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• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  A-level computing results: Progress made in gender diversity

  The UK is facing a vacancies crisis and there is no short-term fix, but this year’s A-level results point to an increasingly gender-diverse future workforce

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Ukraine war drives DDoS attack volumes ever higher

  There has been a boom in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first six months of 2022, according to a report, with Russia’s war on Ukraine helping to drive activity

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  GPS tagging of migrants breaches UK data protection law, says Privacy International complaint

  Privacy group files complaints with Information Commissioner’s Office and Forensic Science Regulator over Home Office’s GPS monitoring of migrants

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Viavi announces 6G academic and industry research programme

  Network test, monitoring and assurance systems provider announces support for 6G academic and industry research, aiming to provide expertise, technology and funding to promising avenues of research, which may lead to breakthroughs for wireless ...

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  OVO Energy-backed Kaluza taps up Google Cloud for carbon-negative push

  SaaS-based energy tech platform provider sets out how it is using Google Cloud to help achieve its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030

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• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  CTO interview: Steve Otto, CTO, The R&A

  The Open Championship was fully back in 2022 after Covid, and back at golf’s spiritual home of St Andrews – and it was an opportunity for the club’s CTO to reflect on where technology will take the sport next

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Indian semiconductor component market to hit $300bn by 2026

  India’s semiconductor component market will see cumulative revenues climb to $300bn by 2026, amid growing demand for mobile devices and industrial products

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  The Turing Trust receives first batch of donated Govia Thameslink computers

  Train operator plans to donate 600 computers to the charity, which will refurbish them and send them to schools in Malawi

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  How BE Switchcraft is using RFID to streamline manufacturing

  The Australian switchboard manufacturer has rolled out a radio frequency identification system to track production jobs and streamline manufacturing processes

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Cyber security accelerator launches in Greater Manchester

  Accelerator will add to Manchester’s growing cyber security ecosystem, which already includes several tech unicorns, arms companies and the offices of GCHQ

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Older customers prefer phone calls to chatbots

  Businesses are increasingly adopting customer-facing digital technologies, but the older generation are not so keen to embrace tech

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Rising energy costs erode competitive edge of colocation datacentre operators

  Research from temporary power generation equipment maker Aggreko highlights toll that rising energy costs are having on colocation datacentre operators

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Most influential women in UK tech: The 2022 longlist

  Each year, Computer Weekly publishes the longlist of all of the women put forward to be considered for its list of the top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech. Here are 2022’s nominees

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  5G data traffic explosion to drive 5G small cell deployments to 13 million by 2027

  Research projects 5G small cell deployments will accelerate by around 2025, when 5G capacity demands offered by Massive MIMO becomes insufficient

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  South Staffs Water is victim of botched Clop attack

  South Staffordshire Water moves to reassure customers that their supplies remain safe after its attackers screw up their initial assault

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Why organisations need to harmonise their CIO and CISO roles

  Unless properly managed, conflicting responsibilities between the chief information officer and the chief information security officer can cause project delays and budget overruns, says Netskope’s Mike Anderson

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  DWP looks to hire new CDIO

  Department is on the hunt for a chief digital and information officer to lead on its digital agenda, offering up to £200,000 pa for the role

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lawyers and journalists sue CIA and Mike Pompeo over Assange surveillance claims

  CIA and its former director sued over allegations that they authorised unlawful spying on US citizens when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  How clean data helps Southern Water identify vulnerable customers

  Escalating prices means households around the country are having to tighten spending, with many struggling to pay their bills. Water4All, a consortium led by Southern Water, is using data to identify low-income and vulnerable households so they can ...

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  OneWeb takes off with Intelsat to bring multi-orbit connectivity to airlines worldwide

  Agreement aims to expand the availability of low earth orbit connectivity for aviation and transform the experiences of passengers and flight crews

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  England and Wales councils unprepared for PSTN withdrawal in 2025

  Freedom of information act request reveals worrying finding that over half of councils in England and Wales have no strategy for the prospective withdrawal of traditional PSTN communications networks

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al

  Lightbits builds NVMe-overTCP SAN clusters for Linux servers with Intel cards that accelerate network processing to give millions of IOPS with storage for public and private clouds

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Report reveals consensus around Computer Misuse Act reform

  A study produced by the CyberUp campaign reveals broad alignment among security professionals on questions around the Computer Misuse Act, which it hopes will give confidence to policymakers as they explore its reform

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Royal Mint turns to Circular Computing for remanufactured Lenovo laptops

  BSI Kitemark for laptops supplied by Circular Computing intended to certify remanufactured products that are ‘as good as’ brand new devices

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  UK government aims to allow struggling families access to cheaper broadband

  New support scheme designed to enable customers to give permission to broadband providers to confirm their eligibility for cheaper deals

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Major APAC economies to lose 63 million jobs to automation

  Workers in India, China, South Korea, Australia and Japan are more at risk of losing their jobs to automation, despite the creation of new jobs in the green economy and ICT industry

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  FCSA appoints independent panel to bolster dispute resolution protocols for umbrella firms

  In a statement to Computer Weekly, the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association says the panel will provide umbrella companies with a route to appeal against the decisions made by its CEO

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  How a young developer cut her teeth in coding

  Xenia Kim’s knack for solving problems and fixing software bugs eventually landed her a career in software development

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  Future 5G and Wi-Fi opportunities to be driven by private networks

  By 2028, private 5G network sales and associated services such as installation could generate as much as $23.8bn in revenues, with surge in sales beginning in China two years earlier, research finds

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  5G time-critical services set to boost productivity and efficiency of industrial operations

  Whitepaper from industry trade organisation for leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers highlights key planning and implementation issues that will ensure success of time-critical services for 5G networks

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  UK cost-of-living crisis creates surge in mobile provider switching

  Current inclement economic times in the UK blow headwinds into mobile comms sector, shaking customer loyalty with operators as over two-fifths of contract customers think they are overpaying for their current tariff

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Cyber criminal forum targets only Russia

  The Digital Shadows Photon Research Team has been investigating a pro-Ukraine cyber criminal forum called Dumps, which appears to be one of a kind

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Department of Health investigates bias in medical devices and algorithms

  The government has launched a review to look at the problem of discrimination in medical devices and decision-making software

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  CityFibre begins £30m full-fibre build out in Rochdale

  UK’s third largest infrastructure provider continues with its cross-UK gigabit fibre rollout in Lancashire town to benefit residents, businesses and services

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  UK Amazon workers stage series of wildcat strikes over pay offers

  Amazon warehouse workers across the UK have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant’s management offered them pay rises between 35p and 50p

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Met Police ramps up facial recognition despite ongoing concerns

  The Metropolitan Police is taking an “irresponsible” approach to deploying live facial-recognition technology, say experts. We talk to civil society groups, lawyers and politicians about the controversial programme

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Microsoft doles out $13.7m in bug bounties

  Microsoft’s Bug Bounty programme has paid a total of $13.7m to more than 300 researchers in almost 50 countries

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  SMEs overwhelmed by distraction of comms technology, networking platforms

  Study from collaboration workspace and targeted networking platform provider reveals small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming overwhelmed by the noise and distraction of social media channels

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Online Safety Bill ‘not fit for purpose’, say tech experts

  IT specialists lack confidence that legislation compelling tech firms to tackle online harms will work as intended, with only a small minority believing ‘harmful but legal’ content can be effectively and proportionately policed by internet platforms

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  How critical infrastructure operators can secure OT data

  Cohesity’s CISO discusses the challenges of securing data in operational technology systems and what can be done to mitigate security threats

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Researcher finds 10 vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls

  At Black Hat USA, Rapid7 researchers report on 10 security issues in popular Cisco firewall products, many of which do not yet have patches

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Cisco averts cyber disaster after successful phishing attack

  A potentially serious cyber attack on Cisco’s systems that began after a threat actor successfully exploited an employee’s carelessly secured credentials was thwarted without major damage

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  FCC rejects Starlink, LTD Broadband bids for satellite connectivity subsidies

  US regulator deals blow for bid by consortium headed by Elon Musk-led satellite company to gain financial stimulus under Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Seacom teams up with BT to deliver enterprise communications services across Africa

  Deal with leading UK telco intended for customers of Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system to benefit from what is claimed to be world-class portfolio of network services

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce

  The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  NHS may take a month to recover from supply chain attack

  Ransomware attack victim Advanced warns its NHS customers they could be waiting until early September to fully recover their operations

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Samsung, Kajeet collaborate to deliver smart private 5G network

  Wireless connectivity provider teams with mobile technologies and CE giant to bring together private 5G platform and 5G RAN innovations

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Sellafield Ltd inks network services contract with BT

  UK incumbent telco strikes deal with leading UK nuclear facility to take on network service responsibility across all of its sites with potential for future projects involving technologies such as IoT and 5G

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Online retail sales see year-on-year drop of 2.3% in July 2022

  Despite another year-on-year drop in online retail sales in July, the fall is smaller than those seen in previous months of 2022 as online sales decline slows

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Nokia on track to modernise Western Australia rail communications

  Leading comms tech provider to upgrade Public Transport Authority of Western Australia’s railway communications system with private wireless and mission-critical IP/MPLS covering 250km of railway track and tunnels in project including designing, ...