There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype. “The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The massive pretraining and scale of AI foundation models, […]

Accenture has created an artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Brussels to develop services across Europe focused on the health, public sector and NATO as part of a $3bn AI investment announced by Accenture in June. The AI lab and innovation studio will test and evaluate potential AI and generative AI-based services for the European public sector, […]

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced an expansion to its Cyber Incident Response (CIR) scheme, introducing a second tier of service providers that will supposedly help more organisations provide incident response service to more victim organisations. The well-established scheme is designed to help organisations experiencing a cyber attack quickly and easily […]

An online survey of 2,500 IT decision-makers conducted by Edelman Data & Intelligence for AMD has found that many are concerned about whether their hardware can cope with artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. AI systems are made up of training data, run on powerful, usually cloud-based graphics processing units (GPU) hardware, which is used to […]

IT asset management (ITAM) and its relationship to good cyber security practice and risk management is becoming a vital element in determining an organisation’s ability to obtain credit, and those that lack an appropriate ITAM strategy may find their ratings adversely effected, according to credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings. In […]

The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales has handed in his resignation to the Home Office, citing delays to the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill. As biometrics commissioner, Fraser Sampson is responsible for oversight of how police collect, retain and use a range of biometric material (including digital facial […]

Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies have reported a data breach resulting from a freedom of information (FoI) disclosure, the second such incident involving the apparent accidental mishandling of police data in the space of a week. The two forces – which have been collaborating on multiple aspects of police work in East Anglia since 2010 […]

As part of an internet protocol multi-protocol label switching (IP/MPLS) routing and switching replacement project, GÉANT, the collaboration of European national research and education networks (NRENs), has announced it will be the first institution of its kind in the world to deploy 800 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) routing interfaces, tripling capacity and supercharging its 50,000km […]

Defending organizations against hackers and keeping information safe are critical endeavors — but they aren’t easy. Information security (infosec) has evolved to be one of the most complex aspects of business today and requires a formalized approach. With modern cybersecurity threats seeking greater harm than ever, proper collaboration between IT and infosec leaders and […]

Nutanix has launched GPT-in-a-Box, a bundled service that adds artificial intelligence (AI) software stack elements – such as foundation models and AI frameworks – to scale-out hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). GPT-in-a-Box also offers consulting so that customers can specify the right infrastructure configuration, in terms of hardware – for example, GPU spec – and software, such […]