
Nicole Kobie
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more.
Nicole the author of a book about the history of technology, The Long History of the Future.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy doubles down on the company's AI focus
News Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thinks companies need to "lean into" AI and embrace the technology despite concerns over job losses.
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Google emissions have surged 51% in five years
News While overall carbon emissions have increased significantly, the company is making solid progress in bolstering data center energy efficiency.
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Data center water consumption is out of control, but cloud providers want EU lawmakers to go easy on them
News The European Commission says water shortages are being exacerbated by leaks and pollution, but also points to high usage from data center operators.
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Gen Z workers are keen on AI in the workplace – but they’re still skeptical about the hype
News Younger workers could lead the shift to AI, but only think it can can manage some tasks
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Most agentic AI tools are just ‘repackaged’ RPA and chatbots
News Agentic AI might be the latest industry trend, but new research suggests the majority of tools are simply repackaged AI assistants and chatbots.
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Want to build more secure software? Follow these key memory safe language tips from CISA
News CISA has been pushing for a shift to memory safe languages - now it's published guidance on how developers can make the switch.
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So much for data sovereignty — AI infrastructure is dominated by just a handful of countries
News Oxford researchers suggest AI infrastructure will decide a nation's global impact in the future, just as oil production has over the last few decades.
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Financial impact of cyber attacks on UK retailers laid bare in new report
News Analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre shows the recent cyber attacks on a host of UK retailers could cost up to £440 million.
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HPE GreenLake gets the agentic AI treatment
News New AI tools and a wide-ranging agentic AI framework could take GreenLake to the next level
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Half of developers want to quit over "embarrassing" tech stack
news Upgrade CMS and offer AI or risk your devs walking away, finds survey
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Supplier hack leaks UBS data – including CEO's phone number
News Chain IQ incident could hit Swiss banking sector hard in "grim reminder" of risk of third-party breaches
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Scania admits leak of data after extortion attempt
News Hacker stole 34,000 files from a third-party managed website, trucking company says
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Report: OpenAI considered accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior
News Negotiation tactics get tough between two previously tight partners, according to WSJ report
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Nvidia, Deutsche Telekom team up for "sovereign" industrial AI cloud
News German telecoms giant will host industrial data center for AI applications using Nvidia technology
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Google pins weekend outage on "unexercised" feature
News Google Cloud outage impacted a wide range of customers last week after new feature wreaked havoc
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Just 10 tech companies are responsible for half of all data center energy consumption
News The International Telecommunication Union shows a sharp rise in energy consumption even prior to the advent of generative AI in late 2022.
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Latest ChatGPT update lets users record meetings and connect to tools like Dropbox and Google Drive
News New ChatGPT business tools aim to unlock corporate information sharing tools from Otter.AI, Zoom, Google and Microsoft
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CEOs think workers are becoming hostile to AI tools, but they’re pushing ahead with adoption anyway
News Executives are driving the adoption of AI tools despite concerns workers will push back
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100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn't hacked – here's why
News Organized criminals used phished data to set up dodgy HMRC accounts and demand tax rebates
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Questions raised over AI’s impact as studies tout conflicting adoption outcomes
News Two reports highlight the difficulty of judging the impact of AI on jobs, productivity, and wages
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Enterprises are keen on cloud repatriation – but not for all workloads
News A survey shows 97% of mid-market companies plan to repatriate some, but not all, workloads and apps
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Microsoft invests $400 million to expand Swiss data centers
News Growing AI and cloud demand, plus data sovereignty requirements, are fueling European data center investment
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Breach at data analytics firm impacts 364,000 people
News Hackers used company GitHub account to steal software bits and personal information, company admits
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Shifting left might improve software security, but developers are becoming overwhelmed
News Developers are becoming overwhelmed amid the 'shift left' in development practices, new research shows.
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