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• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Midlands, North East fire and rescue services to use Motorola control room platform

  Comms tech provider continues momentum in UK emergency arena, working with four services in the Midlands and North East to deploy shared control room service

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer

  Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success

  AWS reports strong take-up of multi-factor authentication among customers since making it compulsory for root users earlier this year, and plans to expand the scope of its IAM programme in spring 2025

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Fibre to drive Asia-Pacific fixed broadband

  Research finds national broadband network projects will leave optical infrastructure as the virtual universal platform for fixed broadband services in key market until 2029

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Denmark’s AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance

  Research reveals the automated tools used to flag individuals for benefit fraud violate individuals’ privacy and risk discriminating against marginalised groups

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  UK consumers losing more than ever to holiday scams

  Last Christmas, UK consumers lost over £11m to cyber criminals. This year, to save them from tears, the NCSC and Action Fraud are teaming up to launch an anti-fraud campaign

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Red Hat and SoftBank enhance wireless network orchestration

  Leading open source provider and Japanese IT business and comms operator team to advance integration of AI technology within the radio access network infrastructure and enable faster data processing and resource optimisation

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Ubotica and Kongsberg ‘pioneer’ new era of autonomous smart satellites

  Satellite AI firm teams with satellite mission integrator to accelerate mainstream autonomous satellite missions powered by edge AI and enable efficient satellite operations with cloud removal, data compression and real-time feature detection

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Final report on Nats calls for improvements to contingency process

  Suppliers need to be involved much sooner and a review of technical documentation is needed to speed up recovery

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Post Office IT boss calls for subpostmasters to judge him on his actions

  Recently installed Post Office chief transformation officer tasked with replacing controversial IT system tells Computer Weekly the organisation’s leadership understands the challenges ahead

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Volvo gears up with Dassault for electric vehicle development

  Global car brand to deploy 3DExperience platform in its engineering processes to further its existing work and electric vehicle development, sharing real-time information with multiple teams worldwide

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  RealWear looks to reshape industrial AR with Almer acquisition

  In what is said to mark a pivotal moment in a key part of the spatial computing sector and boost frontline worker productivity, industrial wearable technology firm acquires manufacturer of ultra-compact, user-friendly AR headsets

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  IT leaders raise concerns over IT security overspend

  How many IT security products does it take to secure a business? Too many, according to some IT decision-makers

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024

  Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Broadband upstream growth rate doubles downstream increase in Q3

  Latest broadband consumption research by OpenVault shows significant change in dynamics, with demographic factors also influencing speed and consumption

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Post Office to decide on Horizon before April, Fujitsu board considers final contract extension

  Chief transformation officer tells Computer Weekly about ongoing work on replacing controversial Post Office Horizon system and extending contract with Fujitsu

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  EE scales Ben Nevis mountain rescue connectivity

  Partnership with Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team sees 4G mast fitted with an antenna and cabling to support search and rescue operations in the area

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Schwarz Group partners with Google on EU sovereign cloud

  Partnership with Europe’s biggest retailer will offer client-side encryption and ensure data doesn’t leave Germany

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Nvidia, SoftBank claim AI, 5G telecom pilot first

  AI processor leader joins Japanese telco on AI Aerial platform for outdoor pilot of what is said to be world’s first combined AI and 5G network

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy

  Microsoft pens artificial intelligence energy deal with United Arab Emirates oil giant ADNOC

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia

  Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Williams Racing F1 team supports kids cyber campaign

  A multi-region campaign will teach pre-teen children cyber security basics – with a little help from Formula 1 star Alex Albon

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  A fifth of new PCs shipped in Q3 were AI-optimised

  PC manufacturers are working hard to showcase the benefits of premium devices that use neural processing units to deliver on-device AI acceleration

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  HMRC puts Loan Charge settlements ‘on pause by request’ until independent review concludes

  After campaigners called for HMRC to pause all of its Loan Charge enforcement activity until the government’s independent review of the policy is complete, Computer Weekly has learned that the agency is accepting requests to pause settlements

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  MPs hold first ever debate on live facial recognition

  MPs have held an open debate on police use of live facial recognition technology for the first time since it was initially deployed by the Met Police in August 2016

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Virtual wards to digital feedback: the Nordic approach to post-pandemic healthcare

  Post-pandemic healthcare is benefitting from Nordic tech foresight, with the country bringing digital change to the world’s health sector to allow for more remote care

