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• March 06, 2025 06 Mar'25

  Big bank systems crashed for over 800 hours in last two years due to IT outages

  Bank bosses forced to reveal extent of banking IT failures to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data

  NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

  The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity

  Leading light in women in fintech says Europe must take separate path to Trump’s US on diversity, equity and inclusion

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

  The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again

  A month after Barclays suffered online banking problems, customers at multiple banks report further issues

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims

  Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract

  UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates

  A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Understanding intersectionality: Inclusion and employees’ whole life experience

  While businesses increasingly understand how gender, ethnicity or sexuality may impact a person’s experience in the tech sector, many don’t take into account how some will have an overlap of these experiences

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025

  Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan

  Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties

  Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation

  Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  Gartner: CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives

  Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner

• February 14, 2025 14 Feb'25

  Government launches consultation on plan to streamline business through e-invoicing

  Government announces 12-week consultation on electronic invoicing as part of its plan for change

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Baltic skills programme to help reduce European skills gap via Africa

  Lithuanian project sets out to connect professionals in Africa with European businesses in need of skills

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  CCRC reviewing 17 Post Office convictions with potential Capture software involvement

  Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding of the Post Office Horizon scandal

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash

  Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal

  Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Saudi puts $15bn into AI as experts debate next steps

  The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show is the backdrop for huge investment, plus debate over the future of artificial intelligence as a productivity tool but which can also potentially undermine human society

• February 09, 2025 09 Feb'25

  HMRC spends £785m a year on running digital tax systems

  Beyond £785m spend, HMRC also spent £482m on upgrading legacy systems and introducing new digital systems, as it continues to fall behind its plans to become one of the most digitally advanced tax authorities in the world

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  As Java turns 30, developers switch to OpenJDK

  James Gosling invented Java in 1995. It has been kept up to date and now supports artificial intelligence, but Oracle Java is no longer the preferred choice

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Swedish commission delivers roadmap to drive artificial intelligence reforms

  Sweden will invest in artificial intelligence in an effort to catch up with global leaders in the field

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector

  MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Nationwide Building Society to train people to think like cyber criminals

  Nationwide wants to help bring more diversity into UK cyber security skills base through partnership with training specialist

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation

  Limited information is likely to lead to significantly inaccurate assumptions on the cost of Post Office scandal compensation schemes

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Major obstacles facing Labour’s AI opportunity action plan

  Skills, data held in legacy tech and a lack of leadership are among the areas discussed during a recent Public Accounts Committee session

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Microsoft’s results show cloud AI balancing act

  CEO acknowledges efficiency of DeepSeek and need to assess model optimisation rather than just buying more AI servers

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks

  Volvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  Interview: Digital tech fuels AutoTrader’s drive into the future

  Led by a technology enthusiast, AutoTrader is on a digital journey that began when it decided to take a different route in 2007

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Interview: Feryal Clark, AI and digital government minister, DSIT

  Computer Weekly talks to the parliamentary under-secretary about digital identity, the importance of trust and utilising the power of artificial intelligence

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Oxford-Cambridge Arc gets government support

  Labour aims to capitalise on the growth potential of the cluster of businesses and academic institutes around Oxford, Cambridge and Milton Keynes

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Review of legal rule on computer evidence long overdue, say Post Office scandal victims

  Computer Weekly talks to people who suffered miscarriages of justice at the hands of flawed computer evidence, as well as to experts in law and IT, as the government commits to review the legal presumption that computers work all the time

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Samsung unpacks Galaxy AI’s personal data engine

  The headlines are the Galaxy S25 line-up, but the hardware is powered by Samsung’s ambition to develop an AI ecosystem

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Kearney, Futurum: Big enterprise CEOs make AI core to future

  According to research from management consultancy Kearney and analyst firm Futurum, big company CEOs are buying into AI hopes and dreams, with a dash of prudence

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Weak supplier management hinders digital government

  Procurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware

  The market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Labour announces plans to overhaul digital government

  The Government Digital Service will be expanded along with changes to the way technology is funded, built and delivered across the public sector, as Labour aims for improvements previous administrations struggled to achieve

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Power grid constraints threaten Dutch digital innovation ambitions

  The Netherlands risks falling behind in crucial digital innovations such as artificial intelligence as power grid congestion reaches critical levels across the country

• January 17, 2025 17 Jan'25

  Why CIO tenures are getting shorter ... and why it matters

  While the CIO role often has a strong focus on delivering technology change many now have a wider business-focused role

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay

  More public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Bank of England and New York counterpart exchange puts technology cooperation into 3D

  A staff exchange between regulators will see US and UK financial technology experts cross the Atlantic

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Diversity in tech 2024: Collaboration is vital for DEI progress

  At the 2024 Computer Weekly and Harvey Nash diversity in tech event, speakers and audience members alike made it clear that gaining true equity in the technology sector will continue to move at a snail’s pace without working together

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  Larger businesses spend, spend, spend on AI

  Companies earning over $500m are spending 5% of their revenue on artificial intelligence initiatives

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  UK’s female fintech leaders hit harder by investment collapse

  UK fintechs led by women suffered disproportionately as a result of the fall in investment in the sector

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Subpostmasters won’t get financial redress until mid-2027 at current rate of progress

  Campaigning former subpostmaster warns that some members of the group that took the Post Office to court might not receive financial redress until mid-2027

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Government funding to help businesses discover AI value

  The government is betting the bank on the power of artificial intelligence to fix the public sector, mend roads and boost the UK economy

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  Metro mayors face similar digitisation challenges to banks, but lack their resources

  UK regional leaders want to be independent of central government when it comes to digital transformation decision-making, but don’t fully understand what’s ahead