It’s pretty crazy that, after all this time, most smart home solutions are still clunky and overcomplicated. I test smart technology for a living and even I haven’t managed to put together the perfect smart home setup. The new Matter standard might help… someday… but for now, there are still so many interoperability issues that…
How to add smart home features to all the dumb stuff in your house Read More »
Over 80% of global companies are now using AI to improve business operations. AI has also become a feature of individuals’ daily lives as we interact with chatbots, voice assistants, or predictive search technologies. But as AI diffusion grows, so too do the risks associated with its misuse – particularly by nation state actors engaged…
How CISOs can counter the threat of nation state espionage Read More »
The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead continue to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wincie Wong, co-founder of Tech She Can. During a session on women in fintech at Finovate Europe last week, Wang reflected on the direction of travel…
European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity Read More »
Research for Microsoft conducted by Goldsmiths, University of London, has reported that the highest performing businesses and most productive public sector organisations have a clear artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and are preparing for agentic AI. The research, published in Microsoft’s Agents of change report, polled 1,480 UK senior leaders across the public and private sectors,…
Few UK organisations ready to seize agentic AI opportunity Read More »
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer Read More »
When I first started work as a civil servant in 2017, people were quick to talk to me about issues with the way that we funded digital work. I subsequently had the opportunity of experiencing these challenges and reading countless blogs and opinions arguing that reform of funding was the single most important issue to…
Delivering digital government – it’s (still) not about technology Read More »
On 20 February, every cyber threat intelligence researcher on the planet discovered a new goldmine – a document of almost 50MB size presented as the history of internal exchanges at the Black Basta ransomware group. The cross-referencing of the victims of cyber attacks mentioned in this file with known victims and, in some cases, their…
Ransomware: on the murky trail of one of the leaders of Black Basta Read More »
The Parliamentary Treasury Committee has called on consumers, finance firms and IT suppliers to provide evidence to support an inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the finance sector.AI is used widely in the finance sector where automation is rife. This includes chatbots supporting customers and even the use of AI in…
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While artificial intelligence (AI) poses many risks for networks of all sizes, it also highlights the pitfalls of traditional network management in addressing real-time demands and unanticipated challenges – not to mention risks such as static configurations, manual interventions and reactive troubleshooting have become liabilities in the era of rapid technological advancement. Self-healing networks represent…
Self-healing networks: The next evolution in network management Read More »
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023. Following a two-year implementation period, from 17 January 2025, financial organisations must fully comply with the new regulation, which aims to ensure they remain resilient to severe operational digital disruption. The act covers a number of aspects of cyber resiliency, auditability, and…
