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.
Crowdstrike update blamed for global IT outages
A Crowdstrike patch appears to have bricked thousands of Windows devices and brought airlines, hospitals and broadcast television stations to a standstill.
Cisco patches vulnerability allowing attackers to change admin passwords
Named CVE-2024-20419, the bug affecting Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem carries the maximum possible CVSS rating.
Samsung snaps up Oxford Semantic Technologies
The UK university spinout’s acquisition, said Samsung, will allow the firm to augment its knowledge graph capabilities.
Labour unveils AI, cybersecurity goals in King’s Speech
The UK’s new Labour government pledged to regulate foundation model developers and strengthen cybersecurity disclosure rules for businesses.
ASML posts strong earnings thanks to China sales, AI boom
The second-quarter earnings beat market expectations as ASML benefits from continued corporate interest in all things AI.
Microsoft’s Inflection AI licensing deal to be scrutinised in formal CMA probe
The CMA’s expanded probe into Inflection AI comes after Microsoft hired several prominent members of the AI startup as part of a $650m licensing deal.
Kaspersky Labs ceases operating in the US
Kaspersky’s decision comes after a ban on US sales of the cybersecurity firm’s products by the Biden administration.
Alphabet in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23bn
The deal to buy Wiz would be the biggest-ever acquisition by Google’s parent company and would burnish the latter’s cloud security credentials.
Graphcore acquired by Softbank
The purchase of the UK chip design firm is the latest attempt by Softbank to burnish its AI credentials.
AT&T breach sees an estimated 109 million customers’ call logs leaked
Despite the sheer volume of records stolen, AT&T maintains that no personally identifiable information belonging to its customers was stolen.