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Global B2B TECH & TELECOMS NEWS (07/05/2024 - 10/05/2024)

Written by Ilex Community Manager | 10-May-2024 09:07:20

This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.

The stories cover UK's MOD Data Breach, Cloud Services, Online Age Verifications, Samsung Acquiring Sonio, Apple AI, Data Centres, UK Airport E-gates, Dell Data Breach, Disney, Warner Brothers. 

Here are our highlights:

Tuesday_____________________________

China hacked Ministry of Defence

The Chinese state has hacked the UK's Ministry of Defence, resulting in a massive data breach targeting service personnel. MPs will be informed about multiple hacking attempts by China to compromise MoD employees, including military personnel.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Us8TDT

Operators to Invest $26B in Cloud Services in 2024

A new study by Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications, found operators will invest $26 billion in cloud services in 2024, with expenditure growing to $65 billion in 2028.

 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Uufttl

wednesday___________________________

Ofcom to push for better age verification in new online child safety code

Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. 

Read the full story here: https://tcrn.ch/3y6XWjn

Samsung to buy French medical AI firm Sonio

South Korean tech giant Samsung said Wednesday it will buy French artificial intelligence company Sonio to boost its cutting-edge medical diagnostic systems.

 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3JWL9mc

thursday___________________________

Apple working on own AI data centre chips, reports claim 

Apple appears to be playing catch-up in Big Tech's AI race, after Microsoft has already invested billions on the technology. According to the Wall Street Journal, tech giant Apple has been investing in its own chips built for artificial intelligence (AI) processing in data centres. 

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3US0RW

Passport e-gates back online after outage causes delays at UK airports

A "nationwide issue" which caused huge delays at passport e-gates has been resolved, the Home Office has said.

Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3WvrktN

friday____________________________

Dell warns of “incident” that may have leaked customers’ personal info

A data breach incident at Dell has exposed personal information of millions of Dell customers. This includes names, addresses, and details about their previous Dell hardware purchases and orders.

Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4bwZOAt

Disney and Warner to bundle streaming services

Walt Disney and Warner Bros Discovery say they will start to offer a bundle of the Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming services to customers in the US this summer. The media giants said they will offer plans with and without adverts but did not reveal how much they will charge customers.

 Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3wxxn6H

 

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