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• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Subscriptions dip, jobs to be cut, but Virgin Media O2 sees positives in Q2

  Second-quarter 2023 results see UK operator increase revenue generation and expand network with particular emphasis on full-fibre, but 2,000 employees set to be axed by the end of the year

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation

  With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

  Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Tetra radio users’ comms may have been exposed for years

  A number of flaws in the encryption algorithms used in the secure Tetra radio communications standard have potentially left users exposed to snooping

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Mayor of London announces startup funding

  Seven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Small satellite testing gets funding boost

  A new facility has been established as part of the government’s £200m funding for Earth Observation

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Soracom teams with Skylo to deliver cloud-native IoT non-terrestrial network connectivity

  Advanced IoT connectivity company inks deal with non-terrestrial network service provider to deliver cloud-native, space-based connectivity solutions

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia

  In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Airbus extends Astrocast partnership to enhance satellite IoT technology 

  Satellite internet of things tech provider extends business relationship with Defence and Space division of global aerospace leader

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Business segment boon for Vodafone in first quarter

  As it works out how to merge business with erstwhile rival, UK operator posts first-quarter results showing green shoots of recovery, after fiscal 2023 leading to turnaround strategy based on customers, simplicity and growth

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

  Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  BT, OneWeb demonstrate high-speed satellite connectivity delivery to island community

  UK’s leading telco and satellite communications provider join UK government to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity to island in country traditionally under served by high-speed broadband

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Citrix NetScaler users told to patch new zero-day urgently

  A vulnerability disclosed and patched last week by Citrix appears to be being exploited by China-backed threat actors as a zero-day, prompting warnings from government cyber bodies

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Tribunal investigates complaint that journalists’ phones were unlawfully monitored

  The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has agreed to investigate complaints by Northern Ireland investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey that they were unlawfully placed under surveillance

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Bank of England’s project to replace ‘beating heart’ is foundation for continuous development

  The Bank of England has reached a major milestone in its core system replacement programme, with next landmark in sight

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Security AI and automation may reduce cost of data breaches

  Organisations that go all in on security AI and automation tend to incur lower financial costs when they experience a data breach incident, according to an IBM report

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Why cyber security should be part of your ESG strategy

  The impact of data breaches and cyber threats on businesses, societies and the environment makes cyber security a key consideration in an environment, social and governance strategy

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers

  The most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  Almost 60% of people seeking a new role are doing so for cash

  There are many reasons someone may choose to seek a new role or job at another company, but this year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey found that a majority do so for a higher salary

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  SAP’s Klein sees $1tn market for AI business software

  Enterprise software company embeds AI across product portfolio to improve efficiency in business processes

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  Commsignia wheels out vehicle-to-everything for bicycles

  Vehicle-to-everything technology provider turns attention from four wheels to two, looking to apply technology expertise to solve traffic information issues from cycling and micro-mobility sectors

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  Government boosts protection for encryption in Online Safety Bill but civil society groups concerned

  House of Lords adopts amendment to require Ofcom to commission a report before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages, but drops proposals for judicial oversight

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  More ASEAN IT pros staying in their jobs

  Global economic uncertainty and staff retention efforts by employers are keeping the region’s IT professionals longer in their jobs

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Electronic Trade Documents Act receives royal assent

  Digital trade documents are to be accorded the same status in law as paper ones under a law implemented to help reduce paper waste and speed up the UK’s foreign trade

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Broadband Forum, Fiber Broadband Association team to drive broadband service delivery

  Agreement between trade bodies in fibre and broadband industries to combine advocacy, industry research, workforce development and educational experience with technical standards and interoperability expertise

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Qualcomm and Meta collaborate to enable on-device AI applications using Llama 2

  Mobile tech giant working with social media platform to make available Llama 2-based implementations on smartphones and PCs to enable new generative AI applications using Snapdragon platforms

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  BT Group taps Juniper to enable services at increased scale and quality

  AI-driven networks provider selected by UK’s largest telecommunications group for technology to meet experience and sustainability requirements of network applications across broadband, mobile and fixed networks

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’

  The Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, DWP

  Only 13 weeks into his new role, the Department for Work and Pensions’ CDIO speaks to Computer Weekly about plans for artificial intelligence, data modernisation and how to complete a business plan in record time

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Renowned hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick dead at 59

  Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 from complications arising from pancreatic cancer, following a 14-month illness

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  How the DSMA balances security and privacy with press freedom

  In a world of information sharing and 24-hour news cycles, the Defence and Security Media Advisory committee have to balance national security and data privacy with freedom of the press

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services

  TCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Attention-seeking KillNet hacktivists becoming more dangerous

  The KillNet DDoS gang seems to be becoming more dangerous, but its primary goal remains to create a lot of noise and draw media attention, according to latest analysis

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Project Gigabit ‘failing to deliver’

  Research finds half of UK homes with unusable broadband have yet to receive funding from flagship government scheme to develop gigabit connectivity across UK, especially hard-to-reach areas

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  AI and data experts to be brought into government through secondment programme

  The government has announced plans for a secondment programme designed to bring digital experts into government departments

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Vodafone deploys Ericsson single antenna technology to accelerate 5G roll-out

  UK operator makes ‘game-changer’ in deployment of tech to increase 5G capacity without growing visual antenna footprint and do more with less, especially with regard to power consumption

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Utilities bank on satellite IoT to secure future of national power grids

  Global research reveals three-quarters of electrical utilities leaders believe satellite connectivity and technology partnerships will help mitigate emerging industry threats over next five years

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022

  IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  BlackCat and Clop gangs both claim cyber attack on Estée Lauder

  Cosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder is experiencing operational disruption in the wake of a cyber attack that seems to involve two different cyber crime gangs

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up

  The $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium

  Consortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps

  The latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Microsoft’s Nadella sees massive growth opportunity in AI

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella uses his keynote at the company’s Inspire partner conference to discuss the economic potential of artificial intelligence

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Openreach claims ‘game-changer’ for wholesale optical Ethernet

  BT broadband provision division ups the ante in enterprise broadband with optical networking product designed to address demand for 100G point-to-point managed services in the access network

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  ‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute

  UK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Half of cyber pros engage in risky behaviour at work, report claims

  Approximately 55% of security professionals say they have engaged in behaviours they would more usually advise against in the workplace, according to a report

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Cyber criminal AI tool WormGPT produces ‘unsettling’ results

  A newly discovered generative AI tool dubbed WormGPT is being sold to the cyber criminal underground via the dark web, and poses a significant danger, researchers warn

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

  The latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue

  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Nokia, Starlink, Speedcast collaborate to drive private networks in Brazil

  Comms tech firm and satellite broadband connectivity leader to expand coverage with LTE private wireless networks in Brazil