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24 Jun 2025
UK ransomware costs significantly outpace other countries
By Alex ScroxtonUK organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid much higher ransoms than in other countries over the past 12 months, according to a new study.
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24 Jun 2025
Telehealth key factor in rising abortions post-Dobbs
By Anuja VaidyaA new report shows that telehealth is driving the increase in abortions, with telehealth abortions representing 25% of the 1.14 million abortions that took place in 2024.
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24 Jun 2025
HPE beefs up AI factory-fueled offerings with Nvidia upgrades
By Shane SniderThe vendor says its upgraded Private Cloud AI will offer a turnkey tool for enterprise, leaning on agentic AI and partnerships with Nvidia and Accenture.
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24 Jun 2025
HPE offerings dive into AI features and new bundle packages
By Tim McCarthyThe new HPE Cloud Ops Software suite bundles pieces of the vendor's private cloud data centering offerings, and HPE expands AI capabilities in software and hardware.
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24 Jun 2025
Salesforce Agentforce 3 lifts the hood on observability
By Don FluckingerAgentforce 3, the latest agentic AI tool from Salesforce, focuses on observability and interoperability.
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24 Jun 2025
FWA flies with global 5G subs set to near three billion by end of 2025
By Joe O’HalloranThis year’s edition of analysis of mobile communications sector highlights a significant shift in how service providers are monetising 5G, particularly through fixed wireless access, and points to a dramatic increase in 5G traffic over the next five years
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24 Jun 2025
Novo Nordisk ends Hims & Hers partnership over GLP-1 safety concerns
By Alivia Kaylor, MScWegovy maker ended its month-old telehealth partnership with Hims & Hers over alleged deceptive marketing of compounded GLP-1 drugs from overseas suppliers, citing safety risks.
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24 Jun 2025
Colt and ALSO Cloud UK continue to talk sustainability
By Simon QuickeChannel players share progress to reduce emissions and call on more efforts to counter the energy demands of AI
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24 Jun 2025
Zopa Bank launches current account earlier than expected
By Karl FlindersZopa launches its UK current account, five years after reinventing itself as a challenger bank
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24 Jun 2025
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
By Antony AdsheadWe talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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24 Jun 2025
Teradata extends AI development to on-premises environments
By Eric AvidonFor enterprises concerned about cloud cost control and data sovereignty, the longtime vendor's new platform enables users to build advanced tools in their own systems.
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24 Jun 2025
Westcon-Comstor marks 40th birthday with look ahead
By Simon QuickeDistributor outlines the main trends that are shaping the channel as it plans to share more insights to prepare partners for the future
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24 Jun 2025
One year since being freed, Julian Assange still a victim of state secrecy
By Stefania MauriziIf the State Department’s arguments prevail in FOIA litigation, the truth about US action against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks journalists will never be known
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24 Jun 2025
How 6 ambulatory EHR providers stack up
By Elizabeth Stricker, BSN, RNAthenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway Health, NextGen and Veradigm were graded in a KLAS report on patient engagement, population health, interoperability and more.
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24 Jun 2025
CMA consults on Google’s search dominance
By Cliff SaranThe Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on whether Google should be designated with strategic market status
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24 Jun 2025
Which hospitals have the best corporate social responsibility?
By Sara HeathThe Lown Institute's data showed that the most socially responsible hospitals typically have lower CEO pay to enable better health equity, value and outcomes.
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23 Jun 2025
Texas court vacates HIPAA reproductive health privacy rule
By Jill McKeonA Texas U.S. district judge struck down the 2024 modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that aimed to strengthen protections for reproductive healthcare data.
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23 Jun 2025
Major health plans pledge to simplify prior authorizations
By Jill McKeonDozens of U.S. health plans vowed to implement six actions to standardize, streamline and reduce prior authorization, AHIP announced.
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23 Jun 2025
Extensive patent strategies drive U.S. drug price disparities
By Alivia Kaylor, MScPatent extensions for drugs like apixaban (Eliquis) and semaglutide could add $200B+ to U.S. costs and delay access to affordable alternatives, despite Medicare price negotiations.
