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• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Post Office recruiting tech-savvy board member amid unravelling IT disaster

  Public inquiry told that the Post Office is currently recruiting a tech-savvy non-executive director

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Nokia lights up Beacon Wi-Fi 7 gateway

  Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh gateway designed to deliver speeds over 3x faster than previous generation of Wi-Fi supports the growing number of compatible devices and multi-gigabit services in connected home

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Late evidence in Post Office Capture investigation could not be reviewed

  Evidence failed to reach investigators in time for report into controversial pre-Horizon Post Office software

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Data and technology key to the future of the subsurface, report says

  The report highlights the important role of the subsurface, but lack of accessible data and the likely need for new policy and regulation on the use of new technologies are barriers to future sustainable and efficient use

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Non-traditional routes will increase tech diversity, says Tech Returners

  Research by organisations Women in Tech North and Tech Returners finds that women believe developing alternative routes into tech jobs will help close the industry’s diversity gap

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Meta fuels AI innovation in APAC with accelerator programme

  Meta launches AI accelerator and incubator programmes to support startups and enterprises in building AI applications using its Llama model

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears

  Darren Ellis, who led a surveillance operation against journalists who exposed police failures, wrongly accused a solicitor of attempting to buy arms

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Ex-PSNI officer seeking legal advice over comments made at Investigatory Powers Tribunal

   Ex PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Solihull scales up self-driving shuttle service

  West Midlands initiative continues on the road to developing connected automated mobility services, looking at the commercial viability of self-driving operations and passenger experience

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks

  Microsoft has been given permission to seize multiple domains used by the Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard as part of a coordinated disruption effort undertaken ahead of the US elections

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Rising IT talent costs shadow Sweden’s skills shortage and market reforms

  Swedish businesses face challenges recruiting the right IT staff, as salary demands increase

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Orange accelerates plans to transcend traditional network limits

  Technology head at Orange confirms vision of singularity for mobile generations, setting out progress to address needs of enterprises with on-demand AI-bolstered network services

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools

  Security operations centre practitioners are fed up of being flooded with pointless alerts and many no longer have much confidence in their threat detection tools, according to a report

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly

  The Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  DSIT launches digital government panel

  The panel, which is being co-chaired by Martha Lane Fox and Paul Willmott, will help government create a 10-year vision for a ‘digital centre’

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood

  Former Post Office chief transformation officer’s evidence to the public inquiry reveals organisation’s strained relationship with main IT supplier Fujitsu

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns

  Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  City of London small cell mobile connectivity extended

  First-of-its-kind outdoor small cell project in financial heart of UK capital moves beyond trial phase with 25 new EE sites now live and dozens of additional sites being built to enhance mobile connectivity

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  UK and Singapore to collaborate on supporting ransomware victims

  At the fourth Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit in the US, both the UK and Singapore have committed to working on new guidance designed to better support victims and undermine cyber criminal business models

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions

  A former detective claimed Irish judges were ‘sectarians in robes’ after a court found police had unlawfully arrested journalists who produced a film exposing collusion with paramilitary murderers

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Cyber UK’s quickest growing tech field, but skills gap remains

  More people than ever are joining the cyber security profession in the UK, according to a report, but there is still a serious shortage even with a doubling in numbers

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  AWS and Microsoft warn CMA that curbing cloud discounts harms UK customers and investment

  AWS and Microsoft are under fire for veiled threats in their submissions to the CMA's UK cloud market anti-trust probe, hinting that curbing the ability to offer committed spend discounts could hinder investment

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

  A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  UK government opens Digital Catapult 5G Immersive Lab

  Ribbon cut on facility in north-east of England set up to revolutionise how businesses in traditional sectors like retail, agriculture and manufacturing adopt technologies based on 5G communications

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity

  While many organisations are piloting generative AI applications, few have mature production roll-outs, according to a survey of Computer Weekly readers worldwide

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service upgrades control room communications

