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Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regs

The newly formed Regulatory Innovation Office has been set up to ensure existing regulations do not become barriers to emerging tech innovations
Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate and greedy’

Outgoing Post Office boss Nick Read faces public inquiry for three days this week, with no shortage of questions to answer
IBM: Data breach cost in ASEAN hits new high

The average cost of a data breach in ASEAN grew by 7% from last year, as organisations grapple with increasingly distributed IT environments and complex security systems
Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office

A letter from Post Office staff to MPs, statutory inquiry chair Wyn Williams and the Post Office chairman demands their intervention and an investigation into the organisation's leadership
UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulns

A series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis
NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in

Outgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne

How datacentres can turn the tide on carbon emissions

Operators have revealed troubling increases in their carbon emissions of late, but could these have been prevented?
Why responsible AI is a business imperative

Tools are emerging for real-world AI systems that focus more on responsible adoption, deployment and governance, rather than academic and philosophical questions about speculative risks
Shrinking the carbon footprint of datacentres

The digital economy is increasing demand for datacentres, and in turn pushing up the use of power and cooling. Granular metrics are key to achieving digitisation with a low environmental impact

Green coding - Nutanix report: Energy efficient datacentres could save billions- CW Developer Network

The green coding imperative is real and it stems from the ground up (i.e. the command line) and from the cloud down. As we continue to pursue initiatives in this space, it’s worth reflecting upon ... Continue Reading
OpenStack Dalmatian knocks spots off AI workload doghouse- Open Source Insider

As the world of enterprise open source solidifies, an increasing number of developments are being laid down to take open platform technologies into more expansive mission-critical and quite frankly ... Continue Reading
Once more it's deja vu all over again in digital government- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

When you write about government IT for as long as Computer Weekly has – which is pretty much as long as “government IT” has been a thing – it’s hard not to get a sense of what can most accurately ... Continue Reading
Software splashdown, WaveMaker React Native Studio for iOS & Android development - CW Developer Network

Accelerated software development company WaveMaker has taken the wraps off React Native studio. The technology seeks to make native mobile app building accessible to web developers familiar with ... Continue Reading

Rise of the cyber clones: When seeing isn’t believing

It is frighteningly easy to clone someone else's identity using readily-available artificial intelligence tools
How to make the CMO your best friend

Chief marketing officers are more reliant than ever on their CIO colleagues - but it's a relationship that can, and should, work to their mutual benefit
The cyber industry needs to accept it can't eliminate risk

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel considers incident response in the wake of the July CrowdStrike incident, sharing their views on what CrowdStrike got wrong, what it did right, and next steps