News farnborough airshow aerospace Honeywell GenAI Honeywell exec shares GenAI plans and early developer productivity impacts Industrial giant is 'just beginning to understand how impactful generative AI is going to be'. Joe Fay July 24, 2024
News crowdstrike PIR bsod Fuzzing and staggering: Crowdstrike post-mortem suggests testing lessons learned the hard way EDR firm promises better QA, more customer control, after botched detection update crashed 8.5 million Windows systems. Joe Fay July 24, 2024
News google Wiz cybersecurity Wiz says no to Google: Security firm snubs $23bn takeover “Saying no to such humbling offers is tough.” Joe Fay July 24, 2024
News national crime agency DDoS Police infiltrate shady DDoS-as-a-service marketplace DigitalStress Officers "covertly and overtly accessed" communication platforms to spy on would-be attackers' conversations Joe Fay July 23, 2024
News datacentre investigatory powers act google Hyperscalers demand suppliers serve up embodied carbon emissions intel Headaches all round as datacenter operators come under scrutiny over energy use Joe Fay July 18, 2024
UK government artificial intelligence cybersecurity News King's Speech: Labour sets out cybersecurity rules, but fails to introduce 'AI Bill' Tories criticise "mystery bill that creates months of uncertainty and loses the UK jobs and investment just as it has in the EU.” Joe Fay July 17, 2024
News gitlab software development DevOps Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up That corporate tech roulette wheel never stops spinning Joe Fay July 17, 2024
Microsoft competition and markets artificial intelligence News UK regulator launches 'new merger inquiry' into Microsoft’s hiring of AI luminaries Watchdog probes decision to bring 'certain former employees' of Inflection AI into the Microsoft fold Joe Fay July 17, 2024
News NATO cybersecurity olympics UK and Poland cyber teams launch 'Baltic Mule' exercise to protect NATO land forces Allies launch the first assurance exercise focused on forward land forces in Eastern Europe, which is intended to ensure military supply plans are secure Joe Fay July 17, 2024
Big Interview cybersecurity identity and access management oleria Interviews Tomorrow's CISOs need tech skills, business smarts... and great lawyers, Oleria boss says Jim Alkove explains how working on the Xbox improved his security chops and why leaders need to treat their career like a chess game Joe Fay July 16, 2024
News labour king charles AI Kings Speech: Monarch heads to House of Lords to fire starting gun on Labour’s tech policy More green power, more datacentres, more AI…and less online abuse please Joe Fay July 16, 2024
News European Commission x.com misinformation Elon Musk's blue tick scheme for X may be a 'dark pattern', European Commission claims Brussels isn't happy with some of the policies set since the billionaire took over the social network formerly known as Twitter Joe Fay July 12, 2024
Softbank News Softbank gives UK AI chip maker Graphcore a soft landing Japanese tech investor has a taste for British chips and bought up the storied silicon designer ARM in 2016 Joe Fay July 12, 2024
News dark patterns FTC guardicore Most digital businesses now use ‘dark patterns’ to manipulate consumers, FTC warns Three-quarters of websites employ deceptive tactics such as "sneaking" or "interface interference" to force purchases or trick people into handing over data Joe Fay July 11, 2024
News AWS artificial intelligence guardrails AWS brings anti-hallucination Guardrails to Bedrock, promises 'grounding' in reality Cloud giant wants to make sure model responses are useful and founded on a firm foundation of enterprise data, rather than wild flights of fancy Joe Fay July 11, 2024
artificial intelligence sb1047 regulation News California pushes forward with AI regulations targeting Big Tech "The regulation of AI R&D is predicated on the illusion of 'existential risks' pushed by a handful of delusional think tanks." Joe Fay July 04, 2024
AI, CMA, competition AWS Microsoft News Google and AWS turn on Microsoft as UK competition watchdog probes cloud industry Nothing to see here say rivals – except Microsoft’s licensing practices Joe Fay July 03, 2024
News EU Less than a fifth of European companies will use AI by 2030, Digital Decade report reveals The EU’s digital transformation is running late – just like everyone else’s. What do this mean for the future of tech across The Continent? Joe Fay July 03, 2024
