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March 26, 2021
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Mar'21
Qualcomm enhances 7-series with Snapdragon 780G 5G mobile platform
Mobile chip giant continues 5G foray with new Snapdragon product supporting multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 6 speeds, VR-class low latency and robust capacity for use cases such as video calling
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
From private to public: Amadeus on working with Microsoft to change up its cloud strategy
Amadeus and Microsoft have joined forces to help accelerate the travel technology firm’s move to the public cloud – but why now?
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Three-quarters of employees feel worse from remote working
Survey by security technology specialist reveals that the thrill of home working has gone, and there is a generational divide in working conditions
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Retailer FatFace pays $2m ransom to Conti cyber criminals
Retailer FatFace paid out a $2m ransom to restore its data following a January 2021 cyber attack by the Conti ransomware syndicate
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Leading Israeli IoT firm lands in US as worldwide malware attacks surge
With US end-user internet of things devices expected to grow to $1.6tn by 2025 and with more than 5.4 billion IoT connected devices in North America alone, tech firms and the black hat community are weighing up the potential
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
NHS Shared Business Services launches £1bn digital hardware framework
Framework consists of 19 suppliers, and offers user IT hardware products and services to the NHS and public sector organisations
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Remote working burn-out a factor in security risk
After a year of working from the kitchen table, stress and burn-out are increasing, giving rise to more security risks – and Millennials seem to be particularly affected
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Openreach defies Covid to hit full-fibre target
BT-owned broadband provision division includes more than 170 city locations in multi-billion-pound gigabit broadband build including cities of Birmingham, Belfast, London and Manchester
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences combines AI and practice
University ensures cooperation between scientists and industry when developing artificial intelligence
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March 26, 2021
26
Mar'21
‘Major’ security flaw detected in 5G core network slicing design
Mobile security specialist details potentially revenue-threatening vulnerabilities with key element of next-generation networks and reveals plans to work with industry to provide mitigation prior to widespread deployments
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Cyber security complacency puts UK at risk, says NCSC head
National Cyber Security Centre CEO Lindy Cameron, in her maiden speech in the role, warns of challenges ahead for the UK and sets out the future agenda for cyber
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
DWP completes in-house VME replacement project
The department has taken an in-house approach to swapping its virtual machine environment (VME), getting rid of legacy infrastructure and replacing 11 key benefits systems
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
TUC warns of gaps in British law over use of AI at work
The TUC has published a report warning of AI-powered discrimination against working people enabled by gaps in existing British employment law
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Deliveroo faces pushback from investors and riders ahead of IPO
Two of the UK’s largest fund managers have said they will not buy shares in Deliveroo because of concerns over workers’ rights
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Warning: AWS IAM behaves differently to directory services
IT admins use group policies to manage user access via Active Directory, but AWS takes a subtly different approach, which can be exploited
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
NHS Wales shapes up ambitious plans for digital patient-facing app
Computer Weekly looks at NHS Wales’ project to create a patient-facing app and a collaborative ecosystem for technology suppliers and NHS providers to deliver joined-up care
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Four in five UK businesses seek new security suppliers
Decision-makers are ready to buy new security technology, but suppliers must pay close attention to how they present themselves
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Government faces judicial review into plans for Post Office Horizon inquiry
Subpostmasters that suffered great hardship at the hands of the Post Office are applying for a judicial review of a government inquiry into the scandal, which they see as a "whitewash"
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Liverpool announces test and development area for drone technology
Project aims to stimulate investment opportunities, employment and skills for the region
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Qualcomm, 5G RuralDorset seed partnership to trial farming use cases
Government announces relationship with wireless technology company to work with its DCMS 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme to power smart agriculture for remote farms in the Dorset region
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Interview: Paul Douglas, Scottish Water
Building an enterprise architecture involves balancing near- and mid-term goals with longer-term business objective, cost and technical challenges, says Paul Douglas, lead enterprise architect at Scottish Water
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Facebook disrupts Chinese espionage operation
Social media giant’s in-house security team has tracked down and disrupted a long-running Chinese campaign targeting the Uighur Muslim minority
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
NHS to digitise the ‘red book’ by 2023
Every child born from April 2023 will have a digital ‘red book’, or personal child health record, Matt Hancock has promised
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
