In this podcast, we talk to Boris Bialek, vice-president and field chief technology officer (CTO) at MongoDB, about how artificial intelligence (AI) can help with discovery and management of unstructured data. Bialek sets out how AI can help bring together different classes of information that an organisation might hold about customers to make processes much…
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The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
A European trade body is facing criticism for striking a deal with Microsoft that allows its members to host and resell the software giant’s cloud offerings with preferential pricing terms. The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers In Europe (CISPE) trade body has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will see its members offered revised pricing…
As part of the agreement, Google will train 100,000 civil servants working across the public sector in using AI and other digital services through its Google Cloud Training Programme by 2030, in support of the government’s goal to have one in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date.Furthermore, Google Cloud will…
The government’s accounting watchdog has refused to endorse the audited accounts of the College of Policing after serious failures in a project to replace its HR and accounting systems left the policing organisation unable to properly manage its finances. The National Audit Office (NAO) found that the College of Policing, which promotes policing excellence across…
Four people have been arrested and taken into custody across the UK in a National Crime Agency investigation into the April and May 2025 cyber attacks on Marks & Spencer (M&S), Co-op Group and Harrods. The arrests of two men aged 19, a third aged 17 and a 20-year-old woman were made at their home…
Last month, a report revealed how much energy and water ChatGPT consumes. Then, we also discovered that being polite to AI also costs millions for companies. A simple “You’re welcome” from the agent uses up resources, too.So, not only are these AI companies spending a lot of money, but they’re also consuming a ton of…
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Cyber security experts are urging operators of Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway appliances to get in front of a new vulnerability – quietly patched last week – that it is now believed could lead to a repeat of the infamous Citrix Bleed incident. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777, the flaw arises from insufficient…
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Scattered Spider, the teenaged hacking collective behind recent cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks and Spencer (M&S) and Co-op, appears to be actively breaching targets in the airline sector, with multiple victims now observed, according to intelligence shared by Google Cloud’s Mandiant threat analysts immediately prior to the weekend of 28-29 June. Having made national…
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A freshly discovered vulnerability in the perennially under-fire Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway appliances, which has been compared to 2023’s Citrix Bleed flaw in its severity, now appears to be coming under attack by undisclosed threat actors, security analysts say. Assigned a critical CVSS score of 9.3, CVE-2025-5777 is, technically speaking,…
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