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18 Jul 2025
News brief: Cyberattack trends signal security arms race
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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18 Jul 2025
Data-driven AI: how AWS partners and customers operate
From the Ocean Cleanup to Dine Brands, a key factor is driving how these enterprises apply AWS’ technology to their applications and needs.
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18 Jul 2025
Entities report several large healthcare data breaches to OCR
Millions of individuals were impacted by the most recent healthcare data breaches reported to HHS.
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
Google abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Most hospitals face public health data exchange challenges
While electronic public health reporting has grown significantly in recent years, hospitals and physicians continue to report barriers to public health data exchange.
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23 Jul 2024
OIG audit: HHS secretary must improve cloud security controls
HHS-OIG auditors recommended that the HHS Office of the Secretary address gaps in its cloud security controls to better safeguard its cloud information systems.
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23 Jul 2024
Global broadband reliability gets consistently higher
Latest study from Opensignal places UK among the top countries for broadband reliability, reaching third out of 18 markets surveyed, behind only Sweden and Norway
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23 Jul 2024
UK 5G reaches new heights in successful flight trials
UK consortium completes flight trials for airborne next-generation mobile infrastructure designed to offer applications such as restoring networks after disasters where traditional mobile infrastructure has been disrupted
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
The ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
How ACO models can improve to support patient engagement
Greater ACO success will come with more flexible beneficiary communication policies governing the models.
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23 Jul 2024
Roche’s weight-loss drug trials yield positive results
Roche's $2.7B investment in Carmot's GLP-1 drugs shows promising early weight-loss results, positioning it as a strong market contender.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry
Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works
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23 Jul 2024
NTT Data unveils Edge AI platform for industry, manufacturing
Infrastructure and services company claims to be breaking down IT/OT silos with what it says is industry’s first fully managed Edge artificial intelligence offering, enabling advanced AI use cases for industrial and manufacturing applications
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23 Jul 2024
Virgin Media O2 to begin 2G network transition
After announcing that it will be turning off 3G in 2025, operator reveals plans to start moving customers off 2G network, claiming to be the first UK company of its kind to make such a move
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23 Jul 2024
Dragos: New ICS malware FrostyGoop abuses Modbus
Dragos published research Tuesday unveiling an industrial control systems-focused malware it dubbed FrostyGoop that targets Modbus to disrupt critical infrastructure.
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23 Jul 2024
Digital apps effective stopgap for mental healthcare access challenges
Digital mental health apps can improve depression and anxiety symptoms among patients who are waiting to receive mental healthcare services, new research reveals.
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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23 Jul 2024
Nationwide Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats
Nationwide Listeria outbreak in deli meats affects 12 states, causing 28 illnesses and 2 deaths. High-risk groups should avoid deli meats or heat them thoroughly.
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22 Jul 2024
Microsoft: Faulty CrowdStrike update affected 8.5M devices
Microsoft says less than 1% of all Windows machines were affected by a defective CrowdStrike Falcon update on Friday, but the disruption has been widespread.
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22 Jul 2024
Apollo takes off for Converge to break optical networking terabit barrier
Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider taps technology firm to deploy optical network system to enhance network capacity from 800Gbps to 1.2Tbps per channel
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22 Jul 2024
Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
We speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved
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22 Jul 2024
NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation
The UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest
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22 Jul 2024
ChatGPT demonstrates promise for digital pathology
A private, domain-specific version of ChatGPT can accurately respond to digital pathology questions and help clinicians utilize complex histopathology software.
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22 Jul 2024
Nokia, Bharti Airtel claim success in 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial
Global comms tech provider successfully completes first 5G non-standalone Cloud RAN trial with leading Indian telco to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources
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22 Jul 2024
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
Financially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC
With end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration
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22 Jul 2024
BT fined £17.5m for ‘catastrophic’ emergency network outage
UK comms regulator issues fine to country’s leading telco for being underprepared to handle disruption in June 2023, affecting 14,000 emergency calls and lasting 10.5 hours
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22 Jul 2024
AMA updates CPT code set for avian influenza vaccines
The update to the CPT code set includes codes for vaccines protecting patients from the H5N8 strain of avian influenza.
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22 Jul 2024
Openreach accelerates copper broadband Stop Sell
UK’s largest telco continues network transformation making full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses, with more than four million premises currently taking a service
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
Evidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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21 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices
About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational
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19 Jul 2024
Global IT outage forces hospitals to cancel appointments
A global IT outage resulting from a faulty update to CrowdStrike's threat detection platform forced hospitals to cancel non-urgent appointments and surgeries.
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19 Jul 2024
OpenAI goes small with GPT-4o mini
The AI vendor launched a small language model that is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens. It also introduced new compliance tools for ChatGPT Enterprise users.
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19 Jul 2024
Enterprises chasing AI confront a harsh reality
Recent reports from KPMG, McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs indicate that generative AI is immature and carries a high price tag, with no clear path to ROI.
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19 Jul 2024
South Korea, Taiwan, Japan monitor EU's Digital Markets Act
Countries including South Korea and Taiwan are taking a cautious approach to tech regulation and assessing the impact of existing laws like the EU's Digital Markets Act.
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19 Jul 2024
U.S. continuous security clearance vetting hits IT disaster
U.S. continuous security clearances system faces severe delays and budget overruns. The now $1.7B project is years behind schedule, affecting millions of federal workers.
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19 Jul 2024
UK fibre forges forward, but further altnet consolidation likely
Moody's research finds UK roll-out of fibre broadband continues to progress, although take-up remains low compared with Europe
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19 Jul 2024
Defective CrowdStrike update triggers mass IT outage
A faulty update for CrowdStrike's Falcon platform crashed customers' Windows systems, causing outages at airlines, government agencies and other organizations across the globe.
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
The Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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19 Jul 2024
Brightspeed cuts Ribbon on network transformation
US fibre builder modernises network infrastructure using real-time comms provider’s network transformation service, with aim of efficiently managing and upgrading legacy assets while enhancing scalability and innovation
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19 Jul 2024
Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
East Midlands-based council has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements and efficiencies to the way it works
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19 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
An update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected
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19 Jul 2024
Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims
The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts
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19 Jul 2024
LG integrates artificial intelligence into smart factory services
After officially entering the market earlier this year, LG advances smart factory services business by integrating manufacturing data and assets with artificial intelligence and digital transformation
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19 Jul 2024
Having endometriosis can increase ovarian cancer risk 4.2-fold
A study found that having endometriosis can increase the risk of ovarian cancer, especially for those with ovarian endometriomas.
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19 Jul 2024
Antimicrobial-resistant hospital-acquired infections increased 20%
New CDC data indicates that bacterial antimicrobial-resistant hospital-acquired infections increased by 20% during the pandemic.
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18 Jul 2024
DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams
The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages