High-profile ransomware incidents affecting leading UK retailers continue to grab headlines, but in the background, total ransomware attack volumes appear to have eased off over the past few weeks, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse report. NCC’s extensive telemetry observed 416 ransomware attacks in April 2025, down 31% month on month, with 78%…
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Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…
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The U.S. military is making a bold move into AI military planning. The Department of Defense (DoD) is now turning to AI to help analyze threats, simulate battle outcomes, and help military leaders allocate resources faster. The move is part of the Thunderforge project, and it marks a significant shift in how wars will be…
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Senior retailers and technology providers from around the world converged on New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), where they gained insights into the latest solutions affecting the sector. This year’s event attracted around 40,000 people from 105 countries representing 6,200 brands who heard about a variety of…
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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The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to dominate the headlines. This year, we steer away from AI fear, uncertainty and doubt to focus on some of the other big…
Lights in the night can be easy to misinterpret. Is it a shooting star, a satellite, a plane, or a drone? Not sure how to tell the difference? Here’s what you need to know in order to figure out if you’ve just spotted a drone or a plane.Most of the time, if you head outside…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…
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The actors in CSI make it look easy to determine a dead body’s time of death. But it’s actually much harder than you might think. In fact, there aren’t any real tools to help determine exactly when someone died, but a new AI crime scene investigation tool could soon change that.The tool is called geoFOR,…
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As electric vehicles (EVs) grow in popularity, more drivers are learning to navigate the quirks of battery technology. One of the most noticeable challenges is that EV battery performance drops drastically in winter. This isn’t just an inconvenience—it highlights the complex relationship between temperature and battery performance.Most EVs run off lithium-ion batteries, which rely on…
