Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
At last week’s Leti Innovation Days (LID) 2025 event in Grenoble, power consumption was on everyone’s mind. With artificial intelligence (AI) driving insatiable demand…
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Interview: Rolf Krolke, CIO, The Access Group
With an average of around 10 acquisitions a year since 2017, The Access Group got good at integrating disparate systems into its IT stack. But…
Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops
Last-minute amendments to a parliamentary bill will give police sweeping powers to access people’s online services and data, including bank accounts, encrypted messaging services, email…
Clouded judgement: Resilience, risk and the rise of repatriation
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its cloud services in 2006, it offered a utopian computing vision of agility, cost-efficiency and freedom from clunky legacy…
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
Oxford City Council election workers from 2001 to 2022 had personal information accessed by hackers in an attack over the weekend of 7 to 8…
Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily
The number of Cyber Essentials badges issued via the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) backed security certification scheme continues to increase but at a slower…
M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts
The Scattered Spider/Dragonforce cyber attacks that struck Marks & Spencer and Co-op during the spring have been classed as a Category 2 cyber event on…
UK data reforms become law
The UK’s Data Use and Access Bill has become law, with the government claiming it will “save working people money and time” while injecting £10bn…
Beyond the AI hype: How data laws quietly handed power to government and Big Tech
The final stages of the Data (Use and Access) Bill were more eventful than expected. Interventions from figures like Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa…
Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty
When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a…
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
At Pure Storage’s Accelerate 2025 event this week in Las Vegas, the company launched its Enterprise Data Cloud, which knits together a common operating system…
Richer people look forward to cutting-edge tech to help save time
Emerging technology such as smart artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistants could save people two hours a day, a OnePoll survey for Lloyds Banking Group has reported.…