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• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  SAP 2022: 11% revenue growth, 2.5% staff targeted by restructure

  SAP has announced full-year 2022 revenue of nearly €31bn, up 11% year on year. In 2023, it will explore a sell-off of Qualtrics stake and do a restructure, with an impact on 2.5% of staff

• January 27, 2023 27 Jan'23

  Deci claims breakthrough inference performance on Intel Sapphire Rapids

  Israeli startup Deci claims GPU-like performance in running computer vision and natural language processing models on Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Andrew Roughan, CEO, Plexal

  Plexal CEO Andrew Roughan talks about how tech startups collaborate with the government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

  Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Royal Society calls on public sector to pilot privacy tech

  The Royal Society says public sector bodies should lead the way in piloting privacy-enhancing technologies to unlock the value of data without compromising privacy and data rights, but lack of standards and incentives mean adoption is slow

• January 20, 2023 20 Jan'23

  Year-on-year growth down to more customers, says Ocado

  As the customer landscape shifts, Ocado reports year-on-year revenue growth in the last quarter of 2022, bolstered by a successful Christmas

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Newham Council rejects use of live facial-recognition tech by police

  Live facial-recognition technology should not be used by police in Newham until biometric and anti-discrimination safeguards are in place, according to a motion passed unanimously by the council, but the Met Police and the Home Office have indicated...

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Outdated IT infrastructure poses growing risk to UK Security Vetting

  Delays to UKSV’s important work in safeguarding the country’s national security are in part down to a legacy IT estate in dire need of modernisation, says the NAO

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  APAC consumers expect human-like service from chatbots

  Consumer expectations of chatbots in Asia-Pacific have risen in tandem with improved performance of AI applications over the past year, a study has found

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Oracle and CBI: companies cautious, selective in 2023 IT, business investment

  Oracle and the CBI are seeing much the same picture of cautious technology investment of UK businesses in 2023, in the context of long Covid and the energy price inflation crisis

• January 15, 2023 15 Jan'23

  Thai enterprises spend more on software amid growing digitalisation

  The majority of software spending in Thailand during the first half of 2022 went into applications followed by infrastructure software and development tools, according to IDC

• January 13, 2023 13 Jan'23

  Ellison-founded sailing league SailGP plumps for Oracle NetSuite to expand

  SailGP, a sailing racing league co-founded by Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, has picked Oracle NetSuite to expand its business

• January 13, 2023 13 Jan'23

  Unionised contract workers who train Google’s AI win pay rise

  Google contract workers employed at artificial intelligence training supplier RaterLabs have secured their first-ever pay rise, following collective demands that Google fulfil its own commitment to pay its extended workforce a minimum of $15 an hour

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Companies put commercial gain ahead of sustainability, says Software AG research

  The vast majority of a surveyed tranche of UK and other western companies are prioritising commercial goals over sustainability, according to research from Software AG

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Insights on Nordic artificial intelligence strategies

  Report provides overview on how Nordic countries are dealing with challenges and opportunities brought on by artificial intelligence

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  How Indian banks can drive automation in corporate banking

  Banks should prioritise their processes for automation based on the level of human intervention, understand their processes thoroughly and put employees at the centre of their automation efforts

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  Should we be worried about malicious use of AI language models?

  WithSecure research into GPT-3 language models, used by the likes of ChatGPT, surfaces concerning findings about how easy it is to use large language models for malicious purposes. Should security teams be concerned?

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  NHS data platform costing £480m to supersede Covid-19 data store underway

  NHS England has invited suppliers to tender for a data platform that will supersede the Covid-19 data store controversial for the involvement of data analytics firm Palantir

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

  Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  Belfast Harbour sails out with Oracle cloud applications

  Belfast Harbour spies a more efficient and flexible future on the horizon as it sets sail with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How cloud technology is supporting space missions

  Cloud-based machine learning and other services are finding their way into space to analyse satellite imagery and monitor space debris, among other space applications

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Generative AI: Preparing for next-gen artificial intelligence

  ChatGPT is one of a new breed of AI models that promises to deliver machine-based creativity

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  St Helens Council plumps for Unit4 ERP to forward automation plans

  St Helens Borough Council has replaced an in-house system with Unit4 and Proactis enterprise applications technologies to advance its digital transformation plans

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  Diversity and inclusion figures high in New Year Honours List 2023

  The New Year Honours List 2023 hailed those in the technology community who promote diversity and inclusion

• December 30, 2022 30 Dec'22

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2022

  As the Covid crisis gave way to the energy crisis and economic turmoil, enterprise software suppliers have urged customers to step up modernisation and evince more empathy for employees

• December 30, 2022 30 Dec'22

  Top 10 information management stories of 2022

  Data for good is a theme of the information management stories of 2022 selected here. From tracking space junk, through medical kits for Ukraine, to professionalising data science to benefit society

• December 30, 2022 30 Dec'22

  Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2022

  The team began with a sombre episode about Ukraine and went on to tackle the more familiar topics of diversity, datacentre sustainability and data. New for 22: Cliff Saran’s interviews with IT thought leaders

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  NHS-funded AI diagnosis tool benefits stroke patients

  NHS England hails Brainomix stroke diagnosis tool for a tripling of the number of patients recovering to perform daily activities from 16% to 48%

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2022

• December 29, 2022 29 Dec'22

  Top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology startup stories of 2022

• December 27, 2022 27 Dec'22

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2022

  Despite the challenges over the past year, ASEAN businesses have taken things in stride as they press on with digital transformation, whether it is empowering citizen developers or building cloud-native applications

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  Top 10 India IT stories of 2022

  We recap the top 10 stories in India, including the digitisation work undertaken by global firms in the country and the progress made by local enterprises in harnessing technology

• December 22, 2022 22 Dec'22

  Mitiga researchers disclose AWS Elastic IP hijacking vulnerability

  Cloud incident response supplier Mitiga has said a new AWS feature has led to a vulnerability that could allow hackers to access and steal Elastic IP addresses and gain control over AWS accounts

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Digital Economy Council: UK tech sector number one in Europe

  Despite the tumultuous economic landscape, the UK has maintained its spot as having the number one tech sector in Europe, with its impressive investment figures

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Government shuts ‘Help to Grow’ doorway for SMEs

  The government’s Help to Grow: Digital scheme, which aimed to help small businesses access productivity-enhancing software, has been closed, to the disappointment of TechUK

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2022

  Over the past few years, IT strategies have become more data-centric. We look at how this has played out in 2022, with AI deployments

• December 15, 2022 15 Dec'22

  Digital Ethics Summit: Who benefits from new technology?

  Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public’s near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  CIO interview: Andy Pocock, IT director, TrustFord

  The vehicle dealership group has been through a complete digital transformation that embraces cloud, mobile working and automation

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Data leaders bewail employee data illiteracy

  Report from data consultancy Carruthers and Jackson finds a significant majority of data function leaders consider their organisations’ employees lack adequate data literacy

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

  Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Deutsche Bank powers new banking apps with Nvidia AI acceleration

  The bank is looking at how AI acceleration can process financial texts, accelerate risk analysis and support its plans for the metaverse

• December 06, 2022 06 Dec'22

  EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers

  Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s ...

• December 04, 2022 04 Dec'22

  How Bosch is driving Industry 4.0 in India

  Bosch India is leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to detect manufacturing defects and plans to tap quantum computing for material simulation

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Parity AI talks about auditing recruitment algorithms for bias

  Algorithmic auditing firm Parity speaks to Computer Weekly about the process of auditing artificial intelligence for bias, following its partnership with AI-powered recruitment platform Beamery

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  ‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill

  Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  UKISUG 2022: S/4 skills deficit worsens but SAP Rise use increases

  On the opening day of its 2022 conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing concerns that an S/4 Hana skills deficit appears worse than it was 12 months ago

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices

  Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence

  Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Government launches AI-focused green innovation programme

  The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy claims the programme will not only help the UK achieve its net-zero goals, but may also help bring down energy costs