Sponsored CISO Cohesity cybersecurity cyberresilience James Blake Interviews CEOs and CIOs need to start accepting “red” security dashboards. Two CISOs explain why... No plan survives contact. Joe Fay July 02, 2024
News artificial intelligence Anthropic Anthropic dangles funding for AI model risk and capability evaluation tools AI firm says "a robust, third-party evaluation ecosystem is essential for assessing AI capabilities and risks" but warns that the current "landscape is limited.” Joe Fay July 02, 2024
OpenAI Mac Acquisitions News OpenAI buys developer collaboration tool Multi; promptly sunsets its product. What's the big idea? Multi had recently touted the ability to "work in teammates’ apps like Xcode and Terminal as though they’re open on your computer" Joe Fay June 25, 2024
US department of defense Vetting GAO News Fed's security vetting agency is falling short on cybersecurity DOD's background check arm failing on oversight, privacy controls, and more Joe Fay June 24, 2024
News apple European Commission DMA Europe gives Apple one-two DMA hit over App Store rules Officials reject idea that “gatekeepers” are the only source of innovation Joe Fay June 24, 2024
open source artificial intelligence News Linux Foundation tool reveals the truth about "open" AI models A new "isitopen" tool has not yet identifed a single model that meets the Foundation's highest standard of openness Joe Fay June 20, 2024
open source AI cybersecurity News AI-powered code copilots are threatening to shoot down security systems Adoption of artificial intelligence tools in highly regulated industries is much faster than expected, Chainguard boss warns Joe Fay June 20, 2024
Sponsored CIO CISO cyberresilience backups Interviews Flooded airports, DORA, and IT-security siloes: Cohesity's Mark Molyneux on cyber-resilience Many organisations "don't understand the capabilities that IT can provide to security and that security can provide to IT" says the Barclays veteran. CIOs and CISOs should... Joe Fay June 19, 2024
labour AI datacentre News Labour vows to smash down datacentre planning "barriers" Party’s manifesto takes aim at nimbys and deep fakes, promising to cut red tape stopping the building of new tech infrastructure Joe Fay June 17, 2024
conservative elections artificial intelligence News Tory manifesto tech promises: More high-end compute, NO mobiles in schools, cyber-national service Tories tell voters that “AI will accelerate human progress in the 21st century" just like steam and electricity did in the Victorian Era Joe Fay June 14, 2024
datacentre pure datacentre Atomic Energy Authority artificial intelligence Interviews Pure DC CEO Dame Dawn Childs talks people, planning and power “The market is buoyant. So, demand is buoyant. Satisfying that demand is challenging.” Joe Fay June 12, 2024
News cybersecurity robots vulnerabiities Network devices now riskier than endpoints, research claims Study highlights devices which suffer the most vulnerabilities and warns of risks to come - including industrial robots Joe Fay June 11, 2024
News TikTok data centre cybersecurity TikTok's EU data migration will be over by Christmas, policy chief reveals The Chinese giant is “leaning into” European data sovereignty laws as it moves vast quantities of data across the Atlantic Joe Fay June 10, 2024
WithSecure cybersecurity AI Interviews CTO to CISO: Christine Bejerasco on generative AI, and the "loneliness" of security WithSecure’s Christine Bejerasco says CISOs need more sparring partners Joe Fay June 10, 2024
datacentre enterprise artificial intelligence News Surging AI business means datacentres could switch on “no vacancy” signs Enterprise users dwarfed by AI and hyperscalar demand Joe Fay June 06, 2024
hugging face secrets management artificial intelligence cybersecurity News Hugging Face left with split lip after someone punches way into Spaces secrets "We pledge to use this as an opportunity to strengthen the security of our entire infrastructure" Joe Fay June 03, 2024
WithSecure AI scam Deepfakes News Deepfake CEO scams overblown - for now at least WithSecure CRO warns on post quantum cryptography, as mid-sized firms struggle with attacks on the edge Joe Fay May 30, 2024
Cybersecurity WithSecure China Opinion EU shows "a complete lack of security thinking" says former Estonian president Estonian ex-prez Ilves and Columbia Law prof deliver stark warning to cyberpros Joe Fay May 29, 2024
