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• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector

  MPs launch inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the financial services sector

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts

  Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos

  The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres

  The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has issued guidance to support public sector organisations that want to host workloads and applications in overseas datacentres for cost and resilience reasons

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space

  CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?

  Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Nationwide Building Society to train people to think like cyber criminals

  Nationwide wants to help bring more diversity into UK cyber security skills base through partnership with training specialist

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Government sets out cyber security practice code to stoke AI growth

  The government has set out a cyber security code of practice for developers to follow when building AI products

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Disjointed industrial strategy a barrier to UK scaleup success

  The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee calls on Labour to join-up piecemeal initiatives and cut bureaucracy

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  Government failed to provide accurate cost of Post Office scandal compensation

  Limited information is likely to lead to significantly inaccurate assumptions on the cost of Post Office scandal compensation schemes

• February 03, 2025 03 Feb'25

  DSIT permanent secretary says more AI transparency needed

  The government must improve transparency around the use of artificial intelligence systems throughout the public sector if it is going to gain and retain trust in how the technology is being deployed

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  Police swoop on Sky ECC cryptophone distributors in Spain and Holland

  Dutch and Spanish police have arrested four people accused of making millions of euros by distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones to criminal organisations

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  Barclays hit by major IT outage on HMRC deadline day

  Customers of Barclays Bank are left unable to access web app and online banking following a significant IT outage that seems to have come at the worst possible time

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  DeepSeek API, chat log exposure a ‘rookie’ cyber error

  Security researchers at Wiz find a trove of DeepSeek data including API secrets and chat logs publicly exposed via an open source database management tool, raising questions about the fast-growing service’s approach to security

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  How Zebra is empowering frontline workers through tech

  Zebra Technologies’ CEO Bill Burns discusses the company’s growth strategy and how it is enhancing frontline worker capabilities through machine vision, artificial intelligence and robotics

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Major obstacles facing Labour’s AI opportunity action plan

  Skills, data held in legacy tech and a lack of leadership are among the areas discussed during a recent Public Accounts Committee session

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  First international AI safety report published

  A global cohort of nearly 100 artificial intelligence experts publish first international AI safety report ahead of the third AI summit, outlining an array of challenges posed by the technology that will be used to inform upcoming discussions

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Transparency on public sector AI use fosters trust, says AI minister Feryal Clark

  The government’s decision to publish a batch of algorithmic transparency records signals its latest effort in showing potential opportunities AI and technology could provide

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks

  Volvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Covid effect opens door to music learning through Icelandic innovation

  Icelandic tech startup Moombix describes itself as an ‘Uber for music lessons’. Its founder tells Computer Weekly why

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  How government hackers are trying to exploit Google Gemini AI

  Google’s threat intel squad has shared information on how nation state threat actors are attempting to exploit its Gemini AI tool for nefarious ends

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  Chancellor backs plans to boost Oxford-Cambridge growth

  To build a UK Silicon Valley between Oxford and Cambridge, boosting the region’s tech capabilities, requires more trains, more roads and more houses

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  Vallance rejects latest charge to reform UK hacking laws

  Science minister Patrick Vallance rejects proposed amendments to the Computer Misuse Act, arguing that they could create a loophole for cyber criminals to exploit

• January 29, 2025 29 Jan'25

  Interview: Digital tech fuels AutoTrader’s drive into the future

  Led by a technology enthusiast, AutoTrader is on a digital journey that began when it decided to take a different route in 2007

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  NAO: UK government cyber resilience weak in face of mounting threats

  The National Audit Office has found UK government cyber resilience wanting, weakened by legacy IT and skills shortages, and facing mounting threats

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Over 40 journalists and lawyers submit evidence to PSNI surveillance inquiry

  Angus McCullough, who is leading a review into the police surveillance of journalists and lawyers in Northern Ireland, says victims will be informed if they were unlawfully spied on – subject to ‘legal constraints’

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland

  Under-scrutiny IT services firm has escalated fears over problems with one of its applications, used at a Republic of Ireland energy firm, to its headquarters in Japan

• January 28, 2025 28 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?

