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• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

  The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Post Office IT boss failed to raise concern over false Horizon statements

  Former Post Office CIO Lesley Sewell failed to raise concern over Post Office’s false stance on Horizon integrity

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Signetbreedband taps Nokia to evolve network business services

  Global comms tech provider announces partnership with Dutch managed network services provider to enable what it claims will be most solid and resilient business networking services in the Netherlands

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  HMRC Single Trade Window project hits turbulence

  Less than a year into the programme to create a Single Trade Window as a digital gateway for traders, HMRC has already gone through a formal dispute resolution process with its supplier

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Vodafone Business Ireland and RingCentral team for hybrid work collaboration

  Business division of telco and cloud comms service provider add Ireland to territories for unified communications and collaboration solutions designed to allow businesses to embrace the evolving landscape of hybrid work

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Virgin Media O2 claims Shared Rural Network milestone

  Community-owned island In the Hebrides becomes 150th site to benefit from improved mobile connectivity after operator deploys helicopters, boats and off-road vehicles to deliver and install a 4G mast to Isle of Eigg

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Sunak warned against changing foreign student visa rules

  Business leaders have called on prime minister Rishi Sunak not to be pressured into altering the graduate visa route

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  HMRC channel shift to digital ‘too aggressive’, says NAO

  HMRC digital services have not had the anticipated effect on customer service it hoped for, NAO report reveals, as the auditor says the department needs to develop more realistic plans

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Tom Read to bid farewell to GDS

  The Government Digital Service chief is leaving his role, and the civil service as a whole, in June, after three-and-a-half years in charge of the department

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  US authorities crack BreachForums for a second time

  The BreachForums data leak website has been seized by the FBI and international partners again

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  GCHQ to protect politicians and election candidates from cyber attacks

  The National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, to protect election candidates from hostile state cyber attacks

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Cyber Safety Force wants to change conversation around risk

  A consortium to help cyber pros better manage risk has launched, with ambitious goals to change the nature of the conversation from cyber security to cyber safety

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Critical SharePoint, Qakbot-linked flaws focus of May Patch Tuesday

  A critical SharePoint vulnerability warrants attention this month, but it is another flaw that seems to be linked to the infamous Qakbot malware that is drawing attention

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  WikiLeaks founder’s extradition case labelled ‘institutional corruption’

  Call for Julian Assange to be prosecuted in the US has been condemned as ‘institutional corruption on a judicial level’ with the WikiLeaks founder a ‘political prisoner’

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Government focuses on improving AI security

  Two codes of practice are now available to help developers boost the security of their AI applications

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to step down in June 2024

  After three years heading up the world’s biggest public cloud company, Adam Selipsky is stepping down to be replaced by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Continental implements cross-domain high-performance computer in a car

  Qualcomm teams with automotive firm to implement a cross-domain high-performance computer in a car based on cloud-based Automotive Edge Framework and Snapdragon system-on-chip

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  HP, Google bring Starline collaboration out of lab and into workplace

  Tech firms unveil collaboration technology project based on AI and 3D imaging, designed to make co-workers feel like they’re together from any distance

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Comms director at centre of cover-up never thought Post Office were the ‘baddies’

  Head of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error-prone Horizon system when challenged

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

  Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  China poses genuine and increasing cyber security risk to UK, says GCHQ director

  GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler uses her first major public speech to warn that China poses a significant cyber security threat to the UK

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse

  The Scottish parliament will introduce its own legislation to exonerate subpostmasters with convictions based on evidence from Post Office Horizon system

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace

  Tape veteran provides file and object access to Exabyte scale archives aimed at AI, high-performance computing and hyperscaler storage. Single-site for now, multi-site to follow

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  CyberUK 24: UK insurance industry gets tough on ransomware

  Three of the UK’s largest insurance associations have signed on to a new initiative spearheaded by the NCSC to try to bring down the number of ransomware payments being made

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant

  The CMA has reignited concerns about how its use of AWS could constitute a conflict of interest, given the public cloud giant is the subject of an anti-trust probe by the watchdog

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NHS trust dismisses governors who questioned allegations of email tampering

  Two NHS trust governors who raised questions in a dispute over allegations of email tampering concerning whistleblower Peter Duffy have been dismissed after an investigation that followed their suspension

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Maria 01 rolls out ambitious pan-Europe startup plan

  Ten-year plan will see pan-Nordic tech startup ecosystem based in Finnish capital

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer

  The Isambard-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Norway bolsters digital transformation drive

  Norway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

  We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Major breach of customer information developing at Dell

  Almost 50 million data records relating to Dell customers appear to have been compromised in a major cyber breach

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing

  Use of advanced artificial intelligence is outpacing organisations’ ability to govern the technology, warns ISACA research

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  UK hails first test of quantum aircraft navigation

  The government’s £2.5bn quantum strategy receives a boost with test of quantum technology that gets around GPS jamming

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  MHRA launches AI regulatory sandbox

  The Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hopes the AI Airlock sandbox will help in improving safe development and use of medical devices

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project

  Lack of tech skills, disconnected agile development and non-compliance with government standards are among the issues identified in report

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference

  ServiceNow put the future use of GenAI at the centre of its annual user conference, Knowledge24

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Over 5.3 billion data records exposed in April 2024

  The number of data records breached in April 2024 hit over five billion, a staggering year-on-year increase

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Cyber attack victims need to speak up, says ICO

  The Information Commissioner’s Office is urging organisations to be transparent and learn from each other’s mistakes as it reveals most of the cyber attacks it responds to stem from the same core errors

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Wales gets UK’s first national SOC

  The first national security operations centre of its kind in the UK has opened in the south of Wales to safeguard public sector bodies across the country

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases

  Simon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability

  Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Government injects £1.8m into space tech innovation

  Funding is being split between nine projects, covering a range of technologies aiming to support new space capabilities in the UK

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

  We speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

  In the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

  IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland ran a rolling programme to monitor phone records of journalists to identify the source of police leaks, it was claimed today

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

  A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups