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  • March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

    Spring Budget risks funding legally questionable police tech

    Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police

  • March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

    Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO

    Benefits of artificial intelligence in public sector will only be realised if government ensures overall programme for adoption is supported by realistic plan to tackle range of longstanding barriers

  • March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

    Industry partnerships and data key to better public services

    Using public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan

  • March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

    Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI

    The government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach

  • March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

    Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan

    In his 2024 spring budget, Jeremy Hunt announced funding to use tech to improve productivity across the public sector, with most of the cash focused on digital initiatives in the NHS

  • March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

    Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan

    Masterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub

  • March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

    Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing

    Privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators about allegedly unlawful data processing by online advertising firm LiveRamp

  • March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

    How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms

    The Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency

  • March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

    APAC firms bullish on IT spending

    More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity

    TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories

  • February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

    Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists

    Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom

  • February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

    Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex

    The UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel

  • February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

    Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’

    Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’

  • February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

    Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio

    Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models

  • February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

    Met Police to scrap and replace ‘racist’ Gangs Violence Matrix

    A database used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and track people linked with gang violence is being decommissioned and replaced. The decision follows a long-running controversy over its discriminatory impacts on young black people, but ...

  • February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

    How DBS is industrialising AI across its business

    Southeast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank

  • February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

    Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium

    The FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police

  • February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

    Government reaffirms commitment to hold off on AI laws

    The UK government reaffirming its commitment hold off on artificial intelligence legislation has been received positively by industry for balancing innovation and safety

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation

    The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet

    The short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud

  • February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

    Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics

    Workers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics

  • January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

    GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

    AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly

  • January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

    UN chief blasts AI companies for reckless pursuit of profit

    The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance

  • January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

    ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality

    The UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF

    While artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities

  • January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

    UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn

    The government’s Pornography Review will look in part at the use of AI throughout the industry to generate sexually explicit content without people’s consent

  • January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

    Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill

    The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK

  • January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

    Fighting money laundering with AI

    Mike Foster, CEO of SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, talks up how AI can be used to fight financial crime and how the company’s technology can augment existing AML investments

  • December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

    Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

    From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  • December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

    Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

    Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

  • December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

    Top 10 business applications stories of 2023

    Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth

  • December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

    Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

    Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage

    The UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Top 10 storage stories of 2023

    In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

  • December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

    Top 10 information management stories of 2023

    Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

  • December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

    Police defend facial recognition target selection to Lords

    Senior police officers confirm to Lords committee that facial recognition watchlist image selection is based on crime categories attached to people’s photos, rather than a context-specific assessment of the threat presented by a given individual

  • December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

    CDO interview: Andy Moore, chief data officer, Bentley Motors

    Data sits at the heart of the luxury car maker’s plans for a future with electric vehicles and a ‘hyper-personalised’ customer experience

  • December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

    No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

    The UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary

  • December 05, 2023 05 Dec'23

    CIO interview: Jarrod Phipps, Holman

    The automotive services firm is accumulating vast amounts of data from its fleet and using it to bring insights to improve customer and employee experiences

  • December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

    Human augmentation tech requires dual use oversight

    Researchers investigating human augmentation technologies must acknowledge the potential military applications of their work, and military bodies cannot be allowed to dismiss ethical concerns in their pursuit of national security interests, says NGO...