Azania Imtiaz Patel

CISA warns of high-severity vulnerability in once-popular Microsoft product

Security agency adds CVE-2012-4792 to its catalogue of known vulns and warns it can "execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site"

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 25, 2024

Coca-Cola reveals formula for 'AI-powered' growth

earnings

Coca-Cola reveals formula for 'AI-powered' growth

"We're just scratching the surface of what's possible, and we're taking steps to seize opportunities down the road..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 25, 2024

BreachForums database leaked, researchers blame infighting members

FBI

BreachForums database leaked, researchers blame infighting members

“Today, we get a nice, long look behind the cybercrime curtain..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 24, 2024

FrostyGoop ICS malware poses 'serious threat' to CNI

FrostyGoop ICS malware poses 'serious threat' to CNI

"The potential risk to unprotected critical infrastructure across Europe and around the world is clear..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 23, 2024

Has Elon Musk's xAI broken a supercomputer deployment record?

"We were able to install and bring online a massive new training centre in nineteen days. That's the fastest by far that anyone's been able to do that."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 23, 2024

Supercomputer cluster planned for site of shut-down European fusion reactor

Project aims to support AI compute demands with new "large scale" data centres on campus that once housed the world's most advanced fusion research facility

Jasper Hamill July 22, 2024

Google facing antitrust investigation in Italy

Watchdog set to probe practices to determine if they "constitute a misleading and aggressive commercial practice."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 19, 2024

Mandiant warns of 'sustained campaign' by China's ATP41 threat group

Threat actor decrypts malicious payloads and executes them in memory, leaving 'minimal forensic traces.'

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 19, 2024

NVIDIA

AI cloud

Nvidia acquires its fourth Cloud AI startup this year

“We are at the iPhone moment of AI..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 19, 2024

Cyber Resilience Bill: What does it mean for the UK?

Cyber Resilience Bill: What does it mean for the UK?

"The Bill will strengthen our defences..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 18, 2024

Samsung acquires knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantics

Samsung

Samsung acquires knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantics

The acquisition "will further boost Samsung’s strong capabilities in knowledge engineering.”

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 18, 2024

Cyberattack disrupts 911 emergency services in California

Incident blamed on 'relatively new' gang of cybercriminals.

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 16, 2024

Windows 'relics' zombified in Void Banshee zero-day attacks

Threat actors use CVE-2024-38112 to bring the remains of Internet Explorer back to life as a 'zombie' hellbent on stealing valuable data.

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 16, 2024

The cyber threats facing NATO: Google shares threat intel as leaders meet in Washington

Threat actors may be preparing to attack critical infrastructure (if they haven't started already), researcher warns

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 09, 2024

NCSC issues urgent security alert over Chinese threat actor's 'evolving' techniques

A group called 'APT40' working for China's Ministry of State Security is allegedly capable of exploiting POCs within hours or days of public release

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 09, 2024

Westminster wants to see more windfarms built to meet Britain's thirst for power

public sector

central government

Labour begins bonfire of planning laws, relights plans for two data centres near London

Two planning applications "recovered" as new government wages war on nimbyism and greenbelt building restrictions

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 08, 2024

Fake OpenSSH "exploit" is a real exploit. Just not the one you thought.

Cisco says 42 products confirmed exposed to CVE-2024-6387 -- but OpenSSH exploit is malicious: Beware bogus POCs says Kaspersky

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 08, 2024

Outages

DDoS

Is the Wayback Machine down? Internet Archive suffers mysterious outages

Treasure trove of altered or deleted websites brought offline after power cut as it fights legal appeal against decision which forced the removal of 500,000 books

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 08, 2024

Block bots in one click: Cloudflare 'easy button' fends off crawlers and scrapers

Block bots in one click: Cloudflare 'easy button' fends off crawlers and scrapers

Growing numbers of businesses and consumers are no longer willing to let AI feast on their content, so are looking for a way of keeping the bots at bay

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 05, 2024

From AI to open source: Tech leaders' recommendations for the new Labour Government

From AI to open source: Tech leaders' recommendations for the new Labour Government

Leading industry figures set out key priorities for Sir Kier Starmer's new government, including employing Chief AI Officers in Whitehall and more open source in the public sector

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 05, 2024

‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack

“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."

