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March 06, 2023
06
Mar'23
Government announces Science and Technology framework
The government has announced the first major work completed by its recently launched Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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March 03, 2023
03
Mar'23
Shawbrook Bank uses Pegasystems for low-code business process rewrite
SME lending and savings bank Shawbrook Bank is using a low-code platform from Pegasystems to rewrite outdated business processes
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February 28, 2023
28
Feb'23
Government announces national fintech hub
The UK Treasury has announced a centre for fintech innovation, two years after a major report recommended one
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February 23, 2023
23
Feb'23
Oracle goes on hunt for Java non-compliance
Non-Oracle organisations warned to check if they comply with Java SE licensing after Oracle introduces radical changes
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February 23, 2023
23
Feb'23
Santander SME platform harnesses Salesforce
Bank platform that helps UK small and medium-sized enterprises expand export opportunities is built on cloud technology from Salesforce
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February 21, 2023
21
Feb'23
Seven million people in UK used open banking services in 2022
More than seven million people used services that harnessed open banking last year, with 1.2 million of these first-time users
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February 15, 2023
15
Feb'23
UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader
Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital
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February 14, 2023
14
Feb'23
OSC&R framework to stop supply chain attacks in the wild
The backers of a new MITRE ATT&CK style framework called OSC&R hope to help organisations get to grips with threats to their software supply chains
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February 14, 2023
14
Feb'23
Executive interview: Putting a value on open source
Spotify’s open source tech lead discusses why open source is failing those whose free time is dedicated to maintaining code
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February 08, 2023
08
Feb'23
Is business ready for ChatGPT?
Generative AI models like ChatGPT promise to revolutionise the way people gather data and make informed decisions
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February 08, 2023
08
Feb'23
India launches homegrown BharOS
The homegrown Android-based mobile operating system could reduce India’s reliance on foreign software, but uncertainties around market adoption and software updates remain
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January 31, 2023
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Jan'23
GitHub warns Desktop, Atom users after code-signing certificates pinched
Threat actors stole encrypted code-signing certificates for GitHub’s Desktop and Atom applications in December 2022, prompting warnings for users
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January 30, 2023
30
Jan'23
Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry
Two former Fujitsu IT professionals being investigated for potential perjury will face Post Office Horizon public inquiry in May
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January 25, 2023
25
Jan'23
State of DevOps: Success happens through platform engineering
The annual State of DevOps report has focused on a phenomenon known as platform engineering
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January 23, 2023
23
Jan'23
Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects
Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months
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January 15, 2023
15
Jan'23
Thai enterprises spend more on software amid growing digitalisation
The majority of software spending in Thailand during the first half of 2022 went into applications followed by infrastructure software and development tools, according to IDC
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January 10, 2023
10
Jan'23
How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases
Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential
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January 09, 2023
09
Jan'23
How to identify a strategic technology platform
A strategic platform has to be broad enough to support a range of business functions while being open, extensible and modular at the same time, according to Forrester
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December 22, 2022
22
Dec'22
Top 10 India IT stories of 2022
We recap the top 10 stories in India, including the digitisation work undertaken by global firms in the country and the progress made by local enterprises in harnessing technology
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December 20, 2022
20
Dec'22
Top 10 software development stories of 2022
We look at how software development has adapted to the changing economic climate over the past 12 months
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December 19, 2022
19
Dec'22
GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers
Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
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December 15, 2022
15
Dec'22
Lego fixes dangerous API vulnerability in BrickLink service
The Lego Group has remediated two potentially serious API vulnerabilities in its BrickLink digital resale platform, just in time for Christmas
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December 15, 2022
15
Dec'22
Alibaba Cloud to debut blockchain service
The Chinese cloud supplier is readying a blockchain node service to simplify and speed up blockchain technology deployments
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Criminal Cases Review Commission calls on more convicted subpostmasters to come forward
The Criminal Cases Review Commission wants more former subpostmasters to come forward if they think they were prosecuted by the Post Office based on data from the error-prone Horizon computer system
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December 09, 2022
09
Dec'22
Digital bank to recruit 1,000 tech experts in Manchester
App-based bank Starling is adding 1,000 people to its workforce with technology professionals being recruited for its new operation in Manchester
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December 09, 2022
09
Dec'22
IT system limitations a factor in passport delays
Limitations in the UK’s passport office IT system led to delays in applicants receiving their documents during a recent period of high demand
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December 07, 2022
07
Dec'22
Post Office scandal – “cock-up or cook-up”?
The second phase of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal raised more questions over who did what, when and where, with shocking revelations at every turn
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December 06, 2022
06
Dec'22
EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers
Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s ...
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December 05, 2022
05
Dec'22
How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management
HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential
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November 29, 2022
29
Nov'22
Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: HSBC discusses low-code in financial services
A member of HSBC’s global transformation team has shared her views on low-code with an audience in Amsterdam
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November 23, 2022
23
Nov'22
How Photobox keeps site reliability in the picture
Photobox’s site reliability head discusses how the photo book and personalised gifts site manages a complex microservices architecture
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November 17, 2022
17
Nov'22
Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’
Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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November 16, 2022
16
Nov'22
Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’
Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
A modern approach to enterprise software development
Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires
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November 15, 2022
15
Nov'22
Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
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November 03, 2022
03
Nov'22
Russia risks shortage of PCs and software
Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software
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November 03, 2022
03
Nov'22
Why technology change is slow at larger firms
Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say
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November 02, 2022
02
Nov'22
OpenSSL vulnerabilities ‘not as bad as feared’
As previously trailed, OpenSSL patched two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, neither of them as impactful as had been feared
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November 02, 2022
02
Nov'22
How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus
The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process
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October 26, 2022
26
Oct'22
How to attract more women into software development
Having role models, support systems and upskilling opportunities are just some of the ways to attract and retain more women coders in the industry, according to a panel of women tech leaders and professionals
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October 18, 2022
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Oct'22
Skype’s legacy and the rise of the ‘new Nordics’
Estonia and other Baltic states could be part of a ‘new Nordics’ of technology innovation
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October 18, 2022
18
Oct'22
Virtually all vulnerable open source downloads are avoidable
Some 96% of known vulnerable open source downloads could have been avoided altogether, according to a report
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October 11, 2022
11
Oct'22
With Java 19, Oracle boosts developer productivity with an eye on the future
Major features in Java 19 will make it easier for Java developers to build applications that interface with non-Java code, among other capabilities in the 10th edition of the platform’s six-month release cadence
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October 10, 2022
10
Oct'22
How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the curve
Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince talks up what has changed since the company’s first business plan was written in 2009 and how it keeps pace with the fast-moving network security landscape
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
Next phase of open banking already gathering pace
Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more
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September 30, 2022
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Sep'22
How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices
The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times
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September 21, 2022
21
Sep'22
15-year-old Python bug present in 350,000 open source projects
A Python tarfile vulnerability first disclosed in 2007 still persists to this day, according to analysis from Trellix
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September 16, 2022
16
Sep'22
How an architecture graduate became a coder
Back-end engineer Yang Lyu couldn’t find a job as an architect after graduation and ended up as a software developer after discovering her flair for coding
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September 14, 2022
14
Sep'22
US to see huge increase in embedded finance transactions
Retailers and other non-financial businesses are increasingly offering their customers financial services, such as credit and payment options
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September 09, 2022
09
Sep'22
Interview: Keeping an IT business going during the Russian invasion
After heading home and discovering that his country had been invaded, Konstantin Klyagin was forced to make life-changing family and business decisions