CMA looks at competition in foundational AI
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun an initial consultation looking into competition and consumer protection considerations in the development and use of artificial…
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IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite
Technology decision-makers across the UK and Ireland are increasingly prioritising spending their budgets on cloud-based IT projects, with half of those respondents to a TechTarget/Computer…
Google debuts passwordless login options for users
Google has rolled out a passkey option that people can use to sign into its services alongside traditional authentication methods, and proclaimed a major step…
Age UK calls for physical banking hubs as older people demand face-to-face banking
Age UK wants banks to accelerate the creation of physical banking hubs as research shows 40% of over-65s don’t bank online. As high street banks…
TikTok fixes vulnerability that could have exposed user activity data
Video-sharing social media platform TikTok has fixed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in its application that could have allowed a malicious actor to view and monitor…
Cyber Action Plan for Wales launched
The Welsh government has today launched a Cyber Action Plan for Wales, outlining four priorities to bolster the country’s cyber security resilience and industry, and…
Data classification tools: What they do and who makes them
Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data…
Government anti-fraud strategy targets the tech behind the scams
A national anti-fraud strategy, launched today, will target digitally enabled fraud and scams, taking the fight to the criminal underground and stopping fraudsters from ever…
US competition watchdog issues generative AI warning
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning to companies over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manipulate people’s behaviour for commercial…
Quantum computing: What are the data storage challenges?
Quantum computing will process massive amounts of information. Workloads could include diagnostic simulations and analysis at speeds far greater than existing computing. But, to be…
Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks
A Gartner survey of 2,500 executive leaders has found that almost half (45%) say publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence (AI)…
Mystery Apple security update sparks speculation
Apple has released the first security update under its new Rapid Security Response programme, but has sparked confusion after releasing no information about any of…