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May 21, 2024
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May'24
AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments
Prominent artificial intelligence companies from around the world have committed to a set of voluntary AI safety measures, which includes developing continuous risk assessment processes, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and ensuring greater ...
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May 21, 2024
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May'24
Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity
During its annual Next conference in Barcelona, Nutanix has expanded its hardware partner programme to grab new business from Broadcom
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May 21, 2024
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May'24
Post Office clique deepened Horizon scandal
A general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells
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May 20, 2024
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May'24
Toshiba shows 32TB HDDs with heat-assisted and shingled drives
Drive maker demonstrates 32TB and 31TB capacity hard drives that boost write density by use of heat and microwave assistance plus shingled – overlapped – drive tracks
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May 20, 2024
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May'24
Post Office directors went crawling back to Fujitsu when IBM project got complex, inquiry told
More details emerge about how close IBM came to replacing Fujitsu and its controversial Horizon system at the Post Office
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May 20, 2024
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May'24
The fall from grace of ex-priest and Post Office boss Paula Vennells
As Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss
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May 17, 2024
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Why the UK needs to fix its broken IT security market
Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, says the market for secure software is broken. Are new laws required to make software companies liable for poor security?
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May 17, 2024
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Post Office CEO Paula Vennells ‘didn’t believe there were miscarriages of justice,’ inquiry told
As the nation waits for the impending appearance of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells at the public inquiry, a former colleague reveals her certainty that there were no miscarriages of justice
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May 16, 2024
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May'24
Post Office IT boss failed to raise concern over false Horizon statements
Former Post Office CIO Lesley Sewell failed to raise concern over Post Office’s false stance on Horizon integrity
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May 16, 2024
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May'24
HMRC Single Trade Window project hits turbulence
Less than a year into the programme to create a Single Trade Window as a digital gateway for traders, HMRC has already gone through a formal dispute resolution process with its supplier
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May 15, 2024
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May'24
Comms director at centre of cover-up never thought Post Office were the ‘baddies’
Head of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error-prone Horizon system when challenged
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May 14, 2024
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May'24
QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace
Tape veteran provides file and object access to Exabyte scale archives aimed at AI, high-performance computing and hyperscaler storage. Single-site for now, multi-site to follow
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May 14, 2024
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May'24
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads
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May 09, 2024
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Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases
Simon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions
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May 09, 2024
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May'24
Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability
Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials
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May 08, 2024
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Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year
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May 07, 2024
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Chinese APT suspected of Ministry of Defence hack
A cyber attack on the Ministry of Defence is suspected to be the work of threat actors working on behalf of Chinese intelligence
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May 07, 2024
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French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit
Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers
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May 07, 2024
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Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court
A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial
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May 06, 2024
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Microsoft beefs up cyber initiative after hard-hitting US report
Microsoft is expanding its recently launched Secure Future Initiative in the wake of a hard-hitting US government report on recent nation state intrusions into its systems
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May 03, 2024
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May'24
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned
The addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern
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May 01, 2024
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May'24
EMEA CISOs must address human factors behind cyber incidents
The 17th annual Verizon report on data breaches makes for sobering reading for security pros, urging them to do more to address the human factors involved in cyber incidents, and highlighting ongoing issues with zero-day patching
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April 30, 2024
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Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons
Foreign ministers and civil society representatives say that multilateralism is key to controlling the proliferation and use of AI-powered autonomous weapons, but that a small number of powerful countries are holding back progress
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April 29, 2024
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Post Office misjudged campaigner it labelled a ‘bluffer’
Social media, a trade union and tech expertise helped former subpostmasters expose Post Office bug myth
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April 26, 2024
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Microsoft sees datacentre investments key to AI leadership
Microsoft is reportedly spending between $50 to $100m to build out AI infrastructure
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April 26, 2024
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Apr'24
Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption
The parent company of Google has increased artificial intelligence R&D spending and raised cloud sales commissions to boost adoption of Google Cloud
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April 25, 2024
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Apr'24
More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge
Evidence in the questioning of 35-year Post Office veteran reveals the lengths the Post Office went to in hiding computer system vulnerabilities
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April 24, 2024
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Apr'24
SAP earnings rise, but no support extension
Support for SAP ECC is due to end in 2027. The company hopes customers will choose to buy into its business AI portfolio
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April 24, 2024
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Apr'24
Lords debate amendment to law on use of computer evidence in light of Post Office scandal
Peers to debate amending the law on the use of computer evidence in court, which is partly to blame for the wrongful prosecutions of hundreds of former subpostmasters
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April 23, 2024
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Apr'24
Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?
SaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue
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April 23, 2024
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Apr'24
Post Office boss used husband’s descriptions in 'Orwellian' ploy to downplay Horizon problems
Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.
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April 23, 2024
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Apr'24
Lords split over UK government approach to autonomous weapons
During a debate on autonomous weapons systems, Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current position, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use
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April 22, 2024
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Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own
Post Office IT scandal inquiry hears how a lawyer was at the centre of the Post Office’s attempts to prevent problems with its IT system becoming public knowledge
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April 19, 2024
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Apr'24
Unisys reveals no link to development of controversial Post Office software
IT supplier finds no evidence that it was involved in the development of controversial Post Office software
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April 18, 2024
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Apr'24
TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI
Proposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them
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April 17, 2024
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Apr'24
VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes
VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term
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April 17, 2024
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Apr'24
VMware: Broadcom faces EU complaint over unfair licensing
CEO Hock Tan responds to complaints, opening up partner programme to smaller resellers and standardising on core licensing
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April 17, 2024
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Apr'24
IFS builds AI and automation into ERP to help businesses boost productivity
Changing of the guard has ERP firm set for renewed focus on AI and core business
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April 16, 2024
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Apr'24
Post Office boss signed off hush money to cover up smoking gun
A former Post Office boss admitted the pain and suffering of subpostmasters could have been avoided had the organisation done the right thing
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April 16, 2024
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Apr'24
Alan Bates and JFSA won’t back down in fight with government and Post Office
Over the past 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans
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April 15, 2024
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Apr'24
More social engineering attacks on open source projects observed
In the wake of the recent XZ Utils scare, maintainers of another open source project have come forward to say they may have experienced similar social engineering attacks
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April 12, 2024
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Apr'24
Government could still replace Fujitsu in key nuclear contract
Fujitsu’s first government contract of the year could be just a stay of execution as department says that all replacement options are still being considered
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April 11, 2024
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Apr'24
Former Post Office executive’s neglect prolonged Horizon reliability myth
Executive’s failure to provide terms of reference for a controversial Post Office investigation into its own computer system resulted in a one-sided whitewash report
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April 11, 2024
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Apr'24
CMA set to tackle interconnected web of strategic AI partnerships
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Nvidia are all collaborating on AI foundation models, potentially to the detriment of fair, open and effective competition
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April 11, 2024
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Apr'24
How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers
With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents
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April 10, 2024
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Apr'24
Cyber crooks poison GitHub search to fool developers
Researchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware
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April 09, 2024
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Apr'24
Civil servants more to blame for Post Office cover-up than ministers, says Alan Bates
Campaigning former subpostmaster believes the civil service has more to answer for than ministers in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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April 08, 2024
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Apr'24
Further extension to controversial Post Office contract with Fujitsu inevitable
Post Office is seeking software developers as it replaces the controversial Horizon system from Fujitsu with an in-house alternative
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April 08, 2024
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Apr'24
Some former Post Office staff should be jailed over scandal, says government minister
Government minister outlines the real prospect that people will be jailed for their roles in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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April 08, 2024
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Apr'24
MPs will grill Cabinet Office over Fujitsu contract bidding pause
Parliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal, with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny