British govt eyes off blockchain for data integrity
Distributed ledgers for state grants, overseas aid.
Month: April 2016
HP reveals Chromebook 13 with Intel Skylake processors
Device aimed at desktop and mobile use
Ransomware makes up a quarter (and rising) of UK cyber attacks, finds research
Eset’s data shows a spike in detections of these particularly nasty malware packages in the third week of April 2016
Microsoft’s Azure ML cloud-based machine learning gets security and privacy certifications
Azure ML gets HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 27018 and EU Model Clause compliance
DropBox ups cloud collaboration with Project Infinite
Enterprise cloud collaboration is a major focus for Dropbox, with Project Infinite allowing users to access company files regardless of hard drive size
Payment card industry issues data security standard update
PCI DSS version 3.2 introduces six new requirements for compliance, some additional guidance and a raft of clarifications
Report names Hull as slowest city for broadband
A report by broadband comparison site uSwitch.com claims that Hull has some of the slowest average broadband speeds in the UK
MetLife data scientists working on machine learning
Tech could be used for speech analytics in the company's call centre
Vodafone Qatar launches Wi-Fi as a service for businesses
Vodafone is offering its business customers in Qatar Wi-Fi as a service, which is another sign of the coming together of the IT and telecoms sectors
Government agrees to set up data science ethics council at Alan Turing Institute
New body tasked with overcoming 'public distrust over data sharing'