Jun
21
Given the rebrand of Facebook to Meta in November 2021 and the subsequent hype, you might be forgiven for thinking that the term Metaverse was invented by Mark Zuckerberg but it actually predates this event by nearly 30 years. The term originates from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow...
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May
22
It is now some three months since soldiers of the Russian Army entered eastern Ukraine, but the ‘war’ had started some months earlier. This one didn’t involve tanks, aircraft, and artillery but computers - the cyber war. As the ground forces were moving in, so hackers crippled tens of thousands...
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Apr
23
Despite the economic and social trauma of the past two years it appears that one area that has thrived as a result of the pandemic is cloud computing. Recent financial results from Industry behemoths Google, AWS and Microsoft all show, that despite downturns in some area of their businesses, cloud...
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Apr
04
U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have announced that the U.S. and EU have reached a new trans-Atlantic data flow agreement in principle, following months of negotiations by officials on either side of the Atlantic. The deal, details of which have yet to be...
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Feb
03
World prepares for cyber-attacks as Ukraine conflict intensifies Whilst it is to be hoped that the heightened tensions between Russia and the Ukraine can be resolved diplomatically and quickly, it is believed that the first warning shots have already been fired. On the 14 January 2022, 70 Ukrainian government websites...
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Dec
09
Major AWS outage hits major sites from Adele tickets to Disney+ From Black Friday to Black Tuesday, from the excitement of thousands of transactions a second to well…nothing. Tuesday (7th) witnessed one of the largest outages of recent times as AWS (Amazon Web Services) suffered major problems with its US-East-1...
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