018 amid surging volumes of new submissions
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07 Apr 2025
Court rejects Home Office bid for blanket secrecy in hearings over Apple encryption case
By Bill GoodwinInvestigatory Powers Tribunal rejects Home Office arguments that identifying the ‘bare details’ of legal action by Apple would damage national security, leaving open possibility of future open court hearings
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07 Apr 2025
Fintech body calls on government for national anti-fraud centre
By Karl FlindersIndustry body says a national anti-fraud centre could be the vehicle required to effectively fight fraud through data sharing
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07 Apr 2025
Post Office can’t find evidence for over 1,000 Horizon scandal redress claimants
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office has no evidence of errors for more than 1,000 subpostmasters applying for compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
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07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
By Cliff SaranDeveloper overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
By Pratima HarigunaniIT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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04 Apr 2025
Norway and Nordic financial sector ramps up cyber security
By Gerard O'DwyerFinans Norge sets up cyber security unit CTSU to support the finance sector in Norway amid increasing threats
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04 Apr 2025
Qualys exposes cloud and SaaS risks
By Simon QuickeChannel opportunity to help customers struggling to manage their cloud and hosted environments
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04 Apr 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeFind out what developments there have been this week at SentinelOne, Softcat, TD Synnex, Bugcrowd, Hornetsecurity, Unframe and Climb
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04 Apr 2025
Banks to share fraud data with tech firms in cross-sector collaboration
By Karl FlindersUK banks join tech firms in fraud data-sharing initiative to enable collaboration on action to stop online scams
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04 Apr 2025
UN warns of economic productivity crash due to AI job losses
By Cliff SaranArtificial intelligence can improve productivity, but a report from the United Nations warns of potential job losses disrupting economies
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04 Apr 2025
Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses
By Cliff SaranOn 4 April 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed Microsoft, a company that defined the PC era and opened up computing for all
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03 Apr 2025
Trump aims to consolidate federal IT contracts
By Makenzie HollandMoving billions of dollars' worth of contracts into the General Services Administration could create workload challenges as the federal agency navigates staffing cuts.
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03 Apr 2025
Channel reacts to government move to strengthen MSP security
By Simon QuickeThe government’s recent policy statement around the Security and Resilience Bill will have implications on hundreds of managed service providers
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03 Apr 2025
Danish supercomputer to drive innovation
By Gerard O'DwyerSupercomputer project will add a competitive edge to drive innovation and growth among Denmark’s enterprises and research organisations
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03 Apr 2025
Virtual reality enterprise journey a marathon, not a sprint
By Karl FlindersIT supplier is using virtual reality in not-for-profit projects that demonstrate its wider potential
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03 Apr 2025
Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?
By Aaron TanAs large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats
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02 Apr 2025
U.S. levies tariffs in onshoring bid, hiking tech costs
By Makenzie HollandNewly implemented tariffs mean businesses will face added costs and trade complexities as the Trump administration pushes for companies to manufacture onshore.
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02 Apr 2025
Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
By Beth PariseauThe Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.
