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Air India said the cyber-attack affected the information of about 4.5 million customers.

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Innovation and technology are powerful engines of prosperity, inclusion and resilience that will drive radical benefits across society – from decarbonisation to healthier lives and high-value jobs.

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Major UK banks, insurers and asset managers are taking part in a landmark survey on menopause, amid fears that a lack of support may be hindering gender equality and blocking women from taking senior roles across the City.

Standard Chartered, which has commissioned the women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society to survey more than 300,000 workers in the financial sector, said the menopause must be considered a “workplace issue”.

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Click here to watch the GSA Women in Sourcing - Supporting the Menopause Webinar

“Data is the great opportunity of our time”. That is the opening statement of Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP in his Ministerial Foreword within the Government’s response to the consultation on the National Data Strategy. It sets the scene as Government attempts to change the narrative around data from one associated with ‘risk’ to one associated with ‘opportunity’. The Government wants data to be viewed as a strategic asset.

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IBM is set to buy Brussels-based Salesforce Platinum Consulting Partner, Waeg.

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Among the measures in the framework are requirements to ensure data is protected at rest and in transit, keeping secure and accessible backups of data along with cybersecurity training for staff.

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AI is going to play a much bigger part in our lives in the near future, but we need to do more to make sure that the outcomes are beneficial to the society we aim to serve. That can only happen if we continue to develop better use cases and prioritise diversity when creating AI systems.

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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) director Sergei Naryshkin had said he was “flattered” by the accusations from the UK and US but denied involvement.

The hack is considered the largest and most sophisticated cyber-attack so far.

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The EU broke new ground on 21 April 2021 by issuing the draft of its proposed harmonised legal framework on AI (the "AI Act"), the first attempt worldwide to specifically regulate this rapidly developing and often misunderstood branch of technology.

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UK councils have a huge opportunity to improve services through the use of smart city technologies - but they must avoid the cyber security risks

The digital infrastructure revolution will help us build back better and safer from the pandemic and if we make sure we have the right security in place, it will bring the immense benefits of technology to people up and down the country.

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