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• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future

  In only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Challenges of deploying AI to run public services more efficiently

  A report from an organisation headed by former prime minister Tony Blair has set an AI challenge for the Labour government

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  GDS appoints Christine Bellamy as CEO

  The former head of Gov.uk has taken over as CEO of the Government Digital Service following the departure of Tom Read in June

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Inside Israel’s cyber security operations

  An emergency phone line allows cyber security analysts at the Israel Computer Emergency Response Team to map threats against national infrastructure

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Tennis and technology: How Wimbledon gave fans a GenAI experience

  Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to see how tennis fans are benefiting from the latest developments in artificial intelligence

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Civil servant was lone voice on Post Office board to query legal plan that blew taxpayers' cash

  Government representative felt he was 'in a minority of one' on the Post Office board of directors in questioning the handling of a High Court battle with subpostmasters that cost £100m

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Setting the high bar in digital transformation

  Roel Louwhoff, Standard Chartered’s chief transformation, technology and operations officer, outlines what it takes for the company to become a client-focused, data-driven bank

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Chinese spies target vulnerable home office kit to run cyber attacks

  China’s APT40 is ramping up targeting of victims using vulnerable small and home office networking kit as command and control infrastructure, according to an international alert

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Government left monitoring of Post Office to ‘luck’

  If the Post Office board failed to spot bad faith within its management, it would be down to ‘luck’ for the government to find out

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking

  The general director of the Israel National Cyber Directorate talks about the rise in cyber attacks and what lessons the country has gleaned to defend against hacking from foreign parties

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Room to grow in UK for Tata Consultancy Services after half a century

  Indian-headquartered IT giant has built a large UK footprint as part of its global network, a commitment which is helping it increase its business in the UK’s public sector

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Atos jumps on ‘moving train’ for Euro 2024

  Atos provides the IT supporting major recurring sporting events including Uefa’s European Football Championship

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup

  Tony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Revamped DSIT to transform digital public services, says government

  The incoming government sets out preliminary plans to conduct a major revamp and relaunch of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT

  More cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Sir Alan Bates welcomes MP’s elevation to House of Lords

  Former Labour MP has moved to the House of Lords where he will continue campaigning for justice for victims of the Horizon scandal

• July 04, 2024 04 Jul'24

  UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments

  The Scottish biometrics commissioner has called for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based evidence sharing system is fully compliant with data protection laws

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  NCA’s Operation Morpheus targets illicit Cobalt Strike use

  International law enforcement operation targets cyber criminals using the Cobalt Strike penetration testing framework for dodgy purposes

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Former Post Office chair 'regrets' keeping critical Horizon report secret

  Tim Parker, chairman of the Post Office from 2015 to 2022, admits he should not have accepted legal advice to prevent release of a review that could have supported victims of the Horizon scandal

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  UK must push forward greater use of open tech

  OpenUK is calling on policymakers to put more effort into building the UK’s open source capabilities

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service employees arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct

  The Police Digital Service has confirmed an internal review of its processes will be undertaken in the wake of staff arrests

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Tech leaders recognised for social, cultural and economic innovations

  TechUK President's Awards highlight the contribution of the IT community to improving society through digital innovation

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Nordic banks pursue AI in battle with digital competitors

  Traditional Nordic banks are raising their investments in artificial intelligence to help them retain market share in increasingly populated sector

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Interview: Nvidia on AI workloads and their impacts on data storage

  We talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about data challenges in artificial intelligence, key practical tips for AI projects, and demands on storage of training, inferencing, RAG and checkpointing

• July 01, 2024 01 Jul'24

  Diana project provides Nato tech dividend to Finland

  Finnish tech sector to receive a boost following the country’s decision to join Nato

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  Former Fujitsu engineer says Post Office ‘trapped’ him into giving incomplete evidence

  Gareth Jenkins turned his fire on the Post Office on the final day of his marathon evidence session at the Post Office public inquiry

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  UKtech50 winner interview: Alan Bates, Post Office Horizon scandal campaigner

  UKtech50 winner Alan Bates talks to Computer Weekly about why the Post Office needs to be modernised, how to deploy an IT system the right way and his plans to write a book

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  UKtech50 2024: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 14th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  IT giant Atos faces collapse if restructuring talks fail

