Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge
Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) have headed sharply upwards over the past two quarters. Meanwhile, on the spinning disk front, SAS hard disk…
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The government’s AI push needs clear accountability
However, there is a big elephant in the room. Without clear accountability frameworks, this 50-point roadmap risks becoming a cautionary tale rather than a success…
What should platform engineering look like?
Platform engineering is based on the principles of product management and the product model applied to digital and IT systems. Fast-moving digital teams show resistance…
ICO publishes summary of police facial recognition audit
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has completed its first-ever data protection audit of UK police forces deploying facial recognition technologies (FRT), noting it is “encouraged”…
AI supports care of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon hospital
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being piloted at Lebanon’s Al Hamshari Hospital in a project that could help stretched medics provide better care for huge numbers…
Home Office ‘back door’ seeks world-wide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
The Home Office sought access to data and messages stored by Apple users on its cloud storage in the UK and overseas by demanding a…
How to manage Active Directory security
Even after 25 years, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the backbone of identity and access management in up to 90% of enterprise IT environments worldwide,…
AI and backup: How backup products leverage AI
Software applications often list artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in their feature sets, and data backup tools are no exception. Software supplier use of AI and…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang lobbies Trump administration to sell Blackwell to China
Nvidia has posted another massive growth in its datacentre business, but its CEO is eager to sell the company’s high-end Blackwell chip to China. Nvidia…
Cyber Girls First is encouraging girls to study tech at university
When I began Cyber Girls First (CGF) in 2014, the figures produced by the industry showed that out of the total employees in the computer…
UK cyber security centre helps expose China-based cyber campaign
Chinese technology companies have been linked to targeting governments and critical networks with malicious cyber attacks since 2021. Working with 12 international partners, GCHQ’s National…
Incident response planning cuts the risk of claiming on cyber security insurance
Although at their heart they focus on post-breach mitigation and remediation, cyber incident response plans are emerging as a very important cyber security control when…