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• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages

  Bank bosses forced to reveal extent of banking IT failures to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee

• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  CFIT publishes blueprint for digital company business IDs

  Plan to increase the use of digital identities by businesses could add billions of pounds to UK economy through compliance savings and reduced fraud

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Apple IPT appeal against “back door” encryption order is test case for bigger targets

  The Home Office’s decision to target Apple with and order requiring access to users’ encrypted data is widely seen as a “stalking horse” for attacks against encrypted messaging services, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  IR35: Government outlines two-pronged approach to umbrella company regulation

  The government looks set to deliver on its long-promised vow to roll out regulation for umbrella companies

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Verizon Business claims borderless IoT now a reality

  Business arm of leading comms provider teams with Asia-Pacific operator and satellite internet of things provider to supercharge Global IoT Orchestration service to more than 200 territories worldwide

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software

  Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: Smartphone users upgrade devices faster as AI cranks up

  Latest quarterly analysis from business services company finds decreasing age of trade-in devices in second half of 2024 coincides with launch of next-gen AI-enabled devices

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data

  NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: HPE advances AI in connectivity

  Networking tech firm introduces new connectivity solutions and infrastructure to meet evolving needs of enterprise customers across various industries, including expanded platform for next-gen cellular comms

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: Fabric to spread as BT sees no business plan B without the network

  UK’s leading coms provider outlines the pressures that enterprise customers will face as AI reshapes the new world of work

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Few UK organisations ready to seize agentic AI opportunity

  Agentic AI promises to automate manually intensive tasks intelligently, yet few business leaders feel their organisation is ready to deploy it

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

  India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  NHS rolls out AI app to predict and prevent falls that could land patients in hospital

  Healthtech company Cera's artificial intelligence app can also predict the onset of winter viruses, and is being keenly adopted across the NHS

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: Comms tech consortium begins XR trials on 5G Standalone network

  Collaboration between Ericsson, T-Mobile and Qualcomm looks to pioneer the next wave of 5G low latency operator services, beginning with supporting demanding mobile immersive experiences

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Canadian businessman remains in French jail, accused of distributing Sky ECC cryptophones

  Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman has been held in pre-trial detention without trial for nearly four years – he has once again been refused bail

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Vodafone and AST Space Mobile form European satellite comms service

  Latest chapter in partnership between leading telco and low Earth orbit satellite provider sees firms unveil organisation to give businesses access to secure space-based cellular broadband connectivity

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: Nokia enhances marine ops with private net and advances API play

  Leading global tech firm partners with marine terminal operator to introduce private wireless solutions in US container terminals and works with telco to offer network APIs to help developers create enterprise applications

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

  A recent event held by VMware rival Nutanix attracted many people new to the hyperconverged infrastructure provider

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

  The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce

  Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Aussie businesses ramp up security spending

  Australian organisations are set to spend A$6.2bn on security and risk management in 2025, a 14.4% jump from the previous year, driven by the rise of AI and a growing threat landscape

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity

  Leading light in women in fintech says Europe must take separate path to Trump’s US on diversity, equity and inclusion

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: NTT Docomo preps for beyond 5G future

  Leading Japanese operator unveils slew of announcements to boost advanced communications across domestic territory and Africa, encompassing the new era of 6G and aircraft-based systems

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft

  AWS has doubled-down on its claim that subjecting it to targeted curbs to bolster competition in the UK cloud market is an unwarranted step, while its rivals call on the CMA to speed up the process

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: Operators account for 85% of mobile infrastructure investments

  Research from global mobile trade association reveals operators alone contribute $109bn to infrastructure investments, far exceeding that made by content and application providers and cloud service providers

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  MWC 2025: AI is the new mobile UI for Qualcomm

  Connected processor and artificial intelligence company unveils AI-first modems for 5G networks, IoT and fixed wired access as artificial intelligence scales rapidly at the network edge to drive key business benefits

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Singapore’s HomeTeamNS hit by ransomware attack

  The non-profit organisation suffered a ransomware attack that affected some servers containing employee and member data, prompting an investigation and enhanced security measures

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

• March 01, 2025 01 Mar'25

  Ransomware: from REvil to Black Basta, what do we know about Tramp?

  This key member of the Black Basta ransomware gang is wanted by the US justice system. He narrowly escaped extradition at the end of June 2024 - with the help of highly-placed contacts in Moscow, according to him

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email 

  Proposals to be discussed in the French Parliament will require tech companies to hand over decrypted messages and email or face huge fines 

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

  The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again

  A month after Barclays suffered online banking problems, customers at multiple banks report further issues

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  NHS staff lack confidence in health service cyber measures

  NHS staff understand their role in protecting the health service from cyber threats and the public backs them in this aim, but legacy tech and a lack of training are hindering efforts, according to BT

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims

  Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation

  Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill

  Kevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Verizon claims to ‘shatter’ US 5G upload speed record

  Leading comms provider reveals 5G trial results with record-breaking uplink speed through use of technologies including TDD carrier component aggregation with C-band spectrum and uplink MIMO

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models

  The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard probes UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data

  A secret order issued by the UK against Apple would be a ‘clear and egregious violation’ if it provides back door access to Americans’ encrypted data, says US director of national intelligence

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Apple and Dassault Systèmes join forces for digital twin Vision

  Leading connected engineering software provider teams with CE giant to take advantage of state-of-the-art immersive viewing to realise digital twin-based product design and manufacturing platform

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  CISOs spending more on insider risk

  Insider risk management budgets have more than doubled in the past 12 months and look set to grow further still in 2025, according to a report

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Dragonwing take flight to boost Qualcomm industrial, embedded IoT offer

  Connected processor and artificial intelligence company establishes brand for suite of industrial and embedded IoT, enterprise and networking solutions

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  UK law firm embarks on SD-WAN and SASE infrastructure upgrade

  Network services provider collaborates with commercial law firm Hill Dickinson to enhance network connectivity and security by introducing SD-WAN and SASE frameworks to help safeguard corporate assets

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Engineering at tipping point as manufacturing embraces Industry 5.0

  Leading connected engineering software provider unveils vision of generative AI-based design to support new age of industrial applications with sustainability and virtual processes at the core

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database

  Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI

  The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience

  New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats