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28 Mar 2024
Microsoft intros new responsible AI tools in Azure Studio
By Esther AjaoThe new tools address one of the barriers of adoption for enterprises looking to use generative AI technologies. It shows Microsoft’s thought process on government regulations.
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28 Mar 2024
US AI policy for federal agencies requires transparency
By Makenzie HollandThe OMB's new policy calls for federal agencies to be transparent about AI use and designate chief AI officers to coordinate efforts.
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28 Mar 2024
Hybrid work drives demand for SASE, zero-trust networking
By Joe O’HalloranAryaka report finds five key trends with 70% of CISOs seeking secure access service edge and software-defined WAN convergence for simplified infrastructure management
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28 Mar 2024
UK plc going backwards on cyber maturity, Cisco report claims
By Alex ScroxtonFewer UK organisations believe their cyber security postures have reached a mature level than did so 12 months ago, as they struggle to keep up with new challenges and a fast-evolving threat landscape
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28 Mar 2024
Sellafield to be prosecuted over alleged cyber compliance failure
By Alex ScroxtonSellafield Ltd, the organisation responsible for cleaning up and decommissioning the UK's largest nuclear waste site, is to be prosecuted over alleged cyber security failings dating back to 2019
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28 Mar 2024
Climb CEO talks emerging vendors, expansion and UK importance
By Simon QuickeWe speak to the distributor’s chief executive, Dale Foster, who has plans to widen the reach of the business and believes the need for specialists remains as high as ever
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28 Mar 2024
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
By Steve RangerTeam of data scientists expands as Treasury looks to drive ‘data transformation’ across department
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28 Mar 2024
Counter-eavesdropping agency unlawfully used surveillance powers to identify journalist’s source
By Bill GoodwinMore than 750 journalists had their communications data accessed by law enforcement and government agencies between 2018 and 2022
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28 Mar 2024
Vonage boosts conversational commerce with GenAI
By Joe O’HalloranEricsson-owned cloud comms tech provider integrates generative AI capabilities with Conversational Commerce service to let contact centre agents generate creative content, automate tasks and improve user experience
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28 Mar 2024
Exclusive bolsters APAC operations
By Simon QuickeSecond acquisition in the space of four months gives the distributor a platform to increase the Asia-Pacific region’s contribution to the overall business
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28 Mar 2024
Remote access is the Post Office’s known unknown
By Karl FlindersCalls for criminal investigation after covert recordings are latest evidence to reveal extent of Post Office knowledge of remote access to subpostmaster accounts
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28 Mar 2024
Merged Vodafone/Three could offer UK’s leading mobile coverage
By Joe O’HalloranDespite the possible merger of Vodafone UK and Three UK set for rigorous examination by competition watchdog, mobile analyst points to performance benefits of proposed deal
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28 Mar 2024
Zayo lights up European fibre connectivity with Waves on Demand
By Joe O’HalloranFuture-ready network and tailored edge services provider expands European connectivity with fibre service offering customers dedicated 100G Wave routes across the continent in five working days
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27 Mar 2024
Adobe intros new GenAI tools and apps for marketers
By Esther AjaoThe new applications and tools are for marketers looking to connect the different processes of the content supply chain in a safe and responsible manner.
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27 Mar 2024
Workday's AI lawsuit defense puts responsibility on users
By Patrick ThibodeauWorkday faces an AI lawsuit that's raising questions about HR software responsibility and liability in AI-driven recruitment. A federal judge is considering a dismissal motion.
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27 Mar 2024
New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models.
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27 Mar 2024
Zoom spreads AI across collaboration services
By Antone GonsalvesZoom's new AI-powered Workplace enters a market in which enterprises worry about the loss of data control in AI applications spreading across collaboration platforms.
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27 Mar 2024
Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis.
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27 Mar 2024
Spyware vendors behind 75% of zero-days targeting Google
By Alexander CulafiGoogle observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild last year, which was more than a 50% increase over the 62 exploited zero-day vulnerabilities tracked in 2022.
