Context For the mid-career professional in audit, risk, or IT, the rise of artificial intelligence presents a distinct bifurcation in career trajectories. You do not need to become a data scientist to remain relevant, but you cannot afford to remain illiterate in the mechanics of automated decision-making. This article outlines how to pivot existing your ‘Lines of Defence’ experience into the emerging discipline of AI Governance. The Emergence of a Distinct Discipline AI Governance is rapidly decoupling from general IT governance and data protection. While it shares DNA with these fields, it addresses a specific convergence of risks that traditional frameworks struggle to contain: algorithmic bias, non-deterministic outputs, and the opacity of ‘black box’ decision-making. ...

The UK Government published the AI Opportunities Action Plan on 13 January 2025, which set out the agenda of the country’s national AI plan. The report outlines how the UK will work in building up it’s own AI capabilities, to grow the economy and create jobs of the future. The agenda is broad and covers areas including healthcare, education and employment, with specific recommendations including national supercomputers, AI Growth Zones, and the establishment of an AI Energy Council. ...

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Overview Apache ActiveMQ is a popular open-source message broker used by organisations to enable reliable and asynchronous communication between different applications. How it works ActiveMQ acts as an intermediary, receiving and then delivering messages, ensuring that none are not lost even if the receiving application is temporarily unavailable. ActiveMQ supports various messaging protocols, including JMS, AMQP, and MQTT, allowing for interoperability between diverse systems. Resilience and availability ActiveMQ is built for high availability, meaning it can keep running even if one part fails. It does this using a main server and a backup server (master/slave) and by storing data in a shared location. More traffic can be handled by connecting multiple ActiveMQ servers together in a cluster. ...