OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is facing a severe financial crunch.

New data from cloud insurance firm Parametrix sheds light on the financial cost of the massive CrowdStrike outage last week that affected millions of Microsoft devices.

The United Kingdom and India on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Technology Security Initiative in a move to bolster economic ties and address critical global challenges.

A sudden and sharp downturn gripped Wall Street on Wednesday as a dramatic sell-off in technology stocks sent indices plummeting to their lowest levels since late 2022.

Alina Timofeeva, currently a Board Member for the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for IT, and a strategic advisor in data and technology to the C-suite of major financial services organisations, shares her thoughts on the impact of the outages in areas such as crisis communications and regulation.

A recent CrowdStrike update wreaked havoc on Windows machines worldwide, causing a wave of Blue Screen of Deaths (BSODs) that crippled operations in critical sectors like healthcare, finance and airlines.

Earlier this week I was working on a long article about the EU AI Act, when my Teams notification started buzzing like a swarm of angry bees. [BUZZ] [Expletive] there are some terrible websites out there, fumed my colleague Penny, who was shortlisting awards entries. [BUZZ] Just trying to fight your way through a seemingly impenetrable thicket of buzzwords, jargon and meaningless corporate claptrap to find out 'WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY DO?' I could only commiserate. The time I've wasted trawling thr

A massive global IT outage is currently affecting hospitals, banks, airlines, train companies, broadcasters and thousands of other businesses and services across the world, with users reporting Windows crashes and the Microsoft 'blue screen of death' (BSOD).

Resource-strapped IT departments at mid-size organisations may find implementing passwordless solutions complex and labour intensive. Here's some expert advice on adopting this important technology from Computing's US sister site MES Computing.

Businesses using Cisco Secure Email Gateways (SEG) are urged to update their systems immediately following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability that could grant attackers complete control over affected devices.

AWS, Microsoft and Google have jointly called on third-party datacentre construction and equipment providers to help them calculate indirect cloud emissions

Microsoft has laid off an internal team which focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. Its part of a wider trend.

The worlds' first AI Act comes into force next month. As one might expect, it is a sizable document, the English language PDF version running to 144 pages of of dense legalese. It's not an easy read, but because it's the first, and since the EU is one of the world's largest trading blocs, it will likely be imitated around the world. Moreover, it has significant extraterritorial reach, potentially affecting anyone who wants to sell AI systems or use their outputs in the European market. Love it o

The GMB union's bid for recognition at the Amazon warehouse in Coventry, UK, fell short in a closely contested vote held this month.

Amsterdam Connect, was held on 13th June 2024 in Amsterdam at the iconic Eye Film Museum. It was hosted by Computing and Atlassian and brought together technology teams from around the world for an insightful day focused on the latest industry trends and insights.

The King's Speech on Wednesday mentioned measures to enhance the legal safeguards around the most powerful AI technologies, but stopped short of announcing an AI bill.

Google offered a group of European Union-based cloud firms a package worth about 470 millionin a failed attempt to persuade them not to settle their antitrust action against Microsoft.

Cloudflare has released its latest State of Application Security Report and it makes for grim reading.

In its latest Q2 quarterly spending forecast published on Tuesday, analyst Gartner says that GenAI is like a ax on software companies. They have to spend on AI to keep up with expectations, but returns so far are flowing elsewhere.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's recruitment of staff from AI startup Inflection to determine if this constitutes a de facto merger, potentially stifling competition in the AI sector.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed an innovative and sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste.

An open letter from the BCS, the professional body for computing has highlighted several issues that need to be addressed if the UK is to fulfil its role in the world. A separate missive from a range of domestic and global advocates for good governance makes a case for open government being central to all of our lives.

We are pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Cloud Excellence Awards . The Computing Cloud Excellence Awards honour the products, projects and individuals making this happen. This year's finalists embody both innovation and delivery, taking their ideas through to a successful end state with satisfied customers and provable returns. We will be honouring the finalists' success at the awards ceremony on Wednesday 18th September, at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square. Attendees w

French IT reseller and services provider Atos has successfully secured 1.67 billion in new financing and reached a lock-up agreement with a group of banks and bondholders, marking another key step in implementing its protracted restructuring.

The Walt Disney Company is reeling from a suspected cyberattack by a hacktivist group calling itself NullBulge, exposing a significant amount of sensitive information.

The socio-economic and ethnic diversity of the tech workforce will form part of the discussion at the Women and Diversity in Tech Festival in November. Here, we ask if over reliance on graduates is part of the reason why people from working class backgrounds are so much less likely to pursue a tech career than their middle class peers. Chances are you consider tech to be one of the more meritocratic professions. Compare it to something like medicine or law and it stands to reason that it should

Welcome to Computing's fortnightly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China's future tech ambitions, Australia's plans to crack down on Big Tech, and Japan's plans for the UK's Graphcore.

Apple has avoided a potential fine and antitrust case by the European Commission, by tweaking its iPhone settings to make it easier for third-party developers to create viable alternatives to Apple Pay.

Google has announced a significant upgrade to its Advanced Protection Program (APP), offering high-risk users the option to enroll with passkeys instead of physical security keys.