As its rivals gear up to take advantage of advances in fibre optic technology to offer multi-gigabit broadband speeds, the UK’s leading broadband provider Openreach has notified the comms industry that it plans to offer customers what it calls ‘turbo-charged’ speed tiers for when ordering a service over its ultrafast full-fibre network. The new speed … Leer más
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces what may be his final appeal against extradition to the United States after five years of being held in Belmarsh high security prison in a case that is expected to have ramifications for journalists and publishers that publish classified government information. Lawyers for the 52 year old will argue that … Leer más
The advance of the independent supplier sector has been one of the keys to the rapid pace of gigabit broadband roll-out across the UK, despite the difficulties in taking gigabit fibre networks to traditionally hard-to-reach places. To this day, many locations across the UK are removed from roll-out plans because physical infrastructure access (PIA) is … Leer más
The past few years have seen organisations worldwide face skilled labour shortages threatening productivity, and while the effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools – in particular generative AI (GenAI) – can alleviate some of the HR crunch while boosting current employee capabilities, Nokia has launched a suite of GenAI operational technology (OT)-compliant tools, MX … Leer más
With security-by-design principles becoming more widely adopted and enforced around the world, professional security training and accreditation body ISC2 is set to launch a new software security certification to upskill professionals in this increasingly important area of security practice. Security-by-design is defined as an approach to software and hardware development that aims to make such … Leer más
The Alan Turing Institute has appointed four new directors of science and innovation to its senior scientific leadership team, which it said is a key step towards implementing its new strategy. The institute was founded in 2015, with the goal of making “great leaps in the development and use of data science and artificial intelligence [AI] … Leer más
Processor giant AMD has announced that in collaboration with Vodafone and Samsung Electronics it has successfully demonstrated an end-to-end call using open radio access network (Open RAN) technology, representing what the companies say is their technical leadership in enriching the Open RAN ecosystem throughout the industry. Moreover, the joint demonstration is said by Samsung and … Leer más
The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld the use of intercepted messages from an encrypted phone network, EncroChat, in a criminal conviction. In a ruling yesterday, the court found that it was bound by the principle of mutual trust to accept that EncroChat evidence was gathered by French police lawfully under French law. The Supreme Court’s … Leer más
Nation-state threat actors backed by the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are exploiting the large language models (LLMs) used by generative AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but has not yet been used in any significant cyber attacks, according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) Researchers at the MSTIC have been … Leer más
The Metropolitan Police is scrapping its controversial Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) database after long-standing concerns over the tool’s racial disproportionality, but human rights groups have warned that its replacement is likely to repeat the same mistakes. Set up in 2012 as a part of the government’s self-declared and evidence-free “war on gangs” in the wake … Leer más