The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy. Currently going through the committee stage of Parliamentary scrutiny, the Data Use and Access Bill (DUAB) will amend…
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Users of Apple devices in the UK are “at the most risk in the world” of being hacked, following a secret government order requiring the tech company to allow ‘backdoor’ access to its users’ encrypted data, the House of Lords heard on Monday 31 March.Liberal peer Paul Strasburger pressed the government to answer questions about…
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A secret tribunal is due to meet at the High Court in London this week to hear tech giant Apple appeal against a Home Office order to compromise the encryption of data stored by its customers on the iCloud service worldwide. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has taken the unusual step of publishing a notification…
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Even without the current Apple Intelligence fiasco, we already realized that Apple needs to ditch Siri or rebrand it in favor of a new personal assistant. Long before Apple Intelligence or LLMs started taking over the internet, we already felt like Siri was lost in time.In the past few years, reports suggested the issue with…
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At the TDX 2025 developer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce executives presented its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a “whole system” approach, where large language models (LLMs) are less significant than a “trinity” of data, applications and agents. Relatedly, they consistently disparage “DIY” artificial intelligence (AI) programmes. Paula Goldman, the supplier’s chief ethical and humane…
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US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by senator…
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London-based managed service provider (MSP) Autodata Products has opted for Scality Artesca object storage through its Scality cloud service provider (SCSP) pay-as-you-go purchasing option, which it uses to supply on-premise backup against ransomware for customers. Benefits of the SCSP licensing model include being able to offer customers highly scalable backup with short recovery time objectives…
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Until now, IT leaders have needed to consider the cyber security risks posed by allowing users to access large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT directly via the cloud. The alternative has been to use open source LLMs that can be hosted on-premise or accessed via a private cloud. The artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to…
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When building a startup, there is a real balancing act between managing expectations, educating on what’s possible, and identifying the true cost of innovation. CTOs are challenged not only to build functional technology platforms quickly, but to do so as cost effectively as possible. Startups are often not profitable therefore don’t have a lot of…
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The smarter AI programs like ChatGPT and Gemini become, the more we’ll want to use them as the virtual assistants they can be. For that to happen, we’ll need the AIs to access information about us from all sorts of apps and remember details about us. We’ll also need to be able to trust companies…
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