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• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Scotland launches national digital platform for health and care

  The online platform aims to give people access to their health and social care data, as well as provide staff with access to data to inform decisions about care

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  MoD signs three-year deal with AWS to bolster defence sector’s digital skills

  UK Ministry of Defence is joining forces with Amazon Web Services to boost the defence sector’s cloud capabilities

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  AWS doubles down on data management

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services declares a bold vision to eliminate the need to extract, transform and load data alongside other efforts to address business problems in domains like cyber security and logistics

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals exploiting naked TikTok ‘challenge’

  Malware operators lured targets by promising them they would be able to view nude videos of TikTok users

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  ‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill

  Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: HSBC discusses low-code in financial services

  A member of HSBC’s global transformation team has shared her views on low-code with an audience in Amsterdam

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Government needs to do more for UK semiconductor industry, say MPs

  Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee report says the government is putting the UK chip industry at ‘significant risk’ by failing to support it sufficiently, and calls on Whitehall to publish its semiconductor strategy immediately

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  How MongoDB is driving growth in ANZ

  MongoDB, which counts the likes of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as clients, has been driving skills development and investing in local manpower in Australia and New Zealand

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS eyes mission-critical workloads in ASEAN

  Cloud giant AWS is eyeing more business from mission-critical workloads and the financial services industry in Southeast Asia as it readies itself for the next phase of growth

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  CIO interview: David Charnley, head of transformation and strategy, NatWest Group

  Data is at the heart of the banking giant’s push to improve customer experience – and to enhance its environmental credentials

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Public safety 5G networks represent $700m opportunity

  Research on public safety broadband and mission-critical communications over 3GPP networks predicts that cumulative spending on deployable network assets in sectors will exceed $700m between 2022 and 2025

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  1&1, Orange seal worldwide international roaming agreement

  German startup telco and global operator take advantage of 5G OpenRAN technology to offer users seamless automatic network performance and quality, even when outside home territory

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS pledges to become a water-positive entity by 2030

  Amazon Web Services has marked the first day of its Re:Invent partner and customer conference by going public with its pledge to become a water-positive entity

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  UKISUG 2022: S/4 skills deficit worsens but SAP Rise use increases

  On the opening day of its 2022 conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing concerns that an S/4 Hana skills deficit appears worse than it was 12 months ago

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  STC Kuwait and BICS complete world’s first live 5G standalone roaming connection

  Mobile connectivity enabler teams with MENA region telecoms provider for successful test of what is claimed to be the first of its kind to be completed in a non-lab environment and a major milestone for global 5G adoption

• November 27, 2022 27 Nov'22

  Plexal inducts six into cyber leadership scheme

  Tech innovation hub Plexal is expanding its Cyber Runway programme with a new Ignite strand dedicated to supporting high-potential security leaders

• November 26, 2022 26 Nov'22

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  CityFibre identifies massive economic gains for Cheltenham, Portsmouth areas through full fibre

  Leading independent gigabit broadband provider reveals positive economic and productivity impacts in Gloucestershire and south-coast cities where it has introduced full fibre, running to £145m and £335m respectively

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Data management, backup becoming the CISO's responsibility

  More and more CISOs are taking on responsibility for wider data management strategies, and this trend looks set to grow next year

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Wales launches beta version of its own NHS app

  NHS Wales has begun trialling the beta version of its patient-facing app ahead of plans for a full launch next year

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Pharrowtech expands next-gen mmWave capabilities to the UK

  Global 5G millimetre-wave wireless tech leader Pharrowtech accelerates hiring and opens two new offices as it grows its product and development capabilities

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Fujitsu put pressure on UK government to sign off troubled Horizon project, public inquiry hears

  Telegram from British Embassy in Tokyo to UK government reveals pressure on ministers to sign off controversial contract

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Getting data analytics right

  Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  BT aims to reign in industry where connectivity is king

  In the latest part of its drive to evolve from a telco to a techco, BT unveils range of 5G-enabled robotics systems and reveals how it is driving the evolution of advanced communications in industrial applications

