内容摘要：Previously announcements were pre-recorded by a Scottish voice artist, but Iona is a synthetic voice which uses an AI model to deliver typed messages in a "Scottish accent".

Previously announcements were pre-recorded by a Scottish voice artist, but Iona is a synthetic voice which uses an AI model to deliver typed messages in a "Scottish accent".

Bank of America analysts believe M&S has lost more than £40m of sales every week since the incident began over the Easter bank holiday weekend.It announced on 25 April it had stopped taking online orders. Some stores were left with empty food shelves after the firm had to take some food-related systems offline.

On a precautionary basis, M&S decided to close down many of its IT operations following the attack, effectively locking itself out its core systems as it grappled to deal with the attack.The biggest challenge is getting its online system fully operational again, which accounts for around a third of its clothing and homeware sales.M&S told the BBC: "Our stores have remained open and availability is now in a much more normal place with stores well stocked this weekend."

The retailer said on 13 May that, which could include names, date of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses, household information, and online order histories.

It added that any card information taken would not be useable as it does not hold full card payment details on its systems.

The Co-op, which the hackers previously told the BBC they had targeted, said on 30 April that it had"Our current government… they are really enforcing this kind of public-private collaboration," says the programme's director Kirsi Kokko. "I think they understand the urgency."

Despite the rapid growth of defence tech in Finland, the sector is facing a range of local and European-wide challenges.Mr Hietala, the founder of airship technology platform Kelluu, describes something of a "culture clash" between agile start-ups and large defence companies and governments that have typically required years of experimentation and prototyping before acquiring new technologies.

"That's really on the opposite side of the spectrum for start-ups, in which the DNA is that we will fail fast and rapidly, and you don't have every start-up succeed."At Business Finland, Ms Kokko says the Nordic nation is also impacted by strong global competition for the software talent needed to grow defence tech and dual use businesses.