UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies focused on supercomputing and drug discovery are among the first cohort of startups to get money and computing resources from the…
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Cyber Essentials closes the MFA loophole but leaves some organisations adrift
On 27 April, the government backed security certification scheme, Cyber Essentials v3.3, takes effect and multi-factor authentication (MFA) becomes a pass-or-fail requirement for the first…
UAE education builds digital resilience as regional tensions accelerate shift to remote learning
As geopolitical tensions continue to shape the Middle East, the UAE’s education sector is undergoing a rapid transformation – one that places resilience, digital continuity…
Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?
It looks like we’re heading for a new American Century when it comes to datacentre development, with US capacity set to triple to a staggering…
UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government
A new generation of experimental, frontier AI models are rapidly developing the ability to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities and business leaders need to start…
Danske Bank upgrade error exposed 20,000 customer addresses
The personal addresses of thousands of Danske Bank customers were leaked last year following a planned system upgrade. During a three-month period, until a fix…
Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk
Ordnance Survey (OS) has worked with Snowflake to develop Intelligent Flood Readiness, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data model for assessing the impact of flooding. The…
Finnish quantum computing champion IQM determined to make ‘impossible’ engineering breakthrough
The boss of Europe’s largest quantum computing firm says it is determined to make the engineering breakthroughs that superconducting quantum computers need to become capable…
Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its vision for what it wants open finance to look like by 2030, focusing on helping small businesses…
April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server
The latest monthly Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft landed earlier on 14 April, including two notable zero-day flaws amid a total of over 160 distinct…
Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has worked with Google Cloud and the Alan Turing Institute to build the Consultation Analysis Tool (CAT) to analyse…
Turkey launches nationwide 5G services with ambitious domestic production targets
Turkey officially launched commercial 5G services this month, ending years of anticipation and positioning the country to catch up with global markets that began deploying…