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				January 18, 2024
				
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				More than 900 subpostmaster convictions wouldn’t have happened without Post Office-backed law changeIT expert says it cannot be the case that computer evidence is treated as accurate in court, without investigation into surrounding circumstances 
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				January 17, 2024
				
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				Michelle Donelan aims high on tech innovation growthThe science, innovation and technology secretary wants the UK to match US VC investment as a proportion of GDP 
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				January 17, 2024
				
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				Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solutionDoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors 
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				January 15, 2024
				
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				Santander bank added 4,500 tech staff last yearSantander added thousands of IT staff to its global operation last year, as part of its digital transformation 
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			January 12, 2024
			
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			Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to yearLong-running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decades-long scandal 
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			January 11, 2024
			
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			Fujitsu UK employees working for HMRC to strike during self-assessment tax period over payHundreds of Fujitsu UK staff working for HMRC are set to strike later this month over a pay rise dispute 
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			January 10, 2024
			
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			How Fujitsu became a central part of the Post Office scandalAs 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 
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			January 08, 2024
			
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			Post Office scandal furore is moment to change digital evidence rulesThe current rules around digital evidence are partly to blame for the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history 
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			January 02, 2024
			
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			Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AICloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing 
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			December 29, 2023
			
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			Top 10 India IT stories of 2023We recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies 
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			December 28, 2023
			
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			Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023We 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 
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			December 21, 2023
			
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			Top 10 storage stories of 2023In 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 
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			December 21, 2023
			
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			Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023In 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 
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			December 20, 2023
			
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			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 
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			December 20, 2023
			
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			Orange Business boosts digital ambitions with Expertime acquisitionAcquisition of consulting company by business services division of global telco becomes latest part of strategic ambition to accelerate growth in digital services and support growth in digital, public cloud, AI and data 
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			December 20, 2023
			
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			'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandalMPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives 
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			December 20, 2023
			
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			Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategyZoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers 
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			December 19, 2023
			
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			Digital Ethics Summit 2023: The year in AIAt trade association TechUK’s seventh annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the state of AI regulation and the direction of travel set for 2024 
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			December 19, 2023
			
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			Top 10 Nordic stories of 2023Known for its advances in digital technology, the Nordic region continues to pioneer the startup sector while making serious waves in Quantum computing and artificial intelligence 
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			December 15, 2023
			
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			Government advised to overturn all Post Office scandal convictionsAn independent board set up to advise the government on compensation for innocent subpostmasters has recommended that all the Post Office scandal convictions are ‘unsafe’ and should be overturned 
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			December 15, 2023
			
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			Alibaba debuts LLMs for Southeast AsiaAlibaba’s SeaLLMs are built to address the linguistic diversity and nuances in Southeast Asia, enabling businesses to deploy localised chatbots and translation applications 
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			December 14, 2023
			
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			Current Post Office executive in denial of Horizon cover-upExecutives at the Post Office today are still in denial of the part they played in destroying the lives of thousands of people 
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			December 13, 2023
			
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			Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journeyThe Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS 
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			December 12, 2023
			
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			Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024Generative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024 
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			December 11, 2023
			
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			Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDsScale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput 
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			December 08, 2023
			
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			Former Post Office investigator called subpostmaster campaigners ‘crooks’Former Post Office investigator labelled subpostmasters attempting to clear their names as ‘crooks’ 
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			December 05, 2023
			
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			Undisclosed document could reveal pressure on Fujitsu expert witness in Post Office prosecutionDetails of Post Office prosecutor’s meeting with Fujitsu IT expert witness, used in subpostmaster prosecution, not yet disclosed to public inquiry 
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			December 04, 2023
			
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			Atos selected for UEFA Euro 2024 IT contractIT services company Atos will deliver on-site and remote IT services for next year’s international football event in Germany 
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			December 01, 2023
			
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			Lords committee urges caution on UK use of autonomous weaponsUK government must ensure proper democratic oversight of its development and use of AI-powered weapon systems, says Lords committee 
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			December 01, 2023
			
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			Post Office lawyer with his fingerprints all over IT scandal spreads blameSenior Post Office criminal lawyer was just following orders and claims his only mistake was believing those that told him the Horizon system was robust 
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			November 30, 2023
			
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			AWS debuts model evaluation tool in BedrockThe Model Evaluation tool in Bedrock will help organisations evaluate and test large language models that are best suited to their needs based on criteria like accuracy, toxicity and cost 
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			November 30, 2023
			
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			Slow government response to Post Office scandal compensation forces new legislationSubpostmasters who exposed widest miscarriage of justice in UK history still waiting for compensation after decades of fighting 
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			November 29, 2023
			
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			Paula Vennells’ email fuelled Post Office Horizon cult, inquiry toldFaced with serious questions about the robustness of its core computer system, the Post Office doubled down on reliability myth, public inquiry told 
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			November 29, 2023
			
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			Aerodyne taps AWS to power drone platformThe Malaysia-based startup is running its Dronos platform on AWS to expand its footprint globally and support a variety of drone use cases, from agriculture seeding to cellular tower maintenance 
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			November 29, 2023
			
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			Scope of Okta helpdesk breach widens to impact all usersOkta has widened the scope of the October breach of its systems to include every customer that has used its helpdesk service, after new information came to light 
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			November 28, 2023
			
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			CCRC refers two posthumous subpostmaster appeals to Crown CourtCCRC refers posthumous appeals against convictions to Crown Court for first time 
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			November 28, 2023
			
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			AWS sharpens focus in APACAWS is doubling down on industry offerings and investing in cloud infrastructure and skills training, among other efforts, to tap growth opportunities in the region 
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			November 27, 2023
			
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			‘Excited’ finance firms pump money into digital technologyOver three-quarters of finance firms are currently restricted in what they can spend on technology due to the global economic climate, but expect spending to resume next year 
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			November 27, 2023
			
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			India's Hexaware creates hundreds of jobs in UKHexaware opens IT services operation in Birmingham, with a plan to recruit 250 people in the region by 2025 
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			November 22, 2023
			
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			Chancellor offers spending boost for IT buyers alongside AI and quantum investmentsIn his Autumn Statement, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced a range of measures intended to boost investment in innovation and technology 
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			November 22, 2023
			
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			NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67mNHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz 
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			November 22, 2023
			
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			Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended againIT from Fujitsu is at the heart of the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history, yet the government keeps handing millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to the IT giant 
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			November 22, 2023
			
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			Boomi doubles down on AI and automationBoomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney 
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			November 22, 2023
			
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			World Wide Fund for Nature signs IT deal with AtosGlobal conservation organisation will harness latest technologies to improve ability to predict risks to natural environment 
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			November 21, 2023
			
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			Inside India’s datacentre boomIndia’s datacentre market is expected to surpass $10bn by 2028, but realising its full potential will require innovations in sustainability and improvements in connectivity 
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			November 20, 2023
			
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			Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage poolCubbit customers can now build and configure S3-compatible clouds from unused capacity and offer MSP-grade services with high levels of resilience, security and data sovereignty 
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			November 20, 2023
			
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			IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey findsStorage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul 
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			November 20, 2023
			
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			Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentreThe Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon 
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			November 16, 2023
			
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			Post Office scandal inquiry postpones more key witness hearingsYet more witness hearings are cancelled due to the Post Office's late disclosure of documents 
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			November 15, 2023
			
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			How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observabilityGigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth 

 
		