tinhkhuong/Shutterstock Many were bummed when Apple decided to nuke the Ring/Silent switch in the iPhone 15 Pro series. After all, it was part of the iPhone for years and was the easiest way for users to mute their devices whenever necessary. But what Apple replaced it with is arguably far better. The highly customizable Action…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…
On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for more than eight hours. According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Microsoft cloud revenue surpassed $49bn, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year. Overall, Microsoft posted revenue…
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Industrial organisations continue to face growing cyber threats from adversaries – ranging from sophisticated state-sponsored groups to hacktivists and financially motivated criminals. These actors are not just targeting data or demanding ransoms, they are affecting physical processes and critical services. A common risk across many of these incidents is one that is still underestimated: insufficient…
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Three out of the five Five Eyes states – Australia, Canada and the US – have issued guidance to help end-user organisations secure their Microsoft Exchange Server instances, stemming in part from an emergency alert that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued in August concerning CVE-2025-53786, an elevation of privilege (EoP) flaw…
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European governments are increasingly turning towards open standards alternatives to end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration services dominated by WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams. An open network messaging architecture, known as Matrix, is attracting interest from European governments that are seeking “sovereign” alternatives to encrypted collaboration and messaging tools supplied by US Big Tech companies. Matrix aims…
Michael Herron, the UK head at French IT service provider Atos, has told Computer Weekly that ensuring future talent can get on the first rung of the career ladder – despite the implications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – is a subject close to his heart. Organisations need to rethink career paths as GenAI increasingly…
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The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations, including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Lloyds Banking Group. The outage, which AWS confirmed started just before 8am UK time on 20 October, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 datacentre region…
In the past year, companies have started to promote a new way to use browsers with agentic AI. For me, it all started last year when Opera’s executives said the browsing experience would be changing in the near future. Just a few months later, the company previewed its Operator technology, which allowed the Opera browser…
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The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with OpenAI to provide civil servants with access to ChatGPT Enterprise. The MoU includes the option of UK data residency for customers using the OpenAI API Platform, ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu. OpenAI technology is being used across the UK government to provide…
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