Microsoft president Brad Smith has posted a blog that lays out how the company plans to support software developers building artificial intelligence (AI). Among the areas he covered included providing open application programming interfaces (APIs) to foundational AI models hosted on Azure and a commitment to only use public data when training Microsoft’s AI models. … Leer más
Threat actors with links to the Russian state are changing up their tactics as more organisations migrate to cloud-based infrastructure, but the good news is that baseline cyber mitigation strategies are still remarkably effective against even sophisticated government hackers, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said. In an advisory published jointly with its … Leer más
A week after being knocked offline in a combined multinational law enforcement operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency, the main operator, or someone claiming to be the main operator, of LockBit has reemerged, taunting law enforcement agencies and setting up fresh infrastructure and a new leak site that already contains details of five … Leer más
Storage and backup investment plans for 2024 show a significant bias towards averting risk and building resilience. At the same time, storage spending plans lean towards the cloud, but with very robust on-premise storage spending plans also present. Those are the findings of the Technology spending intentions survey from TechTarget and ESG, which questioned 1,432 … Leer más
Birmingham City Council’s troubled Oracle system is facing reimplementation as part of a recovery programme that aims to have a functioning financial system by 1 April. The Oracle system was meant to replace a heavily customised SAP system that was originally implemented in 1990. But a council report published in 2021 shows that due to … Leer más
Britain’s most secret court is to hear claims that UK authorities unlawfully targeted two journalists in a “covert surveillance” operation after they exposed the failure of police in Northern Ireland to investigate paramilitary killings. Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey are bringing the case against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Durham Constabulary, GCHQ and … Leer más
UK datacentre operators need to brace themselves for the possibility of the UK government gaining powers that might insist they connect their facilities to district heat networks, TechUK has warned. The UK technology trade body made the claim in its 25-page Warming up to efficiency: Understanding the potential benefits and pitfalls of datacentre heat export … Leer más
With the leading comms operators rushing to roll out out advanced 5G networks across their footprints and take advantage of their inherent characteristics such as network slicing, Telefónica has completed a “milestone” with Ericsson to define and test a first on-demand process for consumers to experience premium 5G network connection with enhanced performance characteristics. Tested … Leer más
Mobile World Congress 2024 is awash with new products with countless phones, tablets and wearables unveiled in Barcelona. But much to my surprise, my favourite piece of kit is an accessory. The gadget in question is Xiaomi’s Photography Kit for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra smartphone and is a dream come true for budding photographers and … Leer más
Data from international communications enabler BICS has revealed a 156% year-on-year spike in the number of non-standalone 5G roamers for consumer and internet of things (IoT) devices across its network. BICS found that even though IoT is still in its adolescence, the increase in machine roamers using a 5G connection is an encouraging sign the … Leer más
