In the wake of a ban imposed on the use of social media platform TikTok on devices owned by the UK government last week, it has emerged that the BBC is among a growing number of organisations also imposing a crackdown on its use. In internal email messages shared on Twitter, the corporation said […]
Orchestrating suppliers and IT teams during a major digital transformation is what Russ Thornton finds himself doing in his role as CTO at UK lending and savings bank Shawbrook. Bringing a large group of people with different skills together and making them collaborate is not new to him. A musical conductor by education, Thornton “fell […]
The UK ban on installing and using social media app TikTok on government devices brings our country’s policy in line with that of other jurisdictions including the United States (US) and member states of the European Union (EU). Announced yesterday in the House of Commons by Oliver Dowden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, […]
The UK government has committed to creating a code of practice for generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies to facilitate their access to copyrighted material, and following up with specific legislation if a satisfactory agreement cannot be reached between AI firms and those in creative sectors. In July 2021, the government outlined its plans to […]
The first real buds in Microsoft’s $10bn commitment to OpenAI have started to blossom, with the tech giant revealing a new era of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered office productivity. The company has been trialling OpenAI’s ChatGPT within Bing to provide a search engine that some industry commentators say is a big improvement on Google. Microsoft […]
What is clock speed? Clock speed is the number of times a second that a circuit operates and is most associated with the central processing unit (CPU). It is measured in hertz, or cycles per second. The higher the clock speed, the more processing power — all other things being equal. Clock speed is also […]
Sustainability is now seen as a core pillar of any successful business. As it can encompass many different topics, it is important to ensure the definition of sustainability includes carbon reduction and the net zero transition, circular economy goals, and the broader social value targets that are defined on a company-by-company basis. As the […]
“The fastest-growing storage company in history.” That’s the claim made by Vast Data, which has announced it has gone from a run rate of $1m to $100m in three years. Meanwhile, the company has embarked on what regional director for EMEA, Alex Raistrick, calls “Act 2” of its story, in which Vast plans to […]
What is AMD Virtualization (AMD-V)? AMD-V (AMD Virtualization) technology refers to a set of hardware extensions and on-chip features for the AMD family of x86 microprocessors. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) designed the technology to perform the repetitive tasks that software normally performs and to improve resource use and virtual machine (VM) performance. First announced in […]
The volume of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks doubled during the course of 2022 thanks to several high-profile and successful phishing campaigns, replacing ransomware as the most commonly observed financially motivated cyber attack vector, according to data compiled from hundreds of incidents responded to by the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Secureworks said its […]