News Zoom AI financials Zoom makes big call on AI. Says it will pay off. Eventually In meantime, Q1 numbers nothing to transcribe and message home about? Joe Fay May 21, 2024
OpenAI scarlett johansson News OpenAI’s Sam Altman bends before wrath of Scarlett Johansson Hollywood actor reclaims her voice. What about the rest of us? Joe Fay May 21, 2024
fevertree kate stables AI netsuite Interviews Steering Fevertree beyond spreadsheets and through the AI bubble? Kate Stables on a tech transformation with AI on the horizon but humans at the core Joe Fay May 16, 2024
UK government red rated addictive police national computer News UK.gov ministers clam up on just how decrepit their IT systems are Succession of secretaries serve up cut and paste answers on progress identifying "red-rated" systems Joe Fay May 14, 2024
boomi artificial intelligence integration News Boomi boss says AI means enterprise apps must learn to reason or die Leads users to the mile high city to prep for AI boom Joe Fay May 09, 2024
Cybersecurity Local government skills SOC patching Qualys Interviews News Managing cybersecurity in local government - multiple hats, fewer tools Falkirk Council shows where to find the next generation of tech bairns Joe Fay May 01, 2024
News facebook elections European Commission Brussels hits Meta with 'formal proceedings' over election inteference fears EU worries content moderation opaque, political debate throttled, and disinfo ads generating cash Joe Fay April 30, 2024
News IRS legacy systems GAO IRS faces mountain of legacy IT systems issues, risking "disruption of critical operations" The IRS "uses more than 600 applications, many of them more than 20 years old, custom-built and loosely integrated." Joe Fay April 29, 2024
AI intelligence community Natsec Policy News Alan Turing Institute says UK’s national security decision makers need training on AI's limits Could politicians really confuse AI's probablistic outcomes with the truth? Joe Fay April 23, 2024
SAP composable ERP artificial intelligence AI News SAP CEO name drops Jensen to give Q1 numbers an AI gloss Cloud revenue – broken out for the first time – accounted for €3.9 billion Joe Fay April 23, 2024
TikTok European Commission addictive News European Commission could compel TikTok to switch off potentially “addictive" services on Thursday DSA action sets clock ticking on Chinese vendor’s Rewards programme...and we can't stop watching it Joe Fay April 22, 2024
News meta encryption law enforcement Europol and National Crime Agency slam Meta over end to end encryption rollout Meta helps bring together police chiefs… to slate Meta Joe Fay April 22, 2024
observabiity open source AI Interviews grafana Grafana cofounder says community looking for flexibility, not demanding AI...yet “Our approach right now is to sort of look at how AI can elevate a junior SRE to a more experienced SRE..." Joe Fay April 18, 2024
News GPU NVIDIA AI NVIDIA datacentre chief to Europe: GPUs are coming, but have you got the power? Schneider urges youngsters to think firmware and electronics skills instead of LLMs and data science Joe Fay April 17, 2024
News aerospace grafana observability space japan Interviews How Japan's space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon Space observations now matched with observability Joe Fay April 10, 2024
News grafana observability logs Grafana rolls up fresh features, data sources at Amsterdam get together Users get to explore logs AND metrics in Grafana and Loki Joe Fay April 09, 2024
datacentre energy directive Schneider Electric digital realty News Digital Realty: CIOs have "no clue" about data centre performance, energy KPIs Pressures from the European Energy Directive are mounting -- customers are oblivious. Joe Fay April 05, 2024
News police, text redaction UK police award £10m contract to automate document redaction Less time in Acrobat, more time fighting crime Joe Fay April 03, 2024
News European Commission elections artificial intelligence EU drops election “guidelines” on online giants, points to massive DSA fines for deviation More moderators, less deep fakes, s'il vous plait Joe Fay March 26, 2024
Interviews Kubernetes Deutsche Bahn How a platform focus helped Deutsche Bahn A developer experience platform has been adopted by over 10,000 users, while a Kubernetes platform supports several hundred projects. Joe Fay March 26, 2024
News opentelemetry New Relic cncf OpenTelemetry promises run-time "profiling" as it guns for graduation eBPF ftw, as Elastic, Splunk donate key technology... Joe Fay March 22, 2024
cloud native artificial intelligence mistral News AI is really a cloud-native problem, CNCF boss argues (Irrational) exuberance is part of the process says Priyanka Sharma Joe Fay March 21, 2024
Terraform News opentofu opensource OpenTofu looks to 'business value' with 1.7 release as HashiCorp reportedly looks for buyer IAC fork promises to serve up features community really want -- and companies like Peloton have switched. Joe Fay March 20, 2024
News artificial intelligence European Commission EU to stress-test major platforms over gen AI election risks in runup to Euro poll Fires out RFIs over risks. Also launches investigation into AliExpress Joe Fay March 14, 2024
DDoS France cyberattack News France fends off unprecedented DDoS attacks as it gears up for Olympian challenge Low tech, highly inconvenient cyber assault comes just weeks after Ukraine cooperation deal Joe Fay March 12, 2024
News uk election techUK AI techUK calls on next gov to lead on AI – though tech leaders just want lower energy costs Wish list also features deregulation, tax breaks Joe Fay March 11, 2024
UK government ransomware cybersecurity News UK.gov's “ostrich” approach to cybersecurity leaves country “exposed and unprepared” Departments need to go away and rethink how to protect country from ransomware Joe Fay March 11, 2024
CIO Schneider Electric Sustainability Interviews Schneider Electric CIO Elizabeth Hackenson on AI, IT's energy consumption, and CFO demands... "I don't think there's enough energy in the world for what we're going to need for AI." Joe Fay March 11, 2024
News bugcrowd artificial intelligence API security AI rush means bugs are a question of security AND safety Bugcrowd founder says now is the time for the crowd to identify bias and other AI threats Joe Fay March 05, 2024
News aerospace techUK techUK launches multistage programme for gov to boost nation's standing in the space economy Less regulation, more visas need to help sector that's already worth £17.5bn Joe Fay March 04, 2024
News Bank of England email compliance Bank of England praised for streamlined risk approach -- but staff keep sending emails awry Address blunders make up almost half of "minor" compliance breaches Joe Fay March 04, 2024
News Microsoft mistral artificial intelligence EU Does Microsoft's Mistral deal take wind out of EU's sails on AI regulation? Sometimes one AI player just isn't enough Joe Fay February 27, 2024
Russia NCSC cybersecurity News Beat the bear's cloud incursions with canaries says Five Eyes Service accounts, MFA bombing and residential proxies are being widely deployed by APT29. Joe Fay February 27, 2024
Reddit google artificial intelligence News Reddit user posts will fuel Google’s LLM – others should think twice before trying to do the same Changing T/Cs retrospectively ain't gonna work Joe Fay February 27, 2024
News ServiceNow NVIDIA ServiceNOW unwraps NetACE buy as it targets creaking telcos As it cuddles up to AI darling Nvidia in Barcelona to generate telco friendly products Joe Fay February 26, 2024
OpenAI artificial intelligence regulation News US watchdog warns on "security, equity, civil rights" risks of open LLMs - launches consultation Open models hold potential for “substantial harms, such as risks to security, equity, civil rights, or other harms due to, for instance, affirmative misuse, failures of effective oversight, or lack of clear accountability mechanisms” Joe Fay February 26, 2024
News ransomware Lockbit national crime agency National Crime Agency smashes LockBit infrastructure, grabs 1,000 decryption keys Did NCA, FBI deploy an exploit for PHP vulnerability CVE-2023-3824 to break the prolific group's systems? Joe Fay February 20, 2024
News Reddit AI model user agreement Reddit strikes 'AI training deal' for user content. Copyright and privacy lawyers set to go wild? Too late for users to back out now? Joe Fay February 20, 2024
News european union Digital Services Act only fans EU’s Digital Services Act sweeps up thousands of online services over the weekend Non-EU-based sites like OnlyFans need to appoint EU reps. Fast. Joe Fay February 19, 2024
central government public sector NAO Ministry of Justice News Ministry of Justice wanted ICT to be nimble and data driven. For now it’s grappling with technical debt and running late "One of the most outsourced government departments with major contracts to manage" Joe Fay February 14, 2024
