All articles by Lara Williams
Lara Williams
Lara Williams is managing editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent almost a decade living in Silicon Valley.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is sanguine about AI risk to elections
Satya Nadella answered audience questions at London’s Chatham house about the risks and benefits of AI.
UK Post Office Horizon scandal: Fujitsu faces growing calls for accountability
Fujitsu’s declining cash reserves will make increased scrutiny of its role in the Horizon scandal a challenge, particularly if it were to face legal claims to compensate victims.
Cloud security: the cybersecurity blind spot
Darktrace chief product officer, Max Heinemeyer, cautions companies about the cybersecurity risk of not securing their cloud data in 2024.
Technology industry winners of 2023
The two Sams of Silicon Valley – Altman and Bankman-Fried – made headlines this year in another year of both winners and losers.
Verdict’s most-read features in 2023
From TikTok’s legal woes to AI, cybersecurity concerns and widespread tech layoffs, Verdict’s most-read features reflect the technology themes that dominated 2023.
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In conversation: Lacework CEO Jay Parikh on a data driven approach to cloud security
Parikh is former Facebook VP of engineering and current CEO of $8.3bn cloud security company Lacework
Top five technology investment trends to watch in 2024
Which technology themes keep senior executives up at night and what are their investment priorities for 2024?
The year of AI: 2024 predictions
Business leaders and policy makers alike are anticipating yet another year of rapidly evolving AI technology with all the challenges and opportunities that it presents.
Can the COP28 give climate tech investment the boost it needs?
If technology and innovation are to be effectively harnessed in addressing the climate crisis, more needs to be done to attract investment.
Five things tech leaders who are too reliant on OpenAI should do
Dawid Robert Kotur, CEO, and Nick Long, CTO, at UK generative AI company Curvestone believe OpenAI’s dominance is unjustifiably inflated.