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.

Hack dismissed as the cause of UK e-gates airport failure

The UK’s Home Office said that its vaunted e-gates system failed because of a bug and not a state-sponsored cyberattack. 

Atos courts competing refinancing bids from Daniel Křetínský’s EPEI and David Layani’s Onepoint

Having previously spurned Atos, billionaire Daniel Křetínský has returned with a new offer for the embattled French IT giant.

LockBit leader’s hidden identity unmasked on gang’s website by law enforcement coalition 

Russian national’s identity unmasked on LockBit’s website two months after LockBit was raised and temporarily crippled by a joint US, UK and Australian law enforcement operation. 

Communication gaps between IT departments and senior corporate leadership worsening application security risks

New research by Dynatrace finds that boardrooms are often confounded by their security teams’ techno-babble and an inability to convey how the risk of breaches could impact wider corporate operations.

SK Hynix says key component for AI chips sold out until 2025

A key supplier for Nvidia, SK Hynix said that its high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI chipsets would now only be available from next year.

Novo Holdings ploughs $200m into quantum computing

Novo Holdings, the majority shareholder in Ozempic creator Novo Nordisk, said the emerging technology had transformational potential for life sciences.

Intelsat board approves €2.8bn takeover bid from rival SES

The deal comes amid heightened competition from LEO operators with both SES and Intelsat. 

High Court battle commences between IBM and LzLabs, with latter accused of copying Big Blue’s mainframe tech

The court will begin hearing IBM’s allegations that LzLabs illegally reverse-engineered its mainframe technology to create its SDM product.

French state offers to buy chunk of Atos

Atos reveals an offer from the French government to buy its strategic services business and has raised its cash requirement estimate for the 2024-25 period to €1.1bn.

Strong Microsoft cloud revenues fueled by rising AI demand

Chief executive Satya Nadella also credited the growth in Microsoft cloud revenues to an uptick in cloud migrations and its partnership with OpenAI.