
Ross Kelly
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies.
He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro in 2022 after four years working in technology conference research.
In his spare time, Ross enjoys cycling, walking and is an avid reader of history and non-fiction.
You can contact Ross at ross.kelly@futurenet.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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CEOs want AI in everything, but software engineers are pushing back
News Demands to embed AI within applications are becoming a huge "pain point" for software engineering teams, new research shows.
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A mysterious cyber vigilante is dumping information on notorious ransomware criminals
News An anonymous whistleblower has released large amounts of data allegedly linked to the ransomware gangs
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Snowflake targets PostgreSQL gains with Crunchy Data acquisition
News The Snowflake Postgres platform aims to simplify development and deployment of AI agents
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NinjaOne completes $270 million Dropsuite acquisition in 'major step forward' for data protection capabilities
News The addition marks a “major step forward” for NinjaOne’s data protection and resilience efforts, said CEO Sal Sferlazza
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Big tech promised developers productivity gains with AI tools – now they’re being rendered obsolete
Opinion Big tech promised software developers huge benefits with AI tools, but now they face job cuts as companies ramp up automation.
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Scottish startup raises $25 million to drive agentic AI in the legal profession
News The funding round for Wordsmith AI will be used to scale infrastructure and global expansion
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Enterprises are caught in a vicious ‘legacy dependency’ cycle
News Balancing customer needs with technology demands is causing headaches for IT leaders
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Sick and tired of spreadsheets? Perplexity’s new tools can help with that
News Perplexity Labs is available now for Pro subscription users
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Why Salesforce’s Informatica acquisition could be the key to Benioff’s agentic AI dream
Analysis Industry analysts have described the Informatica acquisition as a "bold and highly strategic move".
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Meta faces new ‘open washing’ accusations with AI whitepaper
News The tech giant has faced repeated criticism for describing its Llama AI model family as "open source".
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Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish
News New research shows UK IT leaders want the government to take a stronger stance on sovereignty
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Salesforce splashes the cash with $8 billion deal for Informatica
News Informatica will help bolster Salesforce’s data management and governance capabilities
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Anthropic’s new Claude model could be a game changer for developers
News Claude Opus 4 boasts huge performance capabilities and is fine-tuned for software developers.
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US healthcare firm postponed procedures after cyber attack knocked systems offline
News The incident at Kettering Health disrupted procedures for patients
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‘It’s far from showing its age’: Java might’ve just turned 30, but it’s still going strong and here to stay
News With Java celebrating its 30th anniversary, we look at the rise of the programming language and what the future holds.
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Python’s popularity shows no signs of fading – here’s why software developers love it
News Python remains highly popular among developers for a number of key reasons, experts told ITPro.
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Google is getting serious on cloud sovereignty
News Google has joined Microsoft in bolstering its sovereign cloud services as tensions grow over US influence on big tech providers.
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Venture capital's AI obsession is 'sucking the oxygen out of the room' for other startups
News Investors are growing concerned about the rise of 'zombiecorns' in the AI startup space
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Hybrid cloud is complicated – Red Hat's new AI assistant wants to solve that
News The new assistant from Red Hat can draw upon a range of private and public AI models
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GitHub just unveiled a new AI coding agent for Copilot
News GitHub has unveiled the launch of a new AI coding agent for its Copilot service.
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Criminal records, financial data exposed in cyber attack on Legal Aid Agency
News The UK's Legal Aid Agency has warned members of the public after a data breach exposed a "significant amount" of data, including criminal records, personal details, and financial information.
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OpenAI just launched 'Codex', a new AI agent for software engineering
News OpenAI has unveiled the launch of a new AI agent, dubbed 'Codex', aimed specifically at supporting software engineering tasks.
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Acer's new Swift Edge 14 AI is a MacBook Air killer
News Acer's new Swift Edge 14 AI is an ultra-lightweight, compact productivity powerhouse.
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30% of Microsoft's code is AI-generated, and that's bad news for devs
News Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest big tech figure to reveal the scale of AI-generated code at the tech giant, prompting more questions about the future of software development.
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