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Internet of things market continues to surge

  China and US to drive world adoption of internet of things with global demand for smart offerings from industrial to security use cases still rising

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Not-for-profit aims to encourage 1,300 girls into cyber careers

  CyNam, a not-for-profit cyber security initiative, is collaborating with industry, education providers and government to encourage young women into cyber

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

  The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Google signs wind power purchase agreement in pursuit of UK carbon-free energy pledge

  Google claims power purchase agreement with French utility firm will bring it a step closer to being able to power its entire UK operations with carbon-free energy by 2030

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Equinix makes added £179m investment in UK digital infrastructure

  Global digital infrastructure company announces cash injection in support of increasing customer demand in the UK

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Profits fall but Zoom maintains revenue momentum in Q3

  Breakout collaboration service maintains momentum for rising revenues in third fiscal quarter of 2022 with significant rise in number of customers contributing more than $100,000

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  How APAC organisations are hiring cyber security pros

  Hiring managers in cyber security are turning to existing employees in non-IT roles and providing professional development for junior-level staff to plug the talent gap

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  UK police arrest 120 in largest-ever cyber fraud crackdown

  The administrator and more than 100 users of the iSpoof.cc cyber fraud website have been arrested in a major counter-fraud operation led by the Metropolitan Police

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  UK tech sector given four-point plan to cut carbon emissions by more than 80 million tonnes

  According to a report by Tech Nation, leasing renewably powered office space, switching to plant-based food when catering events and curbing business travel would significantly bring down the UK tech sector’s carbon emissions

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices

  Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  South Korea data adequacy pact brings £15m Brexit bonus

  UK government finalises a data adequacy agreement with South Korea, saying it will unlock a post-Brexit business bonus of just under £15m

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  How Photobox keeps site reliability in the picture

  Photobox’s site reliability head discusses how the photo book and personalised gifts site manages a complex microservices architecture

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Red team tool developer slams ‘irresponsible’ disclosure

  UK security firm MDSec defends its Nighthawk command and control penetration testing framework after suggestions were made that it could be appropriated by threat actors

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Netherlands wants watchdog to reduce bias in artificial intelligence

  Dutch government will take swift action to prevent citizens getting into trouble due to the misuse of algorithms

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Hidden energy cost of on-premise data stores

  Data is said to be the new oil, but organisations may be storing far more than they need – and now there is an energy crisis

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Dutch national cyber security strategy aims to protect digital society

  Cabinet sets up national cyber security strategy to make the Netherlands digitally secure

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Government launches AI-focused green innovation programme

  The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy claims the programme will not only help the UK achieve its net-zero goals, but may also help bring down energy costs

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Ericsson makes multi-million pound investment in UK 6G research programme

  Leading comms tech provider unveils investment initiative set to boost UK research capabilities and drive global development of 6G future communications and standards

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  CityFibre inks strategic relationship with Toob

  Terms agreed to give rapidly growing full-fibre platform’s wholesale customers access to growing network footprints of south of England fibre-to-the-premise network provider

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Ducktail spins new tales to hijack Facebook Business accounts

  The increasingly active Ducktail cyber crime operation is refining its operations, seeking new methods to compromise its victims’ Facebook Business accounts

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  IT services sector hiring slows to pre-pandemic levels

  IT services firms have slowed their recruitment after a major acceleration in hiring during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Pure aims at near bare metal I/O with Portworx PX-Fast

  PX-Fast is driven by customer need for scale and high performance in containerised environments and sees reworking of Portworx data architecture to slash storage access time

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Killnet DDoS hacktivists target Royal Family and others

  Russia-aligned hacktivists targeted multiple UK websites, including those of the Royal Family, in a new campaign of DDoS attacks

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Businesses must embrace digital skills and innovate, says CBI president

  Brian McBride, president of the Confederation of British Industry, says the UK is a ‘magnet for tech investment’ and calls on UK firms to step up and adapt, as tech adoption will help boost the economy