Artificial intelligence (AI) presents the government with opportunities to transform public services, but harnessing the benefits will require a “realistic plan” to change business processes, address skills gap issues and manage risks, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. In 2023, the Cabinet Office’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) began working with the Department … Leer más
After a series of technology launches and enhancements, and hot on the heels of the 2023 appointment of Lee Myall as CEO and Craig Forrester as chief financial officer, UK connectivity provider Neos Networks has announced two further C-level appointments in the form of David Bruce as chief revenue officer and Matt Rees to chief … Leer más
With only 13% of UK organisations charitably described as “resilient” to cyber crime, the country’s ambitious plans to become a global superpower in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) will come to nothing unless cyber security is taken more seriously, according to the Mission critical: Unlocking the UK AI opportunity through cybersecurity report, published by … Leer más
A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been blamed on a third-party provider error made during a configuration change, with no suspicion of any form of cyber attack. The issues were first observed in Australia and began to affect the UK at around … Leer más
Tools such as Open AI’s DALL.E 2, SORA and Chat GPT, Google’s Bard (now Gemini), and Microsoft’s Copilot, now make it possible for anyone to create images, text and even music from a single prompt. The sector has quickly come to assert its dominance in the tech industry, with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh estimating … Leer más
The London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), which oversees London’s Metropolitan Police Force, has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over an error that may have revealed the personal data of people who were contacting it to complain about the force. The issue is said to have affected nearly 400 people, … Leer más
Throwing down the gauntlet to Openreach and Virgin Media O2 as the UK’s gigabit broadband sector continues its rapid expansion, CityFibre is increasing its footprint by up to 300,000 premises by taking over leading alternative fibre network (altnet) Lit Fibre (Lit) from Newlight Partners. Established in 2021 by Tom Williams and Ben Bresler, Lit Fibre … Leer más
The strong growth over the past year of the embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) industry is continuing, reshaping a number of associated sectors, but until now, it has yet to reach critical mass in enterprise internet of things (IoT) deployments outside of the automotive sector, a situation that is likely to change thanks to new … Leer más
More details of problems with a pre-Horizon accounting system used by subpostmasters emerges, despite the Post Office’s failure to respond to demands for answers. There have been question marks over the reliability of the software, known as Capture, and a letter from 1994 reveals the controversial software was “completely” rewritten two years after its launch, … Leer más
French datacentre operator Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to prototype a means of reusing waste server farm heat to create sustainable sources of biomass-based energy. The question of what to do with the waste heat their facilities produce is an enduring problem for datacentre operators, but one they have come under growing … Leer más
