Trend Watch – Artificial intelligence

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. June 2023 CW APAC: Trend Watch – Artificial intelligence Share this item with your network: Businesses the world over are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence in their operations. In this handbook, focused on the application of AI in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at […]

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Ransomware-stricken Capita to run Action Fraud successor

Outsourcing giant Capita – currently facing possible regulatory investigations over its cyber security affairs after over 90 of its customers, including pension funds and well-known brands such as drinks giant Diageo and retailer M&S had their customer and staff data stolen from its systems in a ransomware attack – has been awarded a £50m contract, […]

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EU AI act passes a significant milestone

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act has passed a major milestone following a plenary vote on the negotiating position the European Parliament takes with member states. After the vote, co-rapporteur Dragos Tudorache (Renew, Romania) said: “The AI Act will set the tone worldwide in the development and governance of artificial intelligence, ensuring that this […]

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Podcast: Containers, Kubernetes, data protection and compliance

In this podcast we look at containers – as deployed via Kubernetes, for example – and how storage and backup of container-generated data impacts compliance, with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about the inherent complexity that comes with containers despite their overall advantages in making application workloads portable. The challenge this brings is […]

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Smart meter value eroded by tech issues

A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that energy suppliers are not meeting existing demand for smart meters. While smart meters offer the potential for the National Grid to identify outages and faults, and help the grid cope more easily with peaks in demand, the organisations the NAO spoke to in […]

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Clop’s MOVEit ransom deadline expires

The deadline set by the Clop cyber crime gang for victims whose data was exfiltrated in a mass breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer tool to contact the criminals to negotiate a ransom passes today (14 June). The gang has hit multiple users of the MOVEit managed file transfer product via a SQL injection […]

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Google Cloud signs MoU to accelerate take-up of AI by UK defence sector

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to accelerate the adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within the UK defence sector. News of the technology tie-up between the two organisations was announced by Paul Lincoln, the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) 2nd parliamentary […]

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