Information Technology

A cyber security awareness initiative is taking place across the UK this week. Called Cyber Resilience Week, it is intended to raise awareness of how organisations can be more resilient to cyber threats. Minister for Digital Matt Hancock writes: “We have world-leading businesses, but recent cyber attacks have shown the serious effects of not getting cyber security right.” Organised by the ...

AI-enabled surveillance technology will inevitably be developed, so we must not delay preparations for its control, writes Richard Wilson.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has appointed Theo Blackwell as first chief digital officer (CDO) for London.

Microsoft has selected Intel’s Stratix 10 FPGAs as the main hardware accelerator in its new accelerated deep learning platform – code-named Project Brainwave. The aim is to use the accelerated deep learning platform to deliver artificial intelligence in real-time for its cloud services. This will provide facial recognition and voice recognition on smartphones. As well has cloud-based data processing for ...

USB connections can be snooped, according to the University of Adelaide, which found them leaking information through channel-to-channel crosstalk.

Cray is providing an Urika-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and the Institute. Based at the British Library in London, the Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science, and brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to tackle core challenges in data science theory and application. Five founding ...

Darktrace, the Cambridge-based cyber-security firm, has raised a $75m Series D financing. The firm, which was created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, is commercially successful with total contracts valued at $200m, an increase of 140% from last year. Much of this growth was driven by outstanding performance in the US, where bookings increased threefold. Financial backers include Insight ...

The UK Government’s Cyber Essentials programme is now mandatory for suppliers of Government contracts,

Cobham Wireless has launched TeraVM LaaS (lab-as-a-service) for core network testing, intending to support mobile operator networks as they shift towards ‘network function virtualisation’ (NFV) infrastructure. “The introduction of LTE-Advanced and 5G requires mobile operators to invest in virtual core network technology, in order to operate with dynamic flexibility and reduced cost,” said the firm. “TeraVM LaaS provides a comprehensive ...

Rohm and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) are to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for predictive maintenance in smart factories. The aim is to predict machine failures in by analysing information from sensors in real-time. “AI is becoming a key enabler for predictive maintenance and performance improvement, because of its cognitive abilities such as learning, reasoning ...