Category: ComputerWeekly

Europe’s fastest supercomputer trains large language models in Finland
16
Nov
2023

Luxembourg-based cloud provider aims to transform the AI landscape in Europe

For the time being, most of the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is in the US. But Gcore’s hopes to change…

Suzy Lamplugh Trust treads path to improved cyber resilience
16
Nov
2023

Cancer Research uses AWS for payments and trial search function

Well-known charity Cancer Research has moved its donations platform on to AWS architecture, and has since been experimenting with ways…

Five key steps where there is a risk of fraud investigation
16
Nov
2023

Ransomware gang grasses up uncooperative victim to US regulator

In a development that observers are already calling predictable, the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel appears to have added a new tactic…

SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
16
Nov
2023

SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding

An annual sustainability study from SAP has revealed that 83% of UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in…

Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings
16
Nov
2023

Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings

The Post Office scandal statutory inquiry has once more been forced to postpone sessions with key witnesses following the identification …

St Helens Council in Merseyside hit by ransomware attack
15
Nov
2023

BlackCat affiliate seen using malvertising to spread ransomware

An affiliate member of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel has turned to malvertising techniques beloved of fraudsters to compromise its victims,…

Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet
15
Nov
2023

Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet

Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all…

Where tech can smooth out the retail returns process
15
Nov
2023

Where tech can smooth out the retail returns process

Fashion retailer H&M started to charge customers for online product returns in September 2023. Citing a rise in delivery and…

November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days
15
Nov
2023

November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five zero-day vulnerabilities on the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2023, three of…

NCSC warns over ‘enduring’ LockBit threat
15
Nov
2023

US government reinforces ICBC hack link to Citrix Bleed

The possibility that this was the case was first raised by security researcher and commentator Kevin Beaumont via social media…

DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?
15
Nov
2023

DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as…

Pentland Brands marshals Google BigQuery to improve customer insight
14
Nov
2023

Million Brits could lose access to bank branch if closure rate continues

A million people in the UK could lose easy access to a bank branch in their local area, as banks…