
Emma Woollacott
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC, Private Eye, Forbes, Raconteur and specialist technology titles.
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IT workers have become the cool kids on the block since the rise of AI
News Budgets are increasing and IT leaders are gaining greater power within organizations
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Major incident declared as Merseyside hospitals hit by cyber attack
News The incident, which has led to cancelled appointments, is just the latest in a series of attacks on healthcare organizations
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Everything you need to know about the Microsoft outage
News After a day of chaos, the worst of the Microsoft outage appears to have passed, but some problems still remain
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Workers are faking productivity levels, and it’s hitting businesses hard
News Staff are busying themselves with meaningless tasks rather than getting on with the job in hand
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French government plots new bid for Atos business unit
News The deal could amount to €625 million and keep the company's critical technologies on home turf
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Slow websites cost businesses thousands per year
News Business owners tell Liquid Web they're losing traffic because of poor website performance with one in ten saying their bounce rates were over 50%
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Firms warned to beware of fake IT workers
News SentinelLabs has uncovered a network of front companies supplying North Korean remote workers under false identities
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DoJ demands Google sells Chrome — and potentially Android too
News Confirming earlier reports, the US Department of Justice filing calls for Chrome to be divested over monopoly concerns
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IT leaders are less AI-ready than they were a year ago
News Organizations feel pressure to deliver on AI as they lack infrastructure, data processing capabilities, and talent
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Security incident recovery times are over 7 months on average
News Businesses tell Fastly survey they have concerns about the reliability and quality across their security stack with three in ten considering a change of vendor
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Severed subsea internet cables raise network security questions
News With international communications links vulnerable to attack, researchers are working to provide dynamic routing via space
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Majority of firms using generative AI experience related security incidents
News Security teams eye larger budgets for AI responses as they stare down threats such as data breaches, deepfakes, and targeted attacks
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FOI requests show the vast majority of UK data center applications are approved
News Of the 88 applications put forward last year, only three were declined
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New research network launched to bolster UK's cybersecurity
News The CRANE network aims to pull together academics, government, industry, and non-profit organizations, to focus on existing and emerging threats
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Organizations failing to use tech to reach sustainability goals
News Businesses are urged to put sustainability at the heart of corporate strategy, and use AI to help
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AI tools aren’t helping developers save time on software testing
News The productivity benefits of AI aren't quite materializing for many developers
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API attacks are spiraling out of control
News Most UK organizations suffered an API attack over the last year, protection tools are seen as inadequate
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Sluggish enterprise tech adoption has cost the UK economy billions
News The UK economy could have grown dramatically had organizations accelerated digital adoption
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AI PCs might be all the rage, but the channel isn’t fully sold
News A lack of availability means many channel partners don't plan on shipping AI PCs next year
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Workplace monitoring is still out of control
News Workers say they dislike being tracked, yet employers are still ramping up surveillance practices
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The UK needs to up its game to fend off open source competition
News Investment in the open source ecosystem needs to increase alongside broader government support
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Nearly half of all digital initiatives still fail – here’s why
News With most digital initiatives are failing to deliver, CIOs are urged to work more closely with other executives
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Execs are happy to let AI make decisions for them, and it’s got IT workers worried
News IT decision makers are more cautious than the C-suite with AI adoption
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Brits are positive about data centers – once they know what they actually are
News A survey found people are a lot happier to have a data center nearby if they're told about the economic benefits
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