Interview: Walmart’s David Glick discusses technology scale
Retailer Walmart has a 25,000-strong IT team and it is big on technology. Enterprise business services is effectively the IT department at the retail giant.…
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Royal Mail spent £10m on cyber measures after LockBit attack
Royal Mail’s parent organisation International Distributions Services plc (IDS) has revealed it spent a total of £10m in the six months to 24 September on…
Microsoft ignites chip journey with AI accelerators
As it ramps up its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, Microsoft has developed a custom semiconductor, the Maia AI Accelerator, which it will use internally for…
Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push
Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore how its artificial intelligence (AI) and…
British Library’s Halloween cyber scare was ransomware
The British Library has confirmed that an IT outage that began at the end of October was indeed the result of a ransomware attack on…
Interview: Dan Huddart, CTO, Homeprotect
In 2018, home insurance provider Homeprotect reached a huge milestone by completing the first version of an in-house data science platform designed around the skills…
Luxembourg-based cloud provider aims to transform the AI landscape in Europe
For the time being, most of the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is in the US. But Gcore’s hopes to change that – or at least…
Cancer Research uses AWS for payments and trial search function
Well-known charity Cancer Research has moved its donations platform on to AWS architecture, and has since been experimenting with ways to use the technology. Cancer…
Ransomware gang grasses up uncooperative victim to US regulator
In a development that observers are already calling predictable, the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel appears to have added a new tactic to its playbook of methods…
SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
An annual sustainability study from SAP has revealed that 83% of UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability activities by 2026, but…
Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearings
The Post Office scandal statutory inquiry has once more been forced to postpone sessions with key witnesses following the identification of thousands of relevant documents…
BlackCat affiliate seen using malvertising to spread ransomware
An affiliate member of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware cartel has turned to malvertising techniques beloved of fraudsters to compromise its victims, masking its payloads as legitimate…