Category: tech

Following successful pilots in Salisbury and Mildenhall in 2022 and beginning the first official parts of its action plan starting with the East Midlands in July, Yorkshire and the Humber in August, and Northern Ireland in September, UK telco BT has now revealed the next phase in its plans to evolve its national…

An emergent cyber extortion operation going by the name Ransomed.vc claims to have compromised the systems of Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony. The incident is currently neither confirmed nor denied by Sony, although Computer Weekly understands the organisation is aware of the claims. In a poorly worded threat, a…

Led by advanced digital technology firm Digital Catapult, Smart Nano NI has announced the creation of a local technology consortium to further the development of smart manufacturing in Northern Ireland with what is being called the largest 5G testbed in the country, marking a significant step in its five-year plan…

Ericsson and Telefónica have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate the adoption of an increasingly open network built on Ericsson’s cloud radio access network (RAN) architecture. Ericsson Cloud RAN is based on an open, standardised architecture for worldwide connectivity, and is fully compatible with the deployed Ericsson Radio…

The UK government has disbanded the independent advisory board of its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) without a public announcement amid a wider push to position the UK as a global leader in AI governance. Launched in June 2018 to drive a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach to the governance…

Despite broad hints from the likes of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that openness and transparency is the right choice in the wake of a cyber attack, and that cooperation may lessen the severity of regulatory penalties, victims are still paralysed with fear…

Security trade association Crest and skills specialist IASME have teamed up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to deliver the UK security authority’s new Cyber Incident Exercising (CIE) scheme across the country. Recognising that the benefits of exercise extend beyond physical health, the NCSC’s programme is designed to help…

Apple has once again moved to lock down zero-day vulnerabilities uncovered by researchers specialising in commercial spyware and government surveillance, issuing a new patch for iPhone and Mac devices on Thursday 21 September. The update covers CVE-2023-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992 and CVE-2023-41993 in iOS, and CVE-2023-41991 and CVE-2023-41992 in macOS Ventura. Between…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking a minority stake worth $4bn in artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research startup Anthropic, and is set to become the firm’s primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads. Anthropic’s flagship offering is a generative AI system known as Claude that is aimed at enterprises, with business…

Hot on the heels of the fast-growing independent full-fibre network provider handing out its first build contrasts under the auspices of Project Gigabit roll-outs, CityFibre has signed a deal with energy, broadband, mobile and insurance services provider Utility Warehouse (UW) to support broadband services. UW has teamed up with CityFibre…