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The latest version of the wireless standard, Wi-Fi 7, promises faster speeds, enhanced security, and improved performance and user experience, but to date, adoption across enterprises has been sluggish, and in what may boost business deployment of Wi-Fi 7, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has revealed the results of Wi-Fi 7 industry trials in enterprise…

China may have just taken a significant step forward in the global chip race. A team of researchers from Peking University says it has developed a silicon-free transistor that could dramatically improve processor speed and efficiency—and reshape how silicon-free chips are built in the future.In a study published in Nature Materials, the team describes a…

Looking to meet the evolving demands of local area enterprise connectivity, with improved cost of ownership and performance upgrades, Nokia has launched Aurelis Optical LAN, a “next-generation” fibre-based local-area networking (LAN) solution. Designed and marketed as “a future-ready solution”, it is attributed with bringing fibre’s unmatched longevity, performance and efficiency to in-building and campus environments.…

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has yet to achieve conformance with key national cyber security standards for its Gov.uk One Login digital identity system, nearly three years since security concerns were first raised. The One Login team is still working to fully meet National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidelines. Computer Weekly has learned that the…

Apple is expected to release an all-new Apple Watch SE 3 this year. As this entry-level smartwatch was originally expected to launch in 2024, we already know several rumored features that might arrive with this watch in the second half of 2025.Based on the previous leaks and the new ones regarding Apple Watch Series 11…

Scattered Spider – the teenage hacking collective that breached multiple organisations in 2023 in a series of social engineering attacks – has been linked to the ongoing cyber incident unfolding at Marks and Spencer (M&S) according to reports. According to Bleeping Computer, which was first to report the new development citing unnamed sources close to…

The government has received more than 200 responses from local authorities across the UK that want their areas to become artificial intelligence (AI) growth zones, it has been revealed. Local councils were asked in February to express their interest in supporting the development of these zones, which will be used to house the datacentre infrastructure…

A study published to coincide with the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security 2025 event has highlighted some of the concerns the public has with automated data processing for national security. The UK public attitudes to national security data processing: Assessing human and machine intrusion research reports that the UK public’s awareness of national security…

For the past few weeks, we’ve heard rumors about the 20th-anniversary iPhone, expected to be released in 2027. So far, the reports have only mentioned a breakthrough device, as Apple aims for another iPhone X moment.But what could “an iPhone X moment” mean for the iPhone 20? The Information‘s Wayne Ma reveals one of the…

In what is being described as a landmark intervention facilitated by Horizon Europe, and following the UK re-joining the Horizon Europe Programme in 2024, UK innovation organisation Digital Catapult is to participate in a European Union (EU)-funded initiative aiming to advance the development and deployment of 6G technologies and deliver smarter, faster and more sustainable…