The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain its military advantages, which will require nurturing the country’s private AI defence sector and ensuring there is interoperability with the systems used by its allies, the Commons Defence Committee has said. In December 2023, the committee launched an inquiry examining how the…
It’s been quite the half-decade. In fact, it’s hard to know where to start when reflecting on it. The Covid-19 pandemic saw a (forced) mass shift towards hybrid working models, leaving security teams with a new and complex attack surface to secure quickly. Charges made against the CISOs of SolarWinds and Uber set a precedent…
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in the UK cloud infrastructure services market. The CMA is not ploughing a lonely furrow: regulators across the world – from Spain and Denmark to South Africa and (if reports…
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Researchers from Google have demonstrated a new generation of quantum computer, called Willow, which is able to run its random circuit sampling (RCS) benchmark significantly faster than a supercomputer. Willow represents a significant step forward in the development of quantum computers and how they handle noise, which affects performance. However, the tech giant hopes the…
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The UK Ministry of Defence recently published its Global Strategic Trends report which sets out the developments that will shape the world over the next five years. These provide an insight into some of the challenges that CISOs and cyber security teams will face.The first threat is that of global and regional political instability. As…
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The UK, with the third largest tech sector in the world, is well-positioned to successfully partner with leading and emerging digital economies. But innovation does not exist within the constraints of country borders. In fact, international partnerships and collaboration are key to making sure that technology works for people, economies, societies, and the planet. Recent…
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The latest machine on IBM’s quantum computing roadmap, Heron, has been given a hardware and software boost as the company pushes towards its goal of error correction. Error correction is seen as the holy grail for quantum computing, which would open the gates to commercial adoption. This may be many years away, but IBM Heron offers…
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Gaming and space have more in common than we may think. And no, that’s not referring to a history of high-grossing video games based in space such as Space Invaders, StarCraft and Destiny. After working with some of the world’s largest and most innovative tech companies across these sectors, there are many ways they hold…
The Labour government has fully accepted 11 out of 14 recommendations made in the Regulatory Horizon Council’s (RHC’s) Regulating quantum technology applications report. There are three recommendations it has accepted in principle. In the report, published in February, the RHC recommended the development of application-specific regulatory frameworks that are adaptable and proportionate to the unique…
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HSBC has worked with Quantinuum to trial “the first application” of quantum-secure technology for distributing tokenised physical gold. The HSBC Gold Token for retail investors in Hong Kong allows the bank’s customers to acquire fractional ownership of physical gold. Moving these tokens over financial networks requires encryption that cannot be broken by high-performance quantum computers…
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