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23 Jun 2025
Widening Middle Eastern war increases cyber risk
By Alex ScroxtonWith the entry of the US into the widening Middle Eastern conflict, cyber risk is likely to increase across the board
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23 Jun 2025
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
By Cliff SaranLabour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation
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23 Jun 2025
CMS finalizes changes to ACA Exchange eligibility process
By Sara HeathCMS' finalized changes to the ACA Exchange eligibility process focus on verification to weed out what it claims is waste, fraud and abuse.
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23 Jun 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves have occurred this week at the likes of Softcat, Alteryx, N-able and Checkmarx
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23 Jun 2025
Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
By Pat BransInnovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads
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23 Jun 2025
Eutelsat secures €1.35bn to expand satellite offer
By Joe O’HalloranContemplated major capital increase designed to secure Eutelsat’s long-term strategic vision has been anchored by the French state and other reference shareholders
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23 Jun 2025
Autonomous vehicle technology market set to roll
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from internet of things specialist analyst projects rapid adoption of autonomous vehicle technology over the next five years.
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23 Jun 2025
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
By Antony AdsheadWe talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process
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23 Jun 2025
Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops
By Bill GoodwinAcademics and civil liberties experts say that proposed ‘authoritarian’ powers to allow police to trawl online and cloud services used by owners of seized devices should require approval from a judge
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20 Jun 2025
News brief: LOTL attacks, spoofed sites, malicious repositories
By Sharon SheaCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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20 Jun 2025
Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily
By Alex ScroxtonThe number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme
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20 Jun 2025
Medicare out by 2033, other takeaways from the Trustees Report
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe 2025 Medicare Trustees Report shows Medicare running dry sooner than previously projected as the program faces increased challenges with physician payment rates.
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20 Jun 2025
M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op
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20 Jun 2025
As Ocient matures, vendor names new CEO to drive growth
By Eric AvidonAs the vendor moves from its startup to growth phase, John Morris, who has significant experience leading companies as they mature, is taking over to guide its evolution.
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20 Jun 2025
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
By Brian McKennaOxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online
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20 Jun 2025
Episource data breach affects 5.4M individuals
By Jill McKeonIT vendor Episource suffered a ransomware attack earlier this year that resulted in a multi-million-record data breach that impacted its health plan and provider customers.
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
European satellite operators take comms services to higher orbit
By Joe O’HalloranKyivstar advances direct-to-cell services in Ukraine with Starlink integration and regulatory approval for testing, while Constellation Technologies and Operations announces the imminent launch of its first regenerative 5G mmWave payload
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20 Jun 2025
Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty
By Kim LoohuisThe Netherlands’ ambitious talk of digital independence meets the unforgiving economics of global cloud dominance
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20 Jun 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at AvePoint, Nebula Global Services, Pulsant, Skyhawk Security and HackerOne
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20 Jun 2025
ITS wins dark fibre contract to boost Carmarthenshire connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranLatest step in Welsh connectivity programme sees major contract to provide fibre to underpin the expanding needs of digital services in communities that rely on effective, secure and high-capacity infrastructure
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20 Jun 2025
Government hires chief data officer
By Lis EvenstadFormer MoD data chief, Lindsay Mason, has taken on the role of chief data officer in earl on a temporary basis while government recruits for a permanent position
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20 Jun 2025
SMEs embracing subscription model
By Simon QuickeResearch from Uswitch.com highlights how small businesses are starting to take advantage of more services
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20 Jun 2025
Report on integrity of current Post Office Horizon system due in autumn
By Karl FlindersInvestigation into the integrity and discrepancy identification capabilities of Post Office core system being carried out by independent specialists
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20 Jun 2025
Richer people look forward to cutting-edge tech to help save time