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27 Mar 2024
Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Scottish NHS board
By Alex ScroxtonData stolen from an earlier attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been leaked by a ransomware gang that claims to be in possession of much more content
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27 Mar 2024
RingCentral goes global with AI-powered contact centre solution
By Joe O’HalloranProvider of artificial intelligence-driven cloud solutions expands global footprint and drives adoption momentum of contact centre products with CRM integrations that enable integrated, immersive agent experience
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27 Mar 2024
TD Synnex expects improving market through 2024
By Simon QuickeDistributor shares Q1 numbers, but looks to PC growth and impact of AI to help drive business forward
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
By Caroline DonnellyDespite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation
By Alex ScroxtonAnalysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime
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27 Mar 2024
Unpatched flaw in Anyscale's Ray AI framework under attack
By Arielle WaldmanOligo Security researchers say thousands of Ray servers have been compromised through the flaw, but Anyscale said it has received no reports of exploitation.
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27 Mar 2024
Ofgem begins consultation on dynamic price caps
By Cliff SaranSmart meters make it possible to manage the electricity grid in a more flexible way, but millions are facing connectivity issues
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27 Mar 2024
Westcon-Comstor promotes Partner Insights
By Simon QuickeDistributor is encouraging channel to use data it provides to help identify trends and grow their businesses
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27 Mar 2024
Indian large language models gain momentum
By Pratima HarigunaniIndian large language models trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country
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27 Mar 2024
Avaya announces Zoom strategic partnership for collaboration
By Joe O’HalloranAvaya selects Zoom’s recently launched AI-powered Workplace platform to integrate with its Communication and Collaboration Suite to help enterprises ‘reimagine’ teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
By Steve RangerEnterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks
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27 Mar 2024
Cisco unveils enhanced collaboration tech for the hybrid workforce
By Joe O’HalloranMultifunctional devices from Cisco aim to enhance collaboration in offices through optimised cameras and AI-powered collaboration features for hybrid teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLegislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts
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27 Mar 2024
Goldilock makes move to channel-first model
By Simon QuickeSecurity player views partners as best way to grow business and brings on board expertise to support shift
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27 Mar 2024
Leaked comms reveal Fujitsu eyeing huge UK government bounty, despite Post Office scandal promise
By Karl FlindersWhile subpostmasters fight tooth and nail for justice and financial redress, Fujitsu continues to target millions of UK taxpayer pounds
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27 Mar 2024
UK regional science and tech startups grew in 2023
By Lis EvenstadGlobally there is still a post-pandemic funding slump, but UK startups in regions such as Wales and Yorkshire grew private sector investment in 2023
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27 Mar 2024
Flashpoint observes 84% surge in ransomware attacks in 2023
By Arielle WaldmanThe threat intelligence vendor anticipates that enterprises will continue to face increases in ransomware activity and data breaches in 2024, with some silver linings ahead.
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26 Mar 2024
Qilin ransomware gang claims cyber attack on the Big Issue
By Alex ScroxtonA ransomware attack on the systems of publisher and social enterprise Big Issue Group has been claimed by the Qilin gang
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26 Mar 2024
Talkdesk releases on-prem AI contact center automation suite
By Don FluckingerContact center as a service users have a leg up on generative AI integrations because of the nature of cloud infrastructure, but on-premises customer service will get theirs.
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26 Mar 2024
SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet software under attack
By Arielle WaldmanFortinet and CISA confirmed CVE-2023-48788 is being actively exploited. But the Shadowserver Foundation found that many vulnerable instances remain online.
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26 Mar 2024
Top.gg supply chain attack highlights subtle risks
By Alexander CulafiThreat actors used fake Python infrastructure and cookie stealing to poison multiple GitHub code repositories, putting another spotlight on supply chain risks.
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26 Mar 2024
Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management
By Cliff SaranCern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware
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26 Mar 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange given temporary reprieve over extradition
By Bill GoodwinCourt seeks assurances from the US that Assange will be given First Amendment Rights, will not prejudiced at trial because of his nationality, and will not be subject to the death penalty
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26 Mar 2024
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
By Yann SerraHPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline
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26 Mar 2024
Shareholders win when businesses do better at cyber
By Alex ScroxtonThe more advanced a company’s cyber security performance, and the more engaged its board is with security issues, the greater the return for shareholders, a report has found
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26 Mar 2024
Softcat boss talks H1 results, M&A and growing headcount
By Simon QuickeIn light of the release of numbers for the channel player’s first half, Softcat’s CEO shares his thoughts on the progress made
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26 Mar 2024
Writer Inc.'s new AI tool generates voice of marketers' content
By Esther AjaoAs generative AI technology grows in marketing, personalized tools such as these help brands define their style. It makes sure what's generated is on brand with a company's message.
