The Finish Food Authority (FFA) is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to dramatically reduce the time it takes to complete critical research as it strives to prevent potential public health crises. The FFA’s Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Unit works on scientific risk assessment projects, including the effect of avian influenza on food safety.  Traditionally, researchers […]

Software-defined storage promises enterprises much greater flexibility and freedom of choice when it comes to their data storage deployments. By taking lower-level software operations and day-to-day software management, and abstracting them from hardware, customers can run their storage on commodity servers and expansion shelves. That, at least, is the theory. However, the market for […]

Over the last few months, we have seen a number of proof of concepts (PoCs) that demonstrate ways ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms can be used to perform many tasks involved in a typical attack chain. And since November 2022, white hat researchers and hacking forum users have been talking about using ChatGPT […]

The design of the digital universal credit (UC) system means claimants are “routinely” left without basic information about their own benefit claims, making it difficult to challenge decisions and leading to incorrect payments, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) research has found. Following a three-year investigation into how well the implementation of UC aligns with […]

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge are collaborating with Dell Technologies and Intel to access the supercomputing resources needed to get green fusion power onto the energy grid within the next 20 years.   With the UK government’s 2050 net-zero economy target looming large, and with plans afoot to […]

In this storage supplier profile we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. It plays into the enterprise data storage market, with block, file and object access and a full portfolio of hyper-converged, cloud and container-focused products, and sits alongside Hitachi’s wider ICT offer. Its storage offer […]

The Scottish government’s technology startup accelerator has launched a new set of “challenges”, opening up around $10m worth of contract opportunities to any enterprise able to solve the issues outlined. Launched in 2016 to “inject innovation” into the Scottish public sector’s use of technology, the government-run CivTech accelerator announced its ninth round of challenges […]

Small businesses have been warned to avoid companies offering them a way to claim tax refunds through a fake scheme linked to money they set aside to pay potential future General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fines. Not-for-profit Tax Policy Associates said there are tax advisories offering small businesses, and IT suppliers in particular, a […]

In keeping with all other technology plans in the region, The Dubai Internet of Things (IoT) Strategy has the lofty ambition of building the world’s most advanced internet of things (IoT) ecosystem. The plan is to protect Dubai’s digital wealth and get all government departments to undergo digital transformation. One of the objectives of the […]

In dealing with the challenges to its network after being an early adopter of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), multinational logistics, distribution and aquaculture enterprise Stolt-Nielsen has called on Orange Business to provide a secure access service edge (SASE) offering to securely support its global, hybrid workforce and drive business growth. A global […]