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18 Jun 2025
Nokia, Telstra team for network API development
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider partners with Australia’s leading telco to give developers access to network APIs to create enterprise applications, including managing network traffic during large events and prioritising connectivity for critical services
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18 Jun 2025
Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour
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18 Jun 2025
Traditional fake news detection fails against AI-generated content
By Kim LoohuisAs generative AI produces increasingly convincing text, Dutch researchers are exploring how linguistic cues, model bias, and transparency tools can help detect fake news.
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26 Feb 2025
IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers
By Karl FlindersTech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers
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26 Feb 2025
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes
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25 Feb 2025
Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience
By Aaron TanNew advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats
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25 Feb 2025
Government launches Digital Inclusion Action Plan
By Lis EvenstadWhitehall aims to fix digital exclusion through funding local digital skills, as charities and industry pledge to help with skills training, devices and connectivity
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25 Feb 2025
New Relic takes partnership tack for agentic AI
By Beth PariseauNew Relic users say its collaborative approach to agentic AI, revamped AIOps tools and pricing model will make it easier to explore fresh forms of automation.
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25 Feb 2025
Calls continue for public sector procurement to open wider to SMEs
By Simon QuickeOpen letter adds to recent NAO report in drawing attention to risks of focusing on cosy relationships and low costs rather than value
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25 Feb 2025
Davies gets CEO role at Maintel
By Simon QuickeAfter a year holding the position on an interim basis, the managed service provider has confirmed Dan Davies will continue navigating the business through its transformation strategy
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25 Feb 2025
Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope
By Cliff SaranWhile there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems
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24 Feb 2025
Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities
By Aaron TanThe acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients
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24 Feb 2025
Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract
By Karl FlindersUK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform
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24 Feb 2025
European Union calls for more cyber data-sharing with Nato
By Alex ScroxtonUpdates to the EU’s Cyber Blueprint, establishing best practice for multilateral security incident response in Europe, include calls for more collaboration with Nato member states, as the geopolitical environment becomes ever more fractious
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24 Feb 2025
HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates
By Karl FlindersA communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’
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24 Feb 2025
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
By Aaron TanChinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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23 Feb 2025
Check Point co-founder on AI, quantum and independence
By Aaron TanGil Shwed, Check Point’s co-founder and executive chairman, discusses the company’s focus on artificial intelligence-driven security and his commitment to remaining an independent force in the cyber security market
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21 Feb 2025
IRA fate will affect U.S. renewable energy projects
By Makenzie HollandCompanies have invested in renewable energy projects from solar to geothermal. The Trump administration's focus on oil and gas could slow renewable energy research and advancement.
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21 Feb 2025
Understanding intersectionality: Inclusion and employees’ whole life experience
By Clare McDonaldWhile businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences
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21 Feb 2025
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAmnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities
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21 Feb 2025
A landscape forever altered? The LockBit takedown one year on
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCA-led takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang in February 2024 heralded a transformative year in the fight against cyber crime. One year on, we look back at Operation Cronos and its impact
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21 Feb 2025
Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025
By Karl FlindersControversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’
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20 Feb 2025
Zero-CVE Chainguard Images gain customization option
By Beth PariseauChainguard opens its container image builder factory to let users mix and match hardened container components while preserving a zero-vulnerability SLA.
