Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI

Nvidia has posted first-quarter revenue of $7.19bn, down 13% from a year ago, but its datacentre business has seen significant growth thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The Nvidia datacentre business reported first-quarter revenue of $4.28bn, up 14% from a year ago and up 18% from the previous quarter. The company sees a huge […]

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UK, US and Australia jointly trial AI-enabled drone swarm

The UK government has deployed a “collaborative swarm” of autonomous drones to detect and track military targets using artificial intelligence (AI), as part of a joint trial with Australia and the US.   Organised by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and held in April 2023, the trial involved deploying the drones in […]

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Downstream breaches of Capita customers spreading

The impact of two separate cyber security incidents at Capita continues to spread as more and more of the organisations’ customers report downstream data breaches, with the data of hundreds of thousands – potentially millions – of private individuals likely affected. As many as 90 organisations say they have now seen some impact, according […]

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Tech jobs to go as part of JPMorgan layoffs

JPMorgan Chase, which has about 300,000 staff globally, will announce about 500 job cuts this week, which will include the removal of roles in the technology and operations departments. According a Reuters report, quoting CNBC, the cuts will affect the bank’s main business of consumer and commercial banking as well as asset and wealth […]

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Can the UK cash in on chips?

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 30 May 2023 Can the UK cash in on chips? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, the UK government has committed £1bn to the semiconductor sector – but can it ever compete with the US and China? The potential of 5G […]

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Driving secure-by-design principles | Computer Weekly

It is largely recognised among the IT security community that there is a direct correlation between the quality of code – as a percentage of coding errors per thousand lines of code – and cyber security. Simply put, the more bugs in code, the greater the chance they will be exploited as an attack […]

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Birmingham council leader admits £100m budget hole in ERP upgrade

Birmingham City Council’s new council leader has informed local newspapers of spiralling costs in a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrade project. In an interview given to the Birmingham Mail, city council leader John Cotton described the “disastrous” Oracle system, which has left taxpayers with a £100m bill. Although details of the problems the […]

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Cisco joins growing Manchester cyber security hub

Networking technology giant Cisco has become the latest supporter of Manchester’s growing Digital Security Hub (DiSH) cyber security accelerator, launching a series of initiatives to support the centre’s ambitions to be at the forefront of security innovation in northwest England. Manchester already hosts a growing cyber security ecosystem, besides DiSH being home to GCHQ’s […]

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Bumbling IT security analyst convicted of blackmail offences

A former IT security analyst who exploited an opportunistic ransomware attack to impersonate the attackers and conduct his own, secondary cyber attack on his employer has been convicted of blackmail and unauthorised access to a computer with intent to commit other offences, after completely failing to properly cover his tracks. Ashley Liles, 28, of […]

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