Enterprise IT GCHQ has its first female director: From hostile states to HR, she has a busy in-tray HR and politicians as well as nation states and criminals need attention...
Featured Post Office signs £16m Fujitsu Horizon hosting extension after cloud migration fails Horizon is proving hard to kill off...
Cloud UK regulators scrutinise hyperscaler "data egress" fees. Should they also be having another conversation?
Enterprise IT Shell appoints former CISO as new Group CIO Shell is appointing former CISO Robbert Van Rutten as its new group CIO, effective July 1, 2023 The appointment comes after veteran CIO Jay Crotts announced that he was stepping down after a 37-year career at the energy supermajor, which has involved responsibility for the IT Function globally since 2015.
Opinion Opinion: The Big Hallucination There’s nothing humans love more than the egregiously misleading, said with imperturbable confidence. We know what we want – irrational certainty – and perhaps we deserve to get it good and hard, to misuse essayist H.L. Mencken. Artificial Intelligence, in the form of large language models (LLMs), is delivering this
News Coming soon HM Treasury is advertising for a Head of Cyber Security, with a salary band of £50,550 - £57,500. The salary has triggered a fresh outcry among security professionals about the widening gap between the public and private sectors – where triple that salary would not be a challenge in
Featured HM Treasury cybersecurity salary triggers fresh outcry Private sector equivalent in the UK would be triple
Featured Opinion: The Big Hallucination People are too credulous about AI outputs, and it’s about to get even more complicated.
Featured techUK President Sheila Flavell's commitment to diversity was born on tough patrols... Nominations are now open for techUK's inaugural President's Awards.
Enterprise IT CEOs of TSMC, ASML cite “tremendous benefit” of shifting to GPUs Harder, faster, stronger...
Cybersecurity Gas distributor’s urgent OT security contract followed regulatory pressure... Did OFGEM come knocking?
Enterprise IT The Big Interview: Check Point Founder Gil Shwed Gil Shwed is an anachronism: A startup founder who has stayed CEO for three decades, carefully growing his brainchild from nothing into a $2 billion-by-annual-revenue powerhouse, whilst reporting a profit every single quarter along the way. (“Every quarter?” The Stack asks. “Every month,” Check Point’s CEO says softly.) Check
Enterprise IT As Virgin Orbit hits the buffers, British startup Astraius inches closer to its first launch Updated March 20, 10:00am GMT to correct launch vehicle location (within C17 rather than underslung). Aerospace startup Astraius has agreed a key new partnership as it plans its first “air launch” of a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite from Scotland in 2024, using a military transport plane, rather than a
Cybersecurity Check Point launches new global services offering Check Point has launched a new integrated global services offering, as the cybersecurity company continues to tighten up its portfolio -- which is built around four pillars: “Quantum” for network security, “Harmony” for end-user devices, “CloudGuard” for cloud security and “Horizon” for SOC and security management. Check Point, whose CEO
Cybersecurity Urgent: Microsoft 365 Apps being exploited in wild via CVSS 9.8 bug Get domain admin by... just emailing the domain admin?
Enterprise IT Deutsche Bank's Peter Thomas: Execs recognising value of OSS ‘mutualisation’ "Take this Waltz..."
Featured Step up, Sir Humphrey: Why UK govt’s digital failings are a business sponsor problem CDDO's roadmap risks "petering out" warns NAO.
Enterprise IT US Army CIO leaves for ServiceNow amid Pentagon CIO exodus Outgoing US Army CIO Dr Raj Iyer has joined software firm ServiceNow as Head of Global Public Sector. He leaves after a well-regarded and highly modernising two year stint overseeing a $16 billion annual IT budget (including ~$3 billion in software and $1.5 billion in hardware costs) for 1.
Enterprise IT The Big Interview: Pleo CTO and Monzo veteran Meri Williams On business continuity, microservices, and masking...
Enterprise IT ChatGPT API lands: OpenAI bans use for dating apps or "high-risk gov't decision making" OpenAI is making its ChatGPT API and Whisper API available to companies so they can incorporate the AI chatbot and speech-to-text capabilities into their products – Instacart, Snapchat and Spotify are all early adopters. ChatGPT API terms and conditions meanwhile emphasise that users can't deploy the ChatGPT API to
Enterprise IT Bloomberg, Man Group team up to develop open source "ArcticDB" database "Build it or buy it?" That's been answered here...
Enterprise IT Klarna losses hit $1 billion but CEO is merrily optimistic Eyes profitability by summer 2023...
Cybersecurity Server backup vulnerability piggybacked to live systems Open source bug leads to server backup bug leads to... crime.
Enterprise IT 5 leadership lessons for CIOs from Manchester United's Erik Ten Hag Nurture, Discipline, Analytics...