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• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Global telcos team up on large language models

  Global Telco AI Alliance comprising telcos from Asia, Europe and the Middle East will form joint venture to build multilingual LLMs that are more attuned to telco domain

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Government won’t rush to include Post Office Capture convictions in overturning legislation

  The government said it does not yet have the 'right body of evidence' to include users of the Post Office's Capture software in Horizon compensation schemes and legislation to overturn convictions

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  LockBit bids to save face after NCA takedown

  The LockBit gang’s ringleader resurfaces with new infrastructure and new victims, claiming to have shrugged off a multinational police sting

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience

  The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Birmingham looks into reimplementing troubled Oracle ERP

  City council audit committee meeting shows Birmingham City Council plans to follow Oracle best practices

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Post Office scandal roundup: Fourth Estate in full throttle

  January saw mainstream media take hold of the Post Office scandal, and while that first month saw much regurgitation of old news, February saw large media outlets take story forward

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Ericsson, Telefónica claim to redefine 5G experiences with on-demand slicing

  Proof of concept from telco and leading comms tech provide said to provide superior service experience for mobile consumers, enhancing performance of 5G services

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  5G, IoT roaming traffic soars in 2023

  Data from international communications enabler reveals 156% spike in year-on-year 5G non-standalone roaming for consumer and IoT devices

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists

  Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse

  UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  King Charles strips disgraced Post Office CEO of her CBE

  Disgraced former Post Office CEO, central to the Horizon scandal, has her CBE formally stripped

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  ConnectWise users see cyber attacks surge, including ransomware

  ConnectWise ScreenConnect users who have yet to patch against a critical vulnerability are now being targeted by a barrage of cyber attacks, including ransomware

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  NCA trolls under fire LockBit gang leaders

  The NCA has teased details of the identity of LockBit's main admin via the gang’s compromised dark web site, and hinted that he has been engaging with law enforcement

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex

  The UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  Global households shift toward 5G fixed wireless access

  Report finds that nearly three-quarters of homes with 5G fixed wireless access choose it as a full replacement for previously used connectivity

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  IR35 legislative tweak to remedy settlement offset issue by April 2024

  Long-standing issue with how IR35 rules work to be resolved in April, thanks to Finance Act change

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  CIO interview: Craig Donald, CIO, The Football Association

  England men’s and women’s football teams have had a good few years – and like any successful organisation, they are supported by technology. We meet the IT chief behind football in England and Wales

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  NAO report finds UK mobile connectivity programme behind schedule

  Financial watchdog report slams progress of government in flagship mobile roll-out scheme to expand 4G mobile connectivity in rural UK areas, casting doubt on whether it will be delivered on time

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  Audi revs up customised private 5G environment to gain edge

  Auto giant’s private network aims to replicate connectivity environments found across the world to give it a competitive advantage by ensuring connected technology is sound and functional on public roads

• February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

  Singtel rolls out network slicing on 5G network

  Singtel’s app-based network slicing capabilities will boost the performance of 5G applications and cater to different experience, security and privacy requirements

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Cyber experts alarmed by ‘trivial’ ConnectWise vulns

  The disclosure of two dangerous vulnerabilities in the popular ConnectWise ScreenConnect product is drawing comparisons with major cyber incidents, including the 2021 Kaseya attack

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  EU sets sail with undersea connectivity drive in digital infrastructure initiative

  European Commission announces digital connectivity package to advance development of integrated connectivity and collaborative computing infrastructures and shape future EU policy action

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Law to clear hundreds of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters expected in July

  Law to overturn Post Office convictions based on computer evidence set to be introduced in July following unprecedented legislation

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Stannah looks to enterprise cloud software to lift IT systems

  Major project the keystone of new IT strategy to modernise systems and support growth

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Virgin Media O2 switches on 5G Standalone

  UK operator continues to advance 5G roll-out in line with UK government’s Wireless Infrastructure Strategy

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  UK government breaks one million mark for gigabit broadband upgrades

