There are probably few things more personal than grief. So, when Dolly Parton's sister asked people to stop posting AI-generated tributes following the singer's death, it was difficult not to wonder how we had arrived here. On 7 September, Stella Parton pleaded with people to stop posting what she described... read more →
Sep
15
Sep
08
In 1979, when The Clash recorded London Calling, the city was hardly at the height of its powers. Britain was emerging from a decade of economic turbulence, the three-day week was still a recent memory, and London carried the visible scars of industrial decline. Joe Strummer's voice, urgent and half-apocalyptic,... read more →
Sep
01
More than 100 technology, cybersecurity and financial organisations are warning that the AI threat - AI enabled cyberattacks - could become significantly more capable. The question is whether businesses are ready to change with it. In September 2000, three people from a relatively small internet company travelled to Dallas to... read more →
Aug
25
Data breaches are becoming almost routine. Over the past few days alone, organisations ranging from a major French telecoms company and one of the world's largest private equity firms to a children's hospital, charities, a government department and a hardware wallet provider have disclosed incidents involving the theft or exposure... read more →
Aug
18
We need more digital infrastructure - we need the data centre. We also need to build and operate it better and perhaps, as importantly, it is time we all understood a little more about what sits behind the digital world we now take for granted. Take a moment to think... read more →
Aug
11
For much of the cloud era, geography was becoming less important. The promise of cloud computing was that businesses could access computing power, storage and applications wherever they needed them, without having to worry too much about the physical location of the underlying infrastructure. Workloads could move between data centres,... read more →

