The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the SANS Institute have kicked off a search for people aged between 18 and 25 to apply to join the UK Cyber Team, where they will gain hands-on experience, develop their skills and represent the UK in international competitions. Applicants are being invited to test their…
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The UK and US governments are jointly pledging to collaborate more closely on the issue of children’s safety online, after launching a new online safety working group to share expertise and evidence. The governments say that despite “near universal” smartphone ownership among UK and US teens, there is currently limited research and evidence on the…
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The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi services provided at mainline UK railway stations on the evening of Wednesday 25 September. The incident saw passengers at 19 rail stations across the country unable to access Network Rail’s Wi-Fi network, which are provided…
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The new Labour government’s mission-driven policy approach can help focus digital transformation efforts throughout the public sector, but tech-enabled service improvement could still be undermined by the looming threat of austerity. At trade association TechUK’s Building the Smarter State event in London on 10 September, industry figures and public officials noted that while the government’s mission…
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Research from Experian and TechUK has found less than a third of employees are aware their employer is using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), despite 93% of business heads saying that they are. The survey of 1,250 UK business professionals – including 250 CEOs and business leaders of large companies with 250 to 1,000 employees, looked…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart Five Eyes agencies have accused a China-based company acting as a front for the state of running a massive botnet comprising over 250,000 internet-connected devices, about 8,500 of them located in the UK. The compromised devices include enterprise network and security tools such as routers…
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The UK government’s decision to add datacentres to the list of infrastructure types considered critically important to how the nation operates is being welcomed by tech industry stakeholders, but questions remain about what the designation will mean in real-world terms for operators. As reported by Computer Weekly on 12 September 2024, the UK government confirmed…
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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) latest technology tracker paints a bleak picture of the artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics strengths of Western countries compared with China. Among the metrics the tracker published is a graph showing research papers published between 2019 and 2023, which it used to rank national research performance in advanced…
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A few years back, the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year’s…
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Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson has announced she is to step down from her post effective immediately, and will be replaced by the artificial intelligence (AI)-led cyber specialist’s chief operating officer (COO), Jill Popelka. The split comes in the wake of a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire the LSE-listed supplier by US private equity house Thoma Bravo,…
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