Day Headlines in Computers News: 2025-05-07
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Meta awarded $167m in court battle with spyware mercenaries (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 12:12:00)
WhatsApp owner Meta is awarded millions of dollars in damages and compensation after its service was exploited by users of mercenary spyware developer NSO's infamous Pegasus mobile malware. -
Oxford Uni adds cyber resilience module to MBA programme (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 11:33:00)
Oxford University’s Saïd Business School is working with cyber response specialist Sygnia to help future business leaders get on top of security -
UK at risk of Russian cyber and physical attacks as Ukraine seeks peace deal (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 11:15:00)
UK cyber security chief warns of ‘direct connection’ between Russian cyber attacks and physical threats to the UK -
Global broadband growth slows at end of 2024 (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 10:04:00)
Fourth quarter 2024 update of global connectivity market shows subscribers pass 1.5 billion barrier as fibre, non-terrestrial and fixed wireless gain popularity, especially in emerging markets -
Nokia supplies 1.2Tbps backbone in Pakistan and private wireless to Maersk fleet (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 09:42:00)
Comms tech provider lands large-scale contracts for optical fixed network in Pakistan and IoT connectivity platform with mobile network to enhance operational efficiency at shipping firm -
Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 06:56:00)
The network equipment provider has opened a new lab and developed a prototype chip as it fleshes out its quantum networking strategy -
Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 06:51:00)
Datacentre outages are becoming less common and severe, but power supply issues remain enduring cause of most downtime incidents -
Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 06:45:00)
Hyper-converged infrastructure provider offers its operating system independently of a hypervisor to allow containerised apps to run at the edge or on Kubernetes runtimes in the Amazon cloud -
DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 06:29:00)
To drive forward its Plan for Change, the Labour government is looking to hire 25 experts for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Fellowship programme -
Nutanix breaks the bounds of HCI again with Pure Storage linkup (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 05:55:00)
Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI -
UK critical systems at risk from ‘digital divide’ created by AI threats (ComputerWeekly.com 2025-05-07 05:17:00)
GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre warns that a growing ‘digital divide’ between organisations that can keep pace with AI-enabled threats and those that cannot is set to heighten the UK's overall cyber risk