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20 Feb 2025
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
By Cliff SaranNvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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20 Feb 2025
Watchdog approves Sellafield physical security, but warns about cyber
By Brian McKennaThe Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken Sellafield out of special measures for physical security, but harbours cyber security concerns
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20 Feb 2025
Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle
By Cliff SaranIt has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially
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20 Feb 2025
How organisations can secure AI agents
By Aaron TanDan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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19 Feb 2025
CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan
By Karl FlindersSpanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan
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19 Feb 2025
Kaseya boss looks back on his time at the helm
By Simon QuickeAs he moves into a vice-chairman position, the boss at the managed service provider tools specialist reviews the progress made under his leadership
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19 Feb 2025
ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity
By Cliff SaranMeta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap
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19 Feb 2025
European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties
By Karl FlindersAfrica is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities
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19 Feb 2025
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger
By Bill GoodwinRussia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk
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18 Feb 2025
Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities
By Aaron TanThe Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption
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18 Feb 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments
By Cliff SaranThe availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story
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18 Feb 2025
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre
By Caroline DonnellyConstruction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea
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18 Feb 2025
Cyber Monitoring Centre develops hurricane scale to count cost of cyber attacks
By Bill GoodwinA non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1 to 5 scale borrowed from hurricane classification
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18 Feb 2025
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
By Karl FlindersMeta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents
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18 Feb 2025
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
By Antony AdsheadAutodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
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18 Feb 2025
CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security
By Aaron TanAt CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities
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17 Feb 2025
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery
By Karl FlindersFintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years
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17 Feb 2025
The Security Interviews: Yevgeny Dibrov, Armis
By Alex ScroxtonArmis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov talks about how his military service and intelligence work opened the door into the world of cyber security entrepreneurship
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17 Feb 2025
Liverpool reinvents customer service through digital platform
By Lis EvenstadLiverpool City Council wants to improve residents’ experience of dealing with the council, and sees digital technologies as key to achieving its goal
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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
NHS launches breast cancer AI trial
By Lis EvenstadThe trial will see 700,000 women taking part in artificial intelligence-based screening for breast cancer, looking at whether use of technology can help identify signs of cancer earlier
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14 Feb 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeGeographic expansion, partner programmes, fresh warehouses and attempts to increase trust levels in artificial intelligence have all been happening over the past few days
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14 Feb 2025
Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
By Alex ScroxtonOnly 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner
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14 Feb 2025
Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing
By Karl FlindersGovernment announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change
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14 Feb 2025
Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia
By Aaron TanDoug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI
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14 Feb 2025
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
By Bill GoodwinSome of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data
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13 Feb 2025
Users eye LaunchDarkly experiments boost with Houseware buy
By Beth PariseauLaunchDarkly customers envision fresh opportunities for app development and business alignment with a new data warehouse option on the back end.
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13 Feb 2025
Aggressive deregulation creates risky business environment
By Makenzie HollandThrough DOGE, President Donald Trump is cutting work and funding to federal agencies to overhaul business rules and regulations in the U.S.
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
By Beth PariseauBusiness observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it.
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13 Feb 2025
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
By Duncan CampbellUS administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
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13 Feb 2025
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins
By Cliff SaranTrump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
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13 Feb 2025
Advania UK unveils unified leadership team
By Simon QuickeTo integrate its recent acquisitions, Microsoft partner Advania UK has established a structure to oversee all operations
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13 Feb 2025
Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa
By Karl FlindersLithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills
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13 Feb 2025
Insight lists AI, security and 5G among channel opportunities
By Simon QuickeChannel player Insight is the latest to share its view of which trends are worth getting involved with this year
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13 Feb 2025
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage
By Cliff SaranThe launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University
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12 Feb 2025
Docker Inc. CEO swap has analysts anticipating a sale
By Beth PariseauIndustry watchers see the takeover by a former Oracle exec as the precursor to merging with a broader software development portfolio at a larger company.
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonSustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
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12 Feb 2025
AvePoint increases MSP support as Acronis warns they are targets
By Simon QuickeManaged service providers set to benefit from improvement to vendor’s platform at a time when criminals have them firmly in their sights
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12 Feb 2025
Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending
By Cliff SaranDespite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets
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12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
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12 Feb 2025
MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth
By Aaron TanMongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges
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12 Feb 2025
Crayon looking for public sector growth
By Simon QuickeAhead of its tie-up with SoftwareOne, the firm’s CEO outlined its fourth quarter performance and touched on her hopes for 2025
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12 Feb 2025
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement
By Karl FlindersStatutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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12 Feb 2025
AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?
