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• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  F1 heightens fan experiences with the power of Salesforce

  Learn how the technical teams behind Formula One are using Salesforce’s tools to enhance fan activation and engagement at 24 races across the world, and how they are bringing AI into play with Agentforce capabilities

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  Nordic states launch ambitious AI centre regional plan

  Nordic states to increase cooperation on artificial intelligence to help region close gap on global leaders

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

  NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  AWS doubles down on ASEAN with cloud and AI investments

  The cloud giant is fuelling growth in Southeast Asia with new infrastructure, skills development programmes and a focus on generative AI, empowering startups and enterprises alike

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  User group chair recommends long-term SAP Rise strategy

  Independent UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair describes upgrade as a marathon, not a sprint, but says SAP Rise is also inevitable

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  UK economy could see £600m boost through digital IDs for businesses

  Government-backed organisation kicks off initiative to widen use of digital identities, in an effort to streamline financial services and cut hundreds of millions of pounds of economic crime

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Interview: The importance of building a data foundation

  We speak to Terren Peterson, Capital One’s vice-president of engineering, about how data pipelines and platforms are essential for AI success

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 29, 2024 29 Nov'24

  Swedish authorities urged to discontinue AI welfare system

  Amnesty International is calling on Sweden’s social insurance agency to immediately discontinue its machine learning-based welfare system, following an investigation by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet that found it to be discriminatory

• November 29, 2024 29 Nov'24

  Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service

  IT services company will ship 50 of its staff from Europe to Canada to work onsite at the tournament in February 2025

• November 28, 2024 28 Nov'24

  Farmers tap IoT and AI to increase chicken health and egg yield

  Innovate UK grant funds project that uses sensor technology to improve the health and welfare of laying hens while increasing productivity, efficiency and industry resilience

• November 28, 2024 28 Nov'24

  Chulalongkorn University debuts GenAI platform

  Thai university teams up with Google Cloud to empower its community with responsible and customisable AI tools for research, learning and administration

• November 28, 2024 28 Nov'24

  Energy sector’s digital shift opens door to cyber threats

  The transition to renewable energy and the increasing integration of IT and OT systems in the energy sector are creating new cyber security challenges

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Scientists demonstrate Pixelator deepfake image verification tool

  With the age of deepfake imagery upon us, a team led by York St John University researchers has created a tool to help people ‘navigate the fine line between reality and fabrication’

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Post Office Capture users invited to pivotal meeting with government

  About 80 former Capture users have now come forward for legal support in making claims against the Post Office

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  Barings Law plans to sue Microsoft and Google over AI training data

  Microsoft and Google are using people’s personal data without proper consent to train artificial intelligence models, alleges Barings Law, as it prepares to launch a legal challenge against the tech giants

• November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24

  GitLab doubles down on DevSecOps and AI in APAC

  The DevOps platform supplier is focused on providing deeper platform integration, enhanced security and artificial intelligence-powered tools to help APAC organisations speed up software delivery

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Conservative peer urges government not to limit open source AI

  The chair of the Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee calls for greater support for SMEs, competition and economic dynamism as artificial intelligence policies are developed

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How Kong is driving the future of APIs

  From its open-source API gateway to a full platform play, Kong is orchestrating the future of APIs with a growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Google Cloud research highlights potential for GenAI to transform public sector service delivery

  Research commissioned by Google Cloud suggests encouraging the public sector to step up its adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies could have a transformative impact on the public purse

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems

  Campaigning former subpostmaster Sir Alan Bates met with Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) over financial redress scheme

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for its 2025 Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Manufacturing industry at crossroads in AI adoption

  Report warns that Britain’s manufacturers are at risk of missing out on innovation and productivity gains due to a lack of confidence in digital technologies and AI

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

  Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Human-centric AI drives customer experience loyalty

  Study from customer experience technology provider shows AI-powered personalisation, loyalty and human-like interactions redefine success for CX leaders

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Post Office scandal: How much deeper and wider can it get?

