5G is "not the atom bomb" says Huawei rotating CEO Eric Xu
Tech giant addressed Donald Trump, 5G security concerns and how discussions with Britain's GCHQ led to a near total rewrite of its software.
Stories by By Tamlin Magee
Huawei: we welcome security scrutiny
Chinese technology giant Huawei has said that it welcomes the scrutiny that it has experienced over the past couple of years.
Google first of the Silicon Valley giants hit by major GDPR fine
Google has become the first of the Silicon Valley technology giants to be landed with a fine under the General Data Protection Regulation.
Inside IBM Q System One: an archetype for the quantum computing frontier?
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, IBM Quantum displayed a replica of its first "commercial" quantum computer - Q System One. Following years of painstaking attention from a team of engineers and designers, the technology giant has created what it hopes will be an archetype for the next mode of computing.
Inside GEN, the nonprofit combatting human trafficking with big data
The vast majority of law enforcement agencies are woefully underfunded for tackling human trafficking, which according to statistics from the Global Emancipation Network (GEN) claims roughly 21 million men, women and children as victims every year, who between them are worth as much as $50 billion to organised crime.
AI-assisted imposters, IoT and crypto-jacking: cyber security in 2019
With the cyber security industrial complex in full swing for 2019, Computerworld wonders what horrors this dystopian hell world will spew forth next.
How Cisco's TacOps unit restores communication after natural disasters
Before Ron Snyder joined Cisco's 'Tactical Operations' unit he was in the US Navy, offering experience working in adverse and high-pressure conditions.
Open source had a busy 2018, but what next?
Following a busy year for open source, expect more acquisitions, more adoption, and the foundational groundwork for a truly open infrastructure.
Conde Nast embraces chaos engineering with PagerDuty to protect against outages
Until recently, the 100-year-old publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair, Conde Nast, had offices in each country acting as independent business units with differing processes and workflows. But a transformation drive under the new umbrella of Conde Nast International, which looks after the offices outside of North America, saw the business turn to incident response and visibility organisation PagerDuty to help protect against costly outages.
Docker CEO on driving enterprise and the future of open source
Steve Singh outlined the growing enterprise business case for the container specialist and his expectations for the future of open infrastructure.
Inside Docker and Microsoft's new open source standard
Docker and Microsoft are making a joint bid for what they hope will be a "universal standard" to significantly simplify distributed computing.
Huawei security fears - paranoia, blowback, or both?
BT has made the decision to strip the equipment of Huawei from its core EE 4G network among growing security concerns about the Chinese telecom infrastructure giant's critical infrastructure footprint. Can - or should - any blame be laid on Huawei, or is this a result of paranoia, projection, or a severe lack of government oversight?
Nutanix bets big on real-time machine vision analysis at the edge
Nutanix has announced the general availability of a cloud portfolio called Xi Cloud Services, including a real-time edge offering to boost market differentiation.
Openstack moves one step closer to the edge
We round up everything we heard from the second Openstack Summit of the year before it is rebranded as the Open Infrastructure Summit in 2019, including its moves further into edge computing and all the latest pilot projects
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth wishes Red Hat and IBM a happy marriage
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at the second of this year's Openstack Summits was considerably less controversial than the last, where he explicitly compared the price between Red Hat and Ubuntu's services in Vancouver. However he still had plenty to say when Computerworld UK caught up with the hobby astronaut and entrepreneur on the show floor.