Europe has started taking steps to fix the immense problems it believes have hampered its competitiveness and left it with an under-developed artificial intelligence (AI) industry that cannot compete on the world stage. Leaders of European Union (EU) nations, having called for urgent measures, set terms for political negotiations to simplify onerous rules governing financiers and…
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…
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India’s IT services companies are set to get even more competitive as the UK’s trade deal with the country exempts Indian professionals from paying National Insurance. With IT services companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro already well embedded, smaller Indian players are also growing their UK operations. Following a deal, described…
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Two of the UK’s leading female cyber practitioners – Secureworks threat intelligence knowledge manager Rebecca Taylor and CybAid founder and Hewitt Partnerships managing director Amelia Hewitt – are to launch a book for women starting and navigating careers in the cyber security sector. The duo describe their co-authored book, Securely Yours, as a practical, agony…
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Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPU suffers up to 10% performance loss using PCIe 4.0This comes after speculation that its PCIe 5.0 x8 specification and 8GB VRAM capacity would be a downsideIt means gamers will have to buy a PCIe 5.0 motherboard for better performance using the GPUNvidia’s RTX 5000 series launch isn’t complete yet,…
Veteran UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has apologised to customers after a cyber incident of a currently undisclosed nature forced multiple public-facing services offline, with shoppers predictably taking to social media in their droves to lament the outages. In a note published on the afternoon of 22 April, the company revealed it had been…
The digital identity sector is calling on the government to amend its forthcoming data legislation and to change policy around use of the Gov.uk Wallet – which was technology secretary Peter Kyle’s flagship announcement as part of his new digital strategy. In an open letter to Kyle, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology,…
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Daniele Tonella, global head of IT at ING Bank, tells Computer Weekly about his first nine months in the job, which has so far seen him navigate four layers of tech. The chief technology officer (CTO), who describes himself as “a mechanical engineer by mistake” with a passion for tech, started coding when he was…
Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, Broadcom has simplified the VMware product family, which is now only available as a subscription, licensed on a per-core basis. Some organisations, like Telefónica…
Data-based profiling tools are being used by the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to algorithmically “predict” people’s risk of committing criminal offences, but pressure group Statewatch says the use of historically biased data will further entrench structural discrimination. Documents obtained by Statewatch via a Freedom of Information (FoI) campaign reveal the MoJ is already using…
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