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Some 20 teams of cyber security industry professionals and tertiary students in Singapore pitted their skills against one another in a competition aimed at plugging the cyber security skills gap in ...

It's time for a little open source history. The 'open source' label itself was created at a strategy session held by members of the group that we now call the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on ...

Complete this sentence to win a prize for your technology insight: “2018 will be the year of…” Rather like the missing word round in Have I Got News For You, the answers will range from the obvious ...

In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ...

Did anyone else notice how many people ruined the festive season’s pub visits by mistaking bitcoin for something resembling an entertaining topic of conversation? Suddenly all these bozos you grew ...

The babel fish is around the corner but look out for the arrival androids that are indistinguishable from humans

The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ...

This is a guest blogpost by Shafi Rahman, principal scientist, FICO Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) generated countless news headlines and ideas that fascinate us. Its predictive ability ...

Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ...

The DevOps honeymoon is over - well, it could be... and here's one reason why. As we know by now, DevOps is a portmanteau term used to describe the notion of more connected, cyclical, integrated ...

The UK Security Minister sent an apparently very odd message to Google and Facebook in a Sunday Times interview on New Year's Eve, "obey the law or be taxed." HMRC has a long and dishonourable ...

AI as an excuse for obfuscating responsibility for commercial decisions Much of the current hype over Big Data and Artificial intelligence results from the large scale use of use of old techniques ...

Christmas has always been a time of heightened security against current and potential subversives - even in the womb.

The Brexit impact studies that never were make for embarrassing reading: the UK is being driven towards a cliff by a driver without a licence and in a vehicle that has not had an MoT test

This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Jim Ivers in his capacity as vice president at Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group. Essentially, Synopsys specialises ...

A vote by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal the net neutrality rules spearheaded by the Obama administration was largely met with disdain by internet companies and users. ...

This is Q&A session with Carlos Sanchez in his capacity as engineer at CloudBees, a provider of continuous delivery and integration software services. The company's open source continuous ...

I was tempted to write this blog post on Computer Weekly's Downtime blog, where we try to look at the lighter side of the world of IT. But I'm not entirely sure this is a joke. While budgetary ...

Has the role of 'identity developer' now been formalised? Perhaps not, identity and user authentication controls will probably fall at the feet of specialist security developers and systems ...

The switch from graduate recruitment to degree-linked apprenticeships has begin. It is delayed only by lack of information on the latter. That will change if the pilots being organised under the ...

CEO of WiFi analytics platform Purple Gavin Wheeldon has joined futurist Mike Ryan in an assertive prediction to state that by 2025, a surge in data use stimulated by unlimited mobile contract ...

Barely even featuring as an item on its press room pages, news has filtered out this week of Czech virus deerstalking firm Avast releasing its machine code decompiler RetDec to open source. The ...

Did you know the UK government has a minister for identity? It’s Baroness Susan Williams, whose full responsibilities go under the grander title of minister of state for countering extremism. ...

By hosting its cloud infrastructure at Equinix’s Singapore datacentre, Kingsoft Cloud has become the latest Chinese cloud service provider to set its foot in Southeast Asia. The move is expected to ...

YugaByte is a newly established company that sets out to deliver what it describes as turnkey distributed consistent and highly available database delivering data access with cache level ...

Stream is an activity feed platform for developers and product owners - it is used by programmers to build newsfeeds (think: how your Twitter or Instagram feed populates, or how YouTube recommends ...

In this guest post, Rob Anderson, principal analyst for central government at market watcher GlobalData, takes a look at the implications of delaying the launch of G-Cloud 10 by up to a year.

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Lars Herrmann in his capacity as general manager for integrated solutions and container strategy at Red Hat. Herrmann states ...