Schools go smartphone-free to address online harms
As the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) approaches its first birthday, parents and teachers insist more must be done to protect young people and children…
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Ex-boxer fights US government over legality of Sky ECC cryptophone intercepts
Lawyers representing a former boxer charged with serious drug trafficking offences are challenging the legality of the US government’s use of intercepted messages obtained by…
China’s Volt Typhoon rebuilds botnet in wake of takedown
The Chinese state threat actor most famously known as Volt Typhoon is staging a significant comeback after its botnet infrastructure was disrupted in a US-led…
Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning
Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as…
Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation
The latest machine on IBM’s quantum computing roadmap, Heron, has been given a hardware and software boost as the company pushes towards its goal of error…
Even AI laggards can see triple return on investment
Boosting employee productivity is regarded as one of the big wins when deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, a survey has reported. However, in the…
Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts
Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and…
Microsoft fixes 89 CVEs on penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024
Microsoft has issued fixes addressing a total of 89 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) – 92 including third-party disclosures – to mark the penultimate…
Zero-day exploits increasingly sought out by attackers
Threat actors – both state-backed and financially-motivated – are increasingly taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, to compromise their victims before fixes or…
More data stolen in 2023 MOVEit attacks comes to light
Eighteen months after a major cyber incident in which hundreds of organisations were victimised by a ransomware gang that exploited a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability…
Strengthening cyber: Best IAM practices to combat threats
The 2024 UK government Cyber Security Breaches Survey makes sober reading with 70% and 74% respectively of medium and large businesses reporting some form of…
Gartner warns GenAI demand will lead to datacentre energy shortages
The surging demand for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) workloads is likely to lead to operational constraints in AI datacentres due to energy shortages, according to…