By Cliff SaranResearch for Lloyds Banking Group has found high-paid workers are looking forward to tech like robotic vacuum cleaners, autonomous cars and drone deliveries
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20 Jun 2025
Restaurant fills DR gap with all-flash Pure and dodges higher cloud cost
By Antony AdsheadSeafood chain Red Lobster opted for Pure Storage as-a-service for rapid failover between datacentres. A fully cloud-based option was on the table, but would have been six times the cost
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20 Jun 2025
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
By Antony AdsheadWe spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty
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20 Jun 2025
AR/VR headset market reaching ‘critical tipping point’
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds marked uptick in immersive technologies market with 18.1% year-on-year growth fuelled by immersive and versatile experiences, with future growth anticipated to be driven by mixed and extended reality
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19 Jun 2025
Nokia launches autonomous network fabric
By Joe O’HalloranNokia’s platform aims to accelerate full network automation in an open, cloud-native, multi-supplier environment including telco-trained models, integrated security, and AI apps for automation workflows
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19 Jun 2025
Inca warns of ‘unjustified’ Openreach prominence in comms review
By Joe O’HalloranTrade association for UK’s independent broadband providers urges regulator to ensure forthcoming legislation secures the future of infrastructure investment, fosters regulatory consistency and promotes a fair and competitive landscape
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19 Jun 2025
MSPs remain confident over security
By Simon QuickeDespite being inundated with attacks, the vast majority of managed service providers are upbeat about their abilities to fend off breaches
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19 Jun 2025
Interview: Tech innovation at Bet365
By Cliff SaranAlan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology platform, discusses the role of generative AI in tech innovation
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19 Jun 2025
Government announces details of Post Office Capture redress scheme
By Karl FlindersThe government says it wants new scheme to take a ‘common sense’ approach to redress for former Capture users
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19 Jun 2025
University of Oulu shows machine vision can replace expert presence
By Joe O’HalloranLeading Finnish university and tech hub reveals advances in immersive augmented reality technologies to support remote work and operations and address unique challenges and skill shortages of northern regions
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19 Jun 2025
UBS employee data leaked after cyber attack on supplier
By Karl FlindersUBS and fellow Swiss bank Pictet have been affected by a cyber attack on a procurement service provider
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19 Jun 2025
Brazil’s defence, public safety agencies unify comms with federal network
By Joe O’HalloranComms service to integrate existing land mobile radio networks with broadband technology to strengthen collaboration for national security in key Latin America territory
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18 Jun 2025
Pure looks beyond storage to data management
By Nicole LaskowskiThe vendor's Enterprise Data Cloud architecture, unveiled at Pure//Accelerate, suggests just how much data management is converging in the enterprise.
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18 Jun 2025
U.S. senators offer perspectives on U.S. energy policy
By Makenzie HollandNuclear energy dominates the discussion among lawmakers and the tech industry as a top potential power source for AI data centers, which consume large amounts of electricity.
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18 Jun 2025
Texas Instruments injects $60B into U.S. chip manufacturing
By Shane SniderThe company will partner with Nvidia, Apple, Ford, SpaceX and others to spur domestic semiconductor production.
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18 Jun 2025
Oracle unveils offline EHR for remote care settings
By Alivia Kaylor, MScOracle Health Community Care offers offline EHR access to support remote and in-home care delivery in areas with limited broadband or unreliable internet connectivity.
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18 Jun 2025
Preventive care, health equity falter despite access gains
By Sara HeathThe Commonwealth Fund's Scorecard on Health System Performance shows state-by-state variability in health equity and preventive care.
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18 Jun 2025
Medicare Advantage patients face longer hospital stays: Report
By Jill McKeonNORC researchers found that Medicare Advantage enrollees are more likely to have longer hospital stays and less access to follow-up care compared to traditional Medicare patients.
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18 Jun 2025
Enterprise LAN sector rebounding
After period of volatility, local area network arena shows stabilisation in market dynamics as Wi-Fi standards drive significant adoption of technology from leaders such as Cisco, HPE Aruba, Ubiquiti, Huawei and Juniper Networks
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage hands channel fresh data management pitch
By Simon QuickeVendor announces launch of a cloud data management option that it believes will offer an alternative to traditional storage approaches
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18 Jun 2025
Weka connects storage AI with new NeuralMesh architecture
By Tim McCarthyWeka's Data Platform adapts to AI data center needs with new NeuralMesh architecture, which can deploy in hybrid-cloud setups, self-heal and prioritize storage paths to the GPUs.
