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08 Dec 2023
Recruiting tech glitch adds to military's recruiting struggles
The U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force all faced recruiting shortfalls this year thanks to labor market competition. But challenges include inadequate recruiting technology.
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08 Dec 2023
Fossil's experience building an internal AI image generator
AI hallucinations are generally considered a bug of the technology to be worked out as it evolves. But uncanny and imaginative AI-generated output can sometimes be a benefit.
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08 Dec 2023
Knime updates analytics platform with new GenAI capabilities
The vendor's latest release improves the accuracy of its GenAI chatbot, including citations so users can know the source of the chatbot's responses, and features a new UI.
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24 Oct 2023
1Password stops attack linked to Okta breach
1Password said a threat actor used a HAR file stolen in the recent Okta breach to access the password manager's Okta tenant, but the activity was detected and blocked.
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24 Oct 2023
JPMorgan Chase CISO explains why he's an 'AI optimist'
Pat Opet, CISO at JPMorgan Chase & Co., discussed how the financial services giant invests in cybersecurity and where generative AI could provide game-changing benefits.
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24 Oct 2023
Cisco hackers likely taking steps to avoid identification
Cisco confirms that a drop in detections of devices compromised by two zero-days was likely the result of reactive measures taken by the threat actors to avoid discovery
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24 Oct 2023
UK lags behind in European FTTP take-up and average broadband speeds
Ookla analysis into progress made by the EU against the bloc’s Digital Decade 2030 strategic objectives finds the UK continues to be at the tail end of European countries’ Q3 2023 median fixed performance rankings
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24 Oct 2023
Michelle Donelan reaffirms UK's commitment to AI safety
In a keynote speech, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology discussed the UK's pro-innovation approach to AI safety
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24 Oct 2023
Research team tricks AI chatbots into writing usable malicious code
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have demonstrated that so-called Text-to-SQL systems can be tricked into writing malicious code for use in cyber attacks
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24 Oct 2023
Kaspersky opens up over spyware campaign targeting its staffers
Kaspersky has shared more details of the TriangleDB spyware that was used against its own workforce by an unknown APT group
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24 Oct 2023
Customers speak out over Okta’s response to latest breach
Customers of identity specialist Okta have been attacked via a compromise of its systems, and are claiming Okta’s response leaves something to be desired
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24 Oct 2023
Suzy Lamplugh Trust treads path to improved cyber resilience
Personal safety charity enlists the support of the London Cyber Resilience Centre to improve staff awareness and strengthen its overall cyber resilience
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight
Las Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp adds new flash hardware, debuts VMware DR service
The enterprise storage vendor continues its hybrid cloud portfolio push with capacity flash for the ASA hardware family and bolts a VMware DR service to its BlueXP console.
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24 Oct 2023
Government preferential pricing deals with AWS and Microsoft under scrutiny in wake of CMA probe
With AWS and Microsoft both the focus of an antitrust probe by the UK competition watchdog, the government is being urged to reconsider the renewal of its preferential pricing deals with both firms until the investigation is concluded
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24 Oct 2023
Government puts £75m into innovation hubs
Eight innovation ‘launchpads’ will each get a share of the funding for projects covering sectors such as agri-tech, digital healthcare, renewable energy and technologies for the creative industry
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24 Oct 2023
North-west altnets celebrate growth milestone and customer experience awards
Growing influence of the alternative gigabit broadband supply sector shown as operator begins full-fibre roll-out in Wilmslow to further expand Greater Manchester network reach, while neighbouring provider marks sixth birthday with customer service awards
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24 Oct 2023
OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot
Singapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation
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24 Oct 2023
NTT DATA and IP Infusion partner to accelerate network disaggregation
Global digital business and IT services firm teams with global systems integrator to bring scalable, and choice-filled disaggregation solutions under umbrella of Telecom Infra Project with the aim to expand broad connectivity.
