The UK government will be hosting an international artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit at Bletchley Park on 1 and 2 November 2023. The conference will look at the risks of AI and how these can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action. Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of investment firm Entrepreneur First, and former senior […]

The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has been ruled responsible for his hacking spree at Southwark Crown Court. The 18-year old from Oxford, who was first named as Arion Kurtaj earlier is year, is autistic and […]

Nvidia has reported record revenue of $13.51bn for its second quarter of 2024, an increase of 101% from a year ago, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) accelerated computing applications. The company posted a 171% increase in datacentre revenue from the previous year, which CFO Collette Kress said has been led by cloud service providers […]

What is BYOI (bring your own identity)? BYOI (bring your own identity) is an approach to digital authentication in which an end user’s username and password are managed by a third party. BYOI is increasingly being used for website authentication. Instead of requiring visitors to create new usernames and passwords during the registration process, the […]

St Helens Borough Council in Merseyside has fallen victim to a suspected ransomware attack, by an as-yet undisclosed threat actor, that has brought down various systems across its IT estate, although the majority of its customer-facing systems appear to remain operational. Full details of the cyber attack have yet to emerge, but the council […]

VMware has expanded its strategic partnership with Nvidia to enable private cloud infrastructure for the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI). It positions the new VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia as a platform that enables enterprises to customise models and run generative AI applications, including intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarisation. VMware said […]

The median dwell time – the time in between an attacker accessing their victim’s systems and the attack being detected or executed – has dropped significantly, falling from 10 to eight days between January and July 2023, having fallen by five days from 15 to 10 during 2022 after a sharp rise in 2021. […]

UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are investing nearly half of their annual turnover on technology to counteract rising costs and retain competitiveness, according to the latest Barclays Business Barometer. According to the bank’s research, the most innovative SMEs in the UK are spending 48% of annual revenue on technology, with 45% doing so […]

Cameyo has integrated its virtual app delivery services with ChromeOS to provide IT departments with a way to repurpose older Windows devices. Cameyo said that ChromeOS with Cameyo is designed to enable organisations to deliver any application – from software as a service (SaaS) to legacy apps – over the web, without the need for […]

The major European colocation hubs are expected to see a 17% year-on-year (YoY) increase in installed datacentre capacity by the end of 2023, despite the ongoing challenges operators face when trying to secure power sources for their sites. According to market data shared by real estate consultancy CBRE, it is expected that Frankfurt, London, […]