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26 Mar 2024
Cisco releases Webex AI Assistant for office, contact center
By Don FluckingerCisco brings AI Assistant for Webex to Enterprise Connect. Analysts break down the timing and potential for the new features available for office collaboration and contact center.
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26 Mar 2024
HPE taps GenAI to bolster AIOps on Aruba Networking Central
By Joe O’HalloranCloud-native network management service to be enhanced through GenAI LLM models applied directly to AI search to improve performance and accuracy for enhanced operator experience
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26 Mar 2024
Ogi, MS3 push altnet-delivered gigabit Britain
By Joe O’HalloranWales and north of England-based gigabit broadband networks providers reveal strategies to cash in on accelerated roll-out of full-fibre gigabit services to businesses and homes alike
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26 Mar 2024
Apple, Meta and Alphabet under EU scrutiny
By Cliff SaranUnder the new Digital Markets Act, European commissioners are looking at potential issues with the way Apple, Alphabet and Meta operate their platforms
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26 Mar 2024
Pandemic hangover continuing to impact AV world
By Simon QuickeSubstantial number of customers looking to rip and replace the kit that was on the walls and desks when Covid hit
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26 Mar 2024
New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI
By Eric AvidonThe longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI.
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26 Mar 2024
Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management
By Cliff SaranKubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines
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26 Mar 2024
NHS SBS launches digital advisory framework
By Lis EvenstadThe Digital Health Advisory Services framework agreement aims to provide a way for health and care organisations to get help with digital transformation and skills
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26 Mar 2024
New SIOS console enables high availability visualization
By Tim McCarthyIT generalists on Linux systems can avoid the complexity of HA management for mission-critical apps or databases with a new management console in SIOS' LifeKeeper software.
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26 Mar 2024
Zoom aims to reimagine teamwork with Workplace AI collaboration platform
By Joe O’HalloranComms and collaboration specialist unveils artificial intelligence-powered platform to help reimagine teamwork, facilitate connections and improve productivity intelligence within familiar experience
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26 Mar 2024
Softcat shares H1 progress
By Simon QuickeChannel player indicates the business emerged from a tough 2023 in decent shape, and ambition to grow market share remains paramount
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26 Mar 2024
GTC 2024: Storage suppliers queue up to ride the Nvidia AI wave
By Antony AdsheadStorage supplier announcements at Nvdia conference centre on infrastructure integration, tackling the GPU I/O bottleneck and AI hallucinations by running Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices
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26 Mar 2024
How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications
By Aaron TanSAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers
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26 Mar 2024
RingCentral looks to ‘reimagine’ business phone system with real-time AI
By Joe O’HalloranCloud business communications provider adds artificial intelligence to provide immersive employee experience, with capabilities including real-time call notes, conversation intelligence, message translator and generative search
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26 Mar 2024
NCSC reaffirms guidance for those at risk of Chinese state hacking
By Alex ScroxtonAs the UK and US governments announce sanctions and indictments of a Chinese state threat actor, the NCSC has reiterated its security advice for individuals at risk of being targeted for espionage purposes
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26 Mar 2024
US authorities charge seven over Chinese hacking
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Department of Justice has charged seven Chinese nationals linked to the APT31 threat actor that targeted politicians in the UK and US
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26 Mar 2024
Sums of money Post Office ‘stole’ from subpostmasters may never be known
By Karl FlindersMP asks government minister for figure on how much money the Post Office took from subpostmasters who were wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls
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25 Mar 2024
Which? calls for government action on fake banking sites
By Alex ScroxtonAmid high volumes of spoofed, fraudulent banking websites, Which? is calling for the government to implement new legal obligations for domain registrars
