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South Korea and Germany have released a joint cyber security advisory warning that North Korean hackers are trying to steal Gmail emails through a malicious Chrome extension. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) of the Republic of Korea and the German Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) have warned that Kimsuky, a group…

The UK could be facing a ‘unicorn winter’ unless the government outlines greater support for startups, research from Tech Nation has warned. The industry champion’s final study before its closure on 31 March highlighted the future potential of the UK tech industry, which it believes could reach a staggering $4…

Automation platform provider Ivanti has announced the appointments of Steve Marconi as its new VP of partner sales for the Americas, and Dean Beaver as VP of global strategic alliances. The two roles form part of the company’s new global channels and alliances leadership team, which has been set up…

Nvidia has announced a series of big tech partnerships this week, including collaborations with AWS and Adobe to provide cloud infrastructure and hardware for training proprietary AI models. AWS will work with Nvidia to build scalable infrastructure with the express purpose of training large language models (LLMs) for use in…

The economy has been in turbulence for many months, and a combination of global conditions and domestic policies will have extended these conditions well into 2023 and likely beyond. Although it’s looking less likely the UK will suffer a technical recession this year, the economy is still set to contract.…

GitHub has announced Copilot X, the latest iteration of its original Copilot AI pair programming assistant, complete with new features powered by GPT-4. Copilot X will see a “ChatGPT-like experience” embedded within Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, allowing developers to query the AI chat interface to receive in-depth analyses…

UK data centre company EfficiencyIT has launched a range of customisable, prefabricated data centres. The focus of the new offering, ModularDC, is aimed at on-premises, distributed IT, or edge computing environments, the company said. The modular data centres will be designed, manufactured, and engineered in the UK. SEE MORE Vantage…

Security experts have issued a warning over the growing scale of exposed account passwords after a repository of compromised credentials exceeded five billion records. Authlogics, a UK-based provider of password security technologies for governments and large enterprises, revealed that its Password Breach Database exceeded the landmark number this month, highlighting…

Professional services giant Accenture has announced the acquisition of Flutura, an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Bangalore, India. The acquisition strengthens Accenture’s own industrial AI services, as it looks to boost the performance of plants, refineries, and supply chains, as well as help clients hit their net zero…