Jasper Hamill July 05, 2024

What do tech leaders want from a new British government?

UK government

Policy

elections

What do tech leaders want from a new British government?

“Whichever party forms the new government, we will be keeping a close eye on the possibility of stricter regulation, increased innovation support and enhanced competition."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 04, 2024

Can AWS really reduce the carbon footprint of AI workloads by 99% or is it 'greenwashing'?

Can AWS really reduce the carbon footprint of AI workloads by 99% or is it 'greenwashing'?

Cloud experts dig into claims that Amazon Web Services has pulled off the incredible feat of almost eliminating AI emissions by moving clients' workloads from on-premises infrastructure to its data centres

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 04, 2024

critical infrastructure

Nuclear sector 'lacks understanding of cybersecurity threat landscape', think tank warns

Chatham House confirms that nuclear infrastructure is a 'high value' target for threat actors, but calls on the industry to do more to protect itself (and the rest of us) from attack

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 03, 2024

Ollama: Easy to exploit vulnerability discovered, patched

LLMs

Ollama: Easy to exploit vulnerability discovered, patched

Files can be overwritten, corrupted say security researchers.

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 26, 2024

cloud security

malware

Malware that spreads via Redis now capable of deploying ransomware

P2Pinfect now able to deploy ransomware and crypto miner payloads.

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 26, 2024

AI will impact more than half of finance jobs -- banks to spend $40 billion: Citi

"This process requires an ability to efficiently validate, understand, and store content of documents to correctly implement client instructions"

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 24, 2024

CDK Global suffers second cyberattack after breach crashed thousands of car dealerships

ransomware

CDK Global suffers second cyberattack after breach crashed thousands of car dealerships

Alleged ransomware attack forces SaaS provider for the automotive sector to take down its systems, causing dealers to potentially miss out on car sales

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 20, 2024

From digital candidates to broken Russian bots: How AI is impacting elections in 2024

From digital candidates to broken Russian bots: How AI is impacting elections in 2024

Record-breaking numbers of people are casting ballots this year, and the agents of digital disinformation are out in full force to influence their decisions.

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 20, 2024

True scale of London hospital cyberattack revealed

True scale of London hospital cyberattack revealed

800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were rearranged following the incident

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 17, 2024

EU Cloud Certification Scheme could be "discriminatory" to Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Companies and countries clash over ENISA cloud security certification

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 17, 2024

ransomware

cyber attack

UK

London hospitals face continued disruption after ransomware attack

Doctors reportedly forced to use pen-and-paper records as the NHS struggles to deal with the impact of significant cybersecurity incident

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 12, 2024

Net Neutrality: US prepares for return of Obama-era internet regulation

FCC set to prohibit service providers from "blocking, throttling, or engaging in paid prioritisation of lawful content" from July 22nd

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 12, 2024

FBI reveals Zero Trust adoption plans in $8 billion IT budget

FBI reveals Zero Trust adoption plans in $8 billion IT budget

Crime fighters prioritise internal network security in the wake of major data breach

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 10, 2024

Teenage founder's AI startup valued at $13.7 billion in $1 billion funding round

Teenage founder's AI startup valued at $13.7 billion in $1 billion funding round

"We must build frontier data which is always pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities towards complex reasoning, agents, multimodality, and more."

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 22, 2024

semiconductors

UK fires up Semiconductor Institute

The institute is set to build on Britain's £1 billion strategy for the sector

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 21, 2024

UK MPs slam Big Tech for 'siloed' approach to misinformation

UK government

elections

UK MPs slam Big Tech for 'siloed' approach to misinformation

Government agencies build up 'Defending democracy' package, including tech and guidelines to keep bad actors at bay

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 21, 2024

UnitedHealth confirms ransom payment, reports $872 million impact from attack in Q1

UnitedHealth confirms ransom payment, reports $872 million impact from attack in Q1

Personal data of a "substantial proportion" of Americans stolen from systems.

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 23, 2024

Cloud

CTO

Vultr launches into sovereign cloud market as CXOs, CTOs mull data localisation

More than a third of European CXOs are looking to move 25 to 27% of their assets to a sovereign cloud.

