Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
A graphical user interface (GUI) is the way many people interact with computing devices, ranging from smartphones and smart TVs, to laptops, desktops and website…
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NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has infiltrated and disrupted digitalstress.su, an underground criminal marketplace that hired infrastructure out to conduct distributed denial of service…
Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims
Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to…
NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists
Opportunist cyber criminals are the most pressing immediate threat arising from the 19 July Microsoft outage, which caused millions of machines worldwide to crash as…
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
Former coalition government ministers were “handled” by civil servants who “covered their own backs” while evidence of a scandal at the Post Office emerged, according…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green
The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions…
What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?
Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket.…
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…
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…