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US retail bank Citi is rolling out technology that will enable its US Personal Banking business to offer customers highly personalised services whether they walk into a branch, use a mobile banking app or phone a call centre. US Personal Banking, which provides debit and credit cards, retail financial services and retail banking to […]
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could be deployed to aid its content classification work. The alpha phase of the exploratory project is already underway, with the BBFC drawing on its own datasets and the viewing experiences of its […]
Research from global business services company Assurant has confirmed the continued rise in connected living, with growth in connected device usage and an increased appetite for 5G devices, but those buying technology are becoming more circumspect in their purchasing plans. Assurant’s Connected decade study is an annual survey examining consumer attitudes around connected devices, homes […]
The price hike in software licences and cloud-based services is no longer just an issue for IT asset managers. The increases are so large that the problem has become a board-level issue, warned ITAM Review’s managing director, Rich Gibbons, at the launch of a report on the changing landscape in IT asset management (ITAM). […]
Cyber security researchers at Google Cloud’s Mandiant have linked exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability existing in a limited subset of Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to a previously untracked China-nexus threat actor, to which it has now assigned the designation UNC4841. CVE-2023-2968 was disclosed in May 2023, but was likely exploited from October […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has once again teamed up with its foreign counterparts, issuing a new joint advisory warning of the “enduring threat” posed by the LockBit ransomware gang, which, while its activity levels seem to have tapered off in the past few weeks, remains one of the most prolific threat […]
As it had previously threatened, the Clop cyber crime cartel has started publicly naming victims allegedly compromised via a SQL injection flaw in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer product, who have resisted its extortion attempt. Clop, which is believed to be based in Russia, told users of the MOVEit Transfer product last week […]
Climate tech startups from across the UK and parts of Europe are being encouraged to join an initiative designed to make it easier for them to access capital and scale up. Known as the Climate Tech Supercluster, its aim is to bring green tech startup founders, investors and other stakeholders together so they can […]
Saudi Arabia has long recognised the need to diversify its economy and minimise its exposure to fluctuations in the world’s appetite for oil, and one major move was made in 2016, when the Kingdom launched Vision 2030, a statement of what the country should strive to become by the year 2030. The plan consists […]
The Department for Education has begun a consultation on the use of generative AI. The department aims to explore the opportunities such technology presents for education, as well as understand the concerns of educators and experts in education. The call for evidence is asking schools, colleges and other academic institutes, along with local authorities, […]