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22 Jan 2025
Cyber Safety Review Board axed in DHS cost-cutting move
By Alexander CulafiBenjamine C. Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump, terminated the memberships for all DHS advisory committees, including the CSRB.
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22 Jan 2025
Healthcare ranks as third-most targeted ransomware victim
By Jill McKeonResearch shows that healthcare is now the third-most targeted ransomware victim, and attacks against physician practices as well as hospitals are on the rise.
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22 Jan 2025
Logitech looks for sweet spot in office collaboration
By Joe O’HalloranOffice tech provider looks to support next generation of hybrid work model for those in return-to-office mode with multipurpose tool to help IT leaders and workplace facilities managers
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22 Jan 2025
Console Connect, Zenlayer extend API connected global ecosystem
By Joe O’HalloranPartnership to combine carrier-grade network with expertise in edge computing and low-latency networking to create one-stop connectivity offering for customers
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22 Jan 2025
CMA adds ex-Amazon UK boss to board as provisional judgement in cloud probe nears
By Caroline DonnellyThe former UK boss of Amazon UK has joined the CMA as its interim chair
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22 Jan 2025
Privacy professionals expect budget cuts, lack confidence
By Alex ScroxtonOver 50% of privacy professionals in Europe expect to see less money earmarked for data security initiatives in 2025, and many don’t have faith their organisations are taking the issue seriously, according to an ISACA report
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22 Jan 2025
Funksec gang turned up ransomware heat in December
By Alex ScroxtonThe criminal ransomware fraternity was hard at work over the festive period, with attack volumes rising and a new threat actor emerging on the scene
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22 Jan 2025
ADP deepens relationship with Wavenet
By Simon QuickeCollaboration between Assured Data Protection and Wavenet, as well as Evolve and Evolve IP, underlines the benefits of partners working together
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22 Jan 2025
Healthcare wearables devices can detect IBD flare-ups
By Anuja VaidyaA Mount Sinai study found that healthcare wearable device data, such as heart rate and steps, can enable clinicians to spot flare-ups of IBD symptoms and inflammation.
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22 Jan 2025
Elon Musk distances himself from Trump’s Stargate AI mission
By Cliff SaranJust a few days into the Donald Trump presidency and there appears to be a disagreement brewing around funding of OpenAI and the Stargate Project
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22 Jan 2025
E&, DE-CIX create Middle East SmartHub internet exchange
By Joe O’HalloranMiddle East telco partners with internet exchange operator to boost regional datacentre connectivity, with Fujairah hosting largest submarine cable landing station and new locations for Dubai
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22 Jan 2025
Telxius enhances global Ethernet service with next-gen optics
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal connectivity provider deploys advanced optical pluggables to power the Carrier Ethernet service upgrade, allowing businesses to scale bandwidth between 50Mbps and 100Gbps-plus
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22 Jan 2025
ServiceNow ramps up partner incentives around AI
By Simon QuickeServiceNow uses its channel event to announce a number of enhancements to reward specialists in areas of artificial intelligence
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22 Jan 2025
How smartphones are transforming global health
By Kavitha SrinivasaShyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools
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22 Jan 2025
Europol seeks evidence of encryption on crime enforcement as it steps-up pressure on Big Tech
By Bill GoodwinEuropol wants examples of police investigations hampered by end-to-end encryption as it pressures tech companies to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages
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22 Jan 2025
APAC businesses face surge in email attacks
By Aaron TanSophisticated phishing and business email compromise campaigns are increasingly targeting organisations across the Asia-Pacific region, research reveals
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21 Jan 2025
Intel Foundry gains new defense clients for 18A process
By Antone GonsalvesIntel Foundry secures defense contracts with Trusted Semiconductor Solutions and Reliable MicroSystems, highlighting confidence in its 18A manufacturing process.
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21 Jan 2025
Threat actors abusing Microsoft Teams in ransomware attacks
By Arielle WaldmanSophos researchers observed two separate threat campaigns in which attackers used Microsoft Teams to pose as IT support personnel and gain access to victims' systems.
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21 Jan 2025
TigerGraph launches Savanna to aid AI development
By Eric AvidonThe latest evolution of the graph database specialist's platform aims to meet developers' data discovery and performance requirements as they build AI applications.
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21 Jan 2025
FTC report reveals PBMs inflate costs of specialty generic drugs
By Alivia Kaylor, MScFTC's January 2025 report: Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx generate billions in revenue, by inflating specialty generic drug prices, costs for patients and plan sponsors.
