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• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  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

• November 18, 2022 18 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

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  CyberPeace Institute helps NGOs improve their security resilience

  Adrien Ogée of the CyberPeace Institute talks about his work supporting NGOs and humanitarian organisations, and how the security community at large can help protect the world’s most vulnerable people

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Brexit deregulation will make UK next Silicon Valley, vows Hunt

  Chancellor vows to revolutionise how the IT industry is regulated to spur competition, investment and innovation in a technological ‘Big Bang’

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Virgin Media Business Wholesale launches new National High Capacity Services core network

  Enhanced high-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency core platform launched for National High Capacity Services network to enable simpler, faster delivery of services and improve customer experience

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Another Log4Shell warning after Iranian attack on US government

  The breach of a US federal body by an Iranian threat actor exploiting the Adobe Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability has prompted a fresh flurry of patching

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scottish government to pilot digital identity platform in early 2023

  Pilot of Scotland’s digital identity platform will be run in partnership with Disclosure Scotland, using secure sign-on and identity verification

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  NHS Digital confirms final settlement of £3.95m with HMRC following conclusion of IR35 investigation

  The health service’s digital arm has paid HMRC £3.95m in unpaid tax to cover the cost of its IR35 compliance errors

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  HMRC will begin migration from Government Gateway to One Login in summer 2023

  One Login for Government programme has the objective of simplifying access to central government, says HMRC chief technology and design officer

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  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

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  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

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Agility, business more important than cost, network management for IT teams

  Cisco report finds new rules applying in a multicloud world, with IT decision-makers regarding security as the top networking challenge when managing distributed and hybrid workloads

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  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

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Global network fragmentation a source of increasing risk

  Risk consultancy’s report says the weaponisation of cyber space and geopolitical clashes herald a breakdown of global networks into distinct regional or national architectures

• November 16, 2022 16 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

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  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

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Commoditisation of NHS tech is a problem, says NHS Digital interim CEO

  NHS Digital interim CEO Simon Bolton calls for a stronger mandate from the centre around the systems in use in the NHS, with no more than four to six electronic patient record systems used across the country

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  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

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  TikTok influencers are better than finance firms for money advice, say quarter of young adults

  Young people are turning to TikTok-based influencers for advice on how to manage their finances and where to bank

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  APP fraud volumes expected to double by 2026, says report

  Losses to authorised push payment fraud in the UK are expected to climb to over $1.5bn in the next four years. Meanwhile, the NAO accuses the Home Office of lagging on progress to tackle the issue

• November 15, 2022 15 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

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

  Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  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

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions

  AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  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

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Online scam victims lose an average of £1,000 each

  New data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows victims of online fraud lose an average of £1,000 per person

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Volume of self-reported breaches to ICO jumps 30%

  The number of self-reported breaches to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office soared by nearly 30% in the 12 months to 30 June 2022

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  MoD recruits Immersive Labs to bolster cyber resilience

  UK’s Ministry of Defence will run cyber drills and address its security talent gap with Immersive Labs’ CyberPro, Cyber Crisis Simulator and Application Security products

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  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

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Defra confirms final settlement of £86.5m with HMRC over ‘historic’ IR35 status assessment errors

  The conclusion of HMRC’s long-running enquiry into errors made by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when assessing the IR35 status of its contractors has seen it pay a final settlement of £86.5m to the tax collection agency

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  17 West Midlands NHS trusts deploy digital pathology

  Trusts hope digital pathology programme will transform cancer diagnosis in the region and reduce backlogs

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  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

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals have World Cup Qatar 2022 in their sights

  Volumes of malicious cyber activity around the upcoming FIFA World Cup are already starting to tick upwards and are likely to continue to do so

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Loan charge contractors hit with fresh loan repayment request from new firm

  IT contractors who participated in loan-based remuneration schemes and were previously pursued to repay loans issued to them by a company called Felicitas Solutions are now being chased for payment by a new entity

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  UK’s National Cyber Advisory Board convenes for first time

  Government convenes National Cyber Advisory Board to further its goals of making the UK one of the safest places to live and work online

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  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

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Fujitsu expert witness in subpostmaster trial ‘manoeuvred’ into role, public inquiry told

  A former Fujitsu technology expert who defended the Horizon system’s robustness in court was unhappy after being ‘manoeuvred’ into acting as an expert witness, public inquiry hears

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Six subpostmaster convictions referred for appeal in Scotland

  Six former subpostmasters in Scotland will have appeals against criminal convictions heard after being referred by Scotland’s Criminal Cases Review Commission

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  How organisations can right-size their data footprint

  More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  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

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  UK climate tech startup investment doubles in 2022

  Climate technology investment has nearly doubled in the UK over the past year and is growing globally, but questions remain over how to scale capacity and whether the necessary change will occur in time to prevent climate catastrophe

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  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

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Department for Education escapes £10m fine over data misuse

  Department entrusted data on 28 million children to a company called Trustopia, which turned out to be anything but trustworthy, but has escaped a £10m fine under new rules

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Keeping personally identifiable data personal

  As it celebrates its 100th birthday, the BBC has begun a pilot looking into its role in enabling the general public to store their personal data

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  CIO interview: Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI, TUI

  The international travel group is overhauling its data stack and aims to provide self-service analytics to key employees across the organisation

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  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

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Elon Musk begins mass Twitter layoffs via email

  New Twitter owner Elon Musk has begun the process of cutting the company’s workforce in half, but is already facing a legal backlash for allegedly violating US labour laws

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Microsoft: Nation-state cyber attacks became increasingly destructive in 2022

  The willingness of nation-state actors to conduct destructive cyber attacks is a source of grave concern, as Microsoft’s latest annual Digital Defence Report lays bare

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  UK government approach to space industry lacks coherence and investment

  As satellite broadband industry rockets, report from Commons Science and Technology Committee criticises government’s failures in key technical areas and continues to question value to taxpayer of OneWeb joint venture

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  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