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Gov-funded charity campaign on risks encryption poses to children

Barnardo’s and other charities begin a government-backed PR campaign to warn of the dangers end-to-end encryption poses to child safety, which has been criticised as being ‘one-sided’
Around 65% tech recruiters say there’s hiring bias

Those responsible for recruiting developers worldwide have admitted that bias during the hiring process is an issue
Permanent roaming IoT to reach 825 million by 2026

Study from Kaleido Intelligence reveals significant demand for monitoring and telemetry-based internet of things applications to drive 27% CAGR in permanent roaming IoT connections
Verizon, AWS take mobile edge to 30% more US metro area locations

Communications and cloud giants extend reach of mobile edge computing footprint in the US and announce deployment for drone and energy management applications
Danish digitisation partnership delivers plan to government

Public-private collaboration submits plan setting out “how Denmark can take advantage of the opportunities presented by digitisation moving forward into the future”
Content removal will not stop misinformation, says Royal Society

Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report

Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Assessing risk and business impact

In the first in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we provide a step-by-step guide to building firm foundations for the disaster recovery plan, with risk assessment and business impact analysis
Finland moves to industrialise quantum computing

For the Finnish government, now is the time to start preparing for the day when quantum computers will have practical value
What does 2022 have in store for hybrid working?

The Omicron coronavirus variant has brought a return of working restrictions. Can we be optimistic about the resilience of organisations as they try to get the best out of their workforce?

SUSE offers a Neu approach to container security, opens NeuVector codebase- Open Source Insider

SUSE has announced the NeuVector codebase to the open source community on GitHub. The German softwarehaus claims that NeuVector the first truly open source end-to-end [container] security ... Continue Reading
2022: Time to take algorithm-enhanced online abuse seriously- When IT Meets Politics

The algorithms used by dominant social media companies have compounded the risks to unsupervised children in their bedrooms by automating the processes predators use to find and groom potential ... Continue Reading
Infrastructure-as-Code series - Ondat: IaC is the means to a DevOps end- CW Developer Network

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading
Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ... Continue Reading

How digital-twin tech could revolutionise the healthcare industry

Digital-twin technology is not new, but in many industries it is still regarded as novel and is often misunderstood
Need rapid networked storage? Take a look at NVMe-over-TCP

Lightbits helped develop NVMe-over-TCP to provide shared NVMe storage capacity over existing TCP-based networks
Avoid complexity in data storage decisions

With more options for on- and off-premise data storage, the need for simplicity is greater than ever