  Motorola cloud-based solution aims to allow fire and rescue service to respond more effectively by integrating comms into one secure platform and collaborate ‘seamlessly’ with other emergency services

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash

  Revelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  India’s fintechs find fortune in underserved segments

  Indian fintech companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and blockchain to address underserved customer segments, unearth hidden revenue opportunities and create innovative products

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  ‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office

  Money transfer fintech wrote to subpostmasters expressing its disappointment with the Post Office over end of contract

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  APAC organisations embrace generative AI

  Study reveals a surge in GenAI adoption across APAC, with businesses looking to train their own models, likely to address specific regional needs and market dynamics

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case

  Former Durham detective Darren Ellis told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that he had concerns about lawyers acting for journalists placed under surveillance by Northern Irish police

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  CityFibre extends Project Gigabit, Sky Broadband eases full-fibre switching

  UK gigabit providers continue to drive gigabit, with leading independent provider adding to national £5bn broadband scheme while major provider launches dedicated 24/7 switching support service

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Unmasked: The Evil Corp cyber gangster who worked for LockBit

  The NCA has named and shamed a prominent member of the Evil Corp cyber crime collective who also worked as an affiliate of the LockBit ransomware gang as the UK unveils new sanctions against 16 Russian cyber criminals

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Telstra goes to new heights to improve Norfolk Island connectivity

  Satellite internet service for Norfolk Island, Australia, offers huge throughput gains for internet capacity, greatly improving online learning opportunities and medical services

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale

  Survey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  BT readies customers for Global Fabric infrastructure

  Telco announces live testing of AI-ready network-as-a-service platform with global points of presence now installed in over 45 of the world’s major cloud datacentres

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Wellcome Sanger Institute revamps genome sequencing datacentre to cut energy usage

  The home to one of Europe’s largest genomic research datacentres claims to have cut the energy consumption of its server farm by a third by revamping its power setup

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Open source is not a trust issue, it’s an innovation issue

  Businesses are seeing greater value from open source software, such as greater levels of productivity and reduced operational costs

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  EXA Infrastructure, Macarne partner for network growth into Europe

  Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider connecting Europe and North America announces partnership with advanced infrastructure solutions and IP Transit specialist for six transatlantic routes and 155,000km

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack

  The Post Office offered a short extension to enable it to asses the impact of the MoneyGram cyber incident, but the contract has now expired and MoneyGram services are no longer available in Post Office branches

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes

  Over 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future

  The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses

  An independent forensic analysis finds the predecessor to Horizon IT system was also likely to have caused shortfalls for which subpostmasters were blamed, years before the Post Office scandal

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Vodafone, Three UK push back on UK competition watchdog’s merger concerns

  UK operators seeking merger respond to authority’s warning of potential anti-competitive behaviour, arguing that the deal is pro-competitive while also expressing confidence that outstanding issues can be resolved

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe on track for 5G-based railway comms

  Polish railway operator teams with coms tech provider for trials of 5G-based railway communications system to replacing legacy system and prepare for technological migration

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  National roll-out of UK 5G standalone across road and rail could unlock £3bn for economy

  Modelling from leading UK operator suggests roll-out of nationwide 5G standalone will transform road and rail travel across the country, saving billions on fuel and boosting productivity through remote working on trains

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Nokia Bell Labs and e& forge AI use case R&D collaboration

  Renowned comms research facility teams with leading MENA telecoms operator to innovate for strategic industrial sectors, developing artificial intelligence-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC

  The NCSC and counterpart agencies in the US have issued a warning over enhanced Iranian spear phishing activity targeting politicians, journalists, activists and others with an interest in Middle Eastern affairs

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Digital customer experience critical for manufacturing, construction

  Study finds desire to improve operational efficiency, digital transformation, changing customer expectations and competitive pressures driving a shift towards an enhanced digital customer experience in key industrial sectors

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm

  Security pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch