CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know
On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not…
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Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are new and different to those we’ve seen previously in the enterprise. They range from intensely compute-intensive training to day-to-day inferencing…
Crowdstrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
Systems using Microsoft Windows software were affected by a major global outage due to a configuration which caused PCs to crash with a “blue screen…
Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which…
Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk
The growing normalisation of the widespread storing and sharing of self-created intimate images in the UK is heightening the risk of online abuse faced by…
Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
A former detective regarded as a key witness in an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully monitored the phones of journalists has accused lawyers of…
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
The government trusted the views of the Post Office over allegations by subpostmasters that they were being mistreated over unexplained branch losses, and ignored what…
DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of the past 12 months, according…
Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’
Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open…
UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is to bring forward a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill in the new parliamentary term, with the intent of strengthening the…
Tech workers misinformed about number of women at top, finds Computer Weekly
Women are well represented in tech leadership positions across Europe, according to half of the people asked during the annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey.…
Hackney Council reprimanded over 2020 ransomware attack
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has strongly reprimanded the London Borough of Hackney over a series of failings that led to a devastating ransomware attack…