The UK government is filling out the ranks of its artificial intelligence (AI) taskforce advisory board with figures from industry, academia and national security amid a rebrand. First announced in April 2023 as the AI Foundation Model Taskforce, along with £100m funding from the government, the body was created to take forward cutting-edge AI […]

While Rishi Sunak may not be the first prime minister to do so, he has recently made clear his intentions to position the UK as a global tech superpower by 2030. Up-and-coming areas, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, will be a particular focus. To reinforce the point, chancellor Jeremy Hunt pointed […]

In 2022, there were more than two million people working in the UK’s tech sector, accounting for 6.3% of people in employment in the UK, according to CompTIA’s State of the tech workforce UK report. Research by the non-profit found the number of people in tech roles increased by 75,280 in the past five […]

Compute Express Link, otherwise known as CXL, is set to revolutionise the datacentre. So, what is it and what are the benefits?  Memory management is a key element that enables datacentres to utilise the optimum memory configuration, especially as they pivot towards increasingly data-intensive workloads, such as data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence […]

The Nats major incident preliminary report has confirmed that dodgy data in a flight plan was the root cause of the error that led to a large volume of flight disruptions on 28 August. The error caused a National Air Traffic Services (Nats) subsystem, the Flight Plan Reception Suite Automated (FPRSA-R), to switch to […]

Microsoft has published details of how a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 was able to get its hands on a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens with which they accessed OWA and Outlook.com accounts at multiple high-profile customers. The incident, which was first disclosed on Tuesday 11 […]

Finland’s National Coalition-led right-wing government is planning to accelerate the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) security-based innovations that are aimed to strengthen the country’s defences against the rising occurrence of cyber attacks directed at state and private organisations. The proposals, which are currently being cost-appraised by the Ministry of Finance for inclusion in the […]

Hyundai’s US business will make in-car payments possible when it launches its latest model, with the first service available through a partnership with parking service provider Parkopedia. The South Korean car maker will launch Hyundai Pay next year with its Kona model in the US, with drivers able to pay for things using a […]

The Covid-19 pandemic put tech in the spotlight as businesses rushed to remotely connect employees to their work when travel bans were imposed across the world. Suppliers of the latest communication technologies had to quickly draw up remote working plans for its customers and was soon practicing what it preached. Ashish Gupta, HCLTech’s European […]

BMC’s annual mainframe survey has found that businesses continue to grow mainframe workloads. In 2016, 43% of organisations said the mainframe was attracting and growing new workloads; for 2023, this figure has risen to 63%. Almost all of the 800 IT and business executives who took part in the survey (84%), said they had […]