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18 Jun 2025
BT Wholesale: Making the switch to digital
By Simon QuickeIn a Q&A session, the telco giant’s managing director of BT Wholesale shares the priorities of its partners
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18 Jun 2025
Execs shy away from open models and open source AI
By Cliff SaranThe Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Enterprise Data Cloud bundles its IP for business outcomes
All-flash evangelist bundles storage management and as-a-service under Enterprise Data Cloud banner while boosting hardware offerings with performance arrays and a 300TB flash module
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18 Jun 2025
Pure Storage supporting automation with cloudlike approach
By Tim McCarthyPure Storage's new Enterprise Data Cloud platform automates common storage workloads and refreshes server hardware at the vendor's annual conference.
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18 Jun 2025
Nokia, Telstra team for network API development
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider partners with Australia’s leading telco to give developers access to network APIs to create enterprise applications, including managing network traffic during large events and prioritising connectivity for critical services
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18 Jun 2025
Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour
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18 Jun 2025
Traditional fake news detection fails against AI-generated content
By Kim LoohuisAs generative AI produces increasingly convincing text, Dutch researchers are exploring how linguistic cues, model bias, and transparency tools can help detect fake news.
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18 Jun 2025
'Readiness gap' holds back GenAI adoption in healthcare, survey finds
By Brian T. HorowitzStaffing shortages, workflow issues and a lack of corporate buy-in hamper generative AI readiness in healthcare, but the technology can help with documentation and administrative tasks.
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18 Jun 2025
New era of connectivity required to unlock power of AI
By Joe O’HalloranLeading comms tech provider’s report reveals how outdated connectivity is restricting businesses’ ability to capitalise on emerging technologies such as AI
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18 Jun 2025
EVS: Gothenburg Wireless Charging project expands with new station
By Joe O’HalloranSmart city ecosystem in Sweden’s second city gains extra juice and mileage with boost to inductive wireless charging technology for commercial fleets and autonomous vehicle systems
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18 Jun 2025
Uninsured rate dips linked to Medicaid expansion, outcomes
By Sara HeathCommonwealth Fund researchers said dips in statewide uninsured rates are likely due to Medicaid expansion and the ACA marketplace plans.
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17 Jun 2025
Microsoft declares era of logical qubits
By Aaron TanThe tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery
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17 Jun 2025
Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector
By Alex ScroxtonUK government says its cyber growth action plan will provide a large boost to Britain’s security industry as it sets out to create a roadmap for future growth
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17 Jun 2025
Pendo launches platform to analyze AI agent performance
By Shane SniderThe company said its new platform will enable businesses to track agentic AI software and optimize performance.
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17 Jun 2025
Scattered Spider widens web to target insurance sector
By Alex ScroxtonFollowing a series of high-profile attacks on prominent retailers and consumer brands, the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective appears to be expanding its targeting to the insurance sector
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17 Jun 2025
Big tech, UAE make U.S. energy investments to support AI
By Makenzie HollandThe Trump administration has pointed to key partnerships, including with the United Arab Emirates and U.S. tech companies, to bolster U.S. power needs to keep up with AI advances.
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17 Jun 2025
FDA voucher program expedites high-need drug approvals
By Alivia Kaylor, MScThe FDA's new voucher program fast-tracks drug reviews to 1–2 months for therapies that address U.S. health crises, unmet needs or national security priorities.
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17 Jun 2025
Apple AI paper likely self-serving but has some merit
By Esther ShittuAlthough the iPhone maker appears to be trying to draw attention away from the fact that it's behind in LLMs, the point it makes might still be valid.
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17 Jun 2025
Lawmakers introduce bipartisan healthcare cybersecurity bill
By Jill McKeonThe Healthcare Cybersecurity Act aims to increase coordination between HHS and CISA, particularly during active cyberattacks.
