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• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Gartner: 5G launch fails to stem decline of smartphone sales

  Consumers see no reason to upgrade their current high-end 4G devices. But next year, 5G's greater security and faster speeds may reverse this trend

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Teen TalkTalk hacker accused of cryptocurrency fraud in US

  Elliott Gunton, one of the teenage hackers who broke into TalkTalk’s systems in 2015, faces extradition to the US to face fraud charges

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Nordic payment collaboration will ease cross-border payments

  P27 and Mastercard to bring seamless cross-border payments across Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  How drones and machine learning can prevent crocodile attacks

  Cloud-powered drones equipped with machine learning algorithms will soon be able to detect crocodiles lurking in the waters of Queensland, Australia

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Instagram and WhatsApp – the new tools of social media propaganda

  Facebook and Twitter have been cast as the villains of the piece, but social media disinformation and propaganda are evolving in new and alarming directions, say Oxford University researchers

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2019: Entrants to the Hall of Fame

  Each year, Computer Weekly announces the women who will be added to its Hall of Fame, a list of women recognised for their lifetime achievements to the technology sector

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2019

  Computer Weekly has announced the 2019 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner Debbie Forster

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2019: Rising Stars

  Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choice for this year’s female Rising Stars of the UK technology industry

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Inclusion for everyone, not just the under-represented, says Most Influential Woman in UK Tech 2019

  People need to be more clued up on the benefits of inclusion, says Tech Talent Charter CEO Debbie Forster, the 2019 winner of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Technology accolade

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Brazilian fintech Creditas chases UK tech talent

  Latin American firm Creditas is looking to lure senior professionals who may be leaving the UK to its technology hub in Spain

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  PM invites global leaders to discuss ethics in tech

  London summit next year will invite countries to discuss standards for emerging technology

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle tech with cloud MoU

  Government procurement chiefs in the Crown Commercial Service sign new agreement with database giant aimed at making it easier and cheaper for public sector organisations to use its cloud

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Can Oracle substantiate its cloud bluster?

  Larry Ellison talks aggressively about having more datacentres than AWS and how Oracle’s cloud sales are growing – but it may have to provide legal proof

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage

  National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Why quantum needs a classic approach for supremacy

  Google claims it has developed an algorithm for a quantum computer that would take a traditional “classical” computer 10,000 years to run. We investigate

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  European enterprises 'waste' £24,000 a day on unused cloud services, says Insight research

  The latest Insight Intelligent Technology Index report highlights the economic impacts of wasted cloud resources within European enterprises

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Executive interview: Speed is cloud apps benefit, says Oracle’s Miranda

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World 2019, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s approach to cloud applications, digital assistants and machine learning

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Atom Bank CTO on ditching its datacentres and moving to the Google Cloud Platform

  Atom Bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya describes what is behind the mobile-only challenger bank’s large-scale, cloud-focused reboot of its infrastructure setup

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Latest Lorca cyber security challenge has IoT focus

  Government-backed cyber security innovation centre Lorca has issued new challenges around connectivity for its next intake of scaleups

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Singapore payment card data compromised by JavaScript sniffers

  Raw data of thousands of payment cards issued by Singapore banks stolen by the online equivalent of a traditional card sniffer

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  GandCrab ransomware writers still active despite ‘retirement’

  Apparent links between an emerging ransomware family known as REvil and GandCrab suggests the GandCrab authors are keeping busy despite having “retired” in June

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  What next for GDS?

  Digital government has lost momentum, according to MPs. As the Government Digital Service enters its “third era”, what will it do to regain its authority and deliver real change?

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Pure adds Optane and QLC flash to boost performance and capacity

  Flash storage player adds Intel Optane modules performance, a capacity flash range based on QLC drives, plus rebranding and GA of its on-premise/cloud leasing service

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Enterprises exposed to data loss by cloud configuration errors

  Only 1% of misconfigured cloud environments are spotted and attackers are capitalising on this, claims McAfee

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Google pushes back on scale of YouTube phishing threat

  Millions of YouTubers may be at risk after some high-profile influencers reported their accounts were compromised in an apparent phishing attack, but the platform’s owner, Google, is not so sure

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Cloud provider sweeps away legacy storage for 1PB of Infinidat

  Core DataCloud decommissions storage from several vendors to consolidate to 1PB on Infinidat Infinibox, with DRAM and flash to accelerate hot data in front of disk back end

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Australia’s RMIT teams up with AWS on cloud skills training

  Two new online courses will equip IT and business professionals with the skills to thrive in a cloud-first world

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

  Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  How Malaysia is nurturing data analytics talent

  The Southeast Asian nation has spearheaded several programmes to build up its data analytics talent pool in efforts to improve efficiency and productivity of Malaysians

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Basic data and skills needed to fix UK social care

  Foundations need to be in place to save the social care system from collapse, and NHSX needs to step up to the task, according to a Doteveryone report

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  The Nordics’ passion for gamification goes global

  Nordic startups are pioneering the gamification of educational apps, with an international market looking on

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Why CIOs should take extra precautions when buying IT support

  With the continued squeeze on IT budgets, CIOs are always seeking ways to reduce their outgoings. Maintenance is one area where substantial savings can be made, but opting for third-party support requires careful assessment

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  AWS G4 aims to lower cost of GPU-powered AI inference

  Amazon Web Services seeks to cut the cost of running artificial intelligence inference engines with the introduction of a Nvida V100 GPU-based instance

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Walt Disney Studios signs five-year cloud-focused deal with Microsoft Azure

  Microsoft added to the host of “innovation partners” that Walt Disney Studios relies upon to ensure its creative teams have access to the latest and greatest technologies

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  The perfect storm for silicon photonics

  By packaging optics with silicon chips, silicon photonics will enable datacentres to keep up with the exponential growth in demand for bandwidth

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Government looks into digitising cultural collections with AI

  A government report and trial investigate possibilities around mapping and connecting digitised cultural material with emerging technologies

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Google pairs ‘record-breaking’ green energy deal with European datacentre expansion commitment

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly commits to expanding the company’s datacentre footprint in Europe and gives details of its largest-ever renewable energy purchase

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  BT spearheads plans to accelerate switchover from copper to fibre

  Full-fibre broadband could replace copper networks region by region over the next six years, under proposals discussed with the government

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Cross-government collaboration is key to overcoming legacy IT issues

  Senior civil servants highlight some of the challenges with legacy IT systems and what can be done to overcome them

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Enterprises can hire software robots at the push of a button

  IPsoft is beta testing a marketplace where businesses can look at what software robots are available and interview them about their suitability to take roles

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Civil service chief appeals to ‘wise, experienced, powerful’ IT leaders to apply for CDIO job

  John Manzoni explains why the new government digital leader will carry the power and authority of a Whitehall permanent secretary

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Defra chief digital information officer steps down

  John Seglias is leaving the department most impacted by Brexit to join National Grid, after four years in the civil service

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Government insists 'nothing sinister' about web user data gathering

  Government Digital Service responds to allegations that personal data gathered through Gov.uk portal could be used to target political messaging to citizens

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  CTO interview: Paul Clark, Tandem Bank

  Tandem Bank’s chief technology officer had a close encounter with legacy banking when he left his previous job to pursue a career in fintech

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Public cloud market set to double in four years

  IT departments are accepting that the cloud offers a better way to provision enterprise IT, but CIOs need to beware of lock-ins

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Direct Line built an insurtech it can tweak a thousand times a day

  Insurance group Direct Line has added a new business to its portfolio, designed to let it act as a sandbox for its digital journey

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Nordic IT outsourcing: why India is leading the pack

  A rising tide lifts all ships when it comes to outsourcing in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, but some ships have risen faster than others

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Singapore Airlines extends use of VMware Workspace One

  Singapore’s national carrier is extending the use of Workspace One to more users in a move to enable its workforce to stay productive while on the go

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Facebook automatically generates pages for Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

  Facebook algorithms have auto-generated hundreds of Facebook pages for the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, according to a whistleblower