Data sharing for immigration raids ferments hostility to migrants
Public data sharing designed to facilitate immigration enforcement raids are rarely effective, and instead works as a surveillance mechanism to deter migrants from accessing vital…
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European enterprise networking lacks hybrid maturity
A study from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) for InfoBlox has found that European organisations have less mature networking practices to support hybrid and multicloud architectures…
Mainframe teams turn to AI for modernisation gains
Kyndryl’s latest State of mainframe modernisation report has found that organisations can achieve as much as a 225% return on investment in mainframe modernisation projects,…
UK and others sign first ‘binding’ treaty on AI and human rights
The UK government has signed the world’s first “legally binding” treaty on artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights, which commits states to implementing safeguards against…
Datacentres granted critical national infrastructure status
Following the major IT outages caused by CrowdStrike, technology secretary Peter Kyle has announced the government is now classifying UK datacentres as critical national infrastructure…
HMRC could lose millions in unpaid tax as non-compliant umbrella enters pre-pack administration
The UK government is facing fresh calls to regulate umbrella companies, following the revelation that one non-compliant firm will avoid paying back millions of pounds…
Storage technology explained: Vector databases at the core of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to…
September Patch Tuesday: Update before 1 October
Microsoft has issued four remote code vulnerabilities fixes in the September 2024 Patch Tuesday update, which it has marked as critical, meaning exploits are in…
ICO and NCA sign MoU to provide joint support for cyber crime victims
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) are joining forces to better support UK-based organisations that fall victim to cyber attacks.…
Fujitsu cuts annual staff pay rise as Post Office scandal bites
Fujitsu has told its UK staff there will be no UK-wide pay rise this year as it prioritising a limited budget, with anger among a…
Belgium: Researchers at Imec tackle bioconvergence
In 2023, the World Economic Forum in 2023 named bioconvergence a mega trend that will redefine the 21st century. According to an article on the World Economic Forum (WEF)…
Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24
Oracle top brass led out their annual CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on 10 September with a focus on the multicloud future but also…