The rise of cloud services and internet connectivity means that (almost) all business solutions are now software. Developers are fortunate to live in a time where there is a steady flow of new tools to support the creative development process. They empower engineers to experiment with ideas, which is ultimately a great thing for the…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined its commitment to providing two million people around the world with access to free artificial intelligence (AI) skills training by 2025, as part of its ongoing work to make it easier for businesses to access the tech expertise they need. The public cloud giant’s AI Ready skills initiative will…
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Threat researchers at ReliaQuest have shared intelligence on how one of the organisation’s customers was impacted by a cyber attack originating via the Scattered Spider group that has made a speciality of abusing identity and authentication services to attack its victims, and has left cops struggling to respond. The highly dangerous English-speaking group is also…
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A United Nations (UN) body has approved a draft resolution on the negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered weapons systems, saying there is an “urgent need” for international action to address the challenges and concerns they present. Otherwise known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), such systems are able to select, detect and engage targets…
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Dell has updated its PowerStore and PowerMax arrays and PowerFlex software-defined storage to build in greater proactive maintenance, as well as higher capacities in PowerFlex 4.5, lower energy usage in PowerMaxOS 10.1 and better resilience in PowerStore 3.6. Core to the improvements in proactive maintenance are systems that produce more verbose logs to inform Dell’s CloudIQ online AI-enabled monitoring…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 24 October 2023 Brewing data insights at Heineken Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how brewing giant Heineken is building a data ecosystem to share insights and tap into AI capabilities. The UK is conducting a formal investigation…
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Data storage and data processing have always been separate functions, but what if they could be unified and achieve much better performance? That’s the promise of computational storage. Although media have changed and capacity has grown, the core functionality of data storage has remained unchanged for decades. The magnetic disk drives and tapes of the…
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The UK public cloud infrastructure market will be the subject of a further anti-trust probe by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The move has been under consideration since April 2023 when Ofcom released the interim findings of its September 2022 investigation into the inner workings of the UK public…
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Ofcom’s work uncovered three types of prevailing anti-competitive behaviour and practices within the UK public cloud market, which is what prompted it to refer the sector over to the CMA for a more thorough probe.This behaviour included the charging of egress fees when customers attempt to extricate their data from a public cloud provider’s servers,…
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