After a month-on-month decline during the first few weeks of 2023, the number of ransomware attacks tracked in the wild soared by 45% in February, largely driven by an increase in LockBit activity, according to proprietary data published today by NCC Group. NCC’s Global Threat Intelligence Team recorded 240 ransomware attacks in February, the […]
Car parks may soon become a go-to destination for charging electric vehicles, collecting online shopping packages and catching up with emails. Trials starting this year will offer drivers office pods to work in while they charge their cars, along with pop-up shops and office space for startups. Drivers will be able to book and […]
The potential benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems and military operations should not be conflated with better international humanitarian law (IHL) compliance, Lords have been told. Established 31 January 2023, the House of Lords AI in Weapon Systems Committee was set up to explore the ethics of developing and deploying autonomous […]
What is triage in IT? Triage is a term referring to the assignment of priority levels to tasks or individuals to determine the most effective order in which to deal with them. Triage originated in a military medical context and is now widely used in information technology (IT) and business environments, where it is an […]
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has launched a campaign to bolster support for the UK’s most innovative high-growth tech companies so they can transform from $1bn unicorns to $10bn “decacorns”. The campaign, known as Project Decacorn, was announced by CBI president Brian McBride on the evening of 27 March to an audience of […]
Following the UK government and parliamentary bans enacted on video-sharing social media platform TikTok – citing data privacy concerns given TikTok’s Chinese origins – the French government has also moved to impose restrictions. However, the French ban differs from that enacted in the UK in one crucial aspect – the ban additionally applies to […]
JP Morgan is testing out biometric-based payments with some of its business customers in the US retail sector to make payments more convenient and secure, as well as to increase take-up of loyalty programmes. The US bank’s payments division is running the pilot with selected retail stores and will include the Formula 1 Grand […]
As the world struggles with the amount of energy used for computers, datacentres and other electronics, researchers are looking for alternatives to provide the power to fulfil those requirements. Christian Nijhuis, professor of Hybrid Materials for OptoElectronics at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Twente (UT), is one such […]
MPs have asked the government to clarify how the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will help to increase diversity and inclusion in UK STEM. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) first launched its inquiry in November 2021 to assess the reasons behind, and solutions for, the lack […]
What is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC)? RISC (reduced instruction set computer) is a microprocessor that is designed to perform a smaller number of computer instruction types, so it can operate at a higher speed, performing more millions of instructions per second, or MIPS. Since each instruction type that a computer performs requires additional […]