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14 May 2024
Microsoft handles 2 Windows zero-days on May Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatIn addition to the Windows vulnerabilities exploited in the wild, admins should focus on patching multiple flaws in web browsers from Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
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14 May 2024
Genesys debuts customer service GenAI, journey management
By Don FluckingerCustomer journey management and a bevy of generative AI tools -- including more trademark empathy detection -- added to Genesys Cloud contact center platform.
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14 May 2024
Google Gemini generative AI hits all products, including Search
By Shaun SutnerThe tech giant made its Gemini GenAI model more powerful and rolled out new Gemini-powered products for enterprises and consumers.
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14 May 2024
What Google Gemini AI updates mean for software developers
By Beth PariseauGoogle's AI dev tools deliver natively multi-modal models that can process huge amounts of data more efficiently and affordably, making it easier to develop apps using AI.
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14 May 2024
GenAI complicates IT vendor management
By John MooreIT leaders at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium cited the challenge of managing the "explosion" of GenAI companies while also working with vendors in maturing technology sectors.
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14 May 2024
VMware Cloud on AWS now sold exclusively by Broadcom
By Tim McCarthyBroadcom discontinues AWS as a reseller of VMware Cloud on AWS, further evidence that it wants hands-on control of how the VM technology is sold, supported and distributed.
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14 May 2024
CIOs play a role in responding to cybersecurity regulations
By Makenzie HollandCIOs will need to pay attention to cybersecurity regulations that often include multiple requirements for businesses to maintain safe and secure IT systems.
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14 May 2024
Matt Garman to replace Adam Selipsky as AWS CEO
By Tim McCarthyMatt Garman will become the new CEO at AWS. He will replace Adam Selipsky, a tech veteran who came to the role when current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took over for Jeff Bezos.
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14 May 2024
Generative AI adoption outpacing all other forms of AI
By Eric AvidonA recent survey by the research and advisory firm found that deployment of generative artificial intelligence has exploded after barely being a consideration in the past.
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14 May 2024
Google discloses 2 zero-day vulnerabilities in less than a week
By Arielle WaldmanGoogle released fixed versions to address the two vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser, but the updates will roll out in stages with no specific dates available.
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14 May 2024
China poses genuine and increasing cyber security risk to UK, says GCHQ director
By Bill GoodwinGCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler uses first major public speech to warn that China poses a significant cyber security threat to the UK
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14 May 2024
HR vendors give managers more upskilling control
By Patrick ThibodeauNew tools from Oracle and ServiceNow focus on giving business leaders more control over upskilling and reskilling in an effort to address the AI skills gap.
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14 May 2024
Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse
By Karl FlindersThe Scottish parliament will introduce its own legislation to exonerate subpostmasters with convictions based on evidence from Post Office Horizon system
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14 May 2024
QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace
By Antony AdsheadTape 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
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14 May 2024
Cradlepoint enhances MSP programme
By Simon QuickeNetworking player Cradlepoint improves managed service offering to encourage more partners to get behind 5G
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14 May 2024
SonicWall CEO talks transformation, security transparency
By Alexander CulafiSonicWall's CEO said that following a string of serious vulnerabilities the company responded to in 2021, product development and quality assurance operations were overhauled.
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14 May 2024
CyberUK 24: UK insurance industry gets tough on ransomware
By Alex ScroxtonThree 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
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14 May 2024
Security hampers shift towards cloud printing
By Simon QuickeCustomers have been moving towards off-premise options, but concerns around data integrity remain
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14 May 2024
Salesforce adds generative AI tools to Education Cloud
By Don FluckingerCustomers discuss Salesforce's GenAI push into education with features that target business process automation for K-12 and college students and administrators.
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14 May 2024
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
By Antony AdsheadNew 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
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14 May 2024
Spectra Logic, Geyser Data launch tape as a service
By Adam ArmstrongSpectra Logic and Geyser Data are partnering to provide an as-a-service offering for tape, which gives customers access to tape storage in the cloud.
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14 May 2024
NetApp freshens storage hardware with AFF A-Series flash
By Tim McCarthyA new line of flash storage hardware focused on high availability and performance headlines NetApp's new offerings along with several storage software updates.
