
Emma Woollacott
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC, Private Eye, Forbes, Raconteur and specialist technology titles.
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NCSC warns vibe coding poses a major risk to businessesNews Vulnerability management approaches are not maturing fast enough to keep up with the downsides of AI-generated code
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Over two-thirds of workers can’t identify work produced by AI agentsNews The rapid adoption of AI agents is outpacing access controls, credential hygiene, and identity attribution
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Mistral CEO calls for AI cultural levyNews Foreign AI firms should pay for European content, says Arthur Mensch – and the European Commission is tending to agree
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Russian sentenced to jail for his part in ransomware attacksNews Aleksei Volkov operated as an initial access broker, helping cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware group
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The higher education sector has a digital transformation problemNews A TCS study highlights a growing gap between ambition and execution, as the sector moves towards intelligent and experience-led education models
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Scottish government sets out AI plans for the next five yearsNews Deputy first minister Kate Forbes says the aim is to establish Scotland as a world leader in the technology
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Dark web platforms taken down in international operationOperation Alice traced tens of thousands of CSAM and cybercrime-as-a-service sites back to one individual
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Stryker hackers struck by FBI in domain seizure campaignNews The domain seizures come hot on the heels of Handala's devastating attack on the medical tech firm
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CISPE files antitrust complaint over Broadcom VMware partner program changesNews The industry group says businesses are being "irreparably damaged" by Broadcom changes
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OpenAI says AI tools are paying dividends for SMBs, but uptake is sluggish in several UK regionsNews While some small businesses are seeing big benefits, many don't use AI at all
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Big tech is clamping down on open source ‘AI slop’ reportsNews Firms including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have pledged funding to bolster open source security and cut down on slop reports
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Ubuntu flaw exposes enterprises to root escalation, complete system compromiseNews The high-severity Ubuntu vulnerability allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges through the interaction of two standard system components
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The UK government wants to be a global leader in quantum computing, but is the country prepared?News £2 billion in funding aims is to make the UK a world leader in quantum computing by 2030, but some industry stakeholders think it's a bridge too far
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‘Reducing reliance on foreign tech infrastructure is key’ to European tech successNews MEPs have once again called for decreased reliance on foreign tech infrastructure
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New £45 million supercomputer to support UK fusion researchNews Sunrise is claimed to be the world's most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to fusion energy, and is set to come into operation within months
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Memory shortages take the shine off record-breaking server growthNews Hyperscalers and cloud service providers are leading investment demand, while the traditional on-prem segment remains cautious on spending
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Interpol teams up with tech firms to seize 45,000 malicious IPs, servers in global cyber crime crackdownNews Operation Synergia III saw 94 arrests - and counting - with malicious IP addresses used in phishing and fraud schemes seized
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More than 12 million enterprise Linux systems are vulnerable to root accessNews Researchers have warned Linux flaws allow unprivileged local users to gain root privileges and weaken container isolation
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UK government to prioritize data center grid access, cut down on speculative applicationsNews The new approvals system aims to put a halt to speculative connection applications
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New UK schemes aim to boost number of women in tech – and keep them in the sectorNews New initiatives aim to help women return to the workforce after time away and expand work placement opportunities
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Global demand for this one AI role has skyrocketed 283% in the last year aloneNews AI trainers are now among the most sought-after specialists around the world
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Cyber crime activities peak later in lifeNews With family responsibilities and mortgages to pay, it's not teenagers dishing out malware or carrying out cyber extortion
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Most executives have no idea how many employees are actually using AINews A concerning number of business leaders think their staff are using AI across most of their of tasks – the reality is quite different
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Datadog announces local UK storage for regulated industriesNews The company is targeting customers and partners with specific UK data residency, privacy, and security requirements
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