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The latest action follows a string of sanctions imposed during the past year against cryptocurrency exchanges operating out of Russia.

CIOs can expect a rate hike as service providers offer their employees more competitive salaries amid talent shortages, higher attrition and soaring utilization rates.

Google is continuing to build out its cloud data services with a new approach that will serve as a central cloud service for unifying data across different clouds and formats.

The Conti ransomware gang runs largely on elbow grease, according to Akamai security researchers that analyzed the group's training materials and operating policies.

AMD's $1.9 billion acquisition of Pensando would hand the chipmaker a DPU that leans toward providing distributed network services within large enterprises' private clouds.

Salesforce partners with Genesys, Google for telephony; adds AWS Contact Lens natively, among a raft of new features. Some are available now; some are coming in Summer '22 release.

MemVerge and Liqid combined software with Intel Optane to make composable memory pools that can do today what the CXL standard will do in the future.

Employers are increasingly looking for software developers with soft skills, including time management and the ability to work on a team.

Apple patched two zero-days in macOS Monterey last week, but did not address the same issue in Catalina or Big Sur, raising questions

Telco’s digital transformation subsidiary, with a business focus on the German market, announces participation in the Intelligent Empowerment of Construction Industry research project

As a result of the StorageCraft outage, some of the vendor's DRaaS users lost the ability to fail over. Having a local backup is one method of protection against cloud outages.

MongoDB is continuing to grow its multimodel database capabilities, adding the ability to help users with gap filling for missing data sets, in the new 5.3 release.

Satellite-direct-to-phone telecoms company announces the successful launch of what it says is the world’s first commercial-ready cell-tower-in-space, helping to solve the world’s ‘0G problem’ and enabling its subscribers to connect everywhere

Using quantum computing to solve complex non-linear differential equations offers a way to speed up digital-twin simulations

The newly discovered Denonia malware appears to be custom designed to target AWS Lambda environments, and may be the first of its kind

Cloud giant claims the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history with agreements to provide heavy-lift capacity for Project Kuiper to deploy most of its low Earth orbit constellation of 3,236 satellites

The seizure of the Hydra dark web marketplace is a positive development in the fight against cyber crime, but will only be a temporary setback for determined criminals

Many IT workers now have the flexibility to work from wherever they want, according to Computer Weekly’s salary survey

HMRC confirmed, in the lead up to the IR35 reforms coming into force in the private sector in April 2021, that it would be taking a ‘light-touch’ approach to enforcing the rules for 12 months. And that grace period ends today

Less than 12 months on from the announcement that Vodafone had signed a six-year strategic cloud deal with Google, the firm lifts the lid on how the technology tie-up is making its business more efficient

Less than a third of IT professionals in Southeast Asia plan to stay in their current jobs despite earning more this year, study finds

As part of a project the tech giant is calling Big BI, Google is unifying the analytics vendor's capabilities with those of Data Studio and Connected Sheets.

Microsoft has aimed its latest Windows 11 features at helping IT staff automate updates, secure corporate data and assist workers remotely.

Databricks is looking to make it easier for users to build data pipelines to extract, transform and load data from any source using a Spark SQL data query.

A New Relic observability update this week reflects the crucial role of SREs in microservices architecture, and there are plans to align with the firm's DevSecOps ambitions.

The White House's proposed federal budget for 2023 seeks to create an enterprise-wide HR system, as well as improve its ability to recruit for an expanding federal workforce.

Police in Germany raided facilities hosting the infamous Hydra Market site as part of an international effort to crack down on dark web forums and marketplaces.

Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda, discusses why his company acquired Kafka user interface vendor CloudHut, as organizations deal with the challenges of real-time data.

In March, ransomware reports and disclosures showed a variety of victims, from public schools and county governments to financial services firms and large enterprises.

Finnish tech entrepreneurs will be taking the stage at the World Economic Forum to tell the world about the role of trust in Finnish startup success

Alternative network provider brsk gets brisk with gigabit deployment in West Yorkshire, Lancashire and South Manchester regions, while CityFibre makes next stage of £43m buildout in key southern location

New SD-WAN developed for facilities management services provider as it works with Ministry of Defence to support applications ensuring secure connection to public and private cloud

The James Webb Space Telescope was the inspiration behind a NASA challenge which uses an IoT device based around folded paper

The Conti ransomware gang gained recent notoriety for publicly backing Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. An anonymous researcher then leaked massive amounts of internal Conti data.

Network software provider becomes Vodafone’s strategic 5G Core supplier in Portugal, enabling speeds of more than 1 Gbps in 5G Non-Standalone configuration based on Open RAN

France’s constitutional court, the Conseil Constitutionnel, has heard arguments that the use of ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about police surveillance operations breaches the French constitution

A small number of The Works’ bricks-and-mortar stores were forced to close amid a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature

Looking to compete with AI-based supercomputer vendors, IBM unveiled a Z mainframe armed with new AI features and security that deflects attacks launched from quantum computers.

The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility

Unlike its namesake, the newly discovered Borat malware won’t raise a smile for IT security pros

Channel player shares FY21 numbers and underlines the progress made by its recently installed CEO to reshape the business

Distributor Nuvias shares its latest research into the state of the UK channel, with mixed views around hybrid working

The bank that emerged from peer-to-peer lending pioneer has hit its first profit after 21 months of operation

The Saudi Arabian IT and communications sector is recovering strongly from the Covid-19 pandemic

Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with

AWS is lending its cloud expertise to UCL’s startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards helping health and education organisations address global health issues

Self-described ‘transformative Web3 connectivity company’ lands contract with sports betting and gaming giant to deploy global relay network with its decentralised autonomous routing protocol to connect global datacentres

New addition to Z series mainframe family uses IBM Telum processor to accelerate AI for real-time credit card fraud detection

Study finds over half of IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand received higher salaries last year, while flexible work arrangements are fast becoming the norm

Cryptocurrency wallet maker Trezor revealed phishing attacks against its customers that stemmed from a breach at Mailchimp, which the email marketing firm later confirmed.

More and more functionality, from security to cost management, is now packed into DevOps pipelines -- but if done improperly, "shift left" can create more problems than it solves.

Kyndryl's large-scale, multi-cloud technology deal with refinery operator Motiva Enterprises underscores a broader industry trend; other IT channel news.

Global connectivity and ICT service provider launches multi-supplier software-defined wide area network to create what it says will be a bespoke networking service for enterprises across the Middle East and North Africa

Chip giant will incorporate Arriver’s Computer Vision, Drive Policy and Driver Assistance assets into its Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio of high-performance central compute and vision systems

Fujitsu has won two huge government IT contracts, worth over £400m, while taxpayers face footing the massive bill for the Post Office scandal caused by its software

Datacentre being built to serve ‘metaverse’ worlds would consume nearly half as much energy as all other datacentres in the country

Remote browser isolation can help to mitigate browser-based attacks by separating a user’s browsing activity from the device