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October 31
- Microsoft wants to drastically cut carbon emissions, so it’s building data centers with wood
- "Missed expectations" are driving the cloud repatriation trend – but it’s not as bad as you might think
- Two notorious infostealer malware operations were just knocked offline
- Tech sector left wanting after UK budget overlooks key industry concerns
- Cognizant and Nvidia team up to supercharge data modernization
- Data center constraints pinch as Microsoft reports soaring AI demand
October 30
- Considering an RTO policy? Think again. Firms with remote working options record better financial performance
- 800,000 users exposed in Landmark Admin data breach
- UK organizations scrambling to divert funds for NIS2 compliance spending
- Apple’s ‘carbon neutral’ Mac Mini is small and compact, but packs a mighty punch with the new M4 chips
- “You must do better”: Information Commissioner John Edwards calls on firms to beef up support for data breach victims
- Kaseya launches Kaseya 365 User subscription, acquires SaaS Alerts
- Inside Google’s “promising and pragmatic” approach to fixing software development’s memory safety problem
October 29
- Why agentic AI will be a huge money-spinner for big tech providers
- Hacker claims to have data linked to 19 million French mobile and internet customers
- Microsoft slams Google’s ‘shadow campaigns’ as feud over cloud regulation escalates
- New AWS and Box collaboration brings AI models to enterprise content
- Apple is offering rewards of up to $1 million to find critical flaws in its private AI cloud systems
October 28
- Kaseya’s partner-first focus and peer program is setting it up for success now and in the future
- The National Public Data breach exposed 270 million users – now the company has filed for bankruptcy
- National Public Data breach: Lawsuit claims failed to protect billions of personal records
- Delta sues CrowdStrike for $500 million in damages, claims "cutting corners" caused infamous July outage
- Not all software developers are sold on AI coding tools – while productivity gains are welcomed, over a third are concerned about AI-generated code quality
- Three things you need to know about the US National Security Memorandum on AI
- Industry body hits out at CMA following launch of Google, Anthropic merger probe
- LinkedIn fined €310 million for GDPR breaches
October 25
- Microsoft announces EMEA leadership shakeup
- Another senior staffer just left OpenAI – here’s what they had to say
- Iceland’s four-day working week trials have been a roaring success – economic growth spiked, workers were happier, and burnout plummeted
- Everything you need to know about the ‘mass exploitation’ of FortiManager appliances
- Intel just won a 15-year legal battle against EU
- Human error is cybersecurity’s number one concern, Kaseya report finds
- Government says new data bill will free up millions of hours of public sector time
October 24
- This new AI jailbreaking technique lets hackers crack models in just three interactions
- Europe needs more energy and better grids to meet data center power demands in the age of AI
- These tech firms downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds hack – now they’ve been fined by the SEC
- ROI from AI projects has nosedived – how can IT leaders deliver success?
- Infosys announces plans to open London AI lab
- Jensen Huang just issued a big update on Nvidia's Blackwell chip flaws
- Energy firms need to up their game to protect against supply chain risks
October 23
- Exploitation of Docker remote API servers has reached a “critical level”
- Westcon-Comstor and UiPath agree new UK distribution deal
- Mimecast appoints Amol Kulkarni to its board of directors
- This software company says ditching the cloud was worth $10 million in savings — and there's still more to come
- IBM just launched powerful new open source AI models – here’s what you need to know
- "I have yet to find anyone who’s had a transformational experience with Microsoft Copilot": Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hits out at Microsoft's AI assistant once again – and he isn't holding back
- Sophos names Torjus Gylstorff as new chief revenue officer
- Hackers are stepping up ‘qishing’ attacks by hiding malicious QR codes in PDF email attachments
October 22
- Does remote work fuel wage inequality? Not exactly – staff working from home tend to be higher earners, but they also experience lower wage growth
- Organizations warned of the dangers of ‘long-lived’ cloud credentials
- “There are other companies around”: AWS CEO Matt Garman says employees pushing back on RTO mandates should quit
- Cisco confirms attackers stole data, shuts down access to compromised DevHub environment
- Ethical hackers are flocking to AI tools, but the technology may be causing more problems than it solves
- There's no single route to AI adoption, and Anthropic is charting all available paths
- Software developers, security experts, and even investment bankers all report that ‘tool sprawl’ is burning budgets and wasting employees’ time
October 21
- Sophos acquires Secureworks for $859 million
- UK government inks five-year cloud and AI deal with Microsoft
- Cyber criminal underground “thriving” as weekly attacks surge by 75% in Q3 2024
- IT exec accused of falsifying data center certifications to win millions in government contracts
- Enterprises are struggling to fill senior cybersecurity roles — and it's causing staff burnout to skyrocket
- Microsoft expands autonomy of Copilot agents ahead of public preview
October 18
- Want to call yourself a real tech company? Mark Zuckerberg says get a technical CEO
- NIS2 is now in force around the EU – can business keep up with new compliance obligations?
- UK jobseekers could be using AI to beef up CVs, lie on applications, and complete skills tests – here’s why you really shouldn’t do that
- Software developers are spending more time every week fixing security issues – and it’s costing companies a fortune
- Feeling safe with that complicated password? Think again, security experts say – complexity affects memorability and fosters unsafe practices
October 17
- AMD and Intel’s new x86 advisory group looks to tackle Arm, but will it succeed?
- DevSecOps teams are ramping up the use of AI coding tools, but they’ve got serious concerns — AI-generated code is causing major security headaches and slowing down development processes
- Meta layoffs hit staff at WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs divisions
- UiPath and SAP team up to streamline cloud migrations
- 96% of SMBs are missing critical cybersecurity skills – here's why
October 16
- Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit
- Cisco confirms investigation amid data breach claims
- Iomart bolsters cloud expertise with £57 million Atech Cloud acquisition
- State-sponsored cyber crime is officially out of control
- “We're all focused on a common enemy”: AWS CISO Chris Betz wants greater industry collaboration for the multi-cloud era
- Lenovo unveils its new ‘hybrid-AI’ vision
- Databricks expands AWS partnership to drive generative AI capabilities
- “I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be”: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei lays out his vision of powerful AI — and explains why he sounds a tad pessimistic
- Storage architectures must change to meet the needs of AI – and Huawei thinks it has a head start on competitors
- Conscia expands UK&I presence with PlanNet21 Group acquisition
October 15
- Microsoft logs 600 million identity attacks per day as threat actors collaborate more
- Microsoft tells staff it won’t follow Amazon or Dell on enforcing a return to the office – but there’s a catch
- With one year to go until Windows 10 end of life, here’s what businesses should do to prepare
- £6.3 billion data center investment marks major ‘vote of confidence’ for UK tech industry
- Google is going nuclear
- American utilities firms need to invest now to feed AI energy demands
October 14
- Huawei targets ‘intelligent industrial transformation’ with AI-ready infrastructure
- UK govt appoints Microsoft CEO to chair industrial strategy council as it looks to attract tech investment
- The UK has ‘seismic’ AI potential, says AWS startup leader – but startups still need skills support
- AWS extends data center equipment lifespans with reverse logistics plant in Dublin
- UK workers still seeking better work-life balance, report says
October 13
- Snowflake bigs up the power of the partner and eyes deeper engagement to tackle business challenges in the enterprise AI era
- Snowflake CEO: “Many vendors sell you parts of a car and tell you to build it yourself. At Snowflake we have a different philosophy. We want to give you the car.”
October 11
- Zoom launches new AI companion features for workplace platform
- AMD eyes networking efficiency gains in bid to streamline AI data center operations
- Marriott’s FTC charge underlines danger of ‘inheriting’ data breaches during acquisitions
- Industry unprepared for AI agent security challenges, experts warn
- NCSC warns organizations of cyber threat from Russian Foreign Intelligence
- Are your cloud resources at risk?
- UK Public sector at risk from supply chain attacks, new report warns
- OpenAI says hackers keep trying to use its services for cyber attacks
October 10
- AMD just made a big statement in the AI PC race with its Ryzen AI Pro 300 series processors
- AMD’s new Instinct GPUs might just blow Nvidia out of the water
- Mandiant exec thinks AI could boost diversity in cybersecurity
- AMD Advancing AI live: All the news and updates as they happened
- DoJ mulls potential Google services breakup in monopoly lawsuit – what happens next?
- Gemini Code Assist Enterprise – Google wants to simplify code for all
- Cyber expert suggests American Water cyber incident was a ransomware attack
- Infosys and Microsoft expand partnership to drive customer AI adoption
- DSM group opens green data center in Peterborough
October 9
- Google Cloud announces data residency for machine learning in the UK
- UK Government launches competition to find future cybersecurity professionals
- UK IT leaders prioritize cloud investment – but AI skills shortages continue to cause worries
October 8
- Vodafone expands Google partnership for Vertex AI
- Rubrik and Pure Storage collaborate on multi layered data resilience architecture
- UK warned about data center need, again
- New definition of open source AI is “flawed”, experts say
- European bank aims to keep startups local
- Gov's new Regulatory Innovation Office promises to remove red tape
- UK still lags behind other countries in 5G connectivity
October 7
- Cybersecurity is the fastest growing tech occupation in the UK – but it’s still not enough to dent the growing industry skills shortage
- ‘We're not going to hit the climate goals anyway’: Eric Schmidt has a plan to drive sustainable data center and AI development – and it involves more AI
- Is there any future for the IT helpdesk? AI and automation could render it ‘redundant’ within three years
- Cisco’s ‘savvy’ CoreWeave deal will supercharge its AI ambitions
- Microsoft just announced its biggest ever investment in Italy
- Hybrid cloud environments are under serious threat from hackers – here’s what you need to know
October 4
- How CISOs are navigating the “slippery” AI data protection problem
- Microsoft’s Three Mile Island deal is a big step toward matching data center energy demands, but it's not alone — AWS, Oracle, and now Google are all hot for nuclear power
- PagerDuty looks to growth with double leadership appointment
- Sellafield issued hefty fine for cybersecurity failures
- Regulatory fines could be the tip of the iceberg for enterprises as data breach lawsuits expected to surge in 2025
- British man arrested over hack-to-trade scheme using email password resets
October 3
- Critical flaws left 700,000 DrayTek routers exposed – but don’t worry, there’s a fix
- Software engineers are in for a rough ride as AI adoption ramps up – 80% will be forced to upskill by 2027 as the profession is transformed
- OpenAI just raised $6.6bn in funding, but it drove a hard bargain – investors will be stopped from funding rivals
- Kao Data kicks off construction of new Stockport data center
- AWS says enterprises are moving back on-prem – but does cloud repatriation really threaten hyperscalers?
- IT channel leaders remain buoyant about future of partnerships
October 2
- BT launches Global Fabric, a new AI-ready network as a service platform
- Proofpoint touts the benefits of having smaller models in its cybersecurity tools
- UK's NCA sanctions members of the 'Evil Corp' gang
- Startup promises to 'reinvent cloud backups'
- Is this the future of data center sustainability? New architectures could slash energy consumption, lower carbon emissions, and drive cost savings
- Where does NetApp stand in the ongoing VMware whirlwind?
- Microsoft is doubling down on Widows Recall, adding new security and privacy features – will this help woo hesitant enterprise users?
October 1
- Microsoft expands Copilot across the Windows ecosystem, with new Vision and Copilot PC features
- Microsoft pulls Windows update after botched patch causes blue screens, reboot loops
- Surging energy consumption and rising cloud costs have IT leaders sweating
- Jamf appoints new CISO and global channel lead
- Cybersecurity teams are understaffed, overworked, and underfunded – and it’s taking a heavy toll on mental health