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Catherine Knowles
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Catherine has a keen interest in all areas of technology and storytelling in our digital age. Having worked with a number of businesses and people across media, education, publishing and communications, Catherine has a definite respect for common sense, great content and turning ideas into reality.

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SimSpace expands cyber range to train for AI-led attacks

Sat, 20th Dec 2025
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SimSpace launches expanded cyber range to drill whole teams and AI models against adaptive, production-like cyber attacks at scale.
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Tech Mahindra, Google Cloud push agentic AI in Gemini

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Tech Mahindra and Google Cloud will scale Gemini 2.5-based agentic AI to move enterprises from pilots to production-grade, governed workflows.
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Integral Ad Science unveils IAS Agent AI assistant

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Integral Ad Science will roll out IAS Agent, an explainable AI assistant for ad measurement, to all platform users for free early next year.
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Keepit named Leader in IDC MarketScape for SaaS backup

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Keepit has been named a Leader in IDC's 2025-2026 MarketScape for SaaS data protection, boosting its profile in cloud backup and recovery.
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Cohesity & Google Cloud expand AI & cyber defence pact

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Cohesity and Google Cloud have deepened their alliance to fuse AI, cyber defence and data sovereignty across joint products and services.
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iManage growth driven by AI governance & cloud DMS

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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iManage reports 28% recurring revenue growth as firms rush to govern AI with cloud-based document management and tighter data controls.
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DoiT secures top AWS MSP status for AI-driven cloud ops

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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DoiT wins top-tier AWS managed service partner status, backing its AI-led FinOps and CloudOps platform ahead of 2026 programme revamp.
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NCC Group, Qualys expand managed attack surface service

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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NCC Group partners with Qualys to expand its managed ASM service, blending automated asset discovery with expert-led cyber risk analysis.
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AI boom to drive chip equipment sales to record 2027

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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AI-driven demand will push chipmaking kit sales to a record $133 billion in 2025, climbing further to $156 billion by 2027, SEMI says.
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Imply warns rising observability costs cut visibility

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Imply warns soaring observability costs are forcing enterprises to cut log retention, leaving IT teams with blind spots during incidents.
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Linux Foundation unveils ORCA to contain cyber attacks

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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The Linux Foundation has formed ORCA, a new alliance to contain automated cyber attacks by isolating and compartmentalising software.
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Riverlane unveils microsecond quantum error decoder

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Riverlane reveals a hardware quantum error decoder that corrects surface code qubit errors in under a microsecond in real time.
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StorONE gains HPE validation for unified storage stack

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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StorONE wins HPE validation for its unified storage software on ProLiant Gen11, promising flash performance at near-HDD economics.
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Confidential computing moves into mainstream AI use

Fri, 19th Dec 2025
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Confidential computing shifts from niche to mainstream as 75% of organisations adopt it to secure AI workloads and sensitive data in use.
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Finance leaders fear AI skills gap as change accelerates

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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Finance chiefs brace for AI upheaval as CIMA warns of widening skills gap and underprepared teams despite soaring expectations.
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Boku rides wallet boom as EBITDA surges & volumes soar

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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Boku lifts H1 revenue 34% and EBITDA 53% as merchants shift from cards to wallets, pushing payment volumes to $7.4 billion.
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Opengear achieves SOC 2, ISO 27001 security double

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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Opengear secures SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, bolstering trust in its resilient network management and independent control plane.
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Study finds value for money trumps price in eCommerce

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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Value for money, not low prices or rapid delivery, is the strongest driver of eCommerce satisfaction, Judge.me's study of reviews finds.
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Study finds AI-generated code far buggier than human work

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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AI-written code introduces 1.7 times more bugs than human work, a CodeRabbit study warns, with security and performance flaws surging.
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Tech Data tips AI, security & services to fuel APAC

Thu, 18th Dec 2025
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Tech Data tips AI, cybersecurity and services as key drivers of Asia Pacific's channel growth through 2026, despite mounting skills shortages.