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• January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

  Digital Realty opens datacentre in Chennai

  Datacentre developed through joint venture will support high-density power requirements and tap Jio’s connectivity infrastructure across India

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year

  Long-running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decades-long scandal

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn

  The government’s Pornography Review will look in part at the use of AI throughout the industry to generate sexually explicit content without people’s consent

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Gartner: PC market collapsed in 2023

  The post-Covid recovery of the PC industry is taking far longer than hoped, with businesses and consumers hanging onto devices

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023

  Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  MHRA launches roadmap for medtech regulations

  The roadmap covers plans for regulations on medical technologies, including implantable devices, artificial intelligence and healthcare software, with core elements of a new framework to be in place by 2025

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform

  Cisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Davos 2024: AI-generated disinformation poses threat to elections, says World Economic Forum

  Disinformation and misinformation are the top risks facing businesses, governments and the public over the next two years

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  HPE nabs Juniper Networks in $14bn deal to boost networking

  The two companies position the combined business as a major force in enterprise and datacentre networking

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Hundreds of subpostmasters to have convictions quashed in blanket exoneration

  The government has chosen to introduce legislation that will enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Poor tech kills hybrid work productivity

  People who work from home say the IT they use is failing or performs poorly, which reduces their productivity, leading to hours of work lost

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs

  Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  SEC social media hack highlights value of MFA

  The US SEC briefly appeared to approve new bitcoin trading rules after a social media account was targeted by troublemakers, proving the value of MFA once again

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  How Fujitsu became a central part of the Post Office scandal

  As a TV drama brings the Post Office scandal to a wider audience, many are wondering how and why a Japanese IT company became embroiled in the story – we examine the troubled history behind Fujitsu’s role

• January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

  Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill

  The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Babuk Tortilla ransomware decryptor made available

  A joint effort between Cisco Talos, Avast and the Dutch police will bring relief to many victims of a variant of the Babuk ransomware known as Tortilla

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Wales makes headway with electronic prescriptions roll-out

  Electronic prescribing will be deployed in both primary and secondary care, while a shared medicines record will be live by the end of March 2024

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Study reveals cyber risks to US elections

  With the 2024 US presidential election cycle beginning, a study produced by Arctic Wolf has highlighted big gaps in preparedness and resourcing at government bodies across the US

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Former Post Office CEO hands back CBE amid public backlash

  Former Post Office CEO hands back her CBE after public backlash following dramatisation of her role in Post Office Horizon scandal

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  ‘Hero’ subpostmaster accuses government of diversion tactics through ‘weaselly’ statistics

  Campaigning subpostmaster calls out government’s use of ‘weaselly’ statistics to hide its slow progress

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  QuEra Computing sets out plan for error-correcting quantum computing

  QuEra Computing is betting on transversal gates, a technology which it believes is key to simplifying error correction

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Fujitsu gets stay of execution as MPs support exoneration of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters

  Fujitsu will have to wait until the end of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry to hear how MPs will punish it

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Government to push NHS roll-out of digital pathology

  Department for Health and Social Care wants to increase use of digital pathology in cancer screening, following a recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  British Library ransomware attack could cost up to £7m

  The cost of recovering the British Library’s ransomware-stricken IT systems could be up to £7m, it has emerged

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Post Office scandal furore is moment to change digital evidence rules

  The current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history

• January 08, 2024 08 Jan'24

  Datacentre operators form APAC industry group

  The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals

• January 07, 2024 07 Jan'24

  India firms warm to responsible AI

  Almost two-thirds of organisations said their responsible AI practices and policies were mature or they had taken steps towards responsible AI adoption, according to a Nasscom study

• January 07, 2024 07 Jan'24

  Metropolitan Police launches second criminal investigation in Post Office scandal

  New investigation will examine potential crimes by the Post Office in its recovery of money from subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting

• January 05, 2024 05 Jan'24

  Information Commissioner questions DWP plan to monitor bank accounts of benefit claimants

  The Information Commissioner has warned that legislation to give new powers to the Department of Work and Pensions to check bank accounts of benefit claimants for indications of fraud lacks appropriate safeguards

• January 04, 2024 04 Jan'24

  Risks and opportunities for the UK chip sector

  In May 2023, the UK government unveiled a national semiconductor strategy. We find out how it has been going

• January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

  Dutch working to promote cooperation in Europe to keep internet safe

  A Dutch cooperative approach offers national and international cooperation opportunities for ISPs to guard against DDoS attacks, lawful interception and detect abuse in networks

• January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

  Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy

  Sweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  China’s UNC4841 pivots to new Barracuda ESG zero-day

  The Chinese state threat actor behind a series of cyber attacks on Barracuda Networks customers embarked on a campaign targeting the supplier’s email security products in the run-up to Christmas

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  Qualtrics supports Dow digital transformation

  How US-based materials science company has used analytics tools from Qualtrics to target improvements to customer experience

• January 02, 2024 02 Jan'24

  Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI

  Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

• December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

• December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023

  We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023

  Organisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI

• December 22, 2023 22 Dec'23

  Top 10 government IT stories of 2023

  In the year that gave life to four new government departments, Whitehall bosses have continued to fly the flag for technology, with mixed results and success. Here are the stories that made waves in 2023

• December 22, 2023 22 Dec'23

  Top 10 Middle East stories of 2023

  Middle Eastern countries are on digital journeys, with many pinning their futures on expertise in advanced technologies

• December 22, 2023 22 Dec'23

  Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2023

  Generative AI is the buzzword on every financial services IT professional’s lips as the technology promises to accelerate the ongoing fintech revolution

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage

  The UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023

  Ransomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage stories of 2023

  In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

  In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Post Office gets government handout as Horizon replacement costs increase ‘significantly’

  The increasing costs associated with replacing the Post Office’s controversial IT system have forced the government to hand it over £100m extra

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandal

  MPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  ALPHV/BlackCat operation down, but maybe not out

  Multinational law enforcement has targeted the operations of the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat cyber extortion gang, but the group’s members appear to remain defiant