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14 May 2024
CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
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14 May 2024
NHS trust dismisses governors who questioned allegations of email tampering
By Tommy GreeneTwo 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
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13 May 2024
OpenAI advances LLM with GPT-4o; Google Gemini update looms
By Shaun SutnerThe GenAI giant is out with a faster, more interactive version of its GPT-4 LLM for enterprises, and new, higher speed features for the consumer-focused ChatGPT Free.
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13 May 2024
Startup partnerships at MIT Sloan event rev sales channels
By John MooreEarly-stage companies featured at MIT Sloan's annual CIO event tap partners to speed up technology deployment and broaden their offerings and distribution channels.
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13 May 2024
Alation adds automation to deal with exploding data volume
By Eric AvidonThe data catalog specialist's Workflow Automation provides customers with bots and prebuilt workflows that aid data stewardship by automating repetitive data management tasks.
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13 May 2024
Maria 01 rolls out ambitious pan-Europe startup plan
By Gerard O'DwyerTen-year plan will see pan-Nordic tech startup ecosystem based in Finnish capital
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13 May 2024
Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer
By Cliff SaranThe Islambad-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK
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13 May 2024
NTT DATA benefits from strong SAP channel position
By Simon QuickeFirm shares full year numbers, breaking records and talking of the trust its SME customer base has in the business
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13 May 2024
Cloud spending continues despite economic challenges
By Simon QuickeResearch from the Cloud Industry Forum explores current customer attitudes and their expectations around the impact of AI
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13 May 2024
3 care orgs pursue interoperability with Epic EHR systems
By Hannah NelsonAlbany Medical Center, WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals, and Vanderbilt Home Care have recently announced Epic EHR implementations to support health data interoperability.
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13 May 2024
How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation
By Aaron TanSingPost 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
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13 May 2024
Norway bolsters digital transformation drive
By Gerard O'DwyerNorway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year
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13 May 2024
Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges
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10 May 2024
Data startups at MIT Sloan CIO event aim to fill tech gaps
By John MooreCleanlab, The Modern Data Company and Pyte seek to address data quality issues, metadata management and the perils of multiparty data collaboration, respectively.
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10 May 2024
Major breach of customer information developing at Dell
By Alex ScroxtonAlmost 50 million data records relating to Dell customers appear to have been compromised in a major cyber breach
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10 May 2024
Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing
By Steve RangerUse of advanced artificial intelligence is outpacing organisations’ ability to govern the technology, warns ISACA research
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10 May 2024
US officials optimistic on AI but warn of risks, abuse
By Rob WrightFederal government leaders at RSA Conference 2024 touted the benefits of AI pilot programs but also outlined how a variety of threat actors are currently abusing the technology.
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10 May 2024
UK hails first test of quantum aircraft navigation
By Cliff SaranThe government’s £2.5bn quantum strategy receives a boost with test of quantum technology that gets around GPS jamming
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10 May 2024
Slow Ansible Lightspeed adoption might reflect AI qualms
By Beth PariseauCustomers with Ansible Lightspeed in pilots or production remain rare, as concerns about the risks of AI and the need to shore up a solid IT automation foundation prompt caution.
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10 May 2024
MHRA launches AI regulatory sandbox
By Lis EvenstadThe Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hopes the AI Airlock sandbox will help in improving safe development and use of medical devices
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10 May 2024
NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project
By Cliff SaranLack of tech skills, disconnected agile development and non-compliance with government standards are among the issues identified in report
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10 May 2024
Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference
By Clare McDonaldServiceNow put the future use of GenAI at the centre of its annual user conference, Knowledge24
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10 May 2024
Mudd named as Bytes CEO
By Simon QuickeAfter sitting in the hot seat on an interim basis for the past few months, Sam Mudd’s move as Bytes CEO becomes permanent
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10 May 2024
Over 5.3 billion data records exposed in April 2024
By Alex ScroxtonThe number of data records breached in April 2024 hit over five billion, a staggering year-on-year increase
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09 May 2024
Cyber attack victims need to speak up, says ICO
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
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09 May 2024
Wales gets UK’s first national SOC
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
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09 May 2024
Dell 'security incident' might affect millions
By Tim McCarthyDell notified customers that a company portal connected to customer data exposed orders, names and addresses, while reports indicate the data is now up for sale on the dark web.
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09 May 2024
OpenAI deepfake detector 'belated but welcome'
By Shaun SutnerThe GenAI vendor's image-identifying tool has been warmly received, though some say it's belated, with elections around the world this year. The vendor also joined C2PA.
