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• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Zoom furthers contact centre expansion with Solvvy acquisition

  In the next step of progression from being the pandemic’s breakout collaboration services leader, Zoom makes strategic buy to add advanced conversational AI and automation capabilities

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Open source community sets out path to secure software

  A 10-point plan to improve the security and resilience of open source software was presented this week at a summit in the US

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  App-based Starling Bank doubles its Cardiff workforce

  Digital bank is recruiting nearly 500 people, including data scientists and engineers, to its Cardiff operation

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  What will a quantum datacentre look like?

  IBM has set out plans for hybrid supercomputing, with quantum and classical computing. This impacts both hardware installation and software

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  DWP Digital sets out three-year plan to improve data sharing and cut legacy

  In response to the pandemic, the government department aims to improve collaboration and develop a reference architecture

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  UK government puts pressure on IT sector to clean up app security

  Apps can be exploited to carry malicious payloads that steal personal information and cause financial loss – and not enough is being done to secure them

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  CIOs have the greatest impact on business

  Chief information officers see their role as core in building out the IT and security infrastructure and talent pool that their organisations require to grow post-pandemic

• April 25, 2022 25 Apr'22

  Researchers explore historical Hubble datasets to understand the solar system

  GPU-based supercomputer helps astronomers simulate exoplanet atmospheres

• April 25, 2022 25 Apr'22

  Post Office scandal victims still waiting for compensation a year after convictions overturned

  Former subpostmasters at the centre of one of biggest miscarriage of justice in modern history are still waiting for compensation a year after their wrongful convictions were overturned

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  More Scottish subpostmaster conviction reviews expected as part of Post Office scandal

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission expects more subpostmasters with potential wrongful convictions to come forward

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Scuderia AlphaTauri gets in gear with RapidAPI to improve performance

  Challenger Formula 1 team deploys technology from growing US tech company to drive efficiencies and accelerate innovation from the factory to the track

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

  Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner

  Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Executive interview: How Audi provides developer self-service

  Audi is transforming IT in line with digitisation across the VW Group. We look at how Audi’s IT architecture is supporting developers

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  More ANZ organisations warm to DevSecOps

  About four in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand are undertaking the transition to development, security and operations, while a further 36% plan to do so in 2022, study finds

• April 11, 2022 11 Apr'22

  Open source CMS platform Directus patches XSS bug

  A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Directus platform could have enabled malicious actors to gain access to valuable data

• April 08, 2022 08 Apr'22

  Was Spring4Shell a lot of hot air? No, but...

  Find out why Spring4Shell was apparently not as impactful a security problem as many had at first feared, and why it’s on the cyber community as a whole to do better

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Hackathon team uses origami in James Webb Space Telescope Pi project

  The James Webb Space Telescope was the inspiration behind a NASA challenge which uses an IoT device based around folded paper

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Spring4Shell zero-day sprung on security teams

  Some are describing a newly disclosed Spring Java framework vulnerability as the next Log4Shell, but what is Spring4Shell, and what can we do about it?

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Compensation goal finally in sight for 555 Post Office scandal victims

  The subpostmaster campaign group which exposed the Post Office Horizon scandal could be close to achieving the objective it was established for, with fair compensation for its members in sight

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Japan’s Mizuho partners Google to accelerate tech transformation after a year to forget

  Following a year when it hit the tech headlines for the wrong reasons, Mizuho is on a mission to modernise IT in collaboration with Google

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  SAP to invest S$250m in Singapore innovation lab

  New lab will double SAP’s engineering workforce in Singapore by 2025 and help to shape the company’s product development roadmap

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Volvo Cars recruiting 700 tech professionals for Stockholm hub

  Software is increasingly becoming a differentiator for car manufacturers, says the Swedish giant

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Open banking’s next big thing could replace direct debits

  Variable recurring payments could fuel the next stage of open banking take-up in the UK

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Raspberry Pi at 10: Cheaper than chips

  We speak to the founder of Raspberry Pi about the power of a low-cost device and its appeal as an educational tool and for space-age projects

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Zopa Bank to sponsor 50 Ukrainian tech professionals with visa offer

  IT companies are reaching out to IT professionals in the Ukraine with offers of support for those looking to work in the UK

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery

  Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Salesforce pays out over £2m in bug bounties

  Salesforce says it received more than 4,000 vulnerability reports in 2021 alone as it delivers a rare public update on its bug bounty programme

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Open banking surpasses five million UK customers

  Upwards of five million people in the UK are using open banking services as the financial sector’s fintech revolution gathers pace

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  The Citrix deal and what it means for Tibco

  The investment firm behind Tibco has been on a spending spree, bolstering its product portfolio and offering new ways to access and connect to data

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  CPaaS key to enabling customer experience to drive digital transformation

  IDC study shows nearly four-fifths of enterprises are set to implement conversational customer engagement to improve customer experience

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  UK fintech investment sees sevenfold increase in a year

  UK fintech investment rose from $5.2bn in 2020 to $37.3bn in 2021, with 603 private equity, venture capital and merger and acquisition deals

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  Nationwide Building Society streamlines digital onboarding through API

  Building society is improving its digital onboarding process through application programming interface-based technology from a US startup

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development

  Check Point’s latest acquisition of Israel-based startup Spectral expands its developer-centric security toolset

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research

• January 28, 2022 28 Jan'22

  Microsoft gives Nasa a lesson in timeshare optimisation

  A quantum-inspired algorithm has been used to help Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab schedule its Deep Space Network comms system

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Dutch education anticipates quantum technology

  Dutch academic talks about the Netherlands’ role in a pan-European quantum computing project as university investigates the technology’s possibilities

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Icelandic research could revolutionise AI

  Icelandic team is researching potential artificial intelligence that will not choke when faced with the unknown

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Zopa Bank hits £1bn deposits in just 18 months

  Bank has seen rapid growth since its launch and has set ambitious targets for the next 12 months

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  Record amount invested in UK fintech last year, but female founders still overlooked

  Last year the UK financial technology sector attracted the most investment ever following a slowdown in 2020

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 software development stories of 2021

  Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

  How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  UAE joins the race to produce a usable quantum computer

  As part of its ongoing effort to keep up with the latest technology, the United Arab Emirates has begun work on the region’s first quantum computer

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Former TSB CEO joins money-sharing fintech

  Paul Pester teams up with fintech heavyweights to target multibillion-pound money-sharing market

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  European finance firms increase open banking spend

  Financial services firms are increasing investment in open banking capabilities, with improvements to payment initiation and onboarding capabilities expected

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Software development

  As organisations rebuild after the Covid-19 pandemic, strategic software projects will help them become more effective

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  How Axa drives digitisation forward

  Digital transformation is not a one-shot project – it’s a continuous and evolving process that requires a mindset change in IT management

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Can UAE become a world leader in AI?

  The UAE has launched multiple programmes as it bids to be a world-leading location for artificial intelligence innovation

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Stockholm and Copenhagen: Different IT innovation journeys, similar success

  Swedish and Danish capitals have build compelling tech startup success stories, and now rub shoulders with the likes of San Francisco