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Accountability, access, diversity, choice, flexibility and transparency are among the key principles the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out in its preliminary report on foundational AI models. Discussing the report, Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMA, said: “The speed at which AI is becoming part of everyday life for people and businesses is … Leer más

In the past, IT departments embarked on huge enterprise application integration programmes to connect silos of business software data. IT no longer has the luxury of being able to plan such a long-term strategy, however. The age of software as a service (SaaS) and public cloud-based computing has led to an explosion of applications, each … Leer más

Encryption is a key component of everyday life for most people, whether messaging on WhatsApp, shopping online, reading articles over a secure HTTPS connection, or protecting their passwords when logging into an application or website. Within the organisation, preventing unauthorised access and safeguarding privacy relies on the encryption of most of the services used on … Leer más

The cross-bench Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee (SITC) has launched an inquiry into the cyber resilience of the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) sector and is calling for the security industry to submit evidence in a number of key areas that may ultimately help inform future policy. It said that the UK is currently … Leer más

Just days after the UK comms regulator released the latest edition of its Connected Nations report showing just how far the reach of broadband services is spreading across the country, especially in regions that have traditionally been underserved by reliable and fast services, Ofcom has now published its latest research into the performance of home … Leer más

At the end of June 2023, UK communications firm Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) started selling services powered by XGS-PON technology through the nexfibre next-generation fibre joint venture it is part of, and in the latest part of the company’s trajectory, the first phase of nexfibre’s work to bring full-fibre broadband connectivity to Stirling in Scotland has been completed. Nexfibre is … Leer más

The network requirements for scientific centres of education are critical, and for Texas A&M – which conducts testing in areas such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, advanced manufacturing, smart grids, software-defined networking and next-generation wireless networks – these requirements are particularly robust. To make sure researchers stay connected, the university has implemented NPT IP Routing from … Leer más

French Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud is rolling out an “exhaustive” carbon calculator to its customers to help make it easier for them to track the Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions generated by their cloud usage. Eight months in the making, the tool is accessible via the OVHcloud customer panel, and – according … Leer más

Just 15% of organisations have a clearly defined and well-understood AI strategy in place, research from Mesh-AI has found, which also exposed that the top technical challenges to AI adoption are poor data quality (40%) and accessibility (38%). Based on the responses from 200 business leaders, the IT consulting firm looked at what organisations are … Leer más