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November 21, 2024
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Fujitsu snubbed on private sector deal with Centrica due to Post Office scandal backlash
Centrica board said to be concerned about contracting Fujitsu due to its involvement in the Post Office scandal
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November 21, 2024
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US Department of Justice wants Alphabet to sell Chrome browser
The regulator is looking to put a stop to what it sees as the search engine giant’s anti-competitive practices
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November 21, 2024
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Grab taps GPT-4o to improve mapping service
Regional ride-hailing giant and super app Grab is leveraging OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to build hyperlocal, dynamic maps, cutting costs and boosting accuracy
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November 20, 2024
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ORG urges ICO to revise public sector enforcement approach
The Open Rights Group is urging the Information Commissioner’s Office to revise its light touch approach to public sector data protection issues, arguing that its experimental policy of limiting its enforcement actions to reprimands and notices, ...
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November 20, 2024
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Apple addresses two iPhone, Mac zero-days
Two zero-day vulnerabilities uncovered in Apple’s operating systems could have allowed for arbitrary code execution and cross-site scripting attacks
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November 20, 2024
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Post Office to harness technology to automate scandal financial redress payments
Technology that could speed up financial redress for subpostmasters is being worked on in-house by the Post Office
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November 20, 2024
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Government issues strategic priorities for online safety regulator Ofcom
Technology secretary Peter Kyle sets out the government’s strategic priorities for how Ofcom should approach regulating online safety, including embedding safety by design and supporting innovation in technologies to help protect people online
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November 20, 2024
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Microsoft Ignite: A $4m zero-day reward plus $349 thin client
A $4m cyber hackathon prize was revealed at Ignite as part of Microsoft’s latest IT security efforts, as well as a new locked-down client device called Windows 365 Link
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November 20, 2024
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Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split
The Post Office will no longer rely on Fujitsu for Horizon data past and present once cloud migration project is complete, in a major uncoupling of the 30-year relationship
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November 20, 2024
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Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months
If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella
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November 19, 2024
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Post Office is paying lawyers too much, admits minister
When pushed, a government minister admits the Post Office is paying lawyers too much money in relation to the Post Office scandal
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November 19, 2024
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Computer Weekly’s Women in UK Tech Rising Stars 2024
Each year, Computer Weekly selects a number of Rising Stars who are making waves in the women, diversity and inclusion in tech space and may find themselves on the top 50 list in the future
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November 19, 2024
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From beauty model to tech role model – this year’s most influential woman in UK tech
This year’s most influential woman in UK tech, Sheridan Ash, talks about her path into the tech space, from modelling after leaving school at 16, to creating an organisation dedicated to encouraging girls and women to pursue tech roles
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November 19, 2024
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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2024
Computer Weekly has revealed who is on the 2024 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner, Sheridan Ash
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November 19, 2024
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CMA clears Google over Anthropic partnership
The UK competition watchdog has finished its initial investigation into Google’s partnership with Anthropic, with no follow-up on the cards
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November 19, 2024
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Interview: Raymond Boyle, vice-president of data and analytics, Hyatt Hotels
Data culture is a key focus for the strategy at the global hotel chain, especially as AI opens up new opportunities to drive personalisation and trust with customers
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November 19, 2024
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AMD pushes GPU advantage with HPC top spot
AMD’s El Capitan is the world’s fastest supercomputer and is being used in nuclear weapons safety
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November 19, 2024
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Subpostmasters hit by Post Office scandal plan to meet over 'nuclear option'
Members of campaign group Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance will discuss taking legal action in their pursuit of full, fair and final financial redress
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November 19, 2024
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Post Office scandal: Inquiry’s final phase exposes dysfunction past and present
Conclusion of the seventh and final phase of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry hearings is another landmark in a scandal that has unfolded over a quarter of a century
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November 18, 2024
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How banks are navigating the AI landscape
Industry experts discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in banking, while addressing the challenges and governance implications of integrating AI into financial services
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November 18, 2024
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Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer
Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this
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November 18, 2024
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AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success
AWS reports strong take-up of multi-factor authentication among customers since making it compulsory for root users earlier this year, and plans to expand the scope of its IAM programme in spring 2025
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November 18, 2024
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Denmark’s AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance
Research reveals the automated tools used to flag individuals for benefit fraud violate individuals’ privacy and risk discriminating against marginalised groups
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November 18, 2024
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UK consumers losing more than ever to holiday scams
Last Christmas, UK consumers lost over £11m to cyber criminals. This year, to save them from tears, the NCSC and Action Fraud are teaming up to launch an anti-fraud campaign
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November 18, 2024
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Final report on Nats calls for improvements to contingency process
