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Security Fri 30 Sep 2022

TikTok may be fined $29 million by the UK for children’s privacy failures Social media giant TikTok is facing a major fine after the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) provisionally ruled that the company may have fallen short of their legal obligations around the UK's data protection law.

A group of more than a dozen European telecoms firms, including Orange, Telefonica, BT, and Deutsche Telekom, have renewed their calls to make Big Tech pay for a share of network costs. CEOs from...

Consumer Fri 30 Sep 2022

Google claims that customer shared network charges are a terrible idea

After a significant cyber-attack targeting telecoms firm Optus, Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese announced that he plans to strengthen privacy rules to ensure that banks are notified quickly after a company faces an attack.

Security Fri 30 Sep 2022

Major Optus cyber-attack drives Australia to begin privacy overhaul

NVIDIA announced the launch of the company’s first SaaS offering: the NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud, a cloud services suite supports collaborative modeling of 3D workflows - allowing data centre operators to build a digital twin...

Cloud Thu 22 Sep 2022

NVIDIA launches Omniverse Cloud

Ridesharing firm Uber has accused the hacking group Lapsus$ of being responsible for a breach that impacted a number of internal systems.

Security Thu 22 Sep 2022

Uber believes Lapsus$-affiliated hacker caused breach

After agreeing in June this year to go private after receiving a $10.2 billion deal from a group of private equity firms led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira, Zendesk shareholders have voted in...

hardware Thu 22 Sep 2022

Zendesk shareholders vote for $10.2 billion private equity deal

Equinix, global data centre services and colocation provider, has announced an upcoming data centre in Madrid, Spain. MD6 will be located in the Alcobendas neighborhood, and is the first of two planned XScale facilities...

Data Centre Thu 22 Sep 2022

Equinix announces hyperscale data centre in Madrid

Features and Interviews

Data Centre Fri 22 Jul 2022

How to select the right racks and enclosures for your physical infrastructure envir...

Digital transformation has been a key focus for businesses for many years, but post-pandemic many organisations’ efforts have accelerated. IDC forecasts that direct digital transformation (DX) investment growth between 2022-2024 will hit $6.3... Read More

Data Centre Thu 21 Jul 2022

Five Ways to Future-Proof your Fibre Optic Infrastructure

Increasing traffic within data centres requires the fibre optic link bandwidth capacity to keep expanding as data... Read More

Data Centre Tue 29 Mar 2022

Microsoft data centres heating homes in Finland

Transporting heat requires insulated plumbing and ducts, which are quite expensive. Adding piping to share heat from... Read More

Data Centre Fri 18 Mar 2022

Gender diversity: women in the data centre talent pipeline

This is distressing in the basic fact that it seems that women’s opportunities are limited in a... Read More

Data Centre Fri 22 Apr 2022

What smart cities mean for the Data Centre in 2022/23

Investment in smart cities is growing worldwide. According to information from Statista, “Technology spending on smart city... Read More