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• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Nordic innovators look to revive the zombie subscriber population

  Zombie subscriptions where customers buy a service and forget about it are harming the subscription economy, but software is being developed to support the subscription economy

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders

  Amazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  IT witness was hidden away from Post Office court battle, but supported it from shadows

  Former Fujitsu chief architect provided evidence support to Post Office witnesses in High Court battle despite being unfit to provide it directly

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption

  Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies

  The Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI

  At its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  CDO interview: Sophie Gallay, global data and client IT director, Etam

  The French retailer has some catching up to do on its data strategy and digital transformation – and its new data chief has an ambitious roadmap to deliver on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems

  Expertise in complex Cobol systems, critical to major financial institutions, is dwindling in The Netherlands, resulting in retired professionals returning work

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech

  Britain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  General election 2024: Liberal Democrats thread digital commitments throughout manifesto

  The Lib Dems have promised a new industrial strategy and emphasised the importance of the digital sector, skills and regulating AI, as they lay out plans for the UK general election

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  AI firms can’t be trusted to voluntarily share risk information

  Workers at frontier AI firms have warned that their employers – including OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic – can’t be trusted to voluntarily share information about their systems capabilities and risks with governments or civil society

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems

  Post Office branch managers have told Computer Weekly they had no training on how to use Capture software, which pre-dated Horizon

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  SAP Sapphire 2024: AI in all its forms – but not only AI

  SAP talked a lot about artificial intelligence at its big annual event in Orlando. But the supplier has more discreetly addressed other issues closer to the concerns of clients

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

  Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Juniper Networks claims first with AIOps to WAN routing

  Juniper Networks announces industry leadership with enhancements to cloud-native Mist AI engine for all network domains, claiming to deliver insight for exceptional experiences

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Salesforce boosts London AI scene

  SaaS pioneer Salesforce has chosen London as the location of its new AI centre, enabling users to test-drive and work on AI-driven business innovation

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  HP loses in US fraud case against Autonomy's Mike Lynch

  Autonomy founder cleared of fraud in US trial, following on from HP's $5bn write-down after tts acquisition of the data discovery firm

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Rapid AI development poses supervisory challenges in the Netherlands

  In the Netherlands, the financial regulator and the monetary authority are grappling with the pace of artificial intelligence development and its implications for the financial industry

• June 07, 2024 07 Jun'24

  Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told

  Post Office scandal inquiry hears how board member believed Fujitsu was exploiting the Post Office

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next

  After posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Zoom opens immersive Experience Centre in London

  Leading collaboration and communications technology firm looks to raise bar of international footprint and strengthen UK commitment with major investment

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  UK firms still struggling to enable hybrid work

  Survey reveals UK firms are still struggling to make hybrid work effective, with 62% of workplaces changing policy in the past four years and failure to adopt suitable digital tools leading employees to feel overwhelmed and frustrated

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document

  Capture software was used by about 2,000 subpostmasters in the 1990s, with allegations that errors in the software caused account shortfalls

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act

  Almost immediately after joining the Post Office, Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about an imbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  HPE takes $4.5bn in enterprise IT AI server orders

  The server company is prepping everything for greater enterprise artificial intelligence demand

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Lack of upfront specifications kill agile projects

  Research shows there is a high chance of failure when a software development project begins without a specification being signed off

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

  Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Collaboration suffers as businesses fail to adapt workplace technology

  Research reveals critical gaps in workplace tech affecting productivity and collaboration among workers in the UK, with businesses failing to adapt IT infrastructure to suit different personality types

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Cisco Live: AI to fuel Cisco mission to connect and protect everything

  Networking giant plots future where harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data will allow companies to connect and protect everything across a global network where data is the ultimate differentiator

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress

  Campaigner says former subpostmasters may have to resort to legal action in pursuit of the money they are owed

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Cisco gears up to cash in on AI innovation and investments

  Networking giant plots out artificial intelligence-powered future within networks to build digital resilience and offer secure visibility, observability and insight across digital footprints, with $1bn global AI investment fund

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

  Websites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team

  Fujitsu is reducing staffing levels at its UK Oracle Practice in a move cited as ensuring its competitiveness

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Having female AI decision-makers is a priority for 37% of UK business leaders

  Research from IBM reveals almost 40% of UK business leaders think getting women into decision-making positions is increasingly important in the era of artificial intelligence

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI

  One supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed

  Subpostmasters were reassured by Post Office executives that the Horizon replacement project was satisfactory the day before Computer Weekly reported news to the contrary

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Researchers demonstrate value of AI in predicting heart disease

  A decade-long study using an AI-based risk score of 40,000 people has shown it’s possible to detect the level of inflammation of heart arteries

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  AI Seoul Summit review

  Dozens of governments and tech companies attending the second global AI Safety Summit have committed themselves to the safe and inclusive development of the technology, but questions remain around whether the commitments made go far enough

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Uktech50 2024: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  UKtech50 received a record-breaking 434 nominations for the 2024 list. Unfortunately, there wasn’t space for everyone in the top 50, and as you can see for yourself in this year’s longlist, it was a difficult decision for the judges

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  How poor IT project management failed Birmingham Oracle implementation

  Birmingham City Council’s Oracle system – the biggest of its kind in Europe – went live in April 2022, resulting in a catastrophic IT failure. We investigate

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  McLaren Formula 1 Team revs up network security with Cisco

  Legendary motor racing team expands global partnership with networking giant to accelerate network security for on-premise hardware and cloud-based software, including secure firewall and XDR

• May 31, 2024 31 May'24

  Fujitsu set for further £180m deal as Post Office Horizon replacement delayed

  Problems with the Post Office project to replace its controversial Horizon IT system mean Fujitsu is set to receive up to £180m more in taxpayers' cash to support the system for another five years

• May 31, 2024 31 May'24

  IBM, AI Singapore to bolster Sea-Lion LLM

  IBM will work with AI Singapore on technical exchanges to enhance Sea-Lion and make the region’s first LLM available to data scientists and engineers through its AI use case library

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  Post Office Horizon replacement project labelled 'unachievable' as taxpayer bill reaches £1bn

  The project to replace the Horizon IT system in Post Office branches is late, over budget and lacking quality – and government auditors sent in to assess a request for £1bn funding say it is currently unachievable

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  The challenges of supporting Copilot+ PCs in the enterprise

  Windows PCs generally use x86 compatible hardware, with Intel or AMD processors. Microsoft is now propelling Windows on Arm for AI

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

  The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  Storebrand divests from IBM over supply of biometrics to Israel

  Norwegian asset manager Storebrand’s decision to divest from IBM comes amid growing scrutiny of the role technology companies play in Israel’s human rights abuses

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  Survey reveals generative AI employee fear

  IBM/Oxford Economics global CEO survey shows generative AI success relies on employee training and business leader vision

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  Next UK government must be prepared to legislate on AI, say MPs

  The House Science, Innovation and Technology Committee says the next government should be ready to legislate on artificial intelligence to plug any regulatory gaps

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

  Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy