LockBit locked out: Cyber community reacts
News that the prolific, dangerous and feared LockBit ransomware cartel has been significantly disrupted by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), the FBI and others,…
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HM Treasury signs AWS hosting environment management deal with Keysource
HM Treasury has signed two three-year deals with datacentre specialist Keysource, including one involving the maintenance of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that hosts…
Birmingham City Council needs a further £45m to fix ‘disastrous’ Oracle system
A document posted online ahead of Birmingham City Council’s cabinet meeting shows that more money needs to be ploughed in to fix its Oracle system.…
Uber CEO admits pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’
Ride-hailing app Uber has admitted to using workers’ “behavioural patterns” to determine their pay amid long-standing conflict with drivers over algorithmic transparency. The comment,…
Rolls-Royce looks at viability of quantum computing in nuclear safety
Rolls-Royce plans to use quantum computing to figure out how to run nuclear power plants remotely. Through the Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), the manufacturer…
Competition in the cloud: Microsoft’s ‘unfair’ licensing tactics go under the microscope
Microsoft’s hold on the global cloud infrastructure sector is on the rise, with data released in the wake of its most recent set of financial…
Cops take down LockBit ransomware gang
The LockBit ransomware crew that was behind some of the most significant cyber incidents of recent years, most famously the January 2023 attack on Royal…
Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure
Switzerland-based copyright and royalties agency SUISA has cut datacentre rackspace and energy costs by 50% following a move from EMC all-flash hardware to Pure Storage…
Virtus plots colocation campus in Buckinghamshire as demand for London datacentres soars
West London-based colocation provider Virtus Data Centres is planning to build a server farm campus on a 50-acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire that will…
Controversial Post Office Capture system was developed in-house
The Post Office’s second controversial accounting system, known as Capture, was developed in-house in the early 1990s. Following the explosion of public interest in the…
Gartner: Three top trends in cyber security for 2024
Security and risk management leaders face disruptions on multiple fronts: technological, organisational and human. Preparation and pragmatic execution are vital to address these disruptions and…
Google claims AI advances with Gemini LLM
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has unveiled the next version of Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM). The new version of the LLM, formerly known…