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21 Jan 2025
Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future
By Brian McKennaAccording to research from management consultancy Kearney and analyst firm Futurum, big company CEOs are buying into AI hopes and dreams, with a dash of prudence
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21 Jan 2025
Trump rescinds Biden's trustworthy AI development order
By Anuja VaidyaPresident Trump has rescinded a 2023 executive order that laid out guiding principles for fair and safe AI development, which has implications for healthcare AI tools.
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21 Jan 2025
Halcyon launches partner programme and appoints Distology
By Simon QuickeSecurity player looks for channel growth in the UK with increased support and distributor move
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21 Jan 2025
DriveNets, Fujitsu, UfiSpace join forces to support optical net development
By Joe O’HalloranConsortium of optical technology providers come together to accelerate open network roll-outs and support NTT-driven next-generation optical network infrastructure programme, testing and certification of multiple products
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21 Jan 2025
AV players jostling for channel attention at ISE
By Simon QuickeA number of vendors are lining up the launch of fresh professional displays at the industry event
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21 Jan 2025
Telstra International unveils network of the future vision
By Joe O’HalloranProgress revealed in creating next-gen infrastructure including simplification of architecture, cloudifying infrastructure layer, implementing autonomous operation and removal of legacy platforms
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21 Jan 2025
Government to launch Gov.uk Wallet
By Lis EvenstadThe digital wallet will allow citizens to have government-issued documents, including a digital driver’s licence, on their phone, alongside a new Gov.uk app
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21 Jan 2025
Weak supplier management hinders digital government
By Cliff SaranProcurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services
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21 Jan 2025
Openreach nears million mark in copper stop sell scheme
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s largest telco reveals extent of progress in network transformation programme to make full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses by the end of 2027
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21 Jan 2025
Ascentae, Utelogy unite to enhance collaboration and productivity
By Joe O’HalloranStrategic partnership looks to create ‘innovative’ workplace services that enhance collaboration and productivity, providing a unified platform for managing AV and UC environments
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21 Jan 2025
Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware
By Cliff SaranThe market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services
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21 Jan 2025
Greek authorities subject refugees to invasive surveillance
By Lydia EmmanouilidouGreek border authorities are subjecting asylum seekers to invasive phone confiscations and artificial intelligence-powered surveillance, in another potential violation of European data protection laws
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20 Jan 2025
Government calls for expert views on computer evidence to learn lesson from Post Office scandal
By Karl FlindersThe government is calling for evidence from experts in computing and law to help it ensure no repeat of the miscarriages of justice in the Post Office scandal
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20 Jan 2025
Labour announces plans to overhaul digital government
By Bryan GlickThe Government Digital Service will be expanded along with changes to the way technology is funded, built and delivered across the public sector, as Labour aims for improvements previous administrations struggled to achieve
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20 Jan 2025
UK’s altnets further fibre roll-out
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading and second-leading alternative broadband providers report strong end of year for fibre network deployment
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20 Jan 2025
Freshwave seeds 5G agritech innovation at National Robotarium
By Joe O’HalloranCentre for robotics, AI and automated technologies teams with connectivity firm to investigate and test robotics on private 5G networks for tomorrow’s agriculture industry
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20 Jan 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeThere were moves in the past week at Agilitas IT Solutions, Illumio, Surveil, Hayo, Smartsheet and Panduit
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20 Jan 2025
Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions
By Kim LoohuisThe Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country
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20 Jan 2025
Customers more cautious following CrowdStrike outage
By Simon QuickeThe high-profile problems suffered by security player CrowdStrike in summer 2024 have had a lasting impact on the approach taken by software developers
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20 Jan 2025
Government plans to revamp digital services to save £45bn
By Cliff SaranLegacy IT and the use of tech contractors is costing taxpayers billions. The government aims to fix the public sector with AI and new digital services
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20 Jan 2025
Three UK sets out to build largest mobile packet core in Europe
By Joe O’HalloranSoon-to-merge operator announces major technology roll-out across Europe with next-generation cloud-native core network – claimed to be largest in Europe – more than tripling its core capacity to 9Tbps
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20 Jan 2025
Telehouse research highlights UK knowledge gap about what datacentres do
By Caroline DonnellyDespite the government’s efforts to champion the datacentre sector as a critical component of the country’s future growth, research shows the general public is largely unaware of what server farms are and what they do
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20 Jan 2025
The death of the piggy bank marks coming of age of a fintech
By Karl FlindersFintech is a broad church that can be applied to high finance and child savings alike, as the team at startup Those Beyond have demonstrated
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20 Jan 2025
EXA enters into agreement to acquire Aqua Comms
By Joe O’HalloranDedicated digital infrastructure provider acquires subsea service provider Aqua Comms
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20 Jan 2025
Singtel’s 5G network slicing to boost Singapore’s defence and security
By Aaron TanSingapore’s defence and security technology agencies will leverage Singtel’s 5G network slicing technology nationwide to combat evolving security threats and enhance national security
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19 Jan 2025
ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses
By Aaron TanThe Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations
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17 Jan 2025
CMS releases final ACA marketplace payment notice for 2026
By Kelsey WaddillThe 2026 updates to the ACA marketplace include calculation updates for risk adjustment, slight changes to cost-sharing reduction loading practices and more.
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17 Jan 2025
Treasury Department sanctions company tied to Salt Typhoon
By Arielle WaldmanThe sanctions were in response to significant cyberattacks by Chinese nation-state threat groups against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure in recent months.
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17 Jan 2025
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
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17 Jan 2025
Biden order gives CISA software supply chain 'teeth'
By Beth PariseauThe outgoing administration makes a Hail Mary attempt to salvage work it began in 2021 to require specific software supply chain security information from software suppliers.
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17 Jan 2025
Wolf Haldenstein reports data breach affecting 3.4M people
By Jill McKeonWolf Haldenstein, a law firm that specializes in complex litigation, disclosed a multimillion-record data breach.
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17 Jan 2025
U.S. TikTok ban will affect small businesses
By Makenzie HollandThe Supreme Court upholds the U.S. TikTok ban, which means businesses that have used the app to reach and grow audiences will no longer be able to do so.
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17 Jan 2025
Smart metering reaches 20 million premises across Britain
By Joe O’HalloranUK-wide smart metering network is now connected to more than 20 million homes and small businesses, reaching more than 33 million smart meters, as part of a plan to deliver meaningful benefits to Britain and its energy consumers
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17 Jan 2025
TikTok ban is a hiccup for social recruiters, not a disaster
By Patrick ThibodeauA TikTok ban in the U.S. won't crush recruiting efforts. While the platform has reach, employers still prefer LinkedIn, Instagram and niche tools to find top talent.
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17 Jan 2025
£150m AI framework agreement set to drive NHS forward
By Cliff SaranNHS Shared Business Services is looking to deploy artificial intelligence across the NHS
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17 Jan 2025
LightSpeed, Neos expand connectivity across Midlands, East of England
By Joe O’HalloranCritical network infrastructure firm teams with high-speed broadband provider to bolster FTTH and wholesale services
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17 Jan 2025
Researchers say AI fails to describe complexities of Holocaust
By Vipin ChimraniUsing AI in Holocaust education will require the responsible digitisation of historical assets, as well as collaboration between system providers and domain-specific experts, to ensure effective guardrails that protect against misuse
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17 Jan 2025
Citrix hands Arrow exclusive mid-market role in Europe
By Simon QuickeSoftware player Citrix gives distributor the responsibility for growing and supporting channel partners focused on that customer base
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17 Jan 2025
Zoom enhances Team Chat to streamline collaboration
By Joe O’HalloranZoom updates productivity tool to include a sidebar to organise and streamline chat communication, support for code blocks and in-line code, and AI Companion integrations to help users improve productivity
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17 Jan 2025
TenneT deploys optical network offshore in North Sea to boost output
By Joe O’HalloranLeading European offshore transmission systems operator deploys critical optical networking technology for eight new 2-gigawatt platforms in the Dutch North Sea to deliver green energy to land
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17 Jan 2025
Lords debate government approach to automated decision-making
By Vipin ChimraniDuring the second reading debate of a Lords private members’ bill seeking to better regulate public sector algorithms, the government argued existing measures were sufficient to protect the public
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17 Jan 2025
Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions
By Vipin ChimraniCapgemini says the high environmental costs of generative artificial intelligence systems mean organisations need to develop roadmaps to make their use more sustainable
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17 Jan 2025
Why CIO tenures are getting shorter ... and why it matters
By Neil Price, Practice Head, Executive Search, and Denis Bayliss, Managing Consultant, Harvey NashWhile the CIO role often has a strong focus on delivering technology change many now have a wider business-focused role
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17 Jan 2025
Comms, tech providers drive cross-border 5G highway in France, Germany
By Joe O’Halloran5G Autobahn to Autoroute project to connect the cities of Metz in France to Saarbrücken in Germany with advanced mobility
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17 Jan 2025
Takeda opens innovation centre in Bengaluru
By Kavitha SrinivasaGlobal biopharmaceutical giant Takeda opens its first Asian Innovation Capability Centre in Bengaluru to speed-up drug discovery and development
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16 Jan 2025
Tech industry experts digest cybersecurity executive order
By Beth PariseauIT pros assess a last-minute cybersecurity executive order with new directives on a broad swath of topics, from cybercriminal sanctions to AI and identity management.
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16 Jan 2025
Biden signs new cyber order days before Trump inauguration
By Alex ScroxtonWith days left in the White House, outgoing US president Joe Biden has signed a wide-ranging cyber security executive order with far-reaching implications
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16 Jan 2025
Generative AI ushers in a new era for retail tech
By Don FluckingerRetail stores of the future will be powered by generative AI, but truly frictionless shopping experiences envisioned by tech vendors may be a long way off.
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16 Jan 2025
Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay
By Karl FlindersMore public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise
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16 Jan 2025
Trump's tech policy appointments ready to unleash AI
By Makenzie HollandPresident-elect Donald Trump's tech policy team at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will strongly influence the administration's direction on AI.
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16 Jan 2025
Russia’s Star Blizzard pivots to WhatsApp in spear-phishing campaign
By Alex ScroxtonThe Russian cyber spy operation known as Star Blizzard changed tactics after a takedown operation by Microsoft and the US authorities, turning to widely used messaging platform WhatsApp to try to ensnare its targets
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16 Jan 2025
Google lowers Gemini pricing, pressuring Microsoft Copilot
By Antone GonsalvesGoogle introduces new Gemini pricing in Workspace, making AI features available at $14 per user, per month, challenging Microsoft's Copilot in 365.
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16 Jan 2025
Threat actor publishes data of 15K hacked FortiGate firewalls
By Alexander CulafiAlthough the threat actor published the alleged stolen Fortinet FortiGate firewall data this week, the data is apparently tied to older zero-day exploitation from 2022.
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16 Jan 2025
Lenovo to acquire Infinidat as part of growth strategy
By Tim McCarthyInfinidat's high-end storage offerings fill a Lenovo portfolio gap, but its acquisition winnows the number of storage vendors in the market, according to analysts.
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16 Jan 2025
Snowflake takes aim at lowering GenAI development costs
By Eric AvidonBy integrating its recently developed SwiftKV capabilities with LLMs, the vendor aims to make models more efficient so that customers pay less as they develop generative AI tools.
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16 Jan 2025
Sunderland self-driving bus project gains autonomy provider
By Joe O’HalloranOxford-based connected vehicle software provider announced as key partner for autonomous transport initiative
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16 Jan 2025
National One Health Framework tackles global public health
By Alivia Kaylor, MScThe National One Health Framework is geared to advance public health preparedness in the U.S., integrating human, animal and environmental health to enhance global health security.
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16 Jan 2025
NAO calls for ‘cross-government’ revamp of IT procurement to improve ‘big tech’ project outcomes
By Caroline DonnellyThe National Audit Office has highlighted a series of shortcomings in the government’s approach to digital procurement
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16 Jan 2025
NAO report calls for government IT procurement rethink
By Simon QuickeCriticism abounds of reliance on big tech to deliver digital transformation across government departments
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16 Jan 2025
Almost half of UK banks set to miss DORA deadline
By Alex ScroxtonA significant minority of financial services organisations in the UK will not be fully compliant with the EU’s DORA cyber and risk management regulation when it comes into force on 17 January
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16 Jan 2025
Nvidia launches new NIM microservices in NeMo Guardrails
By Esther ShittuThe AI hardware and software vendor introduces new constraints to make sure AI agents and models don't go off topic, leak personal data or become vulnerable to jailbreaks.
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16 Jan 2025
BT unveils 5G Standalone network slicing deployment first in Belfast
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco BT announced the first real-world deployment of 5G Standalone network slicing capabilities in a slicing trial that brought payments to Belfast Christmas Market in December 2024
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16 Jan 2025
UK Home Office reveals new approach to deliver Emergency Services Network
By Joe O’HalloranIT partners announced to get over-budget emergency services communications network back on track
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16 Jan 2025
DORA unpreparedness spells channel opportunity
By Simon QuickeCompliance regulations come into force on 17 January, but many in the financial services community are not ready
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16 Jan 2025
L’Oréal: Making AI worth it
By Cliff SaranNo stranger to advanced technologies, the cosmetics firm is partnering with IBM on GenAI capabilities to support its sustainability goals
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16 Jan 2025
Bank of England and New York counterpart exchange puts technology cooperation into 3D
By Karl FlindersA staff exchange between regulators will see US and UK financial technology experts cross the Atlantic
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16 Jan 2025
Global IT spending to soar in 2025
By Aaron TanS&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy
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16 Jan 2025
DDN seeks AI leadership as it bags $300m investment
By Yann SerraDDN aims to take high-performance computing expertise and become a leader in storage for artificial intelligence. It builds on years in the HPC space, and now has £300m from Blackstone, a fund with an AI focus
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16 Jan 2025
Davos 2025: Digital supply chains at risk as world faces two years of turbulence
By Bill GoodwinWorld Economic Forum urges digital business leaders to build the resilience of supply chains, improve cyber defences and develop contingency plans
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16 Jan 2025
ESET details UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability
By Arielle WaldmanESET researchers last year discovered an unsigned binary in a third-party UEFI application that could have been abused to bypass the Secure Boot process.
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16 Jan 2025
Nexfibre calls for regulatory action on Openreach’s broadband overreach
By Joe O’HalloranUK fibre provider publishes report urging regulatory consistency for broadband industry, including maintaining restrictions on market leader to avoid ‘harming investment, innovation and the progress’ of full-fibre roll-out
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16 Jan 2025
Diversity in tech 2024: Collaboration is vital for DEI progress
By Clare McDonaldAt the 2024 Computer Weekly and Harvey Nash diversity in tech event, speakers and audience members alike made it clear that gaining true equity in the technology sector will continue to move at a snail’s pace without working together
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15 Jan 2025
Cisco AI cybersecurity launch touts shadow AI defense
By Beth PariseauCisco wields the power of incumbency to weave AI security into existing cloud access management tools, including algorithmic validation testing on AI models.
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15 Jan 2025
DEA proposes special registrations for telehealth prescribing
By Anuja VaidyaThe DEA's new special registrations framework allows telehealth prescribing for controlled substances but also requires checks for patient identity and PDMP monitoring.
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15 Jan 2025
Trump nominates AI in HR advocate to Department of Labor
By Patrick ThibodeauA proponent of AI's use in HR, Keith Sonderling has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump for the No. 2 position in the Department of Labor.
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15 Jan 2025
FBI removes Chinese PlugX malware from 4,258 U.S. computers
By Alexander CulafiThe FBI did not inform individuals that it deleted PlugX malware from users' computers beforehand, citing the possibility of Chinese state-sponsored hackers making adjustments.
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15 Jan 2025
NetApp sells Spot business to Flexera for $100M
By Tim McCarthyFlexera acquires NetApp's cloud management business and products as the storage vendor focuses on a hybrid cloud and AI future.
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15 Jan 2025
FDA bans Red No. 3 in food and ingested drugs
By Alivia Kaylor, MScOn Jan. 15, 2025, the FDA revoked authorization for Red No. 3 in food and ingested drugs under the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, requiring manufacturers to comply by Jan. 18, 2028.
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15 Jan 2025
Zyxel, Trellix and Picus improve partner programme offerings
By Simon QuickeVendors rewarding and supporting partners that get involved with key products and widen routes to market
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15 Jan 2025
HHS reaches HIPAA settlement with Solara Medical Supplies
By Jill McKeonSolara Medical Supplies agreed to pay $3 million to resolve potential HIPAA violations stemming from a phishing attack.
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15 Jan 2025
Older adults' digital health use varies by race, other factors
By Anuja VaidyaNew research reveals that older adults use various digital health tools, including patient portals and telehealth platforms, but demographic factors shape utilization.
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15 Jan 2025
Cisco looking to partners to take AI security offering to market
By Simon QuickeVendor announces release that will identify, validate and secure applications running across a network
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15 Jan 2025
ThoughtSpot adds data preparation with Analyst Studio launch
By Eric AvidonLong focused largely on analytics, the vendor's new data preparation environment marks a foray into data management so users can ready data for informing AI and BI tools.