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Nokia acquires Rapid tech assets, takes Ionian submarine cable to 800Gbps

  Acquisition designed to strengthen network API product development expanding ecosystem to use 5G, 4G network capabilities while comms tech company claims capacity-reach record for unrepeated transmission over 330km between Italy and Greece

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Mike Potter’s departure leads to changes at the CDDO

  The government digital officer left his role in September, and government chief technology officer David Knott is currently leading the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) in the interim while permanent arrangements are agreed

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  UK government accelerates 4G roll-out in rural Wales

  Businesses in so-called hard-to-reach parts of UK principality now said to be able to benefit from mobile network upgrades to deliver faster and more reliable internet as part of the UK government’s £5bn scheme

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  CIO interview: Steve O’Connor, Aston Martin

  Skills gaps, electrification and customisation driving need for change, says Aston Martin CIO Steve O’Connor

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Ping CEO on ForgeRock integration and future of identity

  Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand discusses the company’s unified roadmap, commitment to customer stability and growth plans in the evolving identity landscape following the merger with ForgeRock

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Microsoft ramps up small language model effort

  Microsoft is working with several industry sector specialist software providers to bring industry-specific AI models to its Azure AI platform

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  GenAI apps boost interest in differentiated 5G connectivity

  Study shows over a third of 5G smartphone users are interested in paying for differentiated connectivity and almost a quarter are willing to pay up to 35% more for guaranteed fast and secure connectivity for high-capacity applications

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Apple hit by Which? with £3bn legal claim that iCloud service charges are ‘anti-competitive’

  UK consumer rights advocate Which? has appointed legal representation, as it sets about challenging Apple on anti-competitive grounds over its treatment of UK iCloud users

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Electric vehicle tipping point for US drivers expected in next 10 years

  Accenture report warns automakers to adopt a life-centric approach to understand the next wave of EV buyers and their individual values

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Scottish Fire and Rescue enhances control room tech

  Investment in cloud-hosted command and communications service designed to mobilise firefighters, and help improve safety and security in Scotland

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  China’s Volt Typhoon rebuilds botnet in wake of takedown

  Nine months after its malicious botnet comprising legacy routers was disrupted by the Americans, Chinese APT Volt Typhoon is rebuilding and presents as persistent a threat as ever

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation

  Current quantum computers are prone to error. IBM’s latest Heron machine uses software and hardware to get better results

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning

  The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Ex-boxer fights US government over legality of Sky ECC cryptophone intercepts

  Lawyers for former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic argue that US prosecutors’ reliance on messages obtained by a European police hacking operation into the SKY ECC encrypted phone network breaches the US constitution

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata

  The European Commission’s eArchiving project has got to version 2.0 and aims at open formats and sector-specific metadata to allow organisations to exploit data for decades to come

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Even AI laggards can see triple return on investment

  A study from IDC shows that those businesses that have an aligned AI strategy can achieve accelerated benefits

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

  There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Microsoft fixes 89 CVEs on penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024

  High-profile vulns in NTLM, Windows Task Scheduler, Active Directory Certificate Services and Microsoft Exchange Server should be prioritised from November’s Patch Tuesday update

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Zero-day exploits increasingly sought out by attackers

  Threat actors increasingly favour zero-day exploits to attack their victims before patches become available, according to the NCSC and CISA, which have just published a list of the most widely used vulnerabilities of 2023

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  More data stolen in 2023 MOVEit attacks comes to light

  Over a year since the infamous MOVEit Transfer cyber attacks affected thousands of organisations, more new victims have come to light after an anonymous threat actor leaked their data on the dark web

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Gartner warns GenAI demand will lead to datacentre energy shortages

  IT market watcher Gartner is warning enterprises that the growing demand for generative AI workloads will have a knock-on impact on energy supply and pricing in future years

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Network complexity and visibility blind spots an issue for 80% of firms

  Study finds that as cloud adoption flourishes, organisations believe they are being hampered by lack of proper network operations, skilled workers and observability tools

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  Neos, Vorboss enhance enterprise fibre connectivity for London

  Leading business connectivity provider strikes deal with fibre infrastructure firm to enhance connectivity options for enterprises in London

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  VMO2 claims SRN TNS first in South Uist

  Mobile total not spot site on Scottish island sees UK operator become first in country to successfully build such a facility as part of second phase of government-funded Shared Rural Network programme