It’s no surprise to me that financial services organisations missed the 17 January2025 deadline to be in compliance with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). I personally have not met a CIO or CISO who thought this deadline was realistic.Even back in January, research from Orange Cyberdefense saw 43% of respondents in the…
Many writers, illustrators and musicians see generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as a threat, something that exploits their creative work to produce algorithmic knock-offs, undermining their ability to make a living. Industry bodies, companies and trade unions are campaigning against UK government plans to let AI firms use copyrighted material without permission or payment unless creators…
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Every Microsoft employee now has a metric dubbed Security Core Priority tied directly to their performance review. This is among the changes the software giant has put in place to enforce security internally. In a blog post outlining the steps the company has taken to harden internal security, Charles Bell, executive vice-president of Microsoft Security,…
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A few months ago, DeepSeek stunned the world, crashing the US stock market in the process. The Chinese AI company released DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model that was just as powerful as ChatGPT o1 despite costing practically nothing by comparison to create and train. With limited access to powerful processors, DeepSeek came up with software…
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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…
Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
CIOs have been under immense pressure for some time to deliver successful digital initiatives while navigating budget constraints and increasing demands from senior executives. A recent Gartner survey reveals that 92% of CIOs anticipate integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their organisations by 2025, yet 49% struggle to assess and showcase the technology’s value. Are we…
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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…
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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During the third global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Paris, dozens of governments and companies outlined their commitments to making the technology open, sustainable and work for “public interest”, but AI experts believe there is a clear tension in the direction of travel. Speaking with Computer Weekly, AI Action Summit attendees highlighted how AI is…
