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16 May 2025
News brief: Patch critical SAP, Samsung and chat app flaws now
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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16 May 2025
AWS intros Strands Agents SDK
Many developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy.
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16 May 2025
Study: Most healthcare data breaches caused by hacking
Healthcare data breaches have surged over the past 14 years, with hacking or IT incidents increasing from 4% of all breaches in 2010 to 81% in 2024, researchers observed.
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10 Feb 2025
Disparities remain as U.S. maternal mortality rate declines
Despite a drop in the overall maternal mortality rate, new CDC data showed continued Black maternal health disparities.
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10 Feb 2025
Trimble Cityworks zero-day flaw under attack, patch now
CVE-2025-0994 is a high-severity deserialization vulnerability that enables remote code execution in unpatched versions of Cityworks enterprise asset management software.
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10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
Earth 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
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this week at Westcon-Comstor, Infinity Group, Cato Networks, Nile, Calabrio, Scality and Gigamon
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10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google 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
Drivers 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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10 Feb 2025
UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s recently published guidance on supporting public sector bodies with adopting a multi-region cloud strategy is facing criticism
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10 Feb 2025
UK broadband majors, altnets accelerate gigabit in non-metro areas
Premises in Shropshire and Devon to gain access to gigabit services as part of £5bn government scheme and planned expansion by major comms provider
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09 Feb 2025
Allianz PNB Life modernises insurance operations with cloud
Philippine 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
As 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
Beyond £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
NetSuite adds more AI, introduces Anything-as-a-Service ERP
NetSuite's Anything-as-a-Service Edition ERP is aimed at SMBs with hybrid, next-generation business models, a move that could be useful for growing customers.
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07 Feb 2025
Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud
The UK has served a notice on Apple demanding back door access to encrypted data stored by users anywhere in the world on Apple’s cloud service
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07 Feb 2025
Ransomware hits healthcare, critical services in January
Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations in January reflect an increasing need for threat actors to adapt and get aggressive as defenders improve.
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07 Feb 2025
Cybersecurity workforce bill faces Trump's cuts, freezes
Trump's hiring freezes raise concerns as Republicans push to expand the cybersecurity workforce with candidates who've earned two-year degrees, aiming to fill critical job gaps.
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07 Feb 2025
DeepSeek, data privacy on lawmakers' radar
U.S. lawmakers are taking steps to ban DeepSeek from government devices, which should signal to enterprises the inherent risks of using the service.
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07 Feb 2025
US lawmakers move to ban DeepSeek AI tool
US 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
Several 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
Vietnam Air Traffic Management modernises comms for improved safety
Southeast Asian country’s national aviation body to deploy multi-service network offering to upgrade its legacy network systems, and enhance the performance and flexibility of its air traffic network
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07 Feb 2025
Amazon to spend $100B on AWS AI infrastructure
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said investors will eventually be happy he spent the money on the 'biggest technology shift in business since the internet.'
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07 Feb 2025
AWS sees full-year profit and revenue growth as AI and public cloud demand soars
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports full-year results and reveals capital expenditure toll the AI boom will take on its business in 2025
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07 Feb 2025
Westcon-Comstor driving data-sharing strategy
The distributor’s recently appointed digital sales leader shares his ambitions for the year ahead, and the importance of passing insights to partners
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07 Feb 2025
Tech job postings dropped in 2024, according to research
Job postings for several IT roles returned to pre-pandemic levels last year, dropping when compared with 2023
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06 Feb 2025
2025 Best in KLAS highlights ClosedLoop for healthcare AI
The 2025 'Best in KLAS: Software and Services' report ranked health IT vendor ClosedLoop first for overall performance in the Healthcare AI: Data Science Solutions category.
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06 Feb 2025
Chief experience officer role evolves with new technologies
Are you a futurist? The CXO role might be for you.
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06 Feb 2025
KLAS names top revenue cycle management vendors in 2025
The 2025 Best in KLAS report ranks top revenue cycle management vendors based on customer reviews, with Waystar, Availity and FinThrive leading key markets, like claims management.
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06 Feb 2025
Unpatched.ai: Who runs the vulnerability discovery platform?
