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The tech investment gap: bridging the divide for underrepresented entrepreneurs

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Despite the UK’s position as one of the world’s most dynamic technology hubs, the industry still faces a persistent and well-documented challenge – equitable access to investment. Underrepresented entrepreneurs – particularly women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ founders, and individuals from non-traditional backgrounds – remain significantly disadvantaged when it comes to securing the capital needed to start…

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UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns

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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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Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Atlassian, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, data science, Google, Jira, Kubernetes, machine learning, Microsoft, quantum computing, Tech / By

Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…

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Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

3 minutes of reading / AI, Git, GitHub, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…

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KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, DevOps, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, software engineering, Tech / By

During a discussion at the recent KubeCon + Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Europe 2025 event in London, panel members discussed one of the big criticisms of modern software development: why is code deployment still fraught with problems? Shifting left, where developers take on more responsibility for putting their code into production appears to have…

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NIST calls time on older vulnerabilities amid surging disclosures

3 minutes of reading / Computer, Database, DevOps, machine learning, patch management, Tech, Technology / By

The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) held within its National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In an announcement posted last week, the standards body said that every CVE with a published date prior…

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More than 200 Lloyds bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training

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Lloyds Banking Group is training 200 of its senior leaders to ensure the organisation can get the most out of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The bank is working with training provider Cambridge Spark on the programme, which will embed AI skills in the leadership ranks. Participants of the programme will receive training in an 80-hour…

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Unleashing the power of data: redefining UK industrial growth

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Google, machine learning, Tech / By

Yesterday’s Spring Statement had something to say about technology, centred on defence and AI in public services. Yet it’s clear that for the UK to unlock its undoubted potential as an AI superpower we have a major hurdle to overcome. The government data that is essential for creating game-changing LLMs is not yet AI-ready. The…

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New leak suggests AMD’s working on an Arm-based processor to rival Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series

3 minutes of reading / AI, machine learning, Qualcomm, Snap, Tech / By

AMD’s rumored “Sound Wave” chip is claimed to be an Arm-based APUIt’s believed to feature “RDNA 3.5+” CUs that are “enhanced” for machine learningMLID’s sources allege the chip will feature 16MB Infinity CacheAlleged new information has been uncovered about the rumored AMD “Sound Wave” APU, claiming it will be more towards machine learning, with “enhanced…

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Understanding RAG architecture and its fundamentals

9 minutes of reading / AI, API, Azure, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

All the large language model (LLM) publishers and suppliers are focusing on the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) agents and agentic AI. These terms are confusing. All the more so as the players do not yet agree on how to develop and deploy them. This is much less true for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures…

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