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25 Mar 2024
Chinese hackers responsible for two ‘malicious’ cyber campaigns against UK
By Bill GoodwinGovernment sanctions two Chinese nationals and a Chinese company identified as responsible for cyber campaigns against government officials and members of parliament
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25 Mar 2024
NEC, NTT claim success in first-of-its-kind subsea optical fibre cable trial
By Joe O’HalloranTech giant and leading Japanese telecoms provider reveals research making progress towards increasing capacity of transoceanic optical submarine cable through use of over 7,000km using 12-core fibre net
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25 Mar 2024
Marked growth in UK broadband proves elusive in 2023
By Joe O’HalloranQuarterly study from specialist comms analyst finds persistent challenging macro-economic conditions acting as headwind for overall fixed and wireless broadband market in final quarter of 2023, but with fibre still a shining light
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25 Mar 2024
Interview: Priyanka Sharma, executive director, CNCF
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the Cloud Native Computing Forum chief about her own journey in software development and the continuous drive towards greater inclusivity
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25 Mar 2024
Turing Institute: Generative AI is going to change the face of government
By Steve RangerTuring Institute researchers say there is a ‘huge’ opportunity for artificial intelligence to automate many government services
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25 Mar 2024
IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition
By Joe O’HalloranTech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments
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25 Mar 2024
Britain’s democracy under threat from Chinese cyber attackers, government warns
By Bill GoodwinThe deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, is due to tell Parliament that Beijing is behind a hacking attack that obtained details of 40 million UK voters and has targeted parliamentarians who have criticised the regime
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25 Mar 2024
Vodafone Business aims to boost SME effectiveness with IT Hubs channel
By Joe O’HalloranUK IT experts and entrepreneurs are invited to join local franchise opportunity as part of strategic drive from Vodafone to help smaller businesses better manage their IT solutions
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25 Mar 2024
Vodafone, Three merger faces further competition review
By Joe O’HalloranBlow to major UK operators’ merger plans as competition watchdog takes investigation to new level, concluding that combining firms could leave consumers and businesses worse off
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22 Mar 2024
Generative AI emerges as sustainability opportunity
By Makenzie HollandGenerative AI can be a useful tool for helping business leaders achieve climate and sustainability goals.
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22 Mar 2024
Nvidia partners, customers drive AI into data centers
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia and its partners are providing the tools and infrastructure to build and deploy AI applications that companies say could transform their businesses.
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22 Mar 2024
Salesforce Field Service users get generative AI helpers
By Don FluckingerSalesforce launches Einstein 1 Field Service Edition. Field technicians get a generative AI boost to help navigate through scheduling and technical content.
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22 Mar 2024
'GoFetch' attack spells trouble for Apple M-series chips
By Rob WrightAcademic researchers discovered a hardware optimization feature called 'data memory-dependent prefetcher' could be abused to extract secret encryption keys from vulnerable systems.
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22 Mar 2024
Court finds EncroChat hacked messages admissible as former footballer is jailed
By Bill GoodwinA judge in ‘lead’ EncroChat case found that messages obtained by police from the encrypted phone network can be lawfully used in evidence
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22 Mar 2024
Nationwide building society falls victim to IT outage
By Alex ScroxtonNationwide joins McDonald’s, Greggs, Sainsbury’s and Tesco as the fifth major high street name to experience an IT service outage in the space of a week
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22 Mar 2024
Fujitsu won’t sign any new business in Ireland
By Karl FlindersFujitsu is closing down its Irish business after a review of the operation’s current performance and market outlook
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22 Mar 2024
Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data
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22 Mar 2024
Sidecarless Istio Ambient Mesh clears cloud interop hurdle
By Beth PariseauIstio's Ambient Mesh is now compatible with major cloud providers' managed Kubernetes services, available as an Amazon EKS add-on and slated for beta in the next release.
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22 Mar 2024
Microsoft joins AI-capable PC party
By Simon QuickeFirm launches two offerings aimed at the business market as it looks to include more GenAi features in its technology
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22 Mar 2024
Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’
By Stephen WithersCompany CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix
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22 Mar 2024
The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum
By Steve RangerPlatform teams are extending their responsibilities to security as platform engineering takes DevOps to the next level
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22 Mar 2024
Women In Data panel: NHS needs to get data basics right before rushing into AI
By Madeline BennettDuring a panel discussion at the recent Women In Data event, speakers from across the public healthcare sector outlined the groundwork that has to be laid for AI to really take the NHS by storm
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22 Mar 2024
Everywoman announces 2024 Women in Tech Awards winners
By Clare McDonaldNetwork for women in business, Everywoman, has announced the winners of this year’s technology awards, in partnership with Bupa
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22 Mar 2024
Post Office Capture users’ campaign for justice gathers pace
By Karl FlindersThe government is taking Post Office Capture allegations seriously as former subpostmasters seek answers
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21 Mar 2024
SAP chief AI officer: Waiting on AI is the wrong strategy
By Jim O'DonnellSAP's first chief AI officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company's new AI-focused organization and underscores why companies should begin experimenting with AI technologies.
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21 Mar 2024
Dell's plan to restrict remote worker promotions might backfire
By Patrick ThibodeauDell's new plan to restrict promotions for full-time remote workers may lead to employee turnover. But research says remote workers have always been at a disadvantage.
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21 Mar 2024
UN AI resolution marks global interest in rules, principles
By Makenzie HollandWhile the United Nations' artificial intelligence resolution does not create legally binding rules, it might indicate which countries are thinking in that direction.
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21 Mar 2024
AWS fixes 'FlowFixation' vulnerability for account hijacking
By Alexander CulafiA Tenable researcher discovered a session fixation flaw in AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow that, combined with a misconfiguration, could enable account hijacking.
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21 Mar 2024
US sues Apple, alleging smartphone monopoly
By Alex ScroxtonA major legal action against Apple over its dominance of the smartphone market has kicked off in the US, alleging anticompetitive practices on Apple’s part that have damaged the sector and restricted consumer choice
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21 Mar 2024
WEKApod appliance built for Nvidia GPUs a first for company
By Adam ArmstrongWeka enters new territory with WEKApod, an appliance purpose-built for Nvidia DGX SuperPod. The offering is part of a major push from storage vendors vying to work with the GPU maker.
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21 Mar 2024
UK government takes measures to boost resilience of 999 call system
By Joe O’HalloranThe government is introducing additional safeguards to ensure resilience of the 999 emergency call handling system following a technical fault in 2023
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21 Mar 2024
DOJ sues Apple for monopolizing smartphone market
By Makenzie HollandThe DOJ is pursuing an antitrust case against Apple in a move the enforcement agency hopes will eventually spur competition in the smartphone market.
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21 Mar 2024
BICS partners with SaaS startup
By Joe O’HalloranRecently rebranded software-as-a-service customer engagement company switching up its communication partner to BICS as it looks to consolidate and expand across Europe
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21 Mar 2024
TD Synnex stocks Cisco Refresh products
By Simon QuickeDistributor TD Synnex will hold Cisco Refresh goods that will make it quicker for partners to get their hands on refurbished products
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21 Mar 2024
Microsoft shares progress in getting the channel to embrace AI
By Simon QuickeVendor reveals the activity it has inspired in the channel since promoting artificial intelligence with partner programmes last summer
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21 Mar 2024
Databricks acquisition of Lilac targets GenAI development
By Eric AvidonThe data platform vendor's latest purchase expands its generative AI development capabilities by adding improved access to unstructured data that can be used to train models.
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21 Mar 2024
NCC Group: Ransomware attacks jump 73% in February
By Arielle WaldmanWhile NCC Group expected an increase in ransomware attacks from January to February, year-over-year data showed just how persistent the threat is to enterprises.
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21 Mar 2024
NCSC guidance to help CEOs work through cyber incidents
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC has published in-depth guidance on how business leaders should respond to a cyber attack or data breach. Learn about some of the key steps you will need to follow
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21 Mar 2024
Three UK sees top-line revenue growth but first EBIT loss since 2010
By Joe O’HalloranUK mobile network operator reports earnings loss for the first time since 2010 but growth in certain customer segments driven by business-to-business, 5G, home broadband and Smarty service