  Two more Project Gigabit contracts signed to connect a further 32,400 premises in rural UK and further support announced through £70m Future Telecoms programme and Very Hard to Reach Alpha Trials

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network

  Researchers used QKD on a fibre-optic network spanning 184km to show how the technology could be used to secure networks cost-effectively

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Mid and South Essex sets out plans for shared care record

  The Essex-based integrated care system is developing a shared care record for health and social care, aiming to go live in spring 2024

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’

  Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Tech consortium teams with Vodafone to deploy live Open RAN massive MIMO

  Chipmakers, tech firms, networking provider and telco team to demonstrate open virtualised radio access networks and 5G Core virtual User Plane Function using Arm-based CPUs

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Inside LockBit: A ransomware gang in decline?

  The LockBit ransomware gang was already on the ropes prior to the NCA-led takedown, according to security researchers

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Australian data breach report highlights supply chain risks

  The OAIC has called for organisations to proactively address privacy risks from outsourcing personal information handling to third parties

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  CVE volumes set to increase 25% this year

  The number of reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is likely to grow significantly in 2024, hitting a new high of almost 35,000, according to Coalition, a cyber insurance specialist

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  NasuniIQ brings visualisation of massive unstructured datasets

  Global file system provider adds visualisation of massive distributed unstructured datasets to allow customers to analyse data usage and prepare clean training data for artificial intelligence

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  SITA enhances aviation SASE with automated multi-cloud networking service

  Leading IT provider in the air transport industry announces strategic collaboration with multi-cloud networking firm to gain enhanced access to secure cloud-based offerings

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Assange created a ‘grave and immediate risk’, says US government, as it seeks extradition

  Lawyers for the US government hit back at claims that extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is politically motivated

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Co-op signs TCS deal for cloud-first push

  The Co-operative Group has contracted IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services to support its move to a cloud-first IT environment

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

  Survey shows that fewer IT leaders are prioritising workload migration, which suggests they are happy with their deployment plans

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  How Indian fintechs can address compliance issues

  Fintechs will need to bolster their know-your-customer practices and establish self-regulatory mechanisms, among other measures, to address compliance issues that have come under the spotlight

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Unisys investigating potential involvement in controversial Post Office system

  IT supplier wants to get to the bottom of its role in the distribution of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software, linked to potential wrongful convictions

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  London Grid for Learning enrols Community Fibre to connectivity curriculum

  London-based charitable trust taps community broadband provider for backup connectivity in part of wider strategy to deliver ‘world-class’ digital infrastructure to children in London

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  Vodafone starts roll-out of commercial Open RAN in Romania

  Pan-European operator builds on UK commercial deployment and trials in other European countries for open radio access networks in key territory

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Birmingham City Council needs a further £45m to fix ‘disastrous’ Oracle system

  Birmingham City Council’s ERP system is failing to deliver an accurate ledger, which means finance staff have spent months manually entering cost centre data

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  HM Treasury signs AWS hosting environment management deal with Keysource

  HM Treasury has enlisted datacentre management services provider to help operate the AWS environment used to host cross-government spending data system

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Telefónica, Matsuko launch holographic meeting experience

  Telco and spatial computing firm to unveil holographic conferencing service to help users gain more effective communication and emotional connection in meetings

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’

  Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  LockBit locked out: Cyber community reacts

  Reaction to the takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang is enthusiastic, but tempered with the knowledge that cyber criminals are often remarkably resilient

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project

  The University of Lincoln reveals details of the work it has done, with the help of Schneider Electric and RMD UK, to ensure the resiliency of its edge datacentre environments

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  US extradition of Julian Assange is ‘state retaliation’ for exposing war crimes, court hears

  Lawyers argue that the US extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is politically motivated and in is breach of the UK-US extradition treaty

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  BICS, Skylo unite to deliver GEO satellite NB-IoT connectivity

  Connectivity enabler announces partnership with non-terrestrial network operator to deliver ubiquitous satellite-based narrowband internet of things connectivity for enterprises, letting IoT devices travel outside of their home country