More than £34.5m stolen in pandemic scams over past year
City of London Police and National Cyber Security Centre report large uptick in threats and crime related to Covid-19 over the past year, in some cases directed specifically at health organisations
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
China’s cloud infrastructure spending hits record growth
Public cloud infrastructure spending in China grew a record 62% in the last quarter of 2020 due to rapid economic recovery and focus on digital transformation
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network
India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells walked away from IT scandal with over £400,000 in pay and bonuses
Former Post Office chief was paid over £400,000 when she left despite the organisation being involved in what would become the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Sky enters business broadband arena with Sky Connect
Broadband provider launches scheme to give UK’s small businesses a better broadband experience, creating 1,000 jobs in the process
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda
Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Intel puts chips on everyone’s menu
Digitisation and geopolitical tension between the US and China may be behind Pat Gelsinger’s news about building fabrication plants in the US and Europe
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
IWM uses StorCycle to free capacity for all-flash SAN upgrade
Imperial War Museums set to embark on unstructured data archiving project that will archive cold data to tape and free up capacity for a move to IntelliFlash all-flash SAN
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Oil giant Shell hit through Accellion FTA breach
Energy firm discloses cyber attack through Accellion File Transfer Appliance
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Prime minister says people should be held to account for Post Office IT scandal
Boris Johnson agrees with MP that those responsible for the Post Office Horizon scandal should be brought to book
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Google Cloud claims revolution with Network Connectivity Centre
Cloud giant introduces platform designed to allow enterprises to simplify complex heterogeneous networks for on-prem and cloud connectivity needs and connect with Cisco SD-WAN as a single network
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Apparent drop in cyber incidents highlights underlying problems
UK organisations report fewer cyber security incidents, but the headline data masks more serious issues, according to a report
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Post Office was told in 2013 that Fujitsu witness was unreliable in subpostmaster prosecutions
The Post Office was warned that a former Fujitsu employee had misled courts when giving evidence on its behalf
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Tableau chief Adam Selipsky to succeed Andy Jassy as CEO of AWS
AWS CEO confirms in an email to staff that Selipsky will be returning to the Amazon fold to lead the cloud company
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
UK faces significant cyber talent shortfall
Cyber security sector is struggling to attract the talented workforce it needs
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
PCCW Global expands SD-WAN services with uCPE, NFV
Hong Kong-based international communications service provider brings new level of user experience, enhanced security, automation and simplified management to global infrastructure
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Cyber criminals forging Covid-19 vaccine certificates
Vaccine passports and certificates are gaining mainstream traction, which means cyber criminals are also on the bandwagon
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
NUHS taps RPA in Covid-19 swab tests
Singapore’s National University Health System deploys RPA bots to automate patient registration during Covid-19 swab tests as part of broader efforts to improve efficiency
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Former Skyscanner COO will lead Scotland’s tech-led recovery programme
Following his independent review of the Scottish tech sector, Mark Logan will oversee a programme to establish the country as a world-class technology hub
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
SD-WAN, SASE see spike as firms experience ‘network nightmare’ in 2020
Networking tech firm’s annual survey shows Covid-driven home networking sees network complexity skyrocket
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Why collaboration is the next driver in enterprise software
Use of enterprise collaboration tools has exploded during the pandemic. Now they are expanding their remit into the realm of enterprise systems
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy
Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
IR35 reforms: Confusion over who pays employers’ NI leaves IT contractors out of pocket
Litigators are circling as thousands of contractors realise that the 2017 roll-out of IR35 reforms to the public sector may have resulted in unlawful tax deductions – and the private sector could be next
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Ericsson aims to make network services smarter with 5G Core Policy Studio
Programmability tool designed to offer centralised management of end-to-end network policies for communication service providers
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
NCSC beefs up support for education sector after spate of attacks
Refreshed guidance from the NCSC recommends a defence-in-depth strategy as schools and universities face a renewed wave of cyber attacks
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Benu has the edge with cloud-native integrated SASE and 5G AGF
New broadband network gateway said to offer industry’s only carrier-first secure access service edge architecture as market scales to billions of devices, users and services
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Scottish government AI strategy majors on ethics and inclusion
Scottish government announces artificial intelligence strategy that involves the creation of a Scottish AI Alliance to be drawn from across society, including trade unions and companies