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…
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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…
Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
A former detective regarded as a key witness in an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully monitored the phones of journalists has accused lawyers of…
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
The government trusted the views of the Post Office over allegations by subpostmasters that they were being mistreated over unexplained branch losses, and ignored what…