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• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  MPs will attempt to amend law on overturning Post Office scandal convictions

  Business and trade select committee chair says the job is not done with legislation to overturn wrongful subpostmaster convictions and provide financial redress

• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word

  The children of victims of the Post Office scandal have formed a group that will hold Fujitsu’s European boss to his promise of support

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  US authorities move a step closer to banning TikTok

  Lawmakers in Washington DC have moved a step closer to enacting a broad national ban on controversial video app TikTok in the US, with global ramifications

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April

  After a year being previewed by beta customers, Microsoft’s much vaunted Copilot for Security service is about to go on general release, promising time savings and improved accuracy for hard-pressed security pros

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  Unprecedented bill to exonerate hundreds of wrongly convicted Post Office workers arrives

  Unprecedented legislation that will see hundreds of former subpostmaster convictions for fraud and theft overturned begins its journey through Parliament

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

  The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  March Patch Tuesday throws up two critical Hyper-V flaws

  Two critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V stand out on an otherwise unremarkable Patch Tuesday

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Labour will use AI to grow the economy by 0.5%, says shadow tech secretary Peter Kyle

  The Labour Party plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in small businesses and across government to grow the economy, but transparency and building trust with the public will be key

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Nationwide IT infrastructure poised to absorb Virgin Money

  A Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money will be the biggest financial services acquisition since 2008, but what about the IT challenges and opportunities that go with it?

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Industry partnerships and data key to better public services

  Using public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration

  Declaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads

  Software-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Current subpostmaster account shortfalls reveal extent of Post Office’s pre-2019 neglect

  Hundreds of current subpostmasters might have been hounded for money or prosecuted had the Post Office not been forced to change its ways in 2019

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Digitally transforming government: MoJ and GDS on using mobile devices and GenAI to help people

  During a fireside chat at the Tech Show London, GDS CEO Tom Read and the Ministry of Justice CDIO Gina Gill swapped stories on how their teams are using technology to improve the quality of life for citizens

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Birmingham City Council’s Oracle implementation explained: What went wrong?

  The council swapped out a heavily customised SAP ERP system for Oracle Cloud, but since it went live, it has had numerous technical challenges

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Infor a penny, Infor a pound

  How vertical enterprise resource planning specialist Infor has its sights set on a disruptive 2024

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs

  AI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise

  While optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

  Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  TechUK calls for next government to introduce ‘industrial strategy’ for AI

  Trade group TechUK publishes blueprint calling for winner of next election to boost tech startups, digitise government services and accelerate technology R&D

• March 08, 2024 08 Mar'24

  OSS leaders detail commitments to bolster software security

  CISA has announced a number of actions to help secure the global open source ecosystem, as leading package repositories including the Python and Rust foundations advance their own initiatives

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  CCS U-turns on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements after supplier backlash

  The government procurement agency has reversed previous plans for a £20m increase in insurance cover that threatened to deter smaller suppliers from bidding for cloud computing contracts

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI

  The government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  BA sets out plan to revamp IT, add AI and update website

  Airline plans to migrate 700 systems to cloud and run custom version of Teams to support in-flight customer comms with ground staff

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  Indian government issues advisory to mitigate AI risks

  Tech firms will require permission from the government to use and provide under-tested or unreliable AI models and software to Indian users

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  MPs call for Post Office exclusion from compensation schemes, as trust hits rock bottom

  Former subpostmasters and MPs do not trust the Post Office to do the right thing for victims of the Horizon IT scandal

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Chancellor targets £36bn productivity boost with £4.2bn digital transformation plan

  In his 2024 spring budget, Jeremy Hunt announced funding to use tech to improve productivity across the public sector, with most of the cash focused on digital initiatives in the NHS

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Nation states buying hacking tools from underground Russian cyber forums

  State-sponsored hacking groups, posing as hacktivists, are using Russian cyber crime forums to stock up on cyber weapons, says Check Point Software’s threat analyst, Sergey Shykevich

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  ‘Brutal’ decisions required to sort out Post Office mess, says select committee chair

  Liam Byrne, chair of the business and trade select committee, tells Computer Weekly about the group’s focus on getting Horizon scandal victims what they are owed

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan

  Masterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Interview: How a fundraiser became more data-savvy

  We speak to a fundraiser in the charity sector about how an apprenticeship in data analytics has given her Excel, PowerBI and Power Query skills

• March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Post Office prosecutions during Horizon go-live phase are ‘frightening’

  The Post Office used subpostmasters as guinea pigs to test its software and take the rap for its errors

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Rapid7 hits out over botched vulnerability disclosure

  Software development firm JetBrains and security specialist Rapid7 fall out over the handling of a critical vulnerability disclosure, while customers are left rushing to patch

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Unexpected costs hit many as they move to cloud storage

  A Wasabi survey of cloud storage customers finds more moving to the cloud, but they are experiencing busted budgets and unexpected fees, and expect big demands from artificial intelligence workloads

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  IT chiefs fear Kubernetes data log overload

  IT architectures are set to grow in complexity, and more mission-critical systems are being deployed on Kubernetes, meaning log files are becoming unmanageable

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing

  Privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators about allegedly unlawful data processing by online advertising firm LiveRamp

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Derby City Council extends AI project with multi-million deal after saving £200,000 with chatbots

  Following on from the success of its initial pilot project using artificial intelligence, Derby City Council claims to have found 54 other ways the technology can save it money

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  AI-acceleration deployments curbed by datacentre design considerations

  In addition to a shortage of GPUs for AI-optimised servers, IT leaders need to consider how well their datacentre power and cooling will cope with artificial intelligence workloads

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms

  The Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency

• March 04, 2024 04 Mar'24

  Perverting course of justice and contempt of Parliament: a week in post-drama Post Office scandal

  As another week in the post-drama Post Office scandal passes, Computer Weekly looks at some of the key moments

• March 04, 2024 04 Mar'24

  How ANZ organisations can address challenges in AI adoption

  Pure Storage's global CTO Alex McMullan discusses the data and sustainability challenges in artificial intelligence adoption, which can be addressed by centralising datasets and focusing on data quality and management

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  Google Cloud puts AI at centre of data analytics plans

  Artificial intelligence will bridge the gap between structured and unstructured data, predicts Google Cloud’s Gerrit Kazmaier

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  IT leaders focus on enterprise software to drive cost savings

  ERP and supply chain software are among the big-ticket investment areas in 2024, and managing these projects is a top priority

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  KC names Post Office staff he believes conspired to pervert the course of justice

  Leading KC names Post Office staff he believes perverted the course of justice when crushing subpostmasters in court

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  MPs demand Fujitsu be ‘nailed down’ on financial promise to Post Office scandal victims

  Select committee hears that government is talking to Fujitsu about its contribution towards the costs of the Horizon scandal but it is not yet negotiating

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  APAC firms bullish on IT spending

  More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Government sets out research plans for 2024

  Department for Science, Innovation and Technology highlights cyber security, artificial intelligence and telecoms as areas where it would like to build evidence and bridge knowledge gaps in current research

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Windows 11: Not as big a priority in EMEA compared with North America

  Survey shows that IT decision-makers are prioritising desktop productivity and PC refreshes this year, with more in the US prioritising spending on PCs and Windows 11 upgrades

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Post Office CEO’s claim to be ‘working hard’ on Capture investigation in doubt

  The Post Office hasn’t even contacted Capture Software users brought to its attention, but CEO claimed, under oath, that the organisation has been ‘working hard’ on the cases for five weeks

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration

  Microsoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI