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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 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 23, 2025 23 Jan'25
Samsung unpacks Galaxy AI’s personal data engine

The headlines are the Galaxy S25 line-up, but the hardware is powered by Samsung’s ambition to develop an AI ecosystem
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 15, 2025 15 Jan'25
UK’s female fintech leaders hit harder by investment collapse

UK fintechs led by women suffered disproportionately as a result of the fall in investment in the sector
January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25
Subpostmasters won’t get financial redress until mid-2027 at current rate of progress

Campaigning former subpostmaster warns that some members of the group that took the Post Office to court might not receive financial redress until mid-2027
January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25
AWS plants flag in Thailand with new cloud region

Amazon Web Services’ latest regional expansion brings its cloud services to Thailand, promising a $10bn boost to the nation's GDP and support for more than 11,000 jobs per year
January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25
Post Office scandal-stained Fujitsu orders staff to cut costs amid widening UK losses

Japanese supplier reports a loss of £170m in the UK in its latest financial statement and orders UK staff to cut costs
January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25
Former subpostmasters invited to take part in Post Office Capture compensation scheme development

Government will look at a selection of cases where subpostmasters experienced unexplained losses while using the Post Office’s pre-Horizon accounting system
January 07, 2025 07 Jan'25
Saudi Arabia calls for humanitarian AI after tightening screws on rights protesters

Oppressive state wants global digital identity system at the heart of all AI, to make it trustworthy and prevent it being used for ‘unauthorised surveillance’

January 03, 2025 03 Jan'25
Post Office staff list 14 scandal-stained individuals who should have honours stripped

Staff of the Post Office and Royal Mail from the past and present have written to the Forfeiture Committee requesting honours to be stripped from 14 people with links to the Horizon scandal
January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25
Sir Alan Bates has ‘serious concerns’ over Post Office scandal compensation budget

Campaigning former subpostmaster welcomed ‘positive’ select committee report but voiced concern over inclusion of legal costs in compensation pot
December 30, 2024 30 Dec'24
Post Office scandal campaigners awarded OBEs in New Year Honours List

Former subpostmasters and campaigners Jo Hamilton, Lee Castleton, Seema Misra and Christopher Head honoured for their part in 20-year fight against the Post Office – along with former Computer Weekly reporter Rebecca Thomson
December 20, 2024 20 Dec'24
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans

Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24
Post Office IT department fired and rehired ‘friends’ at ‘exorbitant’ rates, says former HR chief

The Post Office got rid of permanent roles, including IT, and rehired the holders on over double the pay
December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24
Government promises redress and justice to Post Office Capture system users

The government has officially recognised that users of the Post Office’s Capture software experienced shortfalls caused by the system’s errors
December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24
Post Office ‘weaponised’ IT system in most ‘extensive and prolonged’ miscarriage

In closing, public inquiry counsel made clear that it’s not a computer system being investigated, but rather human beings
December 16, 2024 16 Dec'24
Top 10 software development stories of 2024

This year has seen large language models get significantly better at code generation
December 13, 2024 13 Dec'24
Google Cloud’s Agentspace to unlock enterprise data

Agentspace uses AI agents to automate workflows and connect to multiple data sources to perform tasks and deliver insights, boosting enterprise productivity and efficiency
December 12, 2024 12 Dec'24
Post Office scandal in 2024 – part 2: Capture, the prequel

Users of the Post Office’s Capture system had similar experiences to those who struggled with the Horizon system, which came later, but their stories are only just coming out now
December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24
Police not ruling any person or crime out of Post Office scandal investigation

Metropolitan Police provides update on Operation Olympos, its national investigation into potential criminality in the Post Office Horizon scandal
December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24
Post Office scandal in 2024 – part 1: A year in the mainstream

Read this year’s 10 most read Computer Weekly articles about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal
December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2025

Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to focus on securing their AI workloads, invest in energy efficient infrastructure and rethink their platform strategy, among other tech trends in the new year
December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24
Controversial Horizon system to remain in Post Office branches as part of tech ‘fusion’, says source

A source says the Post Office is set to buy the Horizon system from Fujitsu and combine it with both in-house developed and commercially available software
December 09, 2024 09 Dec'24
Post Office senior leadership warned of IT project data safeguarding risk

Post Office board members and senior executives have been made aware of the risk to data related to its ill-fated Horizon system replacement project
December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24
Post Office Fujitsu contract extended by a year as decision time looms

The Post Office has let contractors and third parties go as it completes its analysis of the future Horizon replacement options
December 04, 2024 04 Dec'24
Grab deepens AWS partnership to fuel AI ambitions and growth

Southeast Asian super app Grab names AWS as its preferred cloud provider to optimise costs, enhance infrastructure and support its growing AI workloads
December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24
AWS unveils new generative AI models

The Amazon Nova family of GenAI models boasts faster speeds and lower costs, and caters to needs from text and image generation to video creation and multimodal applications
December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24
Nordic states launch ambitious AI centre regional plan

Nordic states to increase cooperation on artificial intelligence to help region close gap on global leaders
November 29, 2024 29 Nov'24
Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service

IT services company will ship 50 of its staff from Europe to Canada to work onsite at the tournament in February 2025
November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24
Post Office Capture users invited to pivotal meeting with government

About 80 former Capture users have now come forward for legal support in making claims against the Post Office
November 27, 2024 27 Nov'24
GitLab doubles down on DevSecOps and AI in APAC

The DevOps platform supplier is focused on providing deeper platform integration, enhanced security and artificial intelligence-powered tools to help APAC organisations speed up software delivery
November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24
How Kong is driving the future of APIs

From its open-source API gateway to a full platform play, Kong is orchestrating the future of APIs with a growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region
November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24
Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems

Campaigning former subpostmaster Sir Alan Bates met with Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) over financial redress scheme
November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24
Post Office scandal: How much deeper and wider can it get?

It took decades to expose the Post Office Horizon scandal but that effort has laid the groundwork for others to seek justice and financial redress
November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24
Convictions of Post Office Capture system users to be reviewed by statutory body

Statutory body to look at the convictions of subpostmasters who used a pre-Horizon branch accounting system
November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24
Government looking into third faulty Post Office IT system

The Department for Business and Trade will look into claims that a third Post Office branch system caused unexplained shortfalls that branch workers and subpostmasters were blamed for
November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24
Post Office to harness technology to automate scandal financial redress payments

Technology that could speed up financial redress for subpostmasters is being worked on in-house by the Post Office
November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24
Post Office project taking control of Horizon data from Fujitsu as part of messy split

The Post Office will no longer rely on Fujitsu for Horizon data past and present once cloud migration project is complete, in a major uncoupling of the 30-year relationship
November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24
Post Office is paying lawyers too much, admits minister

When pushed, a government minister admits the Post Office is paying lawyers too much money in relation to the Post Office scandal
November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24
Subpostmasters hit by Post Office scandal plan to meet over 'nuclear option'

Members of campaign group Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance will discuss taking legal action in their pursuit of full, fair and final financial redress
November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24
Post Office scandal: Inquiry’s final phase exposes dysfunction past and present

Conclusion of the seventh and final phase of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry hearings is another landmark in a scandal that has unfolded over a quarter of a century
November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24
Post Office IT boss calls for subpostmasters to judge him on his actions

Recently installed Post Office chief transformation officer tasked with replacing controversial IT system tells Computer Weekly the organisation’s leadership understands the challenges ahead
November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24
Post Office to decide on Horizon before April, Fujitsu board considers final contract extension

Chief transformation officer tells Computer Weekly about ongoing work on replacing controversial Post Office Horizon system and extending contract with Fujitsu
November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24
Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia

Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models
November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24
Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation

Current quantum computers are prone to error. IBM’s latest Heron machine uses software and hardware to get better results
November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24
Post Office requested four-year Horizon extension, as Fujitsu boss arrived at public inquiry

Fujitsu boss says the Horizon system has reached the end of its life and a long contract extension might not be possible
November 11, 2024 11 Nov'24
Post Office scandal not caused by software errors, says combative Fujitsu boss

During a sometimes heated appearance at the public inquiry, Fujitsu’s European boss Paul Patterson said the inquiry has shed light on who is to blame for the scandal
November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24
Government announces Green Paper on future of scandal-ridden Post Office

Consultation process will enable a wide range of people to air their views on the future of the scandal-hit Post Office
November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24
Inside Grab’s platform strategy

Grab’s group CTO talks up the super app’s platform strategy, architecture and organisational structure behind its growth across diverse Southeast Asian markets