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MEPs in two European Parliament committees have overwhelmingly voted for a raft of amendments to the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), including a number of bans on “intrusive and discriminatory” systems, but there are still concerns around lingering loopholes and the potential for state overreach. The list of prohibited systems deemed to represent “an unacceptable […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), have banded together to urge those affected by cyber incidents, especially ransomware, to be more open about the issues, and to put an end to a culture of secrecy and cover-ups that they argue is hindering the ability of society at […]
The world as we know it is comprised of layers upon layers of carefully connected technology, found in everything from international banks and local community owned shops to wireless doorbells and smart kitchen appliances. Each and every piece of technology between you and these core aspects of our lives have one thing in common: […]
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is being applauded for its “pragmatic” approach to conducting an 18-month IR35 compliance check on a global manufacturing business that engaged around 300 contractors, with the vast majority working in IT or technology-related roles. The company in question, which has requested to remain anonymous, first found itself in HMRC’s […]
Among the key findings of the UK and Ireland-focused segment of the TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT priorities survey for 2023 is a year-on-year increase in the importance placed on cloud-based projects by the 156 participants in this year’s poll. Looking at broad technology initiatives that have become “significantly more important” to the future of organisations […]
An email has revealed that a senior Post Office lawyer bragged about how his team successfully prosecuted a subpostmaster for theft, sending her to prison while pregnant, despite knowledge of evidence that would have put her prosecution in question. He described his team’s success as destroying the defence’s arguments against the Post Office Horizon […]
Storage manufacturers constantly work to improve capacity and cut costs. Nowhere is this more apparent than with flash storage, where capacities have risen from gigabytes to 20TB and more. Performance is way ahead of what’s possible with spinning disk, and cost per GB could overtake HDD soon. Penta-level cell (PLC) flash is the latest generation of […]
Deutsche Bank is one of a number of organisations testing Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) at scale. At the Google I/O 2023 event, the multinational tech company unveiled a raft of new AI capabilities and early adopter customers. The bank is testing how Google’s AI’s capabilities could be deployed […]
Google Cloud and SAP want to make it easier for enterprises to view their entire business data estates in real-time through the roll-out of a jointly created open data offering. The two companies are long-standing technology collaborators, with Google Cloud specifically working with numerous enterprises to help migrate their on-premise SAP business application and […]
Actively preparing to meet the flood of data coming from upcoming science needs, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network built to support scientific research, has engaged global subsea connectivity services provider Aqua Comms to supply its first live commercial 400Gbps Ethernet (GE) transatlantic service from London to New York. Funded by the US […]