Suppliers need to be involved much sooner and a review of technical documentation is needed to speed up recovery
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November 18, 2024
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Post Office IT boss calls for subpostmasters to judge him on his actions
Recently installed Post Office chief transformation officer tasked with replacing controversial IT system tells Computer Weekly the organisation’s leadership understands the challenges ahead
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November 15, 2024
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IT leaders raise concerns over IT security overspend
How many IT security products does it take to secure a business? Too many, according to some IT decision-makers
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November 15, 2024
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CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024
Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates
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November 15, 2024
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Post Office to decide on Horizon before April, Fujitsu board considers final contract extension
Chief transformation officer tells Computer Weekly about ongoing work on replacing controversial Post Office Horizon system and extending contract with Fujitsu
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November 15, 2024
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Schwarz Group partners with Google on EU sovereign cloud
Partnership with Europe’s biggest retailer will offer client-side encryption and ensure data doesn’t leave Germany
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November 15, 2024
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Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy
Microsoft pens artificial intelligence energy deal with United Arab Emirates oil giant ADNOC
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November 15, 2024
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Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia
Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models
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November 14, 2024
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A fifth of new PCs shipped in Q3 were AI-optimised
PC manufacturers are working hard to showcase the benefits of premium devices that use neural processing units to deliver on-device AI acceleration
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November 14, 2024
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HMRC puts Loan Charge settlements ‘on pause by request’ until independent review concludes
After campaigners called for HMRC to pause all of its Loan Charge enforcement activity until the government’s independent review of the policy is complete, Computer Weekly has learned that the agency is accepting requests to pause settlements
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November 14, 2024
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MPs hold first ever debate on live facial recognition
MPs have held an open debate on police use of live facial recognition technology for the first time since it was initially deployed by the Met Police in August 2016
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November 14, 2024
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Virtual wards to digital feedback: the Nordic approach to post-pandemic healthcare
Post-pandemic healthcare is benefitting from Nordic tech foresight, with the country bringing digital change to the world’s health sector to allow for more remote care
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November 14, 2024
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Mike Potter’s departure leads to changes at the CDDO
The government digital officer left his role in September, and government chief technology officer David Knott is currently leading the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) in the interim while permanent arrangements are agreed
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November 14, 2024
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CIO interview: Steve O’Connor, Aston Martin
Skills gaps, electrification and customisation driving need for change, says Aston Martin CIO Steve O’Connor
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November 14, 2024
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Ping CEO on ForgeRock integration and future of identity
Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand discusses the company’s unified roadmap, commitment to customer stability and growth plans in the evolving identity landscape following the merger with ForgeRock
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November 14, 2024
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Microsoft ramps up small language model effort
Microsoft is working with several industry sector specialist software providers to bring industry-specific AI models to its Azure AI platform
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November 14, 2024
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Apple hit by Which? with £3bn legal claim that iCloud service charges are ‘anti-competitive’
UK consumer rights advocate Which? has appointed legal representation, as it sets about challenging Apple on anti-competitive grounds over its treatment of UK iCloud users
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November 13, 2024
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China’s Volt Typhoon rebuilds botnet in wake of takedown
Nine months after its malicious botnet comprising legacy routers was disrupted by the Americans, Chinese APT Volt Typhoon is rebuilding and presents as persistent a threat as ever
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November 13, 2024
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Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation
Current quantum computers are prone to error. IBM’s latest Heron machine uses software and hardware to get better results
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November 13, 2024
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Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning
The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs
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November 13, 2024
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Ex-boxer fights US government over legality of Sky ECC cryptophone intercepts
Lawyers for former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic argue that US prosecutors’ reliance on messages obtained by a European police hacking operation into the SKY ECC encrypted phone network breaches the US constitution
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November 13, 2024
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European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata
The European Commission’s eArchiving project has got to version 2.0 and aims at open formats and sector-specific metadata to allow organisations to exploit data for decades to come
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November 13, 2024
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Even AI laggards can see triple return on investment
A study from IDC shows that those businesses that have an aligned AI strategy can achieve accelerated benefits
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November 13, 2024
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Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts
There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge
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November 12, 2024
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Microsoft fixes 89 CVEs on penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024
High-profile vulns in NTLM, Windows Task Scheduler, Active Directory Certificate Services and Microsoft Exchange Server should be prioritised from November’s Patch Tuesday update
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November 12, 2024
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Zero-day exploits increasingly sought out by attackers
Threat actors increasingly favour zero-day exploits to attack their victims before patches become available, according to the NCSC and CISA, which have just published a list of the most widely used vulnerabilities of 2023