CIO interview: Steve O’Connor, Aston Martin
For a spy, James Bond’s choice of an Aston Martin is anything but subtle, yet the car and the fictional spook have become synonymous with…
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Apple hit by Which? with £3bn legal claim that iCloud service charges are ‘anti-competitive’
Consumer rights advocate Which? is pursuing a £3bn legal action against Apple on behalf of millions of UK consumers it claims are locked into the…
European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata
To make data archives that last is an urgent task. That’s the message of the European Commission’s eArchiving initiative, which has just announced version 2.0…
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…
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…