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02 Apr 2025
UKtech50 2025 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT
By Lis EvenstadComputer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
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02 Apr 2025
MSPs remain targets for ransomware attacks
By Simon QuickeChannel advised to increase efforts to protect against cyber attacks as they continue to be in the sights of criminals
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02 Apr 2025
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonKnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade
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02 Apr 2025
Arrow rolls out AI accelerator programme
By Simon QuickeDistributor increases support for partners looking to develop skills and take advantage of artificial intelligence technology, as well as identifying where to pitch solutions to customers
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02 Apr 2025
Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool
By Joe O’HalloranTool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters
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02 Apr 2025
Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn
By Mark SamuelsThe professional social network’s product chief is leading the introduction of artificial intelligence for the firm’s in-house development processes and to enhance services for users
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02 Apr 2025
StarHub trials first 5G cloud RAN network in Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanSingapore telco trials cloud-based radio access network, unlocking new enterprise services and laying the groundwork for advanced 5G and 6G capabilities
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01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
By Cliff SaranPeople may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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01 Apr 2025
Gmail ‘bubble’ encryption may be an S/MIME killer, says Google
By Alex ScroxtonMarking the 21st anniversary of Gmail, Google is preparing to roll out an end-to-end encryption standard for its email service in hopes of democratising encryption and leaving old standards in the dust
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01 Apr 2025
Post Office Capture and Ecco+ users asked to make contact with Scottish statutory body
By Karl FlindersScottish statutory body attempting to contact people that might have been wrongly convicted of crimes based on the Post Office’s flawed systems
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01 Apr 2025
Interview: Ray McCann, Loan Charge independent review lead
By Caroline DonnellyFormer HMRC assistant director Ray McCann is leading the latest independent review into the UK government’s controversial Loan Charge policy, which has left thousands of IT contractors saddled with life-changing tax bills
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01 Apr 2025
Scottish support group for Post Office scandal victims launched
By Karl FlindersSupport group calls on former subpostmasters in Scotland who have been affected by Horizon errors to come forward
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01 Apr 2025
Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order
By Bill GoodwinHome Office refuses to answer questions from Lords over technical capability notice issued against Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection encryption services
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01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
By Aaron TanSingapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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31 Mar 2025
Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill
By Alex ScroxtonThe government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers
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31 Mar 2025
Understanding of ‘black box’ IT systems will reduce Post Office scandal-like risk
By Karl FlindersA Parliamentary committee has reported that leadership teams need to understand the ‘black box’ IT systems that underpin their organisations
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31 Mar 2025
T-Levels not attracting as many students as hoped
By Clare McDonaldA report from the National Audit Office has found that fewer students started T-Levels this year than previously predicted
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31 Mar 2025
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonComputer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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31 Mar 2025
CloudCoCo looks back on ‘pivotal’ year
By Simon QuickeFirm looking to the future after offloading its MSP business and bolstering its cash position
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28 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Logpoint, CrowdStrike, LevelBlue, IFT, Omnissa, Bitdefender and Techs + Together
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28 Mar 2025
Europe flat in TD Synnex Q1
By Simon QuickeDistributor TD Synnex shares results that indicate Europe did not match revenue growth seen in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Japan
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28 Mar 2025
Government sends data scientists to AI school
By Lis EvenstadPublic sector data scientists will learn how to become artificial intelligence (AI) engineers as part of government scheme to upskill civil servants
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27 Mar 2025
Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems
By Beth PariseauBluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.
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27 Mar 2025
UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMost of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes
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27 Mar 2025
Disappointment over lack of SME support in Spring Statement
By Simon QuickeIndustry figures react to the Spring Statement and express views on range of topics, including business support and digital infrastructure commitment
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27 Mar 2025
Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness
By Cliff SaranA 56-qubit trapped ion quantum computer from Quantinuum has demonstrated quantum supremacy as a random number generator
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27 Mar 2025
Experts question court’s rejection of former Post Office manager’s Horizon appeal
By Karl FlindersExperts on the use of computer evidence question why Court of Appeal rejected former Post Office branch manager’s appeal against conviction
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27 Mar 2025
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
By Aaron TanThe Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare
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26 Mar 2025
Advanced Software fined £3m over LockBit attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe ICO has issued a £3m fine to software provider Advanced in the wake of security failings that led to significant disruption to NHS customers in a ransomware attack
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26 Mar 2025
Congress weighs changes to regulatory agency CFPB
By Makenzie HollandCongress is taking a second look at federal agencies like the CFPB and considering reforms to ease regulatory and compliance burdens for businesses.
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26 Mar 2025
Site reliability engineers weigh MLOps vs. LLMOps
By Beth PariseauSome of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting machine learning apps in production carry over to generative AI apps, but not all.
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26 Mar 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
By Cliff SaranHMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement
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26 Mar 2025
Supply chains of critical industries vulnerable to cyber attack
By Simon QuickeCustomers advised to ask questions to make sure those they work with are aware of risks and have taken steps to fend off threats
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26 Mar 2025
More than 200 Lloyds bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training
By Karl FlindersLloyds banking group is running a six-month training programme with the aim of giving senior leadership AI skills
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26 Mar 2025
4 Day Week Foundation launches tech sector pilot
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK tech firms are being invited to join a pilot programme run by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which aims to help prepare them for implementing shorter working weeks
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26 Mar 2025
Deutsches Forschungsnetz accelerates research with green IP network
By Joe O’HalloranIP network upgrade designed to give German national research and education network enhanced access to critical resources and more efficient collaboration with interface speeds up to 800 Gbps, increased capacity and 75% reduced power consumption
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26 Mar 2025
Gigamon works with partners to cut through the noise
There are numerous observability options, but the pressure on customers is increasing and demand for vendors and partners to deliver a solid service has grown in importance
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26 Mar 2025
Military AI caught in tension between speed and control
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe use of artificial intelligence in military contexts can unlock a range of benefits for defence organisations, but also highlights a clear tension between speed and control baked into the technology
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26 Mar 2025
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
By Stephen WithersAt the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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25 Mar 2025
SREs map uncharted territory with LLMOps
By Beth PariseauGenerative AI apps upend longstanding reliability engineering principles, mindsets and skill sets -- how experts weather the disruption.