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17 Jun 2025
Oracle adds xAI Grok models to OCI
By Esther ShittuThe move is customer-focused, as the tech giant aims to offer the models for applications such as content generation, research and business process automation.
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17 Jun 2025
EnterpriseDB targets AI development with latest update
By Eric AvidonA low-code/no-code interface and data observability across hybrid environments address the challenges enterprises face moving AI projects beyond development and into production.
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17 Jun 2025
Wait is over for Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation 9
By Tim McCarthyThe first major revision of the VMware platform under Broadcom's ownership is now available to all VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation subscribers.
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17 Jun 2025
Adobe takes on AI search optimization with LLM Optimizer
By Don FluckingerSEO isn't dead yet, but new tools are needed to optimize content for generative AI search engines.
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17 Jun 2025
'Big Beautiful Bill' puts rural hospitals at even greater risk
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe House-passed reconciliation bill would push the 338 rural hospitals already at risk of closing, converting or stopping service lines to shutter their doors, new data shows.
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17 Jun 2025
Artificial intelligence could fuel growth in global tennis
By Karl FlindersIBM launches artificial intelligence-driven tools to grow the sport’s reach, but AI’s role also reaches the on-court business
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17 Jun 2025
Senate committee's Medicaid cuts imperil coverage, outcomes
By Sara HeathOutside experts say ACA changes and Medicaid cuts could threaten insurance coverage and cause thousands of preventable deaths.
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17 Jun 2025
Patients to access clinical trials via NHS App
By Lis EvenstadAs government plans a £50m upgrade of the NHS App, people will be able to sign up to clinical trials that will match them to available studies
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17 Jun 2025
Integris seals largest deal yet to expand MSP offering
By Simon QuickeChannel player makes another acquisition to bolster business on the other side of the Atlantic as it continues to increase its offering for SME customers
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17 Jun 2025
UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
By Lis EvenstadOur judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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17 Jun 2025
SingleStore boosts database performance to meet AI needs
By Eric AvidonWith AI development and deployment imposing greater workload demands on data management systems than traditional analytics, the vendor's latest update targets efficiency at scale.
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17 Jun 2025
Partners embracing Rapid7’s training
By Simon QuickeSecurity player’s channel head provides an update on the reaction to partner programme changes the vendor introduced earlier this year
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17 Jun 2025
Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption
By Aaron TanMany generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data
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16 Jun 2025
HPE doubles Nonstop server platform memory, bandwidth
By Shane SniderThe company says its latest releases will fuel efficiency for enterprise customers, with the help of Intel Xeon processors.
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16 Jun 2025
Uncompensated care to rise by $283B under reconciliation bill
By Jacqueline LaPointeThe House reconciliation bill and the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace plans would increase the level of uncompensated care, particularly at hospitals.
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16 Jun 2025
New Amazon Health Services structure unveiled
By Anuja VaidyaAmazon is redesigning its healthcare division, creating six units focused on different aspects of the business, including One Medical, pharmacy and network development.
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16 Jun 2025
Cellular IoT module revenues show double-digit growth over 2024
By Joe O’HalloranResearch shows internet of things is continuously evolving and expanding into new domains, and that by the end of 2024, approximately 4.3 billion devices were connected to wide area networks based on cellular or LPWA technologies
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16 Jun 2025
IR35: Use of HMRC CEST tool drops by more than 70%, delayed FOI reveals
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC has revealed, via a Freedom of Information response, that use of its IR35 status checker tool is declining, as around 20% of users continue to get an undetermined response from it
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16 Jun 2025
Better communication key to improving HCAHPS scores
By Sara HeathResearchers said state-by-state comparisons and analysis of top performers could inform strategies for improving HCAHPS scores.
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16 Jun 2025
Apogee taking the consultative approach to Windows 11 migrations
By Simon QuickeCustomers are wrestling with budget and resource issues, and using the end of support for Windows 10 as a threat is not the right approach for the channel to take