There is limited information on the AI-powered vulnerability discovery platform that emerged in December after it reported Microsoft vulnerabilities
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06 Feb 2025
Super Bowl teams show analytics gaining ground in NFL
As data-driven decision-making gains ground in pro football, both the Eagles and Chiefs have gained advantages from using advanced statistical analysis.
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06 Feb 2025
Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy
One 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
The 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
Google targets enterprise adoption with low-cost AI model
The tech giant is becoming more assertive with its AI releases by introducing new experimental versions of Gemini and a low-end model.
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06 Feb 2025
Thales encouraging wider portfolio sales
Security player introduces fresh partner programme to make it easier for the channel to sell across products, including the fruits of the Imperva acquisition
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06 Feb 2025
Mitel highlights hybrid comms opportunities
Vendor shares research findings that underline the demand and interest from customers in updating their communications strategy
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06 Feb 2025
As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK
James 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
Databricks' acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration
The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms.
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06 Feb 2025
Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms
Sweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field
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06 Feb 2025
Kyndryl expands SASE services with Palo Alto Networks
IT infrastructure services provider enhances end-to-end secure access service edge services to help customers accelerate adoption of cloud-first, zero-trust offering for network security
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05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
Nearly 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
Dynatrace 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
Supermicro launches Nvidia Blackwell systems
The Supermicro Blackwell systems are good news for Nvidia, but enterprises should calculate the ROI carefully, an analyst says.
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05 Feb 2025
Workday layoffs nearly offset last year's hiring
Workday cut 1,750 jobs to shift focus to AI growth. The HR software vendor calls it a strategic move, as vendors ramp up AI-related competition.
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05 Feb 2025
Rise with SAP will extend support deadline -- for some
SAP will offer extended ECC support to some customers with large and complex systems through a Rise with SAP subscription service.
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05 Feb 2025
KLAS: Elation Health, Lightbeam among top virtual care tools
The 2025 Best in KLAS awardees include Elation Health, Lightbeam Health Solutions and EVisit virtual care tools, taking top spots among telehealth and RPM categories.
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05 Feb 2025
Top healthcare cybersecurity vendors win Best in KLAS awards
The Best in KLAS report highlights software and services companies that help organizations deliver better care, including a handful of healthcare cybersecurity vendors.
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05 Feb 2025
Epic leads 2025 Best in KLAS for MyChart patient portal
Epic Systems has now won the Best in KLAS designation for its MyChart patient portal eight times.
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05 Feb 2025
Epic, Athenahealth win 2025 overall Best in KLAS awards
EHR vendors Epic and Athenahealth led the 2025 Best in KLAS awards for overall software suites, while Evergreen Healthcare Partners was named the top implementation services firm.
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05 Feb 2025
Zyxel won't patch end-of-life routers against zero-day attacks
Networking hardware vendor Zyxel has no plans to patch multiple end-of-life routers against new zero-day flaws and advises customers to replace affected devices entirely.
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05 Feb 2025
Dynatrace ups AIOps ante with log analytics refresh
Updates 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
FDA approves Journavx, a safer painkiller alternative
The FDA's approval of Journavx, a first-in-class non-opioid analgesic for acute pain, marks a breakthrough that could reshape pain management and reduce reliance on opioids.
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05 Feb 2025
Google Cloud revenue soars as Alphabet continues to ride AI wave
Alphabet’s fourth-quarter results revealed a 30% increase in revenue for the company’s cloud arm, fuelled by demand for its artificial intelligence offerings
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05 Feb 2025
Deloitte provides $5M to cover RIBridges data breach costs
In addition to the $5 million, Deloitte is covering the cost of the RIBridges data breach call center, credit monitoring and identity protection for affected individuals.
