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UK-Ireland frictionless border tech ‘far from ready’
The government has promised a frictionless UK-Ireland border, but currently technology only has the capacity to mitigate rather than eliminate friction, and the government’s technical advisory group on the border seems to be on hiatus
How managed threat hunting helps bust malicious insiders
Managed threat hunting services can help take some of the pressure off security operations centres and help ensure potential breaches don’t escalate into something far worse. We explore one such case with a happy ending
Managing datacentre engineers through Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has seen datacentre engineers reclassified as “essential workers”, but how are their employers ensuring they can continue to do their work in a safe and secure way?
Nominations open for Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2020
Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for its 2020 list of the most influential women in UK technology
The role of AI in the war against pandemics
We look at how AI and data science are supporting the global push to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. We reveal, and talk to, the man behind the world’s first computer virus pandemic, the Love Bug. And we examine how the IT services market will change as a result of the current crisis. Read this CW E-Zine issue now.
Latest News
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Employees must be consulted on monitoring technologies
Experts say the workforce must be ‘in the room’ and given a meaningful say about technologies introduced to monitor their return to work following the Covid-19 pandemic
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Egypt offers free tech scholarship to 100,000 citizens
Egypt's youths are being offered free training to help them to prepare for the careers of the future
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Privacy groups call for radical changes to contact-tracing app
Liberty, Privacy International and the Open Rights Group join calls for the government to either put in place better data protection policies or abandon its Covid-19 contact-tracing app altogether
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SmarTone deploys Ericsson Spectrum Sharing for 5G network
Hong Kong operator deploys 5G broadly across territory using dynamic spectrum-sharing technology
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HSBC offers AI-assisted equities trading
HSBC is offering its US share trading customers artificial intelligence-powered insights into public information about listed companies
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange too unwell to attend court hearing
The WikiLeaks founder is expected to call 21 witnesses during a three-week extradition hearing in September
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The datacentre chill-factor: Finding the right conditions
Computer Weekly explores a variety of cost-effective, energy-efficient services currently using innovative methods to keep datacentres cool
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Cloud storage 101: File, block and object storage in the cloud
We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at
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Constructing the future for engineering – finding the right model where one size does not fit all
Design and engineering has rapidly evolved to be all about interconnected devices. We see how one of the leading manufacturing software suppliers is meeting the challenge
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E-Zine | May 2020
Can Lady Gaga and Madonna get people to take IT security seriously?
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E-Handbook | May 2020
Business Analytics: how AI is augmenting analysis, and bolstering data literacy shortfalls
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E-Handbook | May 2020
It's complicated: how data integration lies at the heart of evermorecomplex data architectures
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E-Handbook | May 2020
Hyper-converged infrastructure vs traditional: the pitfalls and benefits of a storage move
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E-Handbook | May 2020
Backup still fundamental but the cloud changes things
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Blogs
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CWDN series: what defines modern software development practices?- CW Developer Network
Programmers, coders, software engineers of all creeds and even meddling script kiddies all see themselves as artists, of a sort. Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, ... Continue Reading
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What are API schemas?- CW Developer Network
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position as CEO of Toro Cloud -- the company is known for its low-code API-centric approach to ... Continue Reading
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Working through the Covid-19 lockdown: What to look for in a datacentre partner- Ahead in the Clouds
In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. More ... Continue Reading
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Microsoft opens wider on Open Application Model (OAM)- Open Source Insider
The Open Application Model (OAM) was initially launched as a partnership between Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud last October. Microsoft principal program manager Vaclav Turecek now tells us that the ... Continue Reading
Opinion
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The impact of spycraft on how we secure our data
The history of cyber security owes much to the world of espionage, as a recent, pre-lockdown Science Museum exhibition showed
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The new future of work
We may come to stop talking about ‘remote’ working altogether after the coronavirus pandemic. It could become just ‘working’ – part of the normal mix of how things are done
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CISO stress – moving from recognition to action
Cyber criminals are enjoying a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, and security teams are working overtime as a result. How can security professionals manage their increased workload, safeguard their mental wellbeing and avoid burnout?
Videos
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How Zoom is keeping pace with demand for conferencing tools
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CW500 Interview: Jonathan Moreira, CTO of PrimaryBid.com
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CW500 Interview: Paddy Francis, CTO, Airbus CyberSecurity
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How DBS Bank is tapping data analytics to improve customer service
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CW500 Interview: Jonathan Midgley discusses artificial intelligence (AI)
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CW500 Interview: Daniel Hulme discusses artificial intelligence (AI)
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