By Antony AdsheadThought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society
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12 Feb 2025
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore
By Aaron TanAmazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption
By Alex ScroxtonAt Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
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12 Feb 2025
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace
By Alex ScroxtonAt its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
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11 Feb 2025
Microsoft plugs two zero-days for February Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatThe company corrects active exploits in vulnerable Windows systems, one of which could give the attacker complete control if successful.
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11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
By Brian McKennaA report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
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11 Feb 2025
CEO testifies on federal agencies as lawmakers clash on Musk
By Makenzie HollandAxon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith testified that federal agencies like the FTC engage in regulatory overreach, and that their power should receive more oversight.
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11 Feb 2025
MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash
By Karl FlindersTreasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years
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11 Feb 2025
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal
By Karl FlindersFujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
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11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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11 Feb 2025
F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season
By Alex ScroxtonFor the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors
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11 Feb 2025
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
By Antony AdsheadOne-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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11 Feb 2025
Users looking to replace backup solutions
By Simon QuickeKaseya research reveals a portion of users are not only struggling with backup and recovery, but are considering switching technologies
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11 Feb 2025
Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI
By Cliff SaranThe market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI
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11 Feb 2025
AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs
By Lis EvenstadThe funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines
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11 Feb 2025
Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps
By Antony AdsheadThe kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society
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10 Feb 2025
Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab
By Duncan CampbellA hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK
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10 Feb 2025
DevSecOps platform tucks in API security as AI apps heat up
By Beth PariseauHarness merges with its sister company, Traceable, for API security, which has broadening appeal as organizations develop generative and agentic AI applications.
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10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
By Cliff SaranEarth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGoogle has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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10 Feb 2025
Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDrivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency
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09 Feb 2025
Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud
By Aaron TanPhilippine insurer implements a cloud-based health insurance policy management system from DXC Technology to reduce policy issuance times and speed up product launches
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09 Feb 2025
Government opens up bidding for AI growth zones
By Cliff SaranAs part of its AI opportunities action plan, the government is encouraging local authorities to put in bids for AI growth zones
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09 Feb 2025
HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems
By Lis EvenstadBeyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world
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07 Feb 2025
Tech companies brace after UK demands backdoor access to Apple cloud
By Bill GoodwinThe UK has served a notice on Apple demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service
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07 Feb 2025
US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool
By Alex ScroxtonUS politicians have introduced a bill seeking to ban the use of the DeepSeek AI tool on government-owned devices, citing national security concerns due to its alleged links to the Chinese state
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07 Feb 2025
Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024
By Alex ScroxtonSeveral factors, including the impact of law enforcement operations disrupting cyber criminal gangs and better preparedness among users, may be behind a significant drop in the total value of ransomware payments
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07 Feb 2025
Tech job postings dropped in 2024, according to research
By Clare McDonaldJob postings for several IT roles returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, dropping when compared with 2023
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06 Feb 2025
Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy
By Brian McKennaOne quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement
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06 Feb 2025
UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre begins incident classification work
By Alex ScroxtonThe Cyber Monitoring Centre will work to categorise major incidents against a newly developed scale to help organisations better understand the nature of systemic cyber attacks and learn from their impact
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06 Feb 2025
As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK
By Cliff SaranJames Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice
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06 Feb 2025
Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms
By Gerard O'DwyerSweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field
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05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
By Aaron TanNearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services
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05 Feb 2025
Dynatrace drops dev observability gauntlet for Datadog
By Beth PariseauDynatrace and Datadog both plan to ship live debugging tools as they vie for developer attention in the observability market.
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05 Feb 2025
Dynatrace ups AIOps ante with log analytics refresh
By Beth PariseauUpdates to Dynatrace CoPilot and log analytics for AIOps prompt users to dump other tools, but migrations can be a challenge.
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05 Feb 2025
Met Police spied on BBC journalists’ phone data for PSNI, MPs told
By Bill GoodwinThe Metropolitan Police monitored the phones of 16 BBC journalists on behalf of police in Northern Ireland, a cross-party group of MPs heard