All articles by Greg Noone

Greg Noone

Greg Noone is the editor of Tech Monitor. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian and Outside.

Big banks badly need a cybersecurity overhaul

Central banks are getting nervous that their retail cousins are neglecting cyber security protections that might prevent a financial meltdown.

Vanuatu is showing small nations how to resist big cyberattacks

The aftermath of Vanuatu’s cyberattack provides a salutary lesson in how small states lacking in IT capacity should secure their systems.

Is heat reuse the key to making data centres truly sustainable?

Heat reuse is touted as a way to make data centres sustainable and drivers of decarbonization. But it’s harder than it looks.

Eco-hacktivism should be taking the world by storm. What happened?

For years, cybersecurity researchers warned that the next great wave of hacktivism will try to save the planet. Only a committed few have joined the movement.

This is how GPT-4 will be regulated

LLMs pose a serious challenge for regulators. Responses from US, UK and EU watchdogs have been wildly divergent.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is giving the rest of the world AI FOMO

The generative AI hype cycle has made many governments reconsider the effectiveness of their national AI strategies.

Did biometric systems fail Nigeria’s democracy?

It remains unclear as to how a system designed to increase confidence in the results of its presidental elections did the exact opposite.

Could undersea cables be the next casualty of hybrid warfare?

The UK, Italy and France are all investing in new ships and infrastructure to protect the internet from Russian aggression. Critics argue they’re overreacting.

Magnetic tape storage is seeing cloud go back to the future for its archival data needs

Once considered yesterday’s technology, magnetic tape storage solutions are increasingly popular for meeting long-term data storage needs.

How green is your cloud?

‘I really mean to learn’ say consumers, businesses and hyperscalers, as our dependence on cloud computing continues to grow.