  French IT giant Atos is facing financial problems that could affect the ability of its UK arm to deliver key government contracts, including those related to NHS records in hospitals

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Wales partners with OpenAI to improve Welsh language tech

  The Welsh government’s data partnership with the company behind ChatGPT aims to improve how artificial intelligence technologies work in the Welsh language

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Experts shocked by ‘extraordinary’ claim made by Post Office IT expert witness

  A former Fujitsu engineer made an ‘unbelievable’ claim about evidence he gave in witness statements when acting as an expert witness during Post Office prosecutions of subpostmasters

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Ignorance of ‘legal niceties’ from Post Office expert IT witness saw innocent people jailed

  IT expert used by Post Office to give evidence supporting prosecutions of subpostmasters did not understand legal duties he was bound to

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Police Scotland did not consult ICO about high-risk cloud system

  Police Scotland chose not to formally consult with the data regulator about the risks identified with a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system, while the regulator itself did not follow up for nearly three months

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed from prison

  A deal reached with US authorities will end the WikiLeaks founder’s years-long legal saga, setting him free if he pleads guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  NHS experts raise warning over patient data breach risk in registries project

  Clinicians warn that the NHS England Outcome Registries Platform has poor security and is vulnerable to cyber attack, putting critical patient data at risk of being exposed

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  Interview: Javed Iqbal, digital and information director, British American Tobacco

  British American Tobacco’s director of digital and information, Javed Iqbal, talks to Computer Weekly about breaking with tradition, the importance of cultural mindset and AI ethics

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  Numbers prove former subpostmaster federation boss’s ignorance over Post Office scandal

  George Thomson is ignoring the numbers when he downplays subpostmaster prosecutions based on Horizon data

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Post Office expert IT witness Gareth Jenkins resigns BCS membership

  The former Fujitsu chief architect for Horizon has resigned as a member of the BCS after he was told he could be investigated

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cyber security

  Nuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation Sellafield Ltd pleads guilty to criminal charges brought over significant cyber security failings that could have compromised sensitive nuclear information

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Buckinghamshire Council drives efficiencies with Microsoft Copilot

  With local government facing a funding crisis, Buckinghamshire Council hopes artificial intelligence can boost efficiency and reduce outgoings

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Metropolitan Police could investigate one of its own staff in Post Office probe

  Former Post Office investigator deleted references to software errors in a witness statement from Fujitsu’s Gareth Jenkins during the wrongful prosecution of a subpostmaster

• June 21, 2024 21 Jun'24

  Sellafield whistleblower ordered to pay costs after email tampering claims

  A former consultant at Sellafield has been ordered to pay costs for having ‘acted unreasonably’ in claiming the nuclear facility tampered with metadata in letters used against her in court

• June 21, 2024 21 Jun'24

  Qilin ransomware gang publishes stolen NHS data online

  The ransomware gang behind a major cyber attack on NHS supplier Synnovis has published a 400GB trove of private healthcare data online

• June 21, 2024 21 Jun'24

  ICO police cloud guidance released under FOI

  Long-awaited guidance from the UK data regulator on police cloud deployments highlights some potential data transfer mechanisms it thinks can clear up ongoing legal issues, but tells forces it’s up to them to decide if the measures would work

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Sir Alan Bates hits out at Post Office ‘incompetence’ after data breach

  Victims of the scandal react with anger at news the Post Office published a document containing their names and addresses on its website

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Post Office and Fujitsu had tense relationship, but were joined at hip when protecting their brands

  Problems in the roll-out of Horizon Online in 2010 created a tense relationship between the Post Office and Fujitsu

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Pure CEO: AI needs write speed and storage in place

  We spoke to Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo about why write speed is key for artificial intelligence workloads, accessible storage for AI data, and his prediction of the death of spinning disk

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Pure deepens Fusion as reorientation to storage for AI continues

  Pure Storage launches Fusion ‘storage classes’ across its arrays as a pool of storage for AI-centric workloads, plus AI Copilot and Evergreen//One for AI storage-as-a-service

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Post Office Horizon system investigators were blocked and threatened as they witnessed cover-up

  Independent investigators who put Post Office and its Horizon system under spotlight faced aggression as they witnessed cover-up