Gartner: Avoid AI project money pit
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is past its peak in the Gartner hype cycle but has not met expectations, analysts warned at the company’s European conference…
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TechUK calls for government support to help UK datacentre market reach growth potential
The datacentre sector could become one of the fastest-growing industries in the UK, but doing so will require greater collaboration between industry and decision-makers at…
Microsoft trials building ‘wooden’ datacentres in pursuit of 2030 carbon-negative goal
Microsoft is experimenting with ways to cut the amount of steel and concrete it uses to build its datacentres, by developing two facilities in Northern…
Financiers isolate Middle East over sanctions-evading paytech
International financiers have pulled support for a revolutionary paytech system being rolled out in the Middle East after it became embroiled in Russian plans to…
CISA looks to global collaboration as fraught US election begins
The United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week launched a two-year International Strategic Plan – its first ever – aligning with domestic…
Outside IR35: What the Autumn Budget’s Employers’ NI changes mean for IT contractors
The IT contracting market looks set for a shake-up following the Autumn Budget 2024, with the UK government announcing changes that could potentially increase the…
Bank of England warns against AI ‘complacency’
The Bank of England is launching a consortium where private sector finance organisations and artificial intelligence (AI) experts can provide knowledge on the technology’s benefits…
What will the Employments Rights Bill mean for tech employers?
Much has been speculated since the Labour Party first published its manifesto with groundbreaking legal changes pledged but without detail as to what this would…
Enterprise demand for GenAI fuels profit and revenue growth at AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a “significant re-acceleration” in its growth, its parent company’s CEO has declared, after the public cloud giant reported 19.1%…
Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims
Almost two-thirds of people hit by the Post Office Horizon scandal have had their personal relationships affected by it, according to the findings of a…
DWP appoints Helen Wylie as its new chief digital and information officer
Helen Wylie, currently chief technology officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is to take over from her boss, Rich Corbridge, as chief…
Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has reported a 19% increase in revenue to $40.6bn for the third quarter of 2024, driven…