Autonomous weapons reduce moral agency and devalue human life
Using autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to target humans will erode moral agency and lead to a general devaluing of life, according to military technology experts.…
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Case study: Seeing clearly with data at Specsavers
Specsavers opened its first high street opticians branches 40 years ago. Since then the business, which is still family-owned, has grown to more than 2,000…
UK’s long-awaited device security law kicks in
The long-awaited Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act of 2022 has finally kicked in, placing new legal duties on manufacturers of electronic and smart…
Ransomware payment bans need universal buy-in
Banning ransomware payments is the only viable deterrent to cyber criminal gangs in the long term. Recent attacks on the British Library, Boeing, and even…
What’s it like being the IT chief at Man Utd?
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Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates
65TB per hour, from anywhere on earth to anywhere else, no matter the quality of the connection between them. That’s the transfer speed achieved by…
Persistent data breaches deny people with HIV dignity, privacy
Charities and healthcare organisations working with HIV positive people are persistently failing to take account of their basic data protection and privacy needs, with frequent…
Keeper to help Williams F1 keep up with cyber challenges
Cloud-based zero-trust and zero-knowledge software specialist Keeper Security has joined storied Formula 1 team Williams Racing as an official partner ahead of the Miami Grand…
Barnsley Council drives social care efficiency with Copilot
Barnsley Council has deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 at scale to integrate across the systems council workers use every day, including PowerPoint and Teams. Staff…
Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons
Foreign ministers from states around the world are calling for multilateral action to safeguard humanity against the growing threat of autonomous weapon systems (AWS), which…
IBM boss discusses long-term VMware plan
IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Calculating IT equipment capacity – the challenging path forward
Datacentre energy consumption and operational efficiency are under intense scrutiny. Sensing a need to control datacentre growth, legislators and regulators have begun efforts to require…