IT Leaders: HarperCollins’ Laura Meyer on the power of data and the expanding role of the CIO
HarperCollins, the UK-based publisher, has a distinguished history that will have in one way or another played a part in many of our lives. The com…
Cisco and Google join forces against Amazon Web Services
Cisco and Google are taking on Amazon Web Services with a new hybrid cloud platform. The partnership is aimed at CIOs who want to unlock the benefi…
Bad Rabbit ransomware: who has been hit and how does it spread?
A fresh ransomware attack has apparently struck news organisations in Russia and infrastructure providers in Ukraine. Dubbed Bad Rabbit, the virus …
Alan Turing Institute and Accenture team up to tackle fraud and money laundering
The Alan Turing Institute is joining forces with professional services giant Accenture to combat fraud and money laundering. Turing’s researc…
ICO stops short of fining Conservative Party for breach of data protection law
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has stopped short of taking regulatory action against the Conservative Party following an investi…
Kaspersky Lab will let experts review its source code as it seeks to regain trust
Kaspersky Lab has pledged to let independent experts review its source code after the US government alleged that its software could be exploited by…
Channel 4, Virgin Money and Network Rail sign up autistic IT consultants
Auticon, a social enterprise that employs autistic IT consultants, has signed up Channel 4, Virgin Money, Network Rail and Allianz as its latest Br…
FBI director says encryption thwarted access to nearly 7,000 mobile devices
FBI investigators have failed to gain access to nearly 7,000 encrypted mobile devices in the last year, the agency’s director, Christopher Wr…
Women Who Code’s Gen Ashley is setting up a scholarship to help women break into tech
Gen Ashley, the director of Women Who Code, is raising funds for a new scholarship programme to help women break into the tech industry, NS Tech ca…
Professor Nick Bostrom says ministers must see AI research as a “massive national priority”
The UK risks losing its position as a leader in artificial intelligence research if ministers fail to treat it as a “massive national priorit…
The official review of the UK’s AI strategy includes a radical plan to level the playing field for startups and big tech firms
AI could revolutionise healthcare, pave the way for self-driving cars and unlock hundreds of billions of pounds for the UK economy, but only if min…
Sadiq Khan says TfL will defend Uber decision in court
Transport for London will defend in court the decision to strip Uber of its licence to operate in the capital, Sadiq Khan told the London Assembly …
Oxford’s chief computer scientist says there hasn’t been any substantial progress towards general AI
Scientists are no closer to creating conscious machines now than they were a decade ago, Oxford University’s head of computer science, Professor Mi…
The Equifax breach hit even more UK customers than first thought
Equifax has revised up the number of customers in the UK whose personal information was stolen by hackers earlier this year. The US credit agency a…
UK boards aren’t taking security seriously enough, IT leaders warn
Nearly half (48 per cent) of IT decision makers globally have warned that cyber security is not a top priority for their board members, despite a s…
ISPs will soon have to deliver guaranteed broadband speeds within a time limit
Broadband providers will have a limited time to improve connections if they fall below a minimum guaranteed speed, under new rules proposed by Ofco…
CyberThreat 2018: NCSC announces new cyber security conference
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is launching a new conference for security practitioners to share cutting-edge tools and techniques. Span…
GCHQ’s new director says cyber attacks are as big a threat as terrorism
The recently-installed director of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, has warned that the ongoing battle to protect the UK from cyber criminals is now as import…
IP Expo: AI and GDPR dominate debate, but Brexit fears simmer
Thousands of execs descended on the Excel Centre in East London this week to hustle and network, and debate the big issues in enterprise tech. We&#…
Stuart Russell on Musk and Zuckerberg’s row: “Elon is the last person who is anti-AI”
Earlier this year, two of Silicon Valley's best-known executives - Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - engaged in a public war of words about the scale of…
Yahoo breach affected all three billion accounts
The 2013 Yahoo hack – the biggest data breach in history – was three times bigger than previously reported, affecting all three billion…
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