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25 Mar 2025
Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT
By Cliff SaranUnsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector
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25 Mar 2025
Government needs to fix tech staff hiring process, says Whitehall’s AI boss
By Lis EvenstadGiving evidence to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, tech experts highlighted the lack of clarity on data exchange, the need for the new Government Digital Service to execute, and a lack of actual tech experts
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25 Mar 2025
ETSI launches first post-quantum encryption standard
By Alex ScroxtonEuropean telco standards body launches its first post-quantum cryptography cyber standard, covering the security of critical data and communications
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25 Mar 2025
UK internet trade bodies issue best practice guidance for telecoms poles
By Joe O’HalloranTrade associations for providers of internet services in the UK offer guidance outlines that encourage a community-conscious approach to telecoms infrastructure deployment
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25 Mar 2025
Kroll reviewing Post Office Horizon’s current integrity and discrepancy identification
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office appoints third party to review Horizon following concerns about current version of the system
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25 Mar 2025
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIt is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation
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25 Mar 2025
MPs demand government reconsider response to Post Office compensation report
By Karl FlindersSelect committee calls on government to ‘reflect and revise’ response to Post Office scandal compensation scheme
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25 Mar 2025
Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s head of IT delivery, Keith Nolan, about how IT lowers costs and helps power stage innovations for world-class performances
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25 Mar 2025
Tech specialist files legal claim after being refused security clearance for MI6 role
By Bill GoodwinAn IT specialist has asked the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to investigate a series of hacking incidents after disclosing their social media accounts to MI6 vetting staff
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24 Mar 2025
Open source AI agent frameworks add enterprise ops polish
By Beth PariseauKagent and Dapr Agents offer connections to cloud-native infrastructure and microservices, taking differing stances on Microsoft's AutoGen.
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24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
By Antony AdsheadAs artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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24 Mar 2025
The Netherlands bets on brain-inspired computing for a greener future
By Kim LoohuisThe Netherlands is building a neuromorphic computing ecosystem, harnessing brain-inspired tech for unprecedented energy efficiency
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24 Mar 2025
‘Bankenstein’ and a cold calculation means banking crashes will continue
By Karl FlindersFollowing a three-day crash at Barclays, UK banks were forced to explain to MPs when, how and why digital services became unavailable over past two years
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24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
By Aaron TanMost Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
By Stephen WithersLow-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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21 Mar 2025
NCSC, DSIT enlist IBM to spearhead cyber diversity agenda
By Alex ScroxtonIBM signs on to a partnership deal in support of the popular NCSC CyberFirst Girls scheme designed to foster gender diversity in the cyber security profession
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21 Mar 2025
Dutch workforce faces radical transformation as AI adoption accelerates
By Kim LoohuisWhile the Netherlands leads Europe in AI adoption, a deeper analysis of the labour market reveals a more nuanced narrative than the apocalyptic predictions of job losses
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21 Mar 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at CMS Distribution, SoftwareOne, Dell, Integrity360, Evolve IP and Softcat
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20 Mar 2025
NCSC proposes three-step plan to move to quantum-safe encryption
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC urges service providers, large organisations and critical sectors to start thinking today about how they will migrate to post-quantum cryptography over the next decade
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20 Mar 2025
Government considering redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims
By Karl FlindersCampaign group brings together the children of subpostmasters to meet Post Office minister to discuss redress for their suffering
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20 Mar 2025
Ofcom outlines plans to take UK full-fibre roll-out into ‘final phase’
By Joe O’HalloranUK communications regulator sets out plans that will help full-fibre gigabit broadband reach almost all UK homes and businesses over the next two years