The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is deepening its investigation into the VMWare-Broadcom merger, after concluding the $61bn deal could hamper innovation and drive up the cost of servers to UK government departments, banking firms and telcos. The CMA gave Broadcom five working days to issue an undertaking to address these concerns on 22 […]
The UK government has published a whitepaper outlining its “adaptable” approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI), which it claims will drive responsible innovation while maintaining public trust in the technology. Published on 29 March, the whitepaper emphasised the government’s commitment to “unleashing AI’s potential across the economy”, which it said had generated £3.7bn for the […]
Threat researchers at Google Cloud’s Mandiant have attributed a campaign of cyber criminal activity out of North Korea to a newly designated advanced persistent threat actor, APT43, in its first official “upgrade” in six months. Mandiant said APT43 was a prolific threat actor operating on behalf of North Korea’s regime, and like many other […]
Lloyds Banking Group has kicked off a programme to find financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insurtech) startups, which could lead to investment and commercial experiments with the bank. At a time when venture capitalists are reducing investments in the fintech sector, big banks could find opportunities that might otherwise be missed. Lloyds Bank’s […]
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the associated large language models (LLMs) used by services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard may prove to be hugely beneficial tools in the classroom, but schools will need to review and strengthen their cyber security postures and teachers will need to work harder to safeguard students, the Department […]
What is reliability of computers? Reliability is an attribute of any computer-related component — software, hardware or a network, for example — that consistently performs according to its specifications. It has long been considered one of three related attributes that must be considered when making, buying or using a computer product or component. Reliability is […]
IBM’s Spectrum brand, in use for numerous IBM products since 2015, is set to disappear and be replaced by the more descriptive IBM Storage. The move comes as part of a wider strategy for storage services in which it will now aim for greater product integration without the need for customers to assemble diverse […]
The Alan Turing Institute has unveiled a new strategy for how data science and artificial intelligence (AI) can be used for social good in support of the government’s ambitions for the technology, with a focus on health, the environment and national security. The strategy, dubbed Turing 2.0, is aimed at helping deliver the UK […]
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 […]