News NVIDIA artificial intelligence GPU Is it really different this time? Nvidia briefly more valuable than Amazon as markets salivate over AI Investors betting big on AI chips Joe Fay February 13, 2024
News NCSC vulnerability management Ivanti NCSC vuln management guide details why to update by default - and why not to Business should own the risk - not the security team Joe Fay February 12, 2024
CISA software supply chain openssf package manager News How secure is your package repo? CISA defines four levels of security maturity, starting at zero "Package managers are at a critical point in the open source ecosystem and have the capability to scale security improvements across open source ecosystems" Joe Fay February 12, 2024
bruce perens open source post open Opinion Open Source pioneer Perens says it's time to contemplate a Post-Open world Open Source may have won, but it has also failed, says Open Source Initiative founder Joe Fay February 07, 2024
News labour artificial intelligence regulation Labour will wrap regulation around big tech, slice red tape for small innovators As current government looks to "upskill" existing regulators to police AI Joe Fay February 06, 2024
juniper networks e-tugru certificate authority News Two years after a security row over a Certificate Authority, Juniper issues a CVSS 9.8 bug alert Better late than never, as CISA issues warning to patch up SIEM bugs. Joe Fay February 06, 2024
News artificial intelligence cybersecurity Sysdig Gen AI-powered cybersecurity? Maybe get identity management fixed first Sysdig research shows companies still not getting it right when shifting left Joe Fay January 31, 2024
SolarWinds API security cybersecurity News SolarWinds howls back at SEC, accuses agency of "revictimization" Software firm calls for dismissal of SEC action Joe Fay January 30, 2024
CFTC cybersecurity commodities derivatives News US commodities market regulator wants traders to ratchet up resilience Just how do you make trading places more secure Joe Fay January 30, 2024
News Commerce department artificial intelligence AI IaaS Washington demands hyperscalers report foreign users of AI hardware, software Policy targets China, will likely hit Europe Joe Fay January 29, 2024
FTC slack Teams DoJ News Feds to businesses: Preservation rules don't vanish with "ephemeral" messages "This preservation responsibility applies to new methods of collaboration and information sharing tools, even including tools that allow for messages to disappear via ephemeral messaging capabilities" Joe Fay January 29, 2024
News OpenAI Microsoft competition US regulators investigate who should investigate Microsoft/OpenAI If only there was a chatbot they could ask... Joe Fay January 24, 2024
european union cra cybersecurity linux open source News Europe's controversial cyber resilience law gets a rewrite -- now not as terrible as it was A rewritten EU cyber resiliency act removes the biggest threats to open source but much standards work still to be done, says Linux Foundation Europe Joe Fay January 23, 2024
fedramp washington Federal Government Cloud News FedRAMP is 14 years old – and Feds are still relying on unauthorized cloud services Some CSPs also moaned that its was “costly and time consuming” to meet FedRAMP’s technical and process requirements... Joe Fay January 22, 2024
Formula E Porsche Cato Networks Porsche's "Formula E" team is speeding up performance by junking server racks The 2023 season was “the first season we travelled with our whole IT equipment without any server rack..." Joe Fay January 17, 2024
Broadcom vmware virtualisation News Broadcom didn’t need to reinvent the mainframe – it just needed to buy VMware Revirtualization is possible. But it’s going to hurt Joe Fay January 10, 2024
IAM identity and access management Hashicorp banks News How EQ banked on Boundary for IAM long before GA Challenger bank makes a bold choice for new identity and access management program Joe Fay October 19, 2023
Epic gaming Hashicorp Kubernetes News Epic relies on Nomad to keep gamers’ fantasy islands afloat Kubernetes would have meant “monumental” amount of work Joe Fay October 18, 2023
CEO Hashicorp Terraform open source Interviews HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless the open source model evolves Says Linux Foundation's OpenTofu adoption "tragic" Joe Fay October 16, 2023
