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February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25
CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan

Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan
February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25
ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap
February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25
European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties

Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities
February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger

Russia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk

February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities

The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy AI on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use

Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
South Korea plots to become home to world’s largest AI datacentre

Construction of a datacentre that is projected to be 3GW in size is set to start later this year in South Korea
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
Cyber Monitoring Centre develops hurricane scale to count cost of cyber attacks

A non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1-to-5 scale borrowed from hurricane classification
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents

February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage

Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25
CPX 2025: Check Point CEO talks up hybrid mesh security

At CPX 2025 in Bangkok, Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir outlined a vision for network security centred on hybrid mesh architecture and AI-powered capabilities
February 17, 2025 17 Feb'25
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery

Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years
February 17, 2025 17 Feb'25
The Security Interviews: Yevgeny Dibrov, Armis

Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov talks about how his military service and intelligence work opened the door into the world of cyber security entrepreneurship
February 17, 2025 17 Feb'25
AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research

Retailers should be using artificial intelligence to increase brand loyalty through personalisation, according to research
February 17, 2025 17 Feb'25
Liverpool reinvents customer service through digital platform

Liverpool City Council wants to improve residents’ experience of dealing with the council, and sees digital technologies as key to achieving its goal
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Kenyan AI workers form Data Labelers Association

A group of Kenyan data workers whose labour provides the ‘backbone’ of modern artificial intelligence systems set up the Data Labelers Association to improve their working conditions and raise awareness about the challenges they face
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
NHS launches breast cancer AI trial

The trial will see 700,000 women taking part in artificial intelligence-based screening for breast cancer, looking at whether use of technology can help identify signs of cancer earlier
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives

Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing

Government announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Lenovo CSO: AI adoption fuels security paranoia

Doug Fisher, Lenovo’s chief security officer, outlines the company’s approach to security and AI governance, and the importance of having a strong security culture to combat cyber threats amplified by the use of AI
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic

Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic
February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25
Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data

Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data
February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25
UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users
February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25
EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?
February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25
Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa

Lithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills
February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25
Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage

The launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University
February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers

The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched

Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical

Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
Forrester: AI and cyber security drive up IT spending

Despite artificial intelligence and cyber security increasing investment, technical debt remains a significant drain on IT budgets
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement

The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
MongoDB expands Sydney operations to support local growth

MongoDB is doubling down on its Australian presence with a new Sydney office, housing engineering, support and go-to-market teams focused on R&D and tackling the region’s legacy technology challenges
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement

Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
AI at Leap 2025: Huge potential but a threat to the fabric of society?

Thought leaders in artificial intelligence gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Leap 2025 tech show to set out the next steps for enterprise AI and agentic AI, but also AI’s potential danger to human society
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
Amazon opens Asia-Pacific hub in Singapore

Amazon has launched a 360,000 sq ft Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, housing both Amazon and AWS employees
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption

At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25
Cisco Live EMEA: Network supplier tightens AI embrace

At its annual EMEA show, Cisco tech leadership unveiled a raft of new products, services and features designed to help customers do more with artificial intelligence
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs

A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash

Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal

Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape

The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up

A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
F1’s Red Bull charges 1Password to protect its 2025 season

For the upcoming 2025 Formula 1 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing adds cyber security partner 1Password to its roster of team suppliers and sponsors
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage

One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
Elon Musk capitalises on DeepSeek confusion to bid for OpenAI

The market disruption resulting from DeepSeek has reset artificial intelligence, and now Elon Musk and a consortium of investors want to grab OpenAI
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
AI projects get £85m funding to improve NHS diagnostics and drugs

The funding pot is being distributed between three projects, aiming to establish new ways of researching how artificial intelligence can be used to target hard-to-treat diseases and develop medicines
February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25
Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps

The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society
February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25
Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab

A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK
February 10, 2025 10 Feb'25
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning

Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence