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• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Post Office boosted its ‘coffers’ as Horizon system threw up unexplained shortfalls, inquiry told

  The Post Office was ‘keen’ to make subpostmasters cover unexplained accounting shortfall as its business struggled, public inquiry hears

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Microsoft 365 banned in German schools over privacy concerns

  German schools cannot legally use Microsoft Office 365 over lack of clarity about how data is collected, shared and used, as well as the potential for unlawful transfer of European citizens’ personal data to the US

• 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 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Getting data analytics right

  Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

  The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes

• 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 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  AI adopted without due consideration for workers, MPs told

  MPs have been warned that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence in workplaces has changed UK enterprises’ management practices so much that current employment law is no longer fit for purpose

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading

  Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers

  SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits

  Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  ODI fuel poverty survey shows young adults most hard up

  A fuel poverty data report and index from the Open Data Institute shows that young adults and people in multi-occupied accommodation are most at risk

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  How organisations can right-size their data footprint

  More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Public sector IT projects need ethical data practices from start

  Data ethics needs to be integrated into public sector IT projects from the very start, and considered throughout every stage of the process, to be effective

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake

  The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  CIO interview: Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI, TUI

  The international travel group is overhauling its data stack and aims to provide self-service analytics to key employees across the organisation

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Summit majors on ethics in data use, demonstrates diversity

  The Data Lab’s Data Summit majored on the ethical use of data, and featured Scottish government minister Tom Arthur, science broadcaster Hannah Fry, and Nasa chief science data officer Kevin Murphy

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Lab bolsters business execs data course in time with Data Summit

  Course focuses on the leadership skills needed to design, resource and implement a data strategy that will enable organisational change

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Scotland’s Data Lab CEO Brian Hills on its ambition to change lives

  Brian Hills, chief executive of The Data Lab in Scotland, on why he thinks the organisation’s mission is less about data and more about changing lives by giving people career opportunities

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

  ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  When technology lets you sleep easy

  Indian mattress supplier Duroflex has taken a leaf out of mattress design in its technology implementation to double its growth in an industry dominated by unorganised players

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  SAP Q3 2022: revenue up 15%, Ukraine war impact €250m

  SAP has announced third-quarter 2022 revenue of more than €7.8bn, up 15% year on year, with cloud revenue at 42%

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance

  Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace

• October 24, 2022 24 Oct'22

  Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: The growing divide between the haves and have-nots

  The most successful companies carefully manage how data is taken in and processed – and they use tools to ensure they squeeze the most they can out of every bit of information

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

  Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Did Truss authorise ‘war risk’ provocation over Black Sea?

  A UK Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint spy plane was ordered to approach Russian territory in a Cold-War-style provocation just days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Parliamentary committee launches inquiry into AI governance

  MPs will examine the impacts of artificial intelligence throughout the UK economy and how governance of the technology can be improved ahead of the government publishing its formal regulatory proposals

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle CloudWorld 2022: Ellison vaunts centrality of healthcare to mission

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison put the company’s healthcare initiatives front and centre of its vision during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Turing launches government-backed AI standards information hub

  The Alan Turing Institute has launched the AI Standards Hub jointly with the British Standards Institution and the National Physical Laboratory, backed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  French Supreme Court rejects EncroChat verdict after lawyers question secrecy over hacking operation

  France’s Supreme Court has sent a case back to the court of appeal after police failed to disclose technical details of EncroChat hacking operation

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Public sector spend on IT climbed to £12.6bn in 2021

  Public sector bodies IT spend went up 10% last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers with 89% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell

• October 09, 2022 09 Oct'22

  ODI food poverty study shows black families and North East suffering most

  A food poverty data report from the Open Data Institute shows black families and the North East of England are suffering the most

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken

  In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Interview: Rachel Hilliam, chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals

  Rachel Hilliam talks about the origins, mission and future plans for the Alliance for Data Science Professionals

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  American football giants jet into digital age with HCLTech

  US football clubs the New York Jets and New York Giants outsource their digital transformations to Indian service provider as they target improved fan engagement

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Specsavers clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

  At Big Data London, Specsavers’ global data officer related how clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Broadcasters treat data science as niche and sporadic in use

  Data science specialists at UK broadcasters conveyed a similar picture of niche use cases at Big Data London 2022

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  CCS £2bn big data and analytics framework goes live

  The Crown Commercial Service has launched a big data and analytics framework worth up to £2bn over the course of the agreement

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  Dreamforce 2022: Benioff and Taylor uncork real-time Genie to toast ‘new day’

  Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor vaunt their Genie customer data platform as real-time harbinger of eventual post-pandemic new normal at Dreamforce 2022

• September 19, 2022 19 Sep'22

  How Mondelez is driving change with tech

  From empowering citizen developers to deploying drones to monitor the health of cocoa trees, Mondelez has been firing on all cylinders to disrupt the old ways of doing things

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  How graph technology is making a dent in the database market

  Graph databases are making a splash in the database market, with specialist, multimodal and cloud database suppliers jostling for a slice of the pie

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  SAP users ramp up ESG efforts

  The UK & Ireland SAP User Group is developing a special interest group to help their members hit their ESG goals more effectively

• September 12, 2022 12 Sep'22

  Lloyd’s of London is digitally transforming through the front door

  Centuries-old financial services organisation is transforming its complex IT infrastructure through digital data

• September 09, 2022 09 Sep'22

  Panasas’s double NAS offer aims at multiple analytics workloads

  ActiveStor Flash and ActiveStor Ultra XL target I/O profiles from rapid AI/ML to processing-heavy modelling but remain firmly on-prem, with object and cloud declared ‘interesting’

• September 01, 2022 01 Sep'22

  Google workers oppose cloud contract with Israeli government

  Google workers and Palestinian rights activists call on company to divest from involvement in cloud and artificial intelligence contract with Israeli government and military, following allegations the tech giant has retaliated against an employee ...

• August 30, 2022 30 Aug'22

  Growing importance of the data strategist in South Holland

  Much has been written about the work of data scientists, but the lesser-known role of data strategist is just as essential – as is being demonstrated in the Netherlands

• August 29, 2022 29 Aug'22

  Thinxtra teams up with Hong Kong’s LBS on smart hygiene

  Australia’s Thinxtra will supply its battery-powered IoT devices to monitor hygiene and environmental conditions in residential and commercial venues in Hong Kong