The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) held within its National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In an announcement posted last week, the standards body said that every CVE with a published date prior…

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the UK are losing £3.4bn every year as a result of inadequate and unfit-for-purpose cyber security measures, with more than 30% of businesses having no form of security protections in place whatsoever, and over a quarter being targeted multiple times every year, according to a report produced by Vodafone…

The government is turning its attention to ensuring its commitment to positioning the UK as an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower does not come at the expense of the environment or the nation’s energy security. It is a balancing act the UK’s newly formed AI Energy Council will be tasked with managing, while also exploring ways…

Is it possible that a public authority destroyed the email account of a lead lawyer assigned to a high-profile and controversial legal case, while the case was still ongoing? And that for more than six years, that authority refused to undertake adequate searches as to who, when, why and how the account was destroyed? And…

Carrier-integrated and over-the-top (OTT) solutions for critical push-to-talk (PTT) services over mobile and broadband PTT services have been in existence for more than 20 years. Now, the sector is reforming to the point where service revenue associated with mission-critical (MCPTT) and broadband PTT subscriptions over commercial mobile operator and critical communications broadband networks will surpass…

There has been turmoil across global financial markets following the introduction of the new US tariffs, and datacentre equipment providers that source parts and electronic components and manufacture their products globally are facing hikes in costs that may end up being passed on to IT buyers. In January, analyst IDC reported that the server market…

The gigabit broadband revolution continues to be on a roll in the UK as two new deployments show the diversity of installations across the country, increasing internet speeds and reliability for residents and businesses across the centre of St Helens, and installing gigabit-capable full-fibre broadband to over 35,000 premises in rural and underserved areas in…

Global law firm Freshfields has outlined its commitment to ensuring all 5,700 of its staff can confidently use artificial intelligence (AI) tools every day to do their jobs, as it embarks on a large-scale roll-out of Google’s generative AI (GenAI) chatbot, Gemini. Speaking to Computer Weekly, Freshfields’ global chief innovation officer, Gil Perez, said the…

Like many in the IT security profession, I welcomed the recent remarks made by outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly, in which she pointed out that making software safer may not be easy or cheap, but is the only way to truly protect IT systems.  Easterly’s comparison of today’s software industry with the “before seat belts”…

IBM has unveiled its newest mainframe computer, the Z17, which it claims has redefined artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The next generation of the company’s mainframe system is powered by an IBM Telum II processor, and has been optimised, according to IBM, to run workloads such as generative and agentic AI. In terms of AI,…