“I give the customer what he wants. I don’t think it’s my place to offer dietary advice. If they want red meat and boiling tar… then buon appetito,” said Tom Wambsgans, Shiv Roy’s husband and head of one of Waystar Royco’s divisions, in hit TV drama Succession. This idea of feeding customers what they […]

While buyer’s remorse is commonly associated with the purchase of big-ticket items, such as a house or a car, the tech sector is also plagued by this curse. Many tech buyers who purchase tech products or invest in digital technology experience similar feelings of regret that buyers often feel after purchasing expensive items. The recent […]

HSBC has begun collaborating with Terra Quantum to investigate using hybrid quantum applications to tackle optimisation challenges. One example of such an issue is collateral optimisation, which is the process of efficiently allocating and managing collateral assets to meet regulatory requirements while minimising costs. This requires mathematical and algorithmic strategies to balance risks, liquidity […]

Cyber attacks in 2023 continue to gain traction. As dwell times lessen, cyber crime rates are developing quicker, leading to higher frequencies of cyber attack attempts. But companies at large and small scales are fighting back, opting to adopt higher protective measures with expanded cyber security capabilities.  For example, Google has recently switched to […]

The number of women dropping out of the UK tech sector appears to be escalating. This situation would seem to imply that now is the time for employers to put less focus on hiring diverse talent and more on retaining it. Some 17,000 female tech workers left the industry between Q4 2022 and Q1 […]

Apple has moved to patch two zero-click, zero-day vulnerabilities – tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061 – in its mobile operating system, which have allegedly been used by disgraced Israeli cyber software company NSO Group in its Pegasus spyware product sold to repressive governments. The first, CVE-2023-41064, is a buffer overflow issue in Image I/O […]

During the AWS annual Re:Invent conference in 2019, the public cloud provider announced Braket, a service and hardware initiative for quantum computing. The service was introduced in 2020 with support for three machines: a superconducting gate-based machine from Rigetti; a trapped-ion machine and a quantum annealing device from D-Wave. The latest update is claimed […]

Business and IT leaders are investing in emerging technology in a bid to stay ahead of competitors, the KPMG global tech report 2023 has found. KPMG surveyed 2,100 executives and carried out in-depth discussions with industry experts to find out how organisations are looking at the next stage of the digital transformation journey. The […]

The government has called for renewed collaboration between government, the private sector and the cyber security industry, to do more to help keep the UK safe from cyber criminal and hostile state threat actors, and for organisations across the country to take more accountability for strengthening their defences, all themes that have been high […]

A nation-state threat actor backed by the North Korean government has begun a new phase of a nearly two-year-old campaign targeting legitimate cyber security researchers, leveraging an as-yet undisclosed zero-day to gain access to their victims. The zero-day in question was uncovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). It has been reported to the supplier […]