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• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  ‘You knew’ – former ally accused Paula Vennells of knowing about Horizon problems

  Former Royal Mail CEO messaged Paula Vennells following the broadcasting of ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, questioning what the former Post Office boss knew and removed her support

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Dutch employers should discuss using algorithms in managing staff

  Dutch organisations must engage in open discussions with employees about the use of algorithms and data in managing staff

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  AI Seoul Summit: 27 nations and EU to set red lines on AI risk

  The countries will now work together to identify thresholds at which the risks presented by an AI model or system would be unacceptable without safeguards in place, as well as develop interoperable safety testing regimes for the technology

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  UK government announces £8.5m in grants for AI safety research

  The funding programme will be directed by the UK’s AI Safety Institute, with grants being used to understand and mitigate the impacts of artificial intelligence, including any systemic risks it presents at the societal level

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware

  It may take several years to move off VMware. In the meantime, Nutanix and Rimini Street have ramped up efforts to target unhappy customers

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  AI Seoul Summit: 10 nations and EU recommit to safe inclusive AI

  During the latest AI Summit in South Korea, the participating governments reaffirmed their prior commitments to deepening international cooperation on AI safety, and have agreed to launch an international network of ‘safety institutes’

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments

  Prominent artificial intelligence companies from around the world have committed to a set of voluntary AI safety measures, which includes developing continuous risk assessment processes, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and ensuring greater ...

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  Enterprise sector shines in steady Q1 for Zoom

  Zoom’s latest financial results show continued growth beyond its roots, driven by a commitment to meet customer needs and enhance productivity

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity

  During its annual Next conference in Barcelona, Nutanix has expanded its hardware partner programme to grab new business from Broadcom

• May 21, 2024 21 May'24

  Post Office clique deepened Horizon scandal

  A general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Dell Technologies World: AI at core of Dell’s next chapter

  With a significant anniversary just passed, Dell CEO Michael Dell was in reflective mood as he looked ahead to the impact of artificial intelligence on the tech giant’s product stack

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format

  NoSQL database specialist adds generative AI for datacentre deployments where cloud is a no-no for cost, security or compliance reasons, with a focus on vector storage

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  UK AI Safety Institute to open San Francisco branch

  News of the AI Safety Institute’s expansion to the US follows the first public release of its AI safety testing results

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

  Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Post Office directors went crawling back to Fujitsu when IBM project got complex, inquiry told

  More details emerge about how close IBM came to replacing Fujitsu and its controversial Horizon system at the Post Office

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  The fall from grace of ex-priest and Post Office boss Paula Vennells

  As Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Report highlights disagreement among experts on AI safety

  An interim AI safety report coming out of the Bletchley Declaration shows AI experts are not in agreement over some of the biggest risks

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Post Office CEO Paula Vennells ‘didn’t believe there were miscarriages of justice,’ inquiry told

  As the nation waits for the impending appearance of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells at the public inquiry, a former colleague reveals her certainty that there were no miscarriages of justice

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Post Office considered asking Computer Weekly to review Horizon IT system

  The Post Office CIO was tasked by directors with sizing up Computer Weekly for the task of reviewing a forensic investigation into Horizon

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

  The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Vodafone Business Ireland and RingCentral team for hybrid work collaboration

  Business division of telco and cloud comms service provider add Ireland to territories for unified communications and collaboration solutions designed to allow businesses to embrace the evolving landscape of hybrid work

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Critical SharePoint, Qakbot-linked flaws focus of May Patch Tuesday

  A critical SharePoint vulnerability warrants attention this month, but it is another flaw that seems to be linked to the infamous Qakbot malware that is drawing attention

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Government focuses on improving AI security

  Two codes of practice are now available to help developers boost the security of their AI applications

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  HP, Google bring Starline collaboration out of lab and into workplace

  Tech firms unveil collaboration technology project based on AI and 3D imaging, designed to make co-workers feel like they’re together from any distance

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Comms director at centre of cover-up never thought Post Office were the ‘baddies’

  Head of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error-prone Horizon system when challenged

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

  Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse

  The Scottish parliament will introduce its own legislation to exonerate subpostmasters with convictions based on evidence from Post Office Horizon system

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NHS trust dismisses governors who questioned allegations of email tampering

  Two NHS trust governors who raised questions in a dispute over allegations of email tampering concerning whistleblower Peter Duffy have been dismissed after an investigation that followed their suspension

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Maria 01 rolls out ambitious pan-Europe startup plan

  Ten-year plan will see pan-Nordic tech startup ecosystem based in Finnish capital

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer

  The Isambard-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Norway bolsters digital transformation drive

  Norway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

  We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing

  Use of advanced artificial intelligence is outpacing organisations’ ability to govern the technology, warns ISACA research

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  MHRA launches AI regulatory sandbox

  The Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hopes the AI Airlock sandbox will help in improving safe development and use of medical devices

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project

  Lack of tech skills, disconnected agile development and non-compliance with government standards are among the issues identified in report

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference

  ServiceNow put the future use of GenAI at the centre of its annual user conference, Knowledge24

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability

  Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity

  We speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

  In the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

  IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

  Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges

  A ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

  Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Government jumps on Wayve self-drive funding boost

  DSIT says the $1bn of funding announced by UK startup Wayve shows that a pro-innovation approach to regulation works

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

  Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

  The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Gartner: Few organisations have mature AI processes

  Survey results show that estimating and delivering value from AI projects are among the biggest challenges organisations face