AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF
Artificial intelligence (AI) could impact almost 40% of global employment, says International Monetary Fund (IMF), and will “likely worsen overall inequality” if policymakers do not…
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British Library catalogues back online after ransomware attack
The British Library has successfully recovered a significant portion of its main catalogue and restored public access, two-and-a-half months after being forced to take the…
Octopus Energy invests £200m in datacentre heat reuse startup Deep Green
Heat reuse-focused datacentre compute provider Deep Green has secured £200m in investment from Octopus Energy’s generation arm, which will be used to help the UK-based…
Cosmetics retailer Lush dealing with mystery cyber incident
Dorset-based cosmetics retailer Lush has fallen victim to a cyber security incident of a currently undisclosed nature, via a brief notice posted to its website…
How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry
The ongoing hearings in the UK Post Office’s Horizon software scandal drilled down into an area rarely addressed in detail by the courts or inquiries…
Six ways to use LLMs operationally in the enterprise
Forrester predicts that operational support use cases for large language models (LLMs) will develop rapidly. LLM integration with action components creates fully autonomous workplace assistants…
Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base
Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a…
EU amendment changes open source definition
An amendment to the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has changed the widely accepted definition of open source software, which has the potential to lead…
Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year
After nearly two years, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has received a surge in interest driven by the recent ITV drama and documentary,…
AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day
Amazon Web Services (AWS) looks set to make more money on three multi-million pound government contracts that went live on the same day in December…
UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn
The UK government is seeking views on the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality on the adult entertainment industry…
Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform
A critical vulnerability in Cisco Unity Connection – a messaging and voicemail product that forms part of the networking supplier’s unified communications lineup – could…