Companies House, the UK’s business registrar, has successfully rebooted its online WebFiling service after it emerged that a previously unknown cyber security issue exposed various data on companies and people associated with them to other logged-in users. The flaw – which appears to have arisen during a WebFiling update last year – was never accessible…
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PDSA, the vet charity for pets in need, has estimated that there are 11.1 million dogs in the UK and 10.5 million cats. More than half (51%) of the 5,387 pet owners surveyed for the PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) report say they are worried about being able to afford the cost of veterinary care for…
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A flight of artificial intelligence (AI) firms from Norway is being accelerated by fear of the government’s decision to adopt controversial European AI laws, shaking its already weak high-tech sector. While pressure mounts on the European Commission (EC) to halt stringent rules governing “high-risk” AI systems, Norway is proceeding with plans to implement the AI…
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Donald Trump’s second term in office as the president of the United States has witnessed fundamental changes to how the US government operates. From the outset, Trump enacted various exercises aimed at cost-cutting and simplifying governance, then formed the Department of Government Efficiency, which he claimed would reduce the budget deficit. As part of these…
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The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between cloud providers and their customers. However, when this model intersects with service level agreements (SLAs), it introduces layers of complexity. SLAs typically cover metrics like uptime, support response times and service performance, but often overlook critical…
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Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
As generative AI (GenAI) tools become embedded in the fabric of enterprise operations, they bring transformative promise, but also considerable risk. For CISOs, the challenge lies in facilitating innovation while securing data, maintaining compliance across borders, and preparing for the unpredictable nature of large language models and AI agents. The stakes are high; a compromised…
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Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any Apple phone or computer user world-wide. The government has used powers under UK surveillance laws to issue a…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI at Tripadvisor, has a broad remit. As well as leading a spectrum of data functions, from artificial intelligence (AI) to engineering and platforms, he’s also responsible for ensuring the business monetises the information it collects. Todkar found the scale of this opportunity hugely tempting when he joined the…
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