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November 23, 2022
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Nov'22
Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence
Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
Government launches AI-focused green innovation programme
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy claims the programme will not only help the UK achieve its net-zero goals, but may also help bring down energy costs
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November 22, 2022
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Nov'22
Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast
PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time
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November 22, 2022
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Slack expands footprint in APAC
Slack’s Singapore operations remains the epicentre of its growth in the region and will fuel its expansion into markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
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November 22, 2022
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How Singapore’s OCBC is harnessing open source
OCBC using the OpenShift container platform to modernise its applications, reduce its reliance on proprietary software and deliver new business capabilities
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November 21, 2022
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EDF UK deploys Riverbed’s Alluvio Aternity to tackle IT issues
Monitoring software links into ServiceNow and PowerShell scripts are being used to automate remediation
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November 21, 2022
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Nov'22
AI adopted without due consideration for workers, MPs told
MPs have been warned that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence in workplaces has changed UK enterprises’ management practices so much that current employment law is no longer fit for purpose
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November 21, 2022
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Nov'22
NHS trust that deleted up to 90,000 emails cleared of deliberately concealing evidence
A tribunal found in a high-profile case brought by whistleblower Chris Day that an NHS trust had not deliberately concealed evidence when a director deleted up to 90,000 emails before he was due to testify
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November 18, 2022
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Post Office scandal inquiry’s expert IT witness ‘troubled’ by his findings
Controversial Post Office Horizon system lacked the integrity required to trust accounting data and contained ‘joke’ coding akin to an ‘overly engineered mousetrap’, inquiry told
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November 18, 2022
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Nov'22
Pioneer behind IT systems design dies
Peter Hermon’s career spanned IT and management, including deploying LEO computers in industry and the integration of IT systems when BA was formed
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November 17, 2022
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Nov'22
Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers
Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director
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November 17, 2022
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Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’
Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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November 16, 2022
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Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’
Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told
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November 16, 2022
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Netherlands coalition aims to demystify artificial intelligence
Dutch citizens need to learn about the impact of artificial intelligence on society and their lives, says the Netherlands AI Coalition
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November 16, 2022
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Nov'22
Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading
Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia
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November 15, 2022
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Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’
Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed
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November 15, 2022
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Nov'22
SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers
SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform
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November 15, 2022
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A modern approach to enterprise software development
Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires
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November 15, 2022
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Nov'22
Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy
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November 14, 2022
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Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board
Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services
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November 14, 2022
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Nov'22
CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions
AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers
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November 13, 2022
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Metaverse could add up to $1.4tn a year to Asia’s GDP
The metaverse may still be in its infancy, but sustained investments in the technology over the next decade could have a significant impact on Asia’s economy
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November 11, 2022
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Lenovo bolsters services play with PCCW Solutions
Lenovo’s acquisition of PCCW Solutions brings sought-after capabilities in hybrid cloud and application modernisation as it expands its services footprint in Asia
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November 10, 2022
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Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits
Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges
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November 10, 2022
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ODI fuel poverty survey shows young adults most hard up
A fuel poverty data report and index from the Open Data Institute shows that young adults and people in multi-occupied accommodation are most at risk
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November 09, 2022
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Microsoft serves smorgasbord of six zero-days
November’s Patch Tuesday fixes significantly fewer vulnerabilities of late, but includes six actively-exploited zero-days, three of them of critical severity
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November 07, 2022
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Gartner Symposium: Welcome to the age of force multipliers
Tech has always been asked to do more with less. Gartner says that if applied correctly, smart IT decisions offer multiple benefits simultaneously
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November 07, 2022
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Public sector IT projects need ethical data practices from start
Data ethics needs to be integrated into public sector IT projects from the very start, and considered throughout every stage of the process, to be effective
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November 07, 2022
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How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake
The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience
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November 04, 2022
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Data Summit majors on ethics in data use, demonstrates diversity
The Data Lab’s Data Summit majored on the ethical use of data, and featured Scottish government minister Tom Arthur, science broadcaster Hannah Fry, and Nasa chief science data officer Kevin Murphy
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November 04, 2022
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Data Lab bolsters business execs data course in time with Data Summit
Course focuses on the leadership skills needed to design, resource and implement a data strategy that will enable organisational change
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November 04, 2022
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Nov'22
Aiven expands in APAC, builds new capabilities
Managed service provider of open source databases and data platforms Aiven grew its business in Asia-Pacific by over 100% over the past year, and is now building new capabilities in data warehouses and other areas
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November 03, 2022
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Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine
Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future
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November 03, 2022
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Russia risks shortage of PCs and software
Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software
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November 03, 2022
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All NHS staff should have basic AI training, says report
A report by the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England calls for all health and care staff to receive training in artificial intelligence as the technology will be increasingly adopted in healthcare practice
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November 03, 2022
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Why technology change is slow at larger firms
Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say
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November 02, 2022
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Shadow digital secretary outlines Labour’s tech priorities
Labour’s digital and technology plans focus on reining in the power of the tech giants, boosting connectivity across the UK, and improving online safety
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November 02, 2022
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OpenSSL vulnerabilities ‘not as bad as feared’
As previously trailed, OpenSSL patched two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, neither of them as impactful as had been feared
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November 02, 2022
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Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud-powered laptop
Alibaba Cloud launches a cloud-powered laptop that will enable mobile workers to crunch compute-intensive workloads without the need for more powerful machines
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November 02, 2022
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Tech to drive collaboration and fend off recession at UK medium firms
Report from Virgin Media O2 Business finds almost half of medium-sized businesses want more IT support to help drive their business ambition and with such firms’ employees only spending a quarter of their time in the office, cutting-edge tech is ...
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November 02, 2022
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Game of ‘hardball’ in Horizon negotiations left subpostmasters exposed to tragedy
‘Hardball’ negotiations between the government, the Post Office and ICL meant subpostmasters were ignored and thrown into a tragedy that could have been averted
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November 02, 2022
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How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus
The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process
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November 01, 2022
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Scotland’s Data Lab CEO Brian Hills on its ambition to change lives
Brian Hills, chief executive of The Data Lab in Scotland, on why he thinks the organisation’s mission is less about data and more about changing lives by giving people career opportunities
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November 01, 2022
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How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search
Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search
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November 01, 2022
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UK hybrid workers feel the strain
Survey reveals that UK homeworkers suffer most in Europe from a poor working experience, in turn leading to knock-on negative effect in customer experience due to lack of space
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October 31, 2022
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Prepare today for potentially high-impact OpenSSL bug
OpenSSL trailed a critical vulnerability patch last week, which will be only the second such flaw ever found in the open source encryption project. Unfortunately, the first was Heartbleed
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October 31, 2022
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SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments
SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud
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October 28, 2022
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Webex looks to enhance customer experiences for digital era
Leading collaboration technology provider reveals what it claims is a unique functionality that can deliver a fully integrated UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS portfolio to improve customer experience
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October 28, 2022
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Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer
The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research
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October 27, 2022
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Webex claims ‘breakthrough’ advances for hybrid work with innovations, partnerships
Collaboration tech provider announces major updates to the Webex Suite with new collaboration device and new partnerships to expand its footprint