  It took decades to expose the Post Office Horizon scandal but that effort has laid the groundwork for others to seek justice and financial redress

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Swiss encrypted messaging service, ePost, targets one million postal users

  Swiss ePost chief Renato Stalder bets on encrypted communications as demand for letter delivery falls

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Convictions of Post Office Capture system users to be reviewed by statutory body

  Statutory body to look at the convictions of subpostmasters who used a pre-Horizon branch accounting system

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Government looking into third faulty Post Office IT system

  The Department for Business and Trade will look into claims that a third Post Office branch system caused unexplained shortfalls that branch workers and subpostmasters were blamed for

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Indoor 6G trial shows major throughput gain

  Trial of indoor communications shows AI propels 6G throughput by 6-16% and stationary tests conducted at 25 points along a test route confirm 18% improvement

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Deloitte: GenAI paving the way for transformative future for comms

  Annual report into prospects for global technology, media and telecommunications industry paints a challenging picture as GenAI reshapes limits of comms tech and aggregation comes to streaming

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Qlik expands cloud footprint to India

  The data analytics and business intelligence software supplier is bolstering its presence in Asia-Pacific with a cloud region in India

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  IT and business leaders face big gap in understanding of data priorities

  There appears to be a gap between what business leaders want to do with artificial intelligence and the IT capabilities of their organisation

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Networks lagging in compute tech evolution, says HPE

  As AI brings about unprecedented transformation, leading network firm plots course to offer viable infrastructure for businesses to gain competitive edge

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Nvidia CEO talks up AI post-training, test learning and gigawatts

  The company’s datacentre business continues to skyrocket as demand for artificial intelligence accelerates

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Grab taps GPT-4o to improve mapping service

  Regional ride-hailing giant and super app Grab is leveraging OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to build hyperlocal, dynamic maps, cutting costs and boosting accuracy

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Post Office to harness technology to automate scandal financial redress payments

  Technology that could speed up financial redress for subpostmasters is being worked on in-house by the Post Office

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Government issues strategic priorities for online safety regulator Ofcom

  Technology secretary Peter Kyle sets out the government’s strategic priorities for how Ofcom should approach regulating online safety, including embedding safety by design and supporting innovation in technologies to help protect people online

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Digital Catapult hails shared infrastructure as route to decarbonisation for logistics sector

  Digital Catapult has opened up about the success it has seen with using shared digital infrastructure to help the transport-logistics sector work more collaboratively to cut carbon emissions

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Microsoft Ignite: A $4m zero-day reward plus $349 thin client

  A $4m cyber hackathon prize was revealed at Ignite as part of Microsoft’s latest IT security efforts, as well as a new locked-down client device called Windows 365 Link

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split

  The Post Office will no longer rely on Fujitsu for Horizon data past and present once cloud migration project is complete, in a major uncoupling of the 30-year relationship

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months

  If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  AI readiness stalls in APAC

  Despite significant investment in AI, only 15% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are ready to deploy the technology today, according to Cisco’s latest regional AI readiness survey

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Post Office is paying lawyers too much, admits minister

  When pushed, a government minister admits the Post Office is paying lawyers too much money in relation to the Post Office scandal

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  CMA clears Google over Anthropic partnership

  The UK competition watchdog has finished its initial investigation into Google’s partnership with Anthropic, with no follow-up on the cards

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Interview: Raymond Boyle, vice-president of data and analytics, Hyatt Hotels

  Data culture is a key focus for the strategy at the global hotel chain, especially as AI opens up new opportunities to drive personalisation and trust with customers

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Subpostmasters hit by Post Office scandal plan to meet over 'nuclear option'

  Members of campaign group Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance will discuss taking legal action in their pursuit of full, fair and final financial redress

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Alight looks to enhance Microsoft Teams Experience with Worklife

  Human capital technology provider works with Microsoft expert on integration to simplify collaboration, boost awareness and enhance overall employee experience and wellbeing

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Post Office scandal: Inquiry’s final phase exposes dysfunction past and present

  Conclusion of the seventh and final phase of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry hearings is another landmark in a scandal that has unfolded over a quarter of a century

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  UK government seeks AI innovators to support clean energy transition and pursuit of net zero by 2050

  The UK government has launched the second round of the Manchester Prize, which is geared towards using artificial intelligence technologies to assist with the clean energy transition