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…
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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…
Green IT: How Google’s cloud and AI tools are supporting a methane-tracking satellite project
A satellite due for launch will track how much methane is being emitted by oil and gas facilities, aiming to encourage moves to reduce the…
Misunderstanding and underrepresentation blocking tech diversity
Only a small amount of people believe the tech sector is representative of the UK, according to research by the Institute of Coding (IoC). Asking…
Post Office IT insider and the software decision that lit the Horizon scandal
In the late 1990s, the outcome of a battle between two factions within the Post Office triggered the IT problems that, combined with corporate malfeasance,…
Security-by-design push prompts new ISC2 accreditations
With security-by-design principles becoming more widely adopted and enforced around the world, professional security training and accreditation body ISC2 is set to launch a new…
Alan Turing Institute hits ‘key milestone’ in AI strategy
The Alan Turing Institute has appointed four new directors of science and innovation to its senior scientific leadership team, which it said is a key…
Post Office CEO refused to meet government minister without her lawyer after 2015 Horizon report
Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refused to meet a government minister without a lawyer in 2015 when he insisted on a briefing to discuss…
Dutch Supreme Court approves use of EncroChat evidence
The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld the use of intercepted messages from an encrypted phone network, EncroChat, in a criminal conviction. In a ruling yesterday,…
Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT
Nation-state threat actors backed by the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are exploiting the large language models (LLMs) used by generative AI…
Met Police to scrap and replace ‘racist’ Gangs Violence Matrix
The Metropolitan Police is scrapping its controversial Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) database after long-standing concerns over the tool’s racial disproportionality, but human rights groups have…
Microsoft patches two zero-days for Valentine’s Day
Microsoft has patched two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday – a pair of security feature bypasses affecting Internet Shortcut Files and…