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 23, 2024

UK Crown Prosecution Service preps £2.5m financial analysis system procurement

contracts

UK Crown Prosecution Service preps £2.5m financial analysis system procurement

As Ministry of Justice struggles with technical debt and legacy burden

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 22, 2024

Meta launches Llama 3: Puts its GPUs to work on Llama 4

The LLM arms race continues: Don't bet against the company spending $33 billion per year on GPUs.

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 19, 2024

MOD reopens £300m "Human-Machine Teaming" framework, with a robotics focus

MOD reopens £300m "Human-Machine Teaming" framework, with a robotics focus

"What keeps me up is the cost imposition factor that robotics systems bring"

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 18, 2024

Spying on MPs and breaking encryption: New UK legislation damned as “unprecedented” – and “deeply troubling”

Spying on MPs and breaking encryption: New UK legislation damned as “unprecedented” – and “deeply troubling”

Apple says new rules “significantly widen the powers and exacerbate the flaws inherent in the Investigatory Powers Act”

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 27, 2024

Zoom turns to AI to reinvent itself as much more than just video calling

Zoom bets big on its AI powered collaborative workspace

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 25, 2024

US gov tells software suppliers exactly how it wants them to develop secure code

US gov tells software suppliers exactly how it wants them to develop secure code

As CISA reportedly admits two of its systems were breached in February due to Ivanti flaws

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 13, 2024

EDPS: European Commission breached data infringement rules over Microsoft 365 use

EU watchdog says the institution failed to take appropriate data-transfer safeguards while using Microsoft 365

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 11, 2024

skills

Digital Britain

Skills shortage: Data-centric jobs set to drive tech recruitment this year

Companies still struggling to fill software development, software testing, cyber security and data centric roles

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 11, 2024

US healthcare ransomware attack impact worsens, as government ramps up pressure and lawsuits start

"An immense crisis demanding immediate attention" says the American Medical Association

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 11, 2024

India rushes to regulate AI as citizens get ready to head to the polls

India rushes to regulate AI as citizens get ready to head to the polls

Critics wonder if new laws are no more than a knee-jerk reaction to chatbots describing the country's PM's policies as "fascist"

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 05, 2024

apple

competition

EU takes $2bn bite out of Apple for 'abusive' App Store rules on music streaming apps

"Apple’s rules muzzled Spotify... from sharing with our users directly in our app about various benefits—denying us the ability to communicate with them..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 04, 2024

Researchers go back to the 80s to jailbreak LLMs :-)

Researchers go back to the 80s to jailbreak LLMs :-)

Generative AI models can be fooled using ASCII art, while "rainbow teaming" pushes LLM semantic defenses to limit...

Azania Imtiaz Patel March 04, 2024

Massive “i-Soon” leak reveals Chinese firm's hacking tools, targets, including NATO

Massive “i-Soon” leak reveals Chinese firm's hacking tools, targets, including NATO

Tools, gripes of contractor working for China's Ministry of Public Security dumped online in landmark breach

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 20, 2024

Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain

AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 20, 2024

space

cloud architect

Up, up and beyond: Italy looks to push HPC beyond the cloud and into space

While UK looks for partners as it hitches a ride with Axiom Space

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 20, 2024

National Highways rolls out £650 million roadside telecoms tender

National Highways rolls out £650 million roadside telecoms tender

Contract covers cable-based, wireless and public network technologies to make journeys 'seamless'

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 19, 2024

European cybersecurity labels are coming. Who's signed up?

Scheme will pave the way for upcoming certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 08, 2024

layoffs

industry

Tech layoffs: 25,000 let go in January 2024

"The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 06, 2024

Home Office looks for new body to assess UK-bound global tech talent

people

Home Office looks for new body to assess UK-bound global tech talent

Tech Nation, the previous endorsement body, lost critical funding - but will continue to assess applications till next year.

