The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has named former NCC Group chief technology officer (CTO) Ollie Whitehouse as its CTO, in a newly created role that replaces in part that performed by the agency’s well-regarded technical director Ian Levy, who left the organisation earlier this year. Whitehouse will be tasked with shaping and […]

Researchers from the University of Plymouth, alongside the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) catapult and engineering firm Expleo, are to collaborate on new cyber security measures to protect the UK’s growing estate of offshore wind farms from threat actors. The newly launched Cyber Resilience of Offshore Wind Networks (CROWN) project will incorporate a purpose-built lab […]

While greenwashing continues to confuse and even block the best intended emissions reduction plans, a 495MW €3.5bn (£3bn) datacentre project in Portugal is making progress on Scope 3 accounting. The Sines 4.0 datacentre campus, which is the work of sustainable server farm developer Start Campus, is predicted to become one of the largest hyperscale […]

VMware’s vSphere 8 has mutated into vSphere “8+”, which brings three new storage-related options: disaggregated storage in vSAN Max; NSX+ to support multicloud deployments; and Ransomware Recovery extended to an online service. “vSAN Max is a product that you can buy and deploy in your datacentre,” said CEO Raghu Raghuram at VMware Explore 2023 […]

Many cloud applications are slow, clunky, bloated or otherwise fail to meet user expectations – yet answers on how to address this are out there already, if teams are given the resources to follow through from first principles. Owen Rogers, cloud research director at Uptime Intelligence, says cloud apps should be architected to be […]

Hyve Managed Hosting has lifted the lid on the work it is doing to ensure the National Television Awards (NTAs) website has the capacity to cope with an influx of visitors to its website during the voting periods for this year’s show. This is the fourth year in a row the Brighton-based cloud services […]

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is going ahead with plans for a blockchain-based trading platform after a year of examination reached an “inflexion point”. According to a Financial Times report, the stock exchange hopes to have the platform, which will be part of its digital markets business, available in the next year if it […]

The Trades Union Congress has launched an AI “taskforce” and is calling for new laws to safeguard workers’ rights and ensure the technology has broad social benefits. The taskforce, which the TUC said will corral specialists in law, technology, politics, HR and the voluntary sector, will publish an AI and Employment Bill early in […]

The LockBit ransomware operation has leaked a tranche of data purloined from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an attack on a company called Zaun, a West Midlands-based supplier of metal fencing products that has supplied some of the UK’s key installations, thought to include the Porton Down research unit in Wiltshire and […]

With 64 contests, 67 winners, 101 live shows, 52 participating countries, 1,500 songs, 12 points, seven wins for Ireland, seven for Sweden, five apiece for the UK, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, The Eurovision Song Contest is as heavy on statistics as any sporting league. With viewer numbers regularly in the hundreds of millions, and […]