Researchers see surge in scam websites linked to coronation
With days to go until the coronation of King Charles III, cyber fraudsters are seeking to capitalise on a surge in public interest, according to…
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Podcast: No more hard disks in five years, says Pure
In this podcast Shawn Rosemarin, vice-president of customer engineering in research and development at Pure Storage, argues that spinning disk hard drives (HDDs) will face…
The role of AI as an everyday life assistant
In 2019, Amazon discontinued its physical Dash button, a gadget that allowed customers to reorder products at the push of a button. But this idea…
Government is playing ‘psychic war’ in battle over end-to-end encryption
The government is playing a high-stakes game of chicken with technology companies by being “intentionally ambiguous” about the impact legislation going through Parliament that could…
AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend
The annual revenue growth rate for Amazon’s cloud arm is continuing to slow, as enterprises look for ways to optimise the costs involved in running…
More Post Office software-related convictions take total to 86
Two former subpostmasters are the latest to have wrongful criminal convictions overturned on appeal. A total of 86 former subpostmasters and Post Office branch workers…
Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings
Intel has reported first-quarter revenues of $11.7bn, down 36% from last year. Its Data Center and AI (DCAI) business posted a 39% decline in revenue…
Tenable opens playground for generative AI cyber tools
The security community is being invited to explore the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to act as a useful tool in its research efforts,…
Zopa’s emotional journey to becoming a bank
Zopa spent 15 years pioneering the peer-to-peer lending sector, only to drop that business to become a bank. CEO Jaidev Janardana tells Computer Weekly how…
Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches
Google Cloud has fixed a potentially dangerous application programming interface (API) vulnerability in its platform that, had it been exploited by malicious actors, could have…
Police Scotland receive formal notice about cloud system
The Scottish biometrics commissioner has served Police Scotland with an information notice, requiring the force to demonstrate that its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence…
Researchers deal blow to Gootloader gang that supported REvil
Security researchers at managed detection and response (MDR) specialist eSentire have revealed how they are turning the tables on an expansive cyber crime operation that…