Azania Imtiaz Patel February 05, 2024

cyberattack

CISA

Hack back: US disconnects Volt Typhoon

"This actor is not doing the quiet intelligence collection and theft of secrets... they can disrupt major services if, and when, the order comes down,"

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 30, 2024

Patch now: Critical Jenkins exploits released

POCs validated, over 45,000 instances still publicly exposed after critical Jenkins vulnerability disclosed.

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 30, 2024

Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset'

Big Data

Biotech

Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset'

"If you’re selling data to the highest bidder, the people who buy it will be those who can make the most money, not who will do the most good for the NHS..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 29, 2024

Britain wants Talent: Will AI whizzes switch to the public sector?

Britain wants Talent: Will AI whizzes switch to the public sector?

"More and more of the people we speak to want the opportunity to use their skills for the benefit of others"

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 23, 2024

cybercrime

data breach

Data breach compilation indexes over 12 terabytes of hackers' greatest hits

Over 26 billion records compromised in newly discovered trove of multiple breaches.

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 23, 2024

Ransomware attackers jack up attacks on tech companies

"Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 23, 2024

AWS invests $15 billion in Japan - as Oracle mops up big customers

AWS invests $15 billion in Japan - as Oracle mops up big customers

AWS is expanding its operations in Japan by building on its infrastructure capacity in Tokyo and Osaka.

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 23, 2024

WEF: AI dominates talks but to what gain?

regulation

WEF: AI dominates talks but to what gain?

"Artificial intelligence by the name is not something that you can actually govern," says Dubai Futures CEO. But the World Economic Forum tries, nonetheless.

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 22, 2024

TikTok

layoffs

Trending on TikTok: A catchy Korean jingle, “life-changing” shapewear – and tech layoffs

Clumsily or coldly firing staff? Be prepared for prime time on social media...

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 17, 2024

CRA(P): Will Europe throw the open source baby out with the bathwater?

"The major concerns are that the responsibility for compliance would fall on the wrong parties..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel October 12, 2023

Sebastian Stadil on Terraform, OpenTofu, and open source

Sebastian Stadil on Terraform, OpenTofu, and open source

"This tofu has beef with HashiCorp..." Core OpenTofu Contributor and Scalr Founder talks to The Stack at OSS Europe.

Azania Imtiaz Patel October 11, 2023

The Big Interview: Sacha Labourey on Tekton, GitHub Actions and taking CI/CD to the cloud

The CloudBees co-founder on a belated drive to cloud-native CI/CD and some of the choices to power that...

Edward Targett September 29, 2023

Open mapping is a critical resource for Petya Kangalova and that's helping in a lot of crises

open source

software

Interviews

Open mapping is a critical resource for Petya Kangalova and that's helping in a lot of crises

"Many people can at the same time, look at satellite images, choose a specific task and they can map priorities -whether it's building roads or other points of interest…"

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 26, 2023

The Big Interview: Fidelity's DevOps boss Topo Pal on bad shifts left, "love letters", more.

"DevSecOps shouldn't mean that developers have to be security experts. They won't be, they can't be and it is a very bad idea to even have this expectation."

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 25, 2023

Terraform fork finds a home at the Linux Foundation -- and a new name.

Terraform fork finds a home at the Linux Foundation -- and a new name.

"OpenTofu will be everything legacy Terraform should have been: community-first and impartial...."

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 20, 2023

CloudBees says it’s fixed janky Jenkins issues for scalability, reveals new Tekton-based cloud platform

We could be in Jenkins, Kentucky...

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 18, 2023

Black Mirror, irl? We caught up with MAGIC AI's Varun Bhanot

healthcare

Interviews

Black Mirror, irl? We caught up with MAGIC AI's Varun Bhanot

Magic AI CEO Varun Bhanot talks to The Stack about the hardware challenges of tech, safeguarding user data and building something "cool"

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 05, 2023

LSEG teases “blockchain” exchange: So many questions...

"Putting trading on the chain makes little sense since you fragment liquidity and get worse spreads..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 05, 2023

EU Cyber Resilience Act antagonises, troubles open-source sector

EU

Cybersecurity

open source

EU Cyber Resilience Act antagonises, troubles open-source sector

The EU has proposed a new Cyber Resilience Act. The lack of industry dialogue has the open-source sector worry that the act will stifle development.

