All articles by Aninda Chakraborty
Aninda Chakraborty
UK-based VC firm secures £50m to back cybersecurity startups
Osney Capital will use the new fund to invest in 30 pre-seed and seed stage companies, with individual investments ranging from £250,000 to £2.5m.
Oracle admits data breach to some clients, investigations underway
Oracle has acknowledged a cybersecurity breach to customers privately, though it has insisted that its cloud environments remain secure.
GitHub rolls out new security tools
The company will now offer Secret Protection and Code Security as separate products, making the security tools more accessible to smaller organisations.
51% of companies now use AI agents, finds new survey
The survey by PagerDuty found that around 52% of organisations expect that agentic AI will automate or accelerate between 26% and 50% of their workloads
OpenAI prepares to launch new open-weight language model
The ChatGPT maker has also secured a $40bn investment, which it plans to use to further AI research, enhance its computing infrastructure, and improve tools for the platform’s user base.
European Commission plans to address overlap in tech rules
EC executive-vice president Henna Virkkunen also clarified that there are no intentions to diminish the strength of key legislations such as the DSA, DMA, and the AI Act.
Atos secures £150m contract to upgrade UK DEFRA’s digital services
The upgrade is anticipated to boost both the quality and the efficiency of DEFRA’s service desk, which supports a user base of 34,000.
US blacklists over 50 Chinese entities to hinder Beijing’s tech ambitions
The US aims to curb China’s access to crucial technologies that could be used for military purposes, such as advanced computing, quantum computing, and hypersonic weaponry.
Malaysia to tighten regulations amid US concerns on Nvidia chip exports
Malaysian Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Zafrul Aziz has said that he has established a task force with Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo to implement tighter regulations on Malaysia’s growing data centre sector, which relies on Nvidia’s technology.
UK’s cybersecurity agency aims for post-quantum readiness by 2035
The NCSC has set 2035 as its target year for organisations to fully transition to post-quantum cryptography, ensuring national cybersecurity remains impervious to quantum threats.