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March 29
- Nasuni doubles down on legacy NAS disruption with new senior appointment
- Workforce upskilling key to averting AI job loss 'apocalypse'
- Why Intel is pushing for developers to adopt AI PCs
March 28
- AI security tools promise to supercharge productivity, but experts worry cyber pros could become too reliant
- US offers $10 million bounty for information on UnitedHealth hackers
- Tycoon 2FA, the popular phishing kit built to bypass Microsoft and Gmail security protections, just got a major upgrade — and it’s now even harder to detect
- Sovereign cloud services pick up steam as Rackspace unveils new public sector platform
- Data backup strategies in focus as 800,000 UK firms admit to losing data since 2019
- Why Python is the programming language of choice for AI developers
March 27
- Ransomware group threatens to publish 3TB of stolen NHS Scotland data after posting proof of attack
- Security experts raise questions about UK cyber funding in wake of Electoral Commission hack
- A super-supergrid? CEO of UK power network says legacy infrastructure requires major overhaul to meet soaring data center energy demands
- Databricks just launched an open source large language model to compete with Llama 2, Mixtral, and GPT-3.5
- UK tech investment is stagnating, but there are positive signs in regional fundraising
- Check Point customers to gain access to Azure OpenAI service under new Microsoft partnership
- SCADA is heading to the cloud — here's why security experts are worried
- CrowdStrike partners with HCLTech to drive security transformation
- Microsoft's startup investment strategy looks to corner the global AI market — but will it work?
March 26
- FBI and CISA say it’s time to delete SQL injection flaws for good
- Python developers beware: This info stealing malware campaign is targeting thousands of GitHub accounts
- Scottish startup investment nosedived in 2023 amid global VC decline
- Digital transformation floundering at enterprises, with just 10% of IT leaders working with “modern” data stacks
- Cyber security training costs surge as firms battle skills gaps
March 25
- Everything you need to know about ‘StrelaStealer’, an email credential-stealing malware being used to target EU and US firms
- Tech sector investment in Northern Ireland reaches record levels
- The future of generative AI lies in open source
- How Cognizant and Google Cloud plan to supercharge developer productivity
- AtlasEdge unveils new Leeds data center amid European growth drive
March 23
- CI/CD comes into focus as enterprises ramp up application modernization efforts
March 22
- Why Redis license changes aren't the end of the world for open source
- New Microsoft Surface devices put AI on the desk of every office worker
- British Business Bank unveils £660 million ‘Northern Powerhouse’ investment fund
- A vulnerability in Apple M-series chips could expose encryption keys and harm performance — and the flaw is ‘unpatchable’
- University of Glasgow eyes closer industry collaboration with new computing science innovation lab
- Kyndryl and Cloudflare expand partnership to drive IT modernization
March 21
- This next-generation data center project is turning waste heat into algae-based biofuel — could this be the future of green data storage?
- Nutanix sues Tessell over claims founders used IP to build rival products with “strikingly similar features”
- Microsoft deprecates 1024-bit Windows RSA keys — now would be a good time to get machine identity management in order
- Broadcom slammed by cloud trade group amid claims it's "holding the sector to ransom" with VMware license changes
- UK firms are adapting to cyber security threats “at a glacial pace”
- JumpCloud acquires IT asset management specialist Resmo
- Why workload identity complexity is causing cloud native security headaches
March 20
- GitHub’s new code scanning tool will find and fix the errors in your code
- Who is DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and why has he joined Microsoft?
- AWS customers will be able to build multi-trillion parameter LLMs under latest deal with Nvidia
- Nvidia wants telcos to ramp up 6G research — and it’s betting AI will be the key to future development
- A ‘war room’ style reaction to security incidents is burning out IT staff
- UK Power Networks targets long-term digital overhaul after IT modernization success
- Pulsant expands Manchester data center footprint to meet rising demand
- Four ways the UK can support female-founded AI startups
- Ardian acquires data center firm Verne in Northern Europe expansion drive
- KubeCon 2024: All the latest news and announcements
March 19
- New industry-backed IoT security standards aim to improve device safety
- Companies face hefty penalties for product hype as the SEC toughens up on ‘AI washing’
- Over 133,000 Fortinet appliances are still vulnerable to a critical flaw — here’s why you need to patch now
- How the EU AI Act compares to other international regulatory approaches
- Fujitsu hack leaves critical questions unanswered after discovery of malware on IT systems
March 18
- Microsoft: The UK is woefully unprepared for future AI cyber threats
- Everything we know so far about the NHS Dumfries and Galloway cyber attack
- The Oracle Database@Azure service just got a big update — here's what you need to know
- Outdated IT infrastructure could hamper public sector AI plans
- Equinix announces leadership changes with former Google exec joining as CEO
- Zscaler boosts AI capabilities with $350 million Avalor acquisition
March 15
- Oracle ditches the hype for a straight talking generative AI approach
- "A strong start": Broadcom CEO Hock Tan shrugs off VMware customer concerns over product "simplification" efforts
- Alastair Revell appointed as new BCS president
- Hackers steal personal data of 43 million French job seekers
- Celonis ramps up UK expansion with new leadership hire
March 14
- Google spent $10 million on bug bounty payouts last year — here's what flaws researchers uncovered
- Databricks hops on the Mistral AI hype train with new partnership and LLM access deal
- Microsoft scraps egress fees for Azure — was its hand forced by Google and AWS?
- How a user access bug in Ireland’s vaccination website exposed more than a million records
- New secure software development rules mean US tech execs will have to sign safety guarantees
- Microsoft says its Copilot for Security tool is a powerful weapon in the fight against hackers — here’s why
March 13
- Meta unveils two new GPU clusters used to train its Llama 3 AI model — and it plans to acquire an extra 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024 to meet development goals
- How will the EU AI Act affect businesses?
- Internet downtime cost UK businesses over £3.7 billion last year
- March was a rather tame Patch Tuesday for Microsoft, but security experts still advise caution on these two vulnerabilities
- IT channel optimism is at the “highest it’s been for five years”
- UK ramps up ‘future tech skills’ drive with £1.1 billion investment
- Ten cloud security tips every IT leader should know
March 12
- Python extends its lead as the most popular programming language — but why does it have such widespread appeal?
- European Commission falls foul of data protection regulations over Microsoft 365 use
- CISA forced to take its own systems offline following Ivanti alert
- Equinix's new Slough data center will be an eco-friendly haven
- Data center sustainability progress rests on maximizing the use of data — but knowing where to start is critical
- Leicester City Council services disrupted as authority becomes latest to be hit by cyber attack
March 11
- This engineering discipline was hailed as the next big thing, but AI has killed it before it even started
- Microsoft left a Windows kernel zero-day unpatched for six months, despite knowing it was being actively exploited
- Everything you need to know about the EU's Cyber Solidarity Act
- British Library says reliance on complex legacy infrastructure hampered cyber attack recovery
- UK government plans marketing drive to encourage deep tech investment
- Civo snaps up open source GitOps platform Kubefirst
- UK tech firms flock to Labour as frustrations grow over government R&D tax credits policies
March 8
- A true ChatGPT challenger? Anthropic's Claude 3 models set the stage for a major battle with OpenAI
- Microsoft says Midnight Blizzard hacker group accessed source code and internal systems in January cyber attack
- HP just launched the world’s first business PCs designed to protect firmware against quantum hacking
- CWCS unveils plans for new Nottingham data center
- CISA wants closer ties with open source developers to prevent the next Log4Shell
- UK altnet providers raise alarm over spate of physical attacks on network infrastructure sites
- Why 'psychological safety' is so important for building a robust security culture
- British Airways eyes cloud overhaul and AI deployment in £7 billion IT upgrade
- HP infuses Amplify Partner Program with new AI-based training and benefits
March 7
- Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the work of 700 people — and it paints a bleak picture for the future of work
- UK firms facing a “green plateau” as costs hamper sustainability initiatives
- Jeremy Hunt needs more than AI optimism to make Britain the “next Silicon Valley”
- Capita plans £100 million in cost cuts as it continues to grapple with 2023 cyber attack
- HP wants you to start hyping up AI benefits to staff
- AWS and Google lead by example with data transfer policies, but how will Microsoft respond?
March 6
- "Java is here to stay": Popular programming language to remain on business hit lists in 2024
- Tight recruitment budgets prompt a radical overhaul of hiring processes at UK firms
- Nearly half of cloud storage budgets are spent on usage fees in Europe, higher than the global average
- Dell and CrowdStrike expand partnership to drive unified security
- Firms are wasting hundreds of hours every year just renewing software purchases
March 5
- Linux just hit an all-time high share of the global desktop market — and surging popularity in India is driving uptake of the open source operating system
- Microsoft courts fresh regulatory scrutiny over security software practices as EU lawmakers consider probe
- Kaseya: Cyber security remains a top revenue driver for MSPs
- Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to drive users to Windows 11
- The end of the slowdown? Global cloud spending is set to surge by 20% in 2024 as enterprises ramp up migration plans and capitalize on generative AI
- UK IT manufacturers remain upbeat amid sluggish earnings
- AWS just dropped $650 million on a data center built next to a 2.5 gigawatt nuclear power station - and it still might not be enough to keep pace with surging future energy demands
March 4
- Three open source large language models you can use today
- Former NCSC chief calls for ransomware payments ban, but cyber security experts aren't keen
- Everything you need to know about GitHub’s new push protection changes
- Kubernetes over-provisioning is causing cloud bills to skyrocket – and developer resource anxiety is a key factor
- Burnout is now rife across the software community, with almost half of developers turning to self-help apps
- KnowBe4 unveils new sales chief in EMEA strategy drive
- Lawmakers clash over Irish data center industry growth amid environmental concerns
March 1
- An open source challenger to GitHub Copilot? StarCoder2, a code generation tool backed by Nvidia, Hugging Face, and ServiceNow, is free to use and offers support for over 600 programming languages
- Lenovo's new sustainability program looks to extend device lifecycles
- Open source vulnerabilities dominated 2023, and this year looks no different
- Sluggish 5G roll-outs are costing British small businesses billions
- Pure Storage unveils revamped channel partner program as firm records strong 2023 performance
- Microsoft ramps up UK data center expansion with plans for new Yorkshire site