Azania Imtiaz Patel September 04, 2023

Quis custodiet? Powerful Japanese cybersecurity agency hacked, as allies fret

"Japan's cybersecurity nightmare is everyone else's problem, too"

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 29, 2023

Is unlimited cloud storage quietly getting the chop? Blame miners and even resellers...

This is why we can't have nice things

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 29, 2023

telecoms

google cloud

active directory

Google Cloud General Manager takes over as Telenor CTO

Amol Phadke joins the global telecom after three years at Google

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 22, 2023

Latest 5G network slicing trial showcases mobile game performance, but...

Vodafone and Ericsson trial new tech, but analysts say "won't be the sole investors in another round of build-and-they-will-come networks"

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 22, 2023

UNHRC

brain-machine interface

Elon Musk

UNHRC deliberates on brain implants, neurotechnology, as Neuralink raises

Professor: "We need a new human right to cognitive liberty. Neural sensors will become part of our everyday technology and a part of how we interact with that technology. We have a moment to get this right before that happens..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 08, 2023

cyber essentials

NCSC

operational resilience

What essentials? UK businesses remain "unaware" of NCSC cybersecurity certification

Less than 2% of UK private businesses are NCSC certified- and half of the SMEs don't even know about certification schemes

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 01, 2023

Amidst job cut plans and digital transformation, BT appoints its first female CEO

CEO

BT

Amidst job cut plans and digital transformation, BT appoints its first female CEO

The Telia CEO will start her term at BT at the end of January 2024

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 31, 2023

Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide

Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide

"During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 25, 2023

"WormGPT" gives cybercriminals their own LLM

"WormGPT" gives cybercriminals their own LLM

A dangerous Large Language Model trained on malware data sets is being used to launch BECs.

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 17, 2023

Citigroup

Citi’s tech spend hits $3 billion in Q2, as CFO highlights in-sourcing efforts

Citigroup spent the equivalent to some $50 million on technology every single working day over the past quarter..

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 17, 2023

Google allows NFTs into Play Store

Google has updated its app store policy, and now the NFTs can come out to Play...

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 13, 2023

Global AI Index: US and China lead investment, as Israel and Singapore punch above weight

artificial intelligence

Policy

investment

Global AI Index: US and China lead investment, as Israel and Singapore punch above weight

The scramble for a piece of the AI pie is on, but US and China remain on top when it comes to raking in the profit

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 13, 2023

Microsoft clams up over critical Azure key breach, security incident as attackers breach US agencies

Following a major security breach involving US federal agencies, Microsoft refuses to provide details on the incident

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 13, 2023

Bad developer UX? Look out for breakages, burnout, and "biological single points of failure"

Big Interview

CTO

software

Bad developer UX? Look out for breakages, burnout, and "biological single points of failure"

"All of this hasn't existed for the CIO or the CTO, and genuinely they've been begging for a platform with the same ability to report back to executives to show the value of their engineers..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 04, 2023

Collibra CTO Madalina Tanasie on data governance needs

Cloud

CTO

Interviews

Collibra CTO Madalina Tanasie on data governance needs

CTO Madalina Tanasie shares insights from two decades in data governance, and shares what building a data intelligence platform that works look like

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 04, 2023

Malvertising: Threat actors are duping downloaders using... Google Ads and SEO

Malvertising: Threat actors are duping downloaders using... Google Ads and SEO

Threat actors are using SEO to trick users into downloading ransomware.

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 03, 2023

CivTech: Scotland to digitize licensing, opens up tech spend to SMEs

CivTech: Scotland to digitize licensing, opens up tech spend to SMEs

Scotland's government has announced nine digitization tenders worth £10 million for its CivTech challenge.

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 28, 2023

IBM's $4.6 billion Apptio deal shows how hot FinOps has got

IBM's $4.6 billion Apptio deal shows how hot FinOps has got

IT spend management specialist Apptio recently updated its "Cloudability" FinOps suite as CIOs tighten belts

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 26, 2023

DARPA

Department of Defense

DARPA selects four private partners for algorithmic analysis of "mass casualty" events

DARPA has announced private partners for its ITM programme that will deploy trustworthy AI to save lives in mass casualty events.