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09 May 2024
FTC's noncompete ban could increase turnover in tech
By Patrick ThibodeauThe FTC noncompete ban could drive higher quit rates, affecting innovative sectors like technology. Experts say HR managers must balance talent gains with potential staff losses.
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09 May 2024
Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs
By Aaron TanRed 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
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09 May 2024
Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases
By Karl FlindersSimon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions
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09 May 2024
'Secure by design' makes waves at RSA Conference 2024
By Alexander CulafiCybersecurity vendors and public sector organizations heavily promoted the secure by design approach, particularly for generative AI tools and projects.
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09 May 2024
Red Hat CTO, Nvidia AI exec reveal joint LLMOps roadmap
By Beth PariseauThe company leaders discussed deepening integration between OpenShift AI and Nvidia NIMs, how they fit into RHEL AI and what's surprised them about AI growth so far.
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09 May 2024
Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability
By Karl FlindersBarrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials
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09 May 2024
Government injects £1.8m into space tech innovation
By Lis EvenstadFunding is being split between nine projects, covering a range of technologies aiming to support new space capabilities in the UK
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09 May 2024
Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check
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09 May 2024
Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn 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
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09 May 2024
Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
By Cliff SaranIT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience
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08 May 2024
National Security Agency warns against paying ransoms
By Arielle WaldmanRob Joyce and David Luber, former and current directors of cybersecurity at the NSA, discuss how the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare exemplified the cons of paying ransoms.
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08 May 2024
Experts highlight progress, challenges for election security
By Alexander CulafiInfosec professionals at RSA Conference 2024 discuss digital and physical security challenges for election cycles across the globe in a post-COVID-19 landscape.
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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08 May 2024
Panasas embraces software-defined storage, rebrands as Vdura
By Adam ArmstrongPanasas is now Vdura, a software-defined storage company that aims to make its cluster parallel file system work on a swath of storage media on premises and in the cloud.
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08 May 2024
New Arcserve CEO aims to rebuild trust with customers
By Tim McCarthyOutages, data loss and discontinued products have eroded trust in the Arcserve brand, but Arcserve's latest CEO, Chris Babel, wants to streamline its catalog and win back customers.
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08 May 2024
Police accessed phone records of ‘trouble-making journalists’
By Bill GoodwinThe 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
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08 May 2024
White House: Threats to critical infrastructure are 'severe'
By Arielle WaldmanWhile the White House released the new National Cybersecurity Strategy last year to help combat threats to critical infrastructure organizations, attacks have continued.
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08 May 2024
Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints
By Caroline DonnellyA Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups
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08 May 2024
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
By Alex ScroxtonAn IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause
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08 May 2024
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
By Antony AdsheadChinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year
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08 May 2024
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08 May 2024
Microsoft touts expansion of Secure Future Initiative
By Alexander CulafiAt RSA Conference 2024, Microsoft vice president Vasu Jakkal discussed some of the criticisms leveled against the company and how the Secure Future Initiative will address them.
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08 May 2024
Infinity Group picks up Pax8 end customer business
By Simon QuickeMove will add more depth to firm’s Microsoft capabilities and support expansion ambitions
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08 May 2024
New Apple iPad Pro with M4 chip ready for AI
By Antone GonsalvesApple's latest iPad Pro is the first product to get the company's new M4 chip with a neural processing unit designed to power AI applications and services.
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08 May 2024
Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges
By Bill GoodwinA ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states
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07 May 2024
Red Hat OpenShift AI links LLMs into hybrid cloud
By Beth PariseauAn extensively updated OpenShift AI will underpin RHEL AI and, if Red Hat has its way, enterprises' AI infrastructure from the edge to the public cloud.
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07 May 2024
SentinelOne: Ransomware actors are adapting to EDR
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, SentinelOne's Alex Samos discussed ongoing global threats such as ransomware and how threat actors are changing their techniques.
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07 May 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighs in on content authentication
By Makenzie HollandOpenAI says it's working on new tools to identify content created by its generative AI tools, as Congress weighs legislation to protect individuals against AI-generated replicas.
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07 May 2024
IBM throws its Red Hat into open source AI ring with RHEL AI
By Beth PariseauIBM and Red Hat open source their first LLMs, but IT experts say RHEL AI is more likely to stand out in the ways it links AI to hybrid cloud infrastructure.
