Showing not a slither of triskaidekaphobia, the government chose 13 January to launch its AI Opportunities Action Plan. Many months in the making, it’s a good paper from Matt Clifford, who is staying on as advisor to support implementation. The action plan makes 50 recommendations – mostly all fully accepted by the government and set out…
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The women behind fintechs still face discrimination when seeking investment, despite the issue being an industry talking point for years, according to figures from a UK fintech industry body. Innovate Finance’s numbers, which revealed UK fintech investment dropped by double the global figure, also unearthed the worrying detail that investment in fintechs led by women…
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Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a bang on the second Tuesday of January, dropping a massive Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities – rising to 161 incorporating two additional vulnerabilities through CERT CC and GitHub. According to Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative, this may be the largest number of CVEs addressed…
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With the 19 January 2025 ban on TikTok just days away, American social media users and businesses are facing up to the fact that the video-sharing platform may go dark across the US at the weekend, with some now considering other alternatives at the last minute. On Friday 10 January, a last-ditch attempt by TikTok…
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One in three companies across all markets are planning to spend $25m or more on artificial intelligence (AI) in 2025, a study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has reported. The survey shows that larger businesses with revenues greater than $500m are making significant investments in AI, but there are big differences between those able to…
AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs were listed as in stock by a Danish retailerPurported photos were also provided from a retailer in IsraelRelease date rumors are pointing strongly towards something happening either on January 23 or 24AMD’s RX 9070 graphics cards are already in the hands of retailers, if the latest gossip on the RDNA 4…
Nvidia has provided some new benchmarks for RTX 5000 graphics cardsTwo of them don’t involve DLSS 4 and Multi Frame GenerationHowever, the gen-on-gen uplifts shown here are modest – but we still shouldn’t get carried awayNvidia has released some more game benchmarks for its next-gen Blackwell GPUs, and we’ve caught a couple of results that…
I upgraded from the Apple Watch SE to the Apple Watch Series 10 and couldn’t be happier. Well, I could be happier if the Apple Watch Series 10 tracked my heart rate accurately during each workout, but that’s a can of worms we don’t need to open again.Overall, the Apple Watch Series 10 is an…
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Cyber security, whether singly or in tandem with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), dominates enterprise IT investment plans in 2025, according to Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group’s annual spending intentions research. The research, based on responses from 1,351 IT and business professionals worldwide, found that cyber security outpaces all other categories of initiative, with a dramatic…
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The Department for Business and Trade, Challenge Works and the Open Data Institute have issued a Smart Data Challenge with a total prize fund of £600,000. The three entities have said the prize money will go to “the most innovative apps and technologies” and that they encourage entrants from the “data and innovation sector” to…
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