• January 28, 2025 28 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

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  TCS to inject AI and quantum computing into aerospace through French delivery centre

  Indian IT services giant opens IT delivery centre that will focus on technology that can address the challenges of the aerospace sector

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Three sentenced over OTP.Agency MFA fraud service

  Three men have been sentenced over their role in a cyber criminal subscription service that offered access to online accounts using illicitly obtained one-time passcodes

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Cyber incident that closed British Museum was inside job

  An IT incident that disrupted visitor access to the British Museum last week was the work of a disgruntled contractor who had been let go

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Interview: Feryal Clark, AI and digital government minister, DSIT

  Computer Weekly talks to the parliamentary under-secretary about digital identity, the importance of trust and utilising the power of artificial intelligence

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  MPs and peers start inquiry into Russian and Chinese sabotage threats to subsea internet cables

  MPs and Lords on the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy have begun an inquiry into the resilience of UK internet cables, following heightened threats of Russian and Chinese sabotage

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Loan Charge under review: MPs brand latest independent inquiry into controversial policy ‘a farce’

  Details of the government’s highly anticipated independent review into the loan charge have emerged, and MPs claim it falls way short of what is needed to resolve the financial and mental health damage the policy has caused to those in-scope of it

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Labour’s first digital government strategy: Is it déjà vu or something new?

  Labour won the 2024 general election on a platform of change – and its technology cheerleader insists the new digital government strategy is all about change. Have we heard it all before or is this time really different?

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Review of legal rule on computer evidence long overdue, say Post Office scandal victims

  Computer Weekly talks to people who suffered miscarriages of justice at the hands of flawed computer evidence, as well as to experts in law and IT, as the government commits to review the legal presumption that computers work all the time

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  High Court: Sky Betting ‘parasitic’ in targeting problem gambler

  UK High Court rules that Sky Betting acted unlawfully after breaching a customer’s data protection rights when it obtained his personal data through cookies and used it to profile him for the purposes of direct marketing, despite his ‘impaired’ ...

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  ICO launches major review of cookies on UK websites

  ICO sets out 2025 goals, including a review of cookie compliance across the UK’s top 1,000 websites, as it seeks to achieve its ultimate goal of giving the public meaningful control over how their data is used

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  NAO flags shortcomings in government preferential pricing deals with big tech suppliers

  Shortcomings in the UK government’s tech buying power have been highlighted in separate reports in recent days by the National Audit Office and The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

• January 23, 2025 23 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

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Zebra gallops ahead in APAC, driven by automation and e-commerce

  Zebra Technologies is riding the wave of e-commerce and automation in APAC, fuelling strong growth with RFID technology, tablets and scanners that boost business productivity and efficiency

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Privacy professionals expect budget cuts, lack confidence

  Over 50% of privacy professionals in Europe expect to see less money earmarked for data security initiatives in 2025, and many don’t have faith their organisations are taking the issue seriously, according to an ISACA report

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Funksec gang turned up ransomware heat in December

  The criminal ransomware fraternity was hard at work over the festive period, with attack volumes rising and a new threat actor emerging on the scene

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  How smartphones are transforming global health

  Shyam Gollakota, winner of the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, is bringing medical care to underserved communities through with smartphone-based diagnostic tools

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Europol seeks evidence of encryption on crime enforcement as it steps-up pressure on Big Tech

  Europol wants examples of police investigations hampered by end-to-end encryption as it pressures tech companies to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Government to launch Gov.uk Wallet

  The digital wallet will allow citizens to have government-issued documents, including a digital driver’s licence, on their phone, alongside a new Gov.uk app

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Weak supplier management hinders digital government

  Procurement, legacy systems, data fragmentation and the changing IT market are among the issues highlighted in a review of digital services

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Greek authorities subject refugees to invasive surveillance

  Greek border authorities are subjecting asylum seekers to invasive phone confiscations and artificial intelligence-powered surveillance, in another potential violation of European data protection laws

• January 20, 2025 20 Jan'25

  Government calls for expert views on computer evidence to learn lesson from Post Office scandal

  The government is calling for evidence from experts in computing and law to help it ensure no repeat of the miscarriages of justice in the Post Office scandal