Warlock ransomware may be linked to Chinese state
An emergent strain of ransomware known as Warlock – which was linked to multiple attacks orchestrated via vulnerabilities in on-premise Microsoft SharePoint Server instances during…
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What will happen now Google has been given ‘strategic market status’ by CMA?
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given Google strategic market status (SMS) for search and search advertising. The regulator said that designating Google with…
AI and big data: Driving the UAE’s smart transport revolution
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is fast emerging as a global leader in intelligent transport, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data…
Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro
Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence at gardening specialist ScottsMiracle-Gro, is a different type of digital leader. “I’m very hands-on,” he says. “I’ve developed a…
Qilin gang claims cyber attack on Japanese brewing giant
The Qilin ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on Japanese brewer Asahi Group Holdings, after listing the organisation on its dark web…
Windows 10 end of support: Time to go virtual?
Windows 10 is no longer supported by Microsoft, but at the time of writing, over 40% of Windows devices still run the 10-year-old operating system,…
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit: Prepare for AI failures
IT leaders are set to get a boost in budget in 2026, but according to research from analyst Forrester, they are likely to feel greater…
Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides
A senior leader at Fujitsu told colleagues the first report from the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal was “not that bad”, despite…
How the UAE is using AI to transform healthcare
When the UAE appointed the world’s first minister of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2017, it signalled that AI was going to be more than just…
How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance
Just weeks after it signed a landmark 10 gigawatts (GW) of datacentre capacity agreement with Nvidia, OpenAI has penned a deal with rival chipmaker AMD.…
TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents
TalkTalk chief operations officer (COO) Neil Smith comes from a deep engineering background in telecoms. He has been at the company for seven years, and…
Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI
People often talk about going digital and digitisation initiatives, but technology is only half the story. As Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European…