Microsoft has announced the upcoming availability of a new artificial intelligence (AI) capability within its cyber security offering that it claims it will “dramatically increase the reach, speed and effectiveness” of its customers’ security teams. The latest fruition of Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar bet on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and currently available to some customers through a private […]

Apple has released fixes for a total of 33 confirmed vulnerabilities in its latest update to iOS and iPadOs, the mobile operating systems that run on its iPhone and iPad lines, including two series issues that may affect device kernels. The new versions, iOS 16.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 16.4 for iPad, are available […]

BNP Paribas is moving its IT operations to a second datacentre in the Nordic region as it shifts high-performance computing (HPC) workloads to a campus in Stockholm. The move to the atNorth datacentre in Sweden builds on the bank’s existing datacentre presence in the Nordic region, having moved processing to an atNorth centre in […]

Researchers from Trustwave’s Spiderlabs have tested how well ChatGPT can analyse source code and its suggestions for making the code more secure. The initial tests involved looking at whether ChatGPT can uncover buffer overflows in code, which occurs when the code fails to allocate enough space to hold input data. The researchers said: “We […]

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement, or Europol, has made a series of recommendations to the law enforcement community should prepare for the positive and negative impacts that large language models (LLMs) – the artificial intelligence (AI) models underpinning products such as ChatGPT that process, manipulate and generate text – will have on […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced details of the 23 startups selected to participate in its latest accelerator programme, which is geared towards helping the healthcare industry improve how it retains, deploys and trains staff. The 2023 Healthcare Accelerator: Global Cohort for Workforce programme reportedly garnered hundreds of applications from technology startups around the […]

Ethical hackers, security researchers and consultants, and the community at large are being urged to step up and make their voices heard as the government explores a series of proposed changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. The long-awaited consultation, which has been running since February, is seeking views on a number […]

Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has enlisted Google Cloud to accelerate the global take-up of its self-driving vehicle technology platform. Oxbotica said it plans to use the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, including its compute, storage and networking offerings, to host the platform, which is geared towards supporting industrial use cases for autonomous vehicles. For […]

Barclays bank is closing another 14 of its branches as the number of people visiting them falls amid a continued move to digital banking channels. The branches in England and Wales will be shuttered in June this year. Barclays joins competitors in announcing a new round of closures. Earlier this year, NatWest said it would […]

Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corporation, died on 24 March, at the age of 94. Moore, born in San Francisco, California on 3 January 1929, graduated from Caltech, before joining forces with longtime colleague Robert Noyce to work together under William Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor and founder of Shockley Semiconductor – […]