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07 May 2024
Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves
By Aaron TanOpen source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads
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07 May 2024
Authorities identify, sanction LockBit ransomware ringleader
By Rob WrightAfter weeks of waiting, authorities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia publicly identified 'LockBitSupp,' the mysterious operator behind the prolific LockBit ransomware gang.
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07 May 2024
Chinese APT suspected of Ministry of Defence hack
By Alex ScroxtonA cyber attack on the Ministry of Defence is suspected to be the work of threat actors working on behalf of Chinese intelligence
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07 May 2024
Dremio adds text-to-SQL tool, new partnerships to fuel GenAI
By Eric AvidonThe latest update from the data lakehouse specialist includes text-to-SQL translation capabilities and new partnerships that help create an ecosystem for GenAI development.
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07 May 2024
AI and security sparking channel opportunities
By Simon QuickeResearch from Couchbase and ANS has underlined the assistance users need from partners around emerging technologies and defending against the latest threats
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07 May 2024
NCA unmasks LockBitSupp cyber gangster who toyed with pursuers
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCA and its partners have named the administrator of the LockBit ransomware gang, LockBitSupp, as Dmitry Khoroshev, who now faces sanctions and criminal charges
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07 May 2024
U.S. agencies continue to observe Volt Typhoon intrusions
By Arielle WaldmanA panel of experts at RSA Conference 2024 discussed Volt Typhoon and warned the Chinese nation-state threat group is still targeting and compromising U.S. organizations.
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07 May 2024
Sprinklr's AI digital twin for CX emulates whole companies
By Don FluckingerSprinklr CEO Ragy Thomas 'bets the company' on its moonshot digital twin technology that emulates a whole customer's organization, with AI assistance, to complete CX tasks.
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07 May 2024
Government jumps on Wayve self-drive funding boost
By Cliff SaranDSIT says the $1bn of funding announced by UK startup Wayve shows that a pro-innovation approach to regulation works
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07 May 2024
French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit
By Antony AdsheadCubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers
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07 May 2024
AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure
By Aaron TanThe latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028
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07 May 2024
Gartner: Few organisations have mature AI processes
By Cliff SaranSurvey results show that estimating and delivering value from AI projects are among the biggest challenges organisations face
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07 May 2024
Versa Networks adds AI capabilities to SASE platform
By Joe O’HalloranArtificial intelligence and machine learning-based secure access service edge provider enhances core solution to include GenAI firewall for threat detection and data protection
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07 May 2024
Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court
By Karl FlindersA campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial
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06 May 2024
Google unveils new threat intelligence service at RSAC 2024
By Alexander CulafiGoogle Threat Intelligence combines investigation findings from Mandiant with crowdsourced intelligence from VirusTotal and operationalizes the data with Google's Gemini AI model.
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06 May 2024
Judge overseeing Workday AI lawsuit has questions
By Patrick ThibodeauJudge Rita Lin seeks clarity on Workday's liability in an AI lawsuit alleging hiring discrimination. The case could set a precedent for AI vendors' responsibility.
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06 May 2024
Recorded Future observes 'concerning' hacktivism shift
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, Recorded Future detailed alarming trends as nation-state attackers operate under the guise of hacktivism to cover real threats to organizations.
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06 May 2024
Splunk details Sqrrl 'screw-ups' that hampered threat hunting
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, Splunk's David Bianco emphasizes that enterprises need revamped threat hunting frameworks to help with threat detection and response challenges.
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06 May 2024
Microsoft beefs up cyber initiative after hard-hitting US report
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft is expanding its recently launched Secure Future Initiative in the wake of a hard-hitting US government report on recent nation state intrusions into its systems
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06 May 2024
IBM study shows security for GenAI projects is an afterthought
By Alexander CulafiIBM's survey of C-suite executives finds that 82% say trustworthy and secure AI are essential, but only 24% have a security component included in their GenAI projects.
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06 May 2024
Cisco details Splunk security integrations, AI developments
By Alexander CulafiJust two months after Cisco completed its $28 billion acquisition of analytics giant Splunk, the company added XDR capabilities into Splunk Enterprise Security.
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03 May 2024
Microsoft, Google seek green card rule change
By Patrick ThibodeauTech companies struggle with green card sponsorships amid job cuts, but a proposed rule change, sought by the industry, could exempt certain tech jobs from labor market tests.
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03 May 2024
Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI
By Alex ScroxtonAdobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence
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03 May 2024
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned
By Alex ScroxtonThe addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern