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IT architecture
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May 30, 2025
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May'25
Noisy quantum hardware could crack RSA-2048 in seven days
Research highlights the need for quantum safe cryptography given the speed with which quantum computing is evolving
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public
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May 28, 2025
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May'25
VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives
With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native
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May 26, 2025
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May'25
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future
With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors
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May 23, 2025
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May'25
Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory
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May 21, 2025
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May'25
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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May 20, 2025
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May'25
Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model
Rio Tinto’s head of technology platforms outlines the mining giant’s move to an IT platform model designed to escape a reactive cycle of critical incidents and improve service quality for internal and external customers
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May 13, 2025
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May'25
NHS trust cloud plans hampered by Trump tariff uncertainty
Essex NHS wants to move some capacity to the Nutanix cloud, but can’t be certain prices will hold between product selection and when procurement plans gain approval
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May 12, 2025
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May'25
University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery
University of Reading set to save circa £500,000 and deploy Nutanix NC2 hybrid cloud that will allow failover from main datacentre
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May 07, 2025
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May'25
Cisco lays out plans for networking in era of quantum computing
The network equipment provider has opened a new lab and developed a prototype chip as it fleshes out its quantum networking strategy
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May 06, 2025
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May'25
Options for Google as DoJ seeks divestiture
The US Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its adtech business. Google says it’s impossible. But is there an alternative?
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April 29, 2025
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Apr'25
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup
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April 25, 2025
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Apr'25
UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns
The Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will commit murder, but critics say the profiling in these systems raises ‘serious concerns’ over racism, classism and data inaccuracies
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April 24, 2025
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Apr'25
Interview: Daniele Tonella, CTO, ING
The bank’s global CTO has been in the role for less than a year and in that time has been working his way through four layers of tech
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April 21, 2025
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Apr'25
CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco
The digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the ...
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April 02, 2025
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Apr'25
Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour
KnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade
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March 31, 2025
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Mar'25
Understanding of ‘black box’ IT systems will reduce Post Office scandal-like risk
A Parliamentary committee has reported that leadership teams need to understand the ‘black box’ IT systems that underpin their organisations
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March 31, 2025
31
Mar'25
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union
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March 31, 2025
31
Mar'25
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy
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March 25, 2025
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Mar'25
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
It is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation
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March 24, 2025
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Mar'25
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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March 20, 2025
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Mar'25
NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe
Aimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support
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March 18, 2025
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Mar'25
Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project
Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network
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March 18, 2025
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Mar'25
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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March 17, 2025
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Mar'25
Online Safety Act measures come into effect
Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material
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March 14, 2025
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Mar'25
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will...
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March 13, 2025
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Mar'25
Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies biometric data would be repurposed in this way
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March 05, 2025
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Mar'25
French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software
Oceanogaphic research institute keeps Atempo backup software for near a quarter century with no plans to replace it for protection of critical data helping map the world’s oceans
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March 04, 2025
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Mar'25
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce
Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%
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February 26, 2025
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Feb'25
Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database
Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population
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February 26, 2025
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Feb'25
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes
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February 20, 2025
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Feb'25
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack
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February 20, 2025
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Feb'25
How organisations can secure AI agents
Dan Karpati, Check Point Software’s vice-president of AI, discusses the unique challenges and potential ways to secure AI agents
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February 19, 2025
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Feb'25
CaixaBank outlines artificial intelligence intentions in €5bn plan
Spanish bank announces Cosmos, an investment in its processes and technology that sits within its €5bn strategic plan
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February 19, 2025
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Feb'25
ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity
Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap
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February 18, 2025
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Feb'25
MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage
Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume
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February 12, 2025
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Feb'25
Cisco: We will get better on AI power consumption
At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, Cisco execs shared their thoughts on the developing issues around how artificial intelligence is affecting datacentre power consumption
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February 11, 2025
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Feb'25
New componentry extends NetApp ASA and E-series block storage
One-time king of the filers adds anti-ransomware to its more recent block storage families, while also adding in an extra FAS array, all on the back of upgraded components
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January 30, 2025
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Jan'25
Microsoft’s results show cloud AI balancing act
CEO acknowledges efficiency of DeepSeek and need to assess model optimisation rather than just buying more AI servers
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January 28, 2025
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Jan'25
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?
Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an unnamed hyperscaler, be the first nails in the coffin for HDD?
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January 28, 2025
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Jan'25
Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs
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January 23, 2025
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Jan'25
UK eVisa system problems persist despite repeated warnings
Travellers are already having issues boarding UK-bound flights, while refugees have been left with no way to prove their immigration status in the UK, just two weeks after the Home Office transitioned to electronic visas
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January 17, 2025
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Jan'25
Researchers say AI fails to describe complexities of Holocaust
Using AI in Holocaust education will require the responsible digitisation of historical assets, as well as collaboration between system providers and domain-specific experts, to ensure effective guardrails that protect against misuse
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January 16, 2025
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Jan'25
Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay
More public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise
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January 13, 2025
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Jan'25
Experts say ‘something has to break’ before banks slow IT-driven cost-cutting measures
Banks will cut costs until something breaks and they are forced to scale back, according to industry experts
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January 07, 2025
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Jan'25
How StarHub is tapping OpenShift in its cloud strategy
StarHub is harnessing Red Hat OpenShift to power its hybrid multi-cloud platform, balancing control over critical infrastructure with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud
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December 24, 2024
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Dec'24
Top 10 police technology stories of 2024
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2024