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24 Oct 2023
Nokia claims first with Wi-Fi 7 product portfolio, enhances wholesale access for FTTH
Nokia unveils portfolio of carrier-grade wireless broadband devices to the market that are more than 3x faster than previous generations, while Altiplano Open Access Solution offers programmable interface to enhance wholesale operational models
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24 Oct 2023
Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia
Microsoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country
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23 Oct 2023
Okta customer support system breached via stolen credentials
During the latest breach against the identity and access management vendor, attackers took advantage of the system intended to provide support for Okta customers.
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23 Oct 2023
Databricks' $100m acquisition of Arcion adds data ingestion
The data lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds native data ingestion capabilities that will help users stream data in real time to inform AI and machine learning models.
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23 Oct 2023
Feds look for AI fingerprints in HR job rejections
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is working to learn all it can to detect AI-based discrimination in screening, recruiting and hiring.
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23 Oct 2023
CTO interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on using AI to set business goals
Generative AI is on the cusp of allowing companies to automate business processes to meet business goals
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23 Oct 2023
Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage
Dell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration
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23 Oct 2023
Gartner: CIOs must prepare for generative AI disruption
The growth of generative AI poses risks and opportunities for IT and business leaders
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23 Oct 2023
Cisco pushes update to stop exploitation of two IOS XE zero-days
Cisco releases updates to thwart exploitation of two flaws affecting users of its IOS XE software
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23 Oct 2023
How Ensign is leading the charge in cyber security
Lee Fook Sun, chairman of Ensign InfoSecurity, traces the company’s journey and how it is leading the charge in cyber security by doing things differently, investing in R&D and engaging with the wider ecosystem
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23 Oct 2023
Taxpayers to fund a further £150m for Post Office IT scandal
Total bill for the scandal goes well over £1bn, as subpostmaster campaign leader considers private prosecutions of Post Office executives
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23 Oct 2023
Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre completes contact centre upgrade
NGO dedicated to offering free-of-charge medical services to the Egyptian people chooses premise-based advanced comms platform to underpin each layer of communication at new facility
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23 Oct 2023
DNB, TM, ZTE live trial claims world's fastest for 5G mmWave
Strategic partnership constructed to set a new global standard in wireless communication through adaptable mmWave AAU technology, capable of achieving record-breaking throughput
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23 Oct 2023
AI, robotics, and AR/VR use cases to set pace in UK 5G mid-band
UK Spectrum Policy Forum releases results of study on the benefits of access to spectrum sharing in the 3.8-4.2 GHz band across transport, manufacturing and energy in an aim to increase adoption across use cases such as AI and robotics
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23 Oct 2023
Nokia, EGC deploy first private wireless network at Kingston Freeport Terminal
Comms tech provider’s Digital Automation Cloud and MXIE services deployed at leading Caribbean port to enhance broadband connectivity, lower latency, increase predictability and provide edge computing capabilities
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20 Oct 2023
OneDrive 3.0 gets Microsoft 365 Copilot, refreshed interface
Microsoft dusts off its OneDrive cloud file-sharing utility and adds connectivity to Microsoft 365 Copilot AI digital assistant, a new look and more features coming in December.
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20 Oct 2023
Collaboration paramount in KPN’s successful business transformation
KPN tells Oracle CloudWorld 2023 how it transformed when its legacy systems became obstacles to supporting its customers on their digital journeys
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20 Oct 2023
Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres
Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate
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20 Oct 2023
Computer Weekly contributor named Godfather of UK Security
Advent IM founder Mike Gillespie was among those honoured at the eighth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards
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20 Oct 2023
Five Eyes chiefs warn of Chinese spying campaign to steal high-tech secrets
Intelligence chiefs warn high-tech companies and universities they may be the target of attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to steal technology secrets
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20 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters
The news and information provider places a premium on responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence, and central to that is the governance of data and the models surrounding it
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20 Oct 2023
RagnarLocker cyber gang that pioneered double extortion busted
Europol and the FBI have taken down the RagnarLocker ransomware crew, a long-standing gang that helped pioneer some now common tactics, taking its dark web negotiation and data leak sites offline
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20 Oct 2023
Public Accounts Committee highlights smart meter failures
In spite of failing to meet roll-out targets, millions of smart meters are not working, and some will break once 3G and 2G networks are switched off
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20 Oct 2023
Fixing developer AI fear is a team effort
A study by Pluralsight has looked at the risks of building a team of “star developers” and instilling a competitive culture
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19 Oct 2023
GoodData launches new platform for AI, ML and BI workflows
The vendor's FlexHouse Analytics Lake provides a single environment for normally disparate data assets to simplify AI, analytics and machine learning development and analysis.
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19 Oct 2023
Fair use may not help Anthropic against AI music lawsuit
Universal Music Group and other music publishers allege the vendor's Claude 2 AI model responds to users' prompts with all or most of the lyrics to popular copyrighted songs.
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19 Oct 2023
Cloud inflation affects IT spending trends, GenAI not yet
Gartner's forecast points to rising cloud and services spend. Generative AI is yet to strongly influence IT budgets, but IBM and other providers gear up for growth.
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19 Oct 2023
How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI
Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption
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19 Oct 2023
North Korean hackers exploit critical TeamCity vulnerability
While a patch is available, Microsoft and JetBrains confirmed TeamCity users have been compromised in attacks that leverage CVE-2023-42793 as an initial attack vector.
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19 Oct 2023
DBT Labs updates Semantic Layer, adds data mesh enablement
New semantic modeling capabilities include support for dynamic joins, while added support for data mesh represents evolution beyond the vendor's roots in data transformation.
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19 Oct 2023
CISA, NSA, FBI publish phishing guidance
In its guidance, CISA focused on two primary goals of phishing attacks: obtaining login credentials, often via social engineering, and installing malware on target systems.
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19 Oct 2023
Nuclear regulator raps EDF over cyber compliance
The Office for Nuclear Regulation says EDF has come up short on needed measures to improve cyber security standards at several critical UK nuclear facilities
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19 Oct 2023
Fears grow over extent of Cisco IOS XE zero-day
Researchers have identified spiking numbers of victims of a recently disclosed Cisco zero-day, as users of the networking supplier’s IOS XE software are urged to take defensive measures
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19 Oct 2023
Need for ‘significant’ public and private investment in UK infrastructure
Second long-term review sets out role of digital infrastructure in supporting economic growth in UK, but stresses importance of government continuing to support network competition and market deployment
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19 Oct 2023
Gitex Global: Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism builds AI engagement platform
Citizens of emirate set to gain access to platform designed to streamline the creation of business licence applications using artificial intelligence to solve the most common pain points in the journey and providing instant digital access to experts on demand
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19 Oct 2023
Nokia wins optical tech award, brings 10G fibre to Iceland with Mila upgrade
Analyst regards Finnish comms tech provider as dominating global XGS-PON OLT market while it supplies Icelandic operator with multi-PON fibre broadband solution designed to bring multi-gigabit services to enterprise customers
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19 Oct 2023
Sellafield local authority unsure if data was stolen six years on from North Korea ransomware attack
Senior managers at an ‘Achilles heel’ local authority for Europe’s biggest nuclear site ‘still don’t know what was lost’ in a 2017 cyber attack, according to a council source
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19 Oct 2023
Government concedes it will miss 2024 e-prescribing target
The government won’t meet its target to get rid of paper prescribing in hospitals by 2024, and has pushed the goal post back two years to 2026
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19 Oct 2023
Broadband service providers need focus on home Wi-Fi latency, QoE
Report commissioned by managed Wi-Fi technology provider shows the global acceleration of FTTH, the growing need to focus on latency and the importance of deploying in-home Smart Wi-Fi to enhance QoE
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19 Oct 2023
DZS, Orange close fibre pilot in Poland
DZS completes first phase of a live pilot solution deployment of flagship fibre access portfolio on telco’s FTTH network in Poland paving way for widescale deployment of next-generation fibre-enabled services
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19 Oct 2023
SAP results highlight AI-driven business software
SAP, like other enterprise software companies, is integrating artificial intelligence across its enterprise software portfolio
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19 Oct 2023
Druva adds gen AI assistant to cloud backup tools
Generative AI arrives for SaaS backup vendor Druva with new tools to automate reports, detect anomalous activity and provide security guidance.
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19 Oct 2023
Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration
S3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers
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19 Oct 2023
Loughborough Uni to create five cyber AI research posts
Supported by Darktrace, Loughborough University is to recruit five doctoral researchers focusing on cross-disciplinary research in AI and cyber security
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19 Oct 2023
Post Office auditors presumed subpostmasters were ‘on the fiddle’ or ‘in a muddle’
Public inquiry into Post Office scandal hears how head office staff routinely made negative assumptions about subpostmasters in small branches
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18 Oct 2023
Oracle NetSuite follows generative AI trend in ERP
A generative AI assistant, financial close modules, new user based licensing and customer benchmarking top the list of new features in NetSuite cloud ERP at SuiteWorld 2023.
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18 Oct 2023
Dell PowerMaxOS 10.1 targets operational, energy efficiency
The latest Dell PowerMaxOS update brings greater data reduction and power usage monitoring to its top-of-the-line storage array. The update also keyed in on cyber-resilience.
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18 Oct 2023
Mandiant: Citrix zero-day actively exploited since August
Exploitation against CVE-2023-4966 is ongoing, and Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal warned patching alone is insufficient against potential attacks that leverage MFA bypass techniques.
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18 Oct 2023
Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed
Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.
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18 Oct 2023
Agilitas welcomes local MP to Nottingham HQ
Channel player shows politician round offices, sharing its vision for growth and introducing him to graduates
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18 Oct 2023
Experts call for government to look beyond AI safety
Experts have warned there are far more near-term technology concerns than AI, such as facial recognition and the explosion of deepfakes
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18 Oct 2023
How YouTube's new AI-powered product aids advertisers
The online video-sharing and social media platform is now using the AI technology as a way to help advertisers place ads on videos that better reach the intended audience.
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18 Oct 2023
Avanade exposes generative AI skills gap
Customers know they have to embrace generative AI, but many are not in a position to support it due to a lack of expertise
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18 Oct 2023
BICS provides 5G standalone roaming connection of AIS to stc Kuwait
Belgian-based connectivity enabler partners with Kuwaiti and Thai operators to deliver MENA country’s first ever 5G standalone roaming connection, promising customers scalability for roaming agreements and opportunities to innovate
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18 Oct 2023
Neos Networks expands fibre net with London, Manchester datacentre estates
UK connectivity provider brings Telehouse South and Equinix MA5 on-net to its commercial datacentre, offering reliable, resilient and secure connectivity to UK financial services hub
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18 Oct 2023
What are the cyber risks from the latest Middle Eastern conflict?
The outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel in October 2023 has seen a wide variety of accompanying cyber attacks from hacktivists and other groups. We look at the risks to organisations
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18 Oct 2023
CMA sets initial scope of UK cloud market anti-trust probe into AWS and Microsoft
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has detailed four areas it is seeking feedback on from UK cloud market stakeholders as the first stage of its anti-trust probe takes shape
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18 Oct 2023
BT stitches multi-cloud with Global Fabric
UK’s leading telco unveils network-as-a-service offering designed to enable customers to boost cost, security and sustainability while optimising application performance and user experience
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18 Oct 2023
Gitex Global 2023: Motul looks to deliver ‘effortless’ experiences in cloud comms
Global oil and lubricants company adopts suite of cloud-based contact centre and unified communications solutions to improve customer experience and enable global employees to collaborate better across borders
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18 Oct 2023
SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI
Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg posited AI old and new as means for organisations to do more with fewer resources, speaking at the company’s annual global SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas
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18 Oct 2023
Networking and security teams converging
Study finds more than 80% of IT leaders are consolidating security and networking teams or have a management directive to improve collaboration, with 75% believing using one platform for both purposes would provide benefits across the board
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18 Oct 2023
Former Post Office executive admits he wouldn’t sign unfair contract he pushed on subpostmasters
Former contract manager said contract that subpostmasters had to sign with Post Office “put them on the hook” for everything
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17 Oct 2023
Alluxio launches orchestration layer optimized for AI, ML
The data orchestration specialist introduced Enterprise AI, a new version of its platform optimized for AI and machine learning models with improved performance and greater scale.
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17 Oct 2023
Five Eyes issues five tips on thwarting nation state threats
Intelligence chiefs from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US have published guidance on building resilience against nation state cyber threats
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17 Oct 2023
Cisco IOS XE zero-day facing mass exploitation
VulnCheck said its public scanning for CVE-2023-20198 revealed that 'thousands' of internet-facing Cisco IOS XE systems have been compromised with malicious implants.
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17 Oct 2023
Sustainability a key consideration for print buyers
Quocirca has uncovered the importance customers put on the green credentials of those providing them with printers
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17 Oct 2023
SingleStore unveils features aimed at enabling real-time AI
The database vendor's new vector search capabilities, compute layer and integrations are all designed to enable customers to build and deploy real-time generative AI models.
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17 Oct 2023
StorPool adds fast erasure coding to block storage
Latest release of StorPool Storage enables high-performance data protection for block storage using erasure coding on standard SSDs for fast recovery of demanding applications.
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17 Oct 2023
Hacktivist attacks against Israeli websites mirror attacks following Russian invasion of Ukraine
Hacktivists supporting Gaza and Palestine have launched hundreds of website defacement attacks against Israeli websites, mirroring the pattern of attacks that occurred after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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17 Oct 2023
Countrywide Healthcare manages Meraki with Highlight
The supplier of medical and janitorial equipment selected managed service that connects to its Cisco Meraki system via a single API
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17 Oct 2023
Micron first to bring 232 layers to mainstream SSDs
The 7500, Micron's latest SSD, uses the company's 232-layer NAND technology to support a broad set of use cases at a lower price point than its high-end counterparts.
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17 Oct 2023
Ogi, brsk further UK altnet charge
Independent providers cover south of Wales and northwest of England, celebrate full-fibre deployment milestones
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17 Oct 2023
Park Place Technologies expands UK presence with Xuper buy
Acquisition adds more third-party maintenance expertise and expands its presence across EMEA
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17 Oct 2023
UK Apple Store workers detail ‘union-busting’ tactics
Apple Store workers in the UK are attempting to unionise, but say they are facing pushback from the company, which is allegedly deploying a variety of “union-busting” tactics
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17 Oct 2023
Alert sounded over dangerous Cisco IOS XE zero-day
Cisco warns customers using its IOS XE software of a newly discovered vulnerability that could enable a threat actor to take over their systems
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17 Oct 2023
Gitex 2023: Avaya plots generative AI-powered future for customer experience
Leading comms and customer experience technology provider unveils Generative CX concept showing how artificial intelligence can sit at the core of experience transformation
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17 Oct 2023
Government to pump £30m into NHS medtech
The government hopes the funding, which is available to integrated care systems across the country, will ease winter pressures through the help of technology
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17 Oct 2023
What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps
Providing engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey
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16 Oct 2023
Cisco working on fix for critical IOS XE zero-day
Cisco designated the bug, CVE-2023-20198, with a CVSS score of 10 and said it was working on a patch, but advised customers to apply mitigations in the meantime.
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16 Oct 2023
Talkdesk expands its AI offerings for the contact center
The cloud-based contact center provider adds more tools to monitor large language model-supported capabilities, which are becoming commonplace offerings for CX vendors.
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16 Oct 2023
Google Authenticator synchronization raises MFA concerns
Infosec experts say a synchronization feature added to Google's Authenticator app could lead to unintended consequences for organizations' multifactor authentication codes.
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16 Oct 2023
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion
In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real
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16 Oct 2023
Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023
Number-crunching data on 17,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte fell by around 10% in past six months while hard disk drive per-gigabyte prices stood still
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16 Oct 2023
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
Some interesting moves at vendor and distribution level catch the eye this week