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• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Post Office scheme was a ‘charade’ that never intended for large compensation pay-outs

  The Post Office established a scheme to compensate subpostmasters affected by tech faults, but it was just a ‘charade’, says Public Inquiry KC

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  European Parliament approves platform worker directive

  The approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic ...

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  INDO-MIM taps 3D printing in precision manufacturing

  The precision metal parts manufacturer is using HP’s Metal Jet S100 printers to produce components using metal powder for the automotive, healthcare and other industries

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  ITV News tech failures nearly caused ‘holes’ in live broadcasts

  Software purchased by ITN to be used to create bulletins and other content for ITV News is still experiencing problems almost a year after its introduction

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Post Office boss used husband’s descriptions in 'Orwellian' ploy to downplay Horizon problems

  Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  NCSC announces PwC’s Richard Horne as CEO

  Former PwC and Barclays cyber chief Richard Horne set to join UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as CEO

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Unisys reveals no link to development of controversial Post Office software

  IT supplier finds no evidence that it was involved in the development of controversial Post Office software

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare

  Manipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI

  Proposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  IT expert who helped expose Post Office scandal offers to investigate second controversial system

  IT expert Jason Coyne, who played a critical part in exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, said he would examine the Capture System

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  ODI and Arup collaborate on data-sharing initiative to help companies reach net-zero goals

  The built environment is responsible for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint. Better data sharing could be the key to reducing that

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Post Office boss signed off hush money to cover up smoking gun

  A former Post Office boss admitted the pain and suffering of subpostmasters could have been avoided had the organisation done the right thing

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CW Innovation Awards: Making AI pervasive

  DBS Bank’s AI Industrialisation Programme has been instrumental in industrialising the use of data and artificial intelligence across its business, resulting in over S$370m of incremental economic benefits

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CW Innovation Awards: Arming for efficiency

  Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia’s automated scheduling application has been able to schedule unplanned service calls automatically and reduce travel times for its technicians

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Why Salesforce needs a data management platform

  There are reports that Salesforce is looking to acquire Informatica, but such a move needs to fit with its AI and GenAI strategy

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Alan Bates and JFSA won’t back down in fight with government and Post Office

  Over the past 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

  DBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS

  The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  EU’s AI Act fails to protect the rule of law and civic space

  Analysis reveals that the AI Act is ‘riddled with far-reaching exceptions’ and its measures to protect fundamental rights are insufficient

• April 12, 2024 12 Apr'24

  UK in critical need of regulation to fight misinformation online

  Misinformation, where it is generated by AI, poses a serious threat due to the ease with which plausible false content can be created and spread

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers

  With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption

  Vertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes

  Salesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Civil servants more to blame for Post Office cover-up than ministers, says Alan Bates

  Campaigning former subpostmaster believes the civil service has more to answer for than ministers in the Post Office Horizon scandal

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Public worried by police and companies sharing biometric data

  More than half of the British public do not feel comfortable with police forces sharing biometric data with the private sector, including facial recognition images, to tackle crimes such as shoplifting

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Government struggles to upgrade legacy IT systems, says PAC chair

  In her annual report, Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier calls legacy IT one of government’s ‘big nasties’ and says money urgently needs to be spent to fix the situation

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  What Cisco’s Splunk acquisition means for APAC customers

  APAC organisations can expect better visibility and insights into their networks and applications along with automation and response capabilities to improve their digital resilience

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  UN adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on making AI safe and trustworthy

  A UN draft resolution promoting the use of artificial intelligence in sustainable development and the protection of human rights was backed by over 120 member states

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  Some former Post Office staff should be jailed over scandal, says government minister

  Government minister outlines the real prospect that people will be jailed for their roles in the Post Office Horizon scandal

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  MPs will grill Cabinet Office over Fujitsu contract bidding pause

  Parliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal, with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  Fujitsu should stop bending rules, stop bidding and pay up, says MP

  MP Liam Byrne calls on Fujitsu to put actions behind the promises it made to MPs, victims of the Post Office scandal and UK taxpayers

• April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

  Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy

  Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms

  Despite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Indian large language models gain momentum

  Indian LLMs trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model

  Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI

  Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications

  SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto

  The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum

  Platform teams are extending their responsibilities to security as platform engineering takes DevOps to the next level

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public

  Technology practitioners and experts gathered at an annual Alan Turing Institute-run conference discussed the need for more inclusive approaches to AI governance that actually engage citizens and workers

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy

  Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance

• 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 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  Unprecedented bill to exonerate hundreds of wrongly convicted Post Office workers arrives

  Unprecedented legislation that will see hundreds of former subpostmaster convictions for fraud and theft overturned begins its journey through Parliament

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

  The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment

• 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 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Current subpostmaster account shortfalls reveal extent of Post Office’s pre-2019 neglect

  Hundreds of current subpostmasters might have been hounded for money or prosecuted had the Post Office not been forced to change its ways in 2019

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Infor a penny, Infor a pound

  How vertical enterprise resource planning specialist Infor has its sights set on a disruptive 2024

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs

  AI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise

  While optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

  Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector