All articles by Ryan Morrison

Ryan Morrison

An IoT revolution in space can happen – if the first movers let it

Space should enable companies to transform operations in remote areas. But smaller players say GEO operators are hogging all the good frequencies.

PayPal probed by German competition watchdog over ‘unfair business practices’

Antitrust regulators will look at whether the payment platform’s behaviour is anti-competitive.

UK government hiring quantum technologies chief

A six-figure salary is on offer for a person ready to deliver the government’s as-yet unpublished quantum strategy.

Deleted files caused NOTAM outage that grounded US flights

The incident brought the US aviation industry to a complete standstill for the first time in 22 years.

Meta fined €5.5m over WhatsApp data handling

This is the latest fine issued against Meta services including WhatsApp in recent years over data collection practices.

GPT-4 will ‘leave people disappointed’ says OpenAI CEO

Sam Altman calls for calm as his company plans the next version of its large language AI model.

Microsoft layoffs confirmed with 10,000 staff facing redundancy

The cuts will affect just under 5% of the MSFT global workforce as the company becomes the latest Big Tech firm to scale back operations.

Dell boosts performance of PowerEdge servers for cloud and edge

The new servers are based on the 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and designed for cloud providers offering AI solutions.

Cybersecurity threat driving up data budgets and stalling digital transformation

Budgets set aside for digital transformation are being diverted to data recovery and protection efforts due to a rise in cyberattacks.

ChatGPT alternative WordTune Spices can cite its sources

Large Language Models often struggle with out-of-date information and inaccurate but realistic facts. Spices uses a live data retrieval method to solve this.