With 64 contests, 67 winners, 101 live shows, 52 participating countries, 1,500 songs, 12 points, seven wins for Ireland, seven for Sweden, five apiece for the UK, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, The Eurovision Song Contest is as heavy on statistics as any sporting league. With viewer numbers regularly in the hundreds of millions, and an…
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I’m about 27 hours into Starfield and nearing the story’s end. But I’m not quite ready for my first playthrough to be over. I’ve started to get some answers to the world’s intriguing questions and now that I see the end in sight, I’m not sure I’m ready to roll credits (although, like any Bethesda…
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The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…
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The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with the publication of a request for information (RFI) by the Scottish government in October 2022…
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian hailed the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as being one of the most “profound technology shifts in history” during the opening keynote of the 2023 Google Cloud Next partner and customer conference. This year’s event has seen the company open up about how its decision seven years ago to…
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Cyber security experts have welcomed the apparent downfall of the Qakbot malware, following a multinational law enforcement hack-back operation, encompassing the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the FBI among others, which took down its botnet infrastructure over the weekend of 25-27 August. A long-established tool in the cyber criminal arsenal, Qakbot infected millions of…
Google Cloud’s Mandiant and Barracuda Networks have confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances was heavily exploited by suspected Chinese state hackers – tracked as UNC4841 – in a months-long campaign targeting government bodies, mostly in the US and Canada, although a number of UK victims were observed. The existence…
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Google has moved to address some of the more pressing needs faced by users of its Workspace service, adding artificial intelligence (AI)-backed features to cover zero-trust, digital sovereignty and threat defence controls as part of a series of enhancements to the platform. Yulie Kwon Kim, vice-president of product management, and Andy Wen, director of product…
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Microsoft has submitted a new deal to the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority regulatory agency that proposes Ubisoft get the rights to Activision Blizzard game streaming for 15 years. After the CMA blocked Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard for a colossal $69 billion back in April over cloud gaming concerns, Microsoft set its sights…
