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.

Regulators need more money to regulate AI in the UK effectively, says Commons committee

In its latest report, the House of Commons Committee endorsed the current government’s sectoral strategy for governing AI in the UK – but said that whoever wins the general election must be ready to legislate.

Check Point warns of threat actors targeting its VPNs

In a new advisory, Check Point urged customers to shore up their security regimes for enterprise networks – especially those fond of password protection.

UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch denies fraud at US trial

On trial in San Francisco, Mike Lynch is accused by HP of accounting fraud in relation to its acquisition of the firm he co-founded, Autonomy.

Nvidia reports impressive quarterly profits and annual growth in data centre business of 427%

News of Nvidia’s above-estimate results also lifted the share prices of multiple chip industry giants, including AMD and Broadcom. 

Market research by CMA reveals anxieties about technical barriers to multi-cloud strategies in UK cloud market

Market research by the CMA also finds software licensing regimes, egress fees and discounts all factor – though in more nuanced ways.

Fluent Bit flaw discovered that impacts every major cloud provider

The Fluent Bit memory corruption vulnerability could allow threat actors to mount DDoS or remote execution attacks.

Big tech pledges support for ‘Frontier AI Safety Commitments’

The Frontier AI Safety Commitments will see corporate signatories, which include Amazon, Google, IBM and Zhipu.ai, publish new AI safety frameworks.

UK Semiconductor Institute launched

The new UK Semiconductor Institute is designed to be a single point of contact for public sector officials, academia and the private sector to talk all things chips in a UK industrial context.

Microsoft escapes CMA investigation over Mistral AI partnership

The CMA, now investigating several prominent collaborations between big tech firms and AI startups, said that Microsoft’s Mistral AI tie-up did not merit further scrutiny.

Arup revealed as victim of $25m deepfake scam 

Attackers using a digital imitation of a senior manager’s face convinced Arup’s Hong Kong office to transfer millions.