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  • January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

    Republic of Ireland publishes progress update on digital strategy

    Update reveals 2.3 million people in Ireland now have MyGovID accounts, and the Irish government plans to launch a new digital portal for businesses, as well as establishing an AI advisory council imminently

  • January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

    AMD bets on India, doubles down on AI

    The chipmaker recently inaugurated its largest global design facility in Bangalore as part of a $400m investment in India to support its expanded portfolio and build artificial intelligence capabilities

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    British Library catalogues back online after ransomware attack

    The British Library has restored online access to its main catalogue of nearly 40 million items on a limited basis as it continues the long and arduous process of recovering from a ransomware attack

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    Cosmetics retailer Lush dealing with mystery cyber incident

    Cosmetics retailer Lush confirms it’s investigating a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature, but key public-facing systems appear to be unaffected

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    Human-centric technology vision changes IT procurement

    Accenture’s 2024 technology vision report discusses IT systems that use AI in a bid to become more intuitive and capable of adapting to different user skills

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    How legal disclosure failures disrupted the Post Office Horizon inquiry

    From overly narrow search terms, overzealous deduplication of documents and failed email migrations, poor management of legal discovery has delayed justice for postmasters in the Horizon inquiry  

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    EU amendment changes open source definition

    The EU Cyber Resilience Act has the potential to cause confusion among open source developers, with questions remaining over open development

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    APAC leaders expect tech disruption to accelerate

    Nearly two-thirds of C-suite leaders in the region expect the pace of technology disruption to accelerate further in 2024, driven by advancements in generative AI

  • 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 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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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 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

    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 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 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

    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

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2023

    In the year we said goodbye to NHS Digital, the NHS has made some serious strides in digitising the health service, but many challenges remain. We look back at the stories that made the headlines in 2023

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy

    Zoom’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

  • December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

    Top 10 IT leadership interviews of 2023

    The top technology executives – whether their job title is CIO, CDIO, CDO or something completely different – talk to Computer Weekly and share their plans and strategies for delivering digital success

  • December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

    Top 10 software development stories of 2023

    There have been two main trends driving software development this year: artificial intelligence and low-code/no-code tooling

  • December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

    Top 10 cyber security stories of 2023

    The past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides, but it was the chaotic state of global geopolitics that really made an impact

  • December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

    Top 10 information management stories of 2023

    Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

  • December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

    Top 10 end user computing stories of 2023

    While the humble personal computer remains core to business productivity, IT admins now need to support a flexible and hybrid workforce

  • December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

    Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2023

    It has been a busy year for the IT sector, building out AI-based software and hardware acceleration to meet customer requirements