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05 Feb 2025
Met Police spied on BBC journalists’ phone data for PSNI, MPs told
The Metropolitan Police monitored the phones of 16 BBC journalists on behalf of police in Northern Ireland, a cross-party group of MPs heard
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05 Feb 2025
Crowd-source testing helps drive Webex accessibility
Conferencing software Webex has a number of accessibility features built-in and has worked with Applause to test how well these work
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05 Feb 2025
Visibility the starting point for many security pitches
Whether it be DORA or just trying to reduce the risk profile for a user, those in the channel with the expertise to uncover risk are set to benefit
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05 Feb 2025
State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach
Openness, open source and open data were among the topics discussed at OpenUK’s State of Open Con 25 in London
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05 Feb 2025
Dell shares details of 2025 partner programme
Focus is on artificial intelligence, PC refresh, storage and collaborating more closely with the channel to support growth
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05 Feb 2025
Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance
The vendor's latest platform update addresses performance at scale by adding multi-object ACID transactions to better support the needs of online transaction processing.
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05 Feb 2025
AMD trims delivery time for MI350
AMD plans to send samples of the rack-scale AI chip to key customers in the current quarter.
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05 Feb 2025
StarHub upgrades fibre broadband network to deliver 10Gbps services
First deployment of StarHub’s 10Gbps XGS-PON technology across city-state to offer enhanced services as part of Digital Connectivity Blueprint to improve citizen well-being via next-generation digital infrastructure
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05 Feb 2025
Chainalysis records 35% decrease in ransom payments in 2024
While the first half of 2024 was on pace to surpass 2023's record-setting numbers, Chainalysis found that the volume of ransom payments dropped in the second half of the year.
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05 Feb 2025
MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector
MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector
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05 Feb 2025
Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts
Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under
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05 Feb 2025
Volkswagen optimises vehicle development through 3DExperience
Connected engineering platform provider’s core technology becomes foundational solution at auto manufacturer to advance vehicle development through virtual twin experiences, reducing engineering and manufacturing cycles
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05 Feb 2025
EE shines as 5G mobile availability improves for all UK operators
Review of UK mobile industry in second half of 2024 finds that 5G availability sees continued improvement, but fastest 5G speed experience remains undecided
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05 Feb 2025
Panzura CloudFS capabilities focus on business continuity
Panzura's CloudFS hybrid cloud storage platform expands file access speeds and offers a new workload recovery capability without the need for high availability tooling.
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05 Feb 2025
APAC organisations to ramp up tech spending in 2025
Organisations across the region are prioritising cyber security, customer experience and application development, even as they navigate cloud repatriation and a growing skills gap in AI and security
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05 Feb 2025
Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s suggestion that their dominant hold on the UK cloud market requires a targeted intervention
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05 Feb 2025
MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos
The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme
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04 Feb 2025
Starlink gains higher orbit in Europe
Leading space comms provider sees constellation investments boost performance, gaining a position in delivering LEO services over wide areas of Europe, even including UK capital
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04 Feb 2025
DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has issued guidance to support public sector organisations that want to host workloads and applications in overseas datacentres for cost and resilience reasons
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04 Feb 2025
Adobe releases generative AI contract management tool
Adobe AI Assistant 'contract intelligence' has the user base and technology to take on Oracle and Microsoft.
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04 Feb 2025
Clinician adoption of ambient speech tools quickly rising
As adoption of ambient speech tools continues to grow, a KLAS report highlights vendor performance, clinician satisfaction and integration capabilities.
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04 Feb 2025
U.S. tariffs could stymie executives' product decisions
As trade tensions escalate, business leaders will be faced with tough decisions about product sourcing moving forward.
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04 Feb 2025
AMD, Google disclose Zen processor microcode vulnerability
AMD said CVE-2024-56161, which first leaked last month, requires an attacker to have local administrator privileges as well as developed and executed malicious microcode.
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04 Feb 2025
How can SDOH screening, data collection improve?
Better EHR workflows and overtures to support patient trust will be key to improving SDOH screening.
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04 Feb 2025
Downside risk in healthcare improves MA outcomes
Medicare Advantage with downside risk improves care, cutting hospital visits, high-risk medication use and enhancing efficiency compared to fee-for-service MA.
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04 Feb 2025
MicroStrategy adds personalization to GenAI-powered bot
The longtime independent analytics vendor's latest update aims to provide users with a more tailored query and response experience to reach more contextually relevant responses.
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04 Feb 2025
IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space
CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish
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04 Feb 2025
Distie roundup: Activity at Arrow, CMS, Exclusive, e92plus and Westcon-Comstor
Channel players are extending vendor relationships to add more services and routes to market
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04 Feb 2025
Assessing if DeepSeek is safe to use in the enterprise
The AI vendor has found popularity with its reasoning model. However, based on geopolitical tensions and safety tests, there are questions about whether enterprises should use it.
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04 Feb 2025
Infosecurity Europe increasing partner focus with Channel Zone
Security show will provide a greater focus on the channel community this year
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04 Feb 2025
Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?
Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving
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04 Feb 2025
DE-CIX upgrades New York’s largest internet exchange backbone
DE-CIX upgrades one of the US’s largest internet exchange backbones as staying resilient and offering scale become priorities
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04 Feb 2025
WatchTowr warns abandoned S3 buckets pose supply chain risk
WatchTowr researchers found that they could reregister abandoned Amazon S3 buckets and detail alarming ways that threat actors could exploit the attack surface.
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04 Feb 2025
India Budget: Tech takes centre stage with AI and infrastructure boost
India has earmarked significant investments in artificial intelligence, global capability centres and digital public infrastructure while boosting training and education in its latest budget
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03 Feb 2025
New Relic extends observability to DeepSeek
The observability tools supplier now offers enhanced monitoring for DeepSeek models to help businesses reduce the costs and risks of generative AI development
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03 Feb 2025
Nationwide Building Society to train people to think like cyber criminals
Nationwide wants to help bring more diversity into UK cyber security skills base through partnership with training specialist
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03 Feb 2025
OpenAI reasoning model shows an image shift for GenAI vendor
The new capabilities reflect how the vendor continues to stay ahead but lags in some areas. It continues to innovate, but open source advancements may challenge its capabilities.
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03 Feb 2025
NSFocus: DeepSeek AI hit with 'well planned' DDoS attacks
Cybersecurity vendor NSFocus said AI startup DeepSeek endured multiple waves of DDoS attacks from attackers since its reasoning model was released Jan. 20.
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03 Feb 2025
CISA, FDA warn of backdoor in Contec patient monitors
CISA and the FDA alerted the sector to vulnerabilities in Epsimed and Contec patient monitors that could enable cyberthreat actors to remotely control the devices.
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03 Feb 2025
AMA-backed bill seeks to stop 2.83% Medicare payment cut
Lawmakers propose a bill to roll back the 2.83% Medicare payment cut, raise reimbursements by 2% and ease financial strains on physicians to protect patient care.
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03 Feb 2025
Hard-to-reach UK locations achieve broadband milestones
Ultrafast broadband goes live on Hebridean islands, with network ready for first residents to order full-fibre, while UK altnet outlines initial progress in £5bn deployment scheme
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03 Feb 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Former SysGroup CEO Adam Binks resurfaces at Syrenis, and there are other moves at n2s, HPE, Canon, Cisco, Konica Minolta Business Solutions, NetAlly and Cato Networks
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03 Feb 2025
Verizon, AST SpaceMobile get into orbit to end mobile dead zones
Leading US operator looks to conquer remaining mobile dead zones through space-based communications with growing satco
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03 Feb 2025
Westminster to trial free single sign-on Wi-Fi across central London
Global trade body for wireless connectivity reveals big switch-on of seamless roaming experience across the many disparate Wi-Fi networks in the UK capital
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03 Feb 2025
Government sets out cyber security practice code to stoke AI growth
The government has set out a cyber security code of practice for developers to follow when building AI products
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03 Feb 2025
Google AI paves the way for ‘self-healing’ potholes
Google’s artificial intelligence technology is being used to support the work of university researchers who are developing a ‘hands-off’ approach to maintaining and fixing the UK’s pothole-riddled roads
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03 Feb 2025
Disjointed industrial strategy a barrier to UK scaleup success
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee calls on Labour to join-up piecemeal initiatives and cut bureaucracy
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03 Feb 2025
Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation
Limited information is likely to lead to significantly inaccurate assumptions on the cost of Post Office scandal compensation schemes
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03 Feb 2025
DSIT permanent secretary says more AI transparency needed
The government must improve transparency around the use of artificial intelligence systems throughout the public sector if it is going to gain and retain trust in how the technology is being deployed