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 19, 2023

UK warns on “cyberbiosecurity” risks in new paper - amid synthetic biology, AI fears

Government promises a new "National Biosurveillance Network" that would join up "syndromic, epidemiological and promising environmental surveillance capabilities" in a new "Biothreats Radar" but promised funding is far from huge...

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 13, 2023

DocuSign adds 45,000 customers in a single quarter

DocuSign adds 45,000 customers in a single quarter

New Web Forms offering, SAP approval and more give DocuSign a lift despite macro headwinds...

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 12, 2023

Amid terrible meetings, Lean Coffee gets a new lease of life

The renewed importance of collaboration in a hybrid world appears to be triggering something of a Lean Coffee renewal...

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 06, 2023

apple

Augmented Reality

WWDC: Apple bets on mixed-reality with $3499 headset

Apple is expected to launch a mixed-reality headset at WWDC 2023. The product may save the struggling AR/VR sector

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 05, 2023

US-China semiconductor saga continues after Micron ban backlash in Washington

...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 31, 2023

Testing of a quantum accelerometer developed by Imperial College London

Quantum prototype tested by Royal Navy offers the future promise of GPS-free navigation

Successful testing of a quantum accelerometer developed by Imperial College London may set a new direction for navigation technology. First announced in 2018, the self-contained quantum accelerometer device does not rely on external signals like GPS or other satellite alternatives. Initial testing has been successfully conducted by the Royal Navy....

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 31, 2023

Hacking forum admin leaks data, 478,000 hackers exposed

Hacking forum admin leaks data, 478,000 hackers exposed

A leak by a hacking forum admin has exposed the data of 478,000 members of RaidForums – a platform that sold payment card details and databases of login credentials, such as usernames and associated passwords for enterprises, among other black market activity. RaidForums was shut down in April 2022 following...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 30, 2023

Enterprise IT

Vodafone slashes 11,000 jobs, eyes IT transformation

Vodafone will lay off 11,000 employees over the next three years amid a restructuring that will also see it ramp up its focus on the B2B market – as executives lamented “structural complexity” and “insufficient customer focus.” In an earnings call earlier today, May 16, Vodafone Group CEO Margherita Della...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 16, 2023

CTO and Founder Heather Payne on autism, leadership, digital transformation

"I completely masked..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 10, 2023

PayPal banks on white labelled services as Apple eats its lunch

PayPal banks on white labelled services as Apple eats its lunch

PayPal’s CEO Dan Schulman said white labelled payments processing is a “strategic imperative” for the payments company – and it will “primarily focus on enabling unbranded processing” moving forwards. The move will also give it richer datasets from merchants as it expands, which PayPal can in turn use to power...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 10, 2023

Amid a fintech onslaught, attrition, Western Union tests new POS, digital services

Amid a fintech onslaught, attrition, Western Union tests new POS, digital services

A huge 40% of all customers don't return “due to pricing, transaction time, or poor customer..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 08, 2023

Ford's software subscriptions surge, drive data-led decisions..

Ford's software subscriptions surge, drive data-led decisions..

Telemetry also informing design choices, cost measures

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 03, 2023

Western Digital hackers spied on incident response, taunt firm

Western Digital hackers spied on incident response, taunt firm

Extortion efforts continue...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 02, 2023

HSBC values Silicon Valley Bank UK at $1.5 billion after £1 buyout

HSBC reported costs of $7.5 billion despite “continued cost discipline” in Q1 2023, which it attributed to “higher spend on technology” as it also revealed a $1.5 billion gain from its £1 Silicon Valley Bank acquisition. The bank's IT leaders are continuing to execute HSBC'...

Azania Imtiaz Patel May 02, 2023

"Cascading" software supply chain attack now has CNI victims in EU, US

"Cascading" software supply chain attack now has CNI victims in EU, US

Two critical infrastructure providers in the energy sector were breached via a software supply chain attack that also hit business communications provider 3CX and its downstream customers, as well as trading companies. That’s according to cybersecurity firm Symantec this week, which said that its Threat Hunter Team had identified...

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 25, 2023

Citi adds 8,000 tech staff, hikes IT spending 12%