SuperMicro takes on server leaders as AMD pushes on-premise AI
Market data from analyst IDC has shown that SuperMicro has leapfrogged established server makers Lenovo and HPE as the second-largest PC server maker behind Dell.…
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Everpure’s Evergreen One for AI brings Exa flash and GPU-based service-level agreements
Everpure has announced Evergreen One for AI, a performance-backed consumption model for artificial intelligence (AI) that extends to use of its FlashBlade//Exa high-performance storage. Meanwhile,…
Companies House restarts online services following cyber breach
Companies House, the UK’s business registrar, has successfully rebooted its online WebFiling service after it emerged that a previously-unknown cyber security issue exposed various data…
Cyber flywheel aims to kick-start UK cyber security startups
The UK government and businesses are being urged to back the growth of a critical mass of cyber security startup companies. Startup founder Alastair Paterson…
Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases
A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have profiled his victims through NHS database queries that were unaudited. Paul Lipscombe, from Rothley, Leicestershire,…
Strong security balances consolidation and best-of-breed capabilities
The commercial case for cyber security platformisation is a compelling one, and it is a primary driver behind its momentum. Organisations running 15 or 20…
Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old
The Met Office has celebrated one year of “supercomputing as a service” from Microsoft. The occasion presented an opportunity for the weather forecasting and climate…
UK government announces package to get more women in tech
The Home Office and Ministry of Justice are part of a government pilot to get women back into the tech sector through senior software development…
Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval
Planning permission has been approved for what is reported to be one of the UK’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres, a 1GW project in north…
The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?
The Rashomon Effect is a narrative technique pioneered by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, whereby each act of a story shows the same scene from the…
Vulnerability reports: Increase in quantity, decrease in quality?
The concept of the bug bounty is relatively simple: a researcher probes networks and applications for potential vulnerabilities, finds one, and reports it to the…
This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses
When US president Trump implemented sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in February 2025, it wasn’t long before ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan found…