Unilever adds more Google Cloud as ‘backbone’ for AI
Multinational consumer goods giant Unilever has signed a five-year contract with Google Cloud that will see the hyperscaler provide infrastructure for the company’s cloud platforms. …
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Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached
The government is urging businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to “lock the door” to fend off cyber attackers. Its campaign is being launched…
British Transport Police start using live facial recognition
The British Transport Police (BTP) will deploy live facial recognition (LFR) technology at key transport hubs across London as part of a six-month “trial”. The…
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini has said that this year will be the one when artificial intelligence (AI) finally proves its business value. Pascal Brier, group chief innovation officer…
Interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Segro
Richard Corbridge has spent his digital leadership career turning smart ideas into production services. After working for some of the UK’s biggest private and public…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: AI infrastructure, shared responsibility and the real cost of progress
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future-state conversation. It is here, embedded across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, security tooling, analytics engines and decision-making frameworks.…
UK government risks ‘perpetuating’ Post Office injustice through response to Capture appeals
If the government fails to overturn convictions of subpostmasters that used the Post Office Capture system, it will perpetuate a “most ghastly injustice”, a peer…
Next Tech Fest: Breaking tech role misconceptions
“You don’t have to code to be a techie,” claimed one of the many speakers at the 2025 Next Tech Fest, which was run and…
Oracle readies AI note-taker for NHS
Oracle is making its Health Clinical AI Agent available to NHS trust and private practices. The note-taking software has been piloted at a number of…
Qatar advances sovereign cloud strategy to strengthen digital trust and national autonomy
As global economies accelerate their digital transformation agendas, the question of who controls data and under which legal framework has become a defining issue. In…
Making sense of AI’s role in cyber security
Over the past year, the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) has reached new heights, with businesses being inundated with AI solutions and executives eager to…
Government bank digital project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ exposing taxpayers to risk
The UK’s National Savings and Investments (NS&I) bank is exposing taxpayers to “unacceptable risk” because it lacks understanding of the cost of a digital project…