The UK government has published a draft of its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), which aims to establish a new regulator to challenge the growing dominance of big tech firms. The Bill will place the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) – a new division of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which was […]
Google’s Project Zero and cloud security teams’ nine-month assessment of the security of the Intel Trust Domain Extension (TDX) has identified a number of areas it needs to improve, but overall, the company gave the new technology, which will be included in the fourth generation of Intel’s Xeon Scalable processor, the thumbs-up. The TDX […]
Fujitsu used its influence at the Post Office to plant seeds of doubt within management over a proposed contract to replace the IT service provider’s software with IBM technology, according to a source working on Post Office IT at the time. The source, who wished to remain anonymous, revealed more details of the Post […]
To tie in with the government’s new Business Connect UK innovation and growth conference, prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced £100m of funding to support generative artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. The government plans to use the funding to kickstart the delivery of the UK’s capability in safe and reliable foundation models. This builds on […]
Scottish technology sector trade body ScotlandIS has published its annual survey, suggesting growth in employment is on the cards. The Scottish technology industry survey 2023 found that 83% of the 162 technology companies surveyed expect to increase their staff numbers, an increase of 7% from last year. The survey was conducted between 20 December […]
Online retail sales have accounted for a quarter of total retail sales three months in a row so far in 2023, according to numbers from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). While online retail sales in March were 0.4% higher than the previous month, January, February and March of 2023 have seen ecommerce consistently make up […]
It was one of the big surprises of the recent KubeCON show in Amsterdam – dedicated to all things Kubernetes – when customers that asked about NetBackup’s container backup capabilities were told they should deploy Veritas’s InfoScale software-defined storage for Kubernetes instead. Directly competing with Pure Storage’s Portworx, InfoScale offers block storage for applications […]
Chief information security officers (CISOs) are still failing to get the support they want and need from their boardrooms, with 96% struggling to get leadership to sign-off on resources to appropriately safeguard their organisations, while coming under significant pressure from the exact same people when something goes wrong, according to Trellix’s Mind of the […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is coming under pressure to provide easier access to more detailed data about its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as the cloud giant’s government and enterprise clients prepare for the environmental footprint of their IT estates to come under tighter scrutiny from regulators. Regulators and governments in multiple countries are prepping […]
Lloyds Banking Group has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian), which will see the UK giant contribute its expertise to the group and promote tech standards in banking. Another 23 organisations, including banks and IT suppliers, have joined the global group at the same time as Lloyds, taking total membership to 84. Established […]