Big data analytics
Big data analytics is the process of examining big data to uncover information -- such as hidden patterns, correlations, market trends and customer preferences -- that can help organizations make informed business decisions.. See complete definition.
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News
29 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana
Germany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Podcast
29 May 2025
AI compliance: Dealing with data change and proliferation
Podcast: We talk with Vigitrust CEO Mathieu Gorge about staying on top of compliance and artificial intelligence, where the danger is data that changes during AI processing and can also proliferate Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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27 May 2025
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board
SAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Opinion
21 May 2025
UK Fraud Bill targets benefit claimants for mass surveillance
The UK government’s proposed Fraud Bill will disproportionately place millions of benefit claimants under constant surveillance, creating a two-tier system where people are automatically suspected of wrongdoing for seeking welfare Continue Reading
By- Anna Dent
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News
21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
20 May 2025
Tackling the UK’s cyber threats
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the National Cyber Security Centre’s annual update on the state of UK security and examine the emerging threats. The chief data officer of Standard Chartered bank discusses preparing for artificial intelligence. We also look at the networking implications of GPU-based AI datacentres. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 May 2025
Is IPSIE the game changer that SaaS security demands?
It started with an announcement in October 2024, and now it seems the vision of secure identity in the enterprise is becoming a reality. We look at the prospects for IPSIE Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2025
Smart ball analytics proves value in rugby
Welsh professional rugby player Dan Biggar gives his thoughts on the role of data analytics in his sport, at an event where the Sportable smart ball was demonstrated Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
14 May 2025
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
09 May 2025
How GenAI-driven knowledge management can enhance customer experience
Generative AI’s use for knowledge management (KM) is growing in customer experience programmes, suggesting a new vocation for KM. We find out how Continue Reading
By- Madeline Bennett, Mowser Media
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Feature
08 May 2025
Early days for small language models and AI at the edge
Small language models could be more cost-effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy and performing specific tasks better. But is it too early for SLMs? Continue Reading
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News
08 May 2025
Oracle NetSuite’s Goldberg: Autonomous AI next applications phase
Speaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteConnect 2025 in London, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence in ERP is evolving Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
08 May 2025
Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key
Confluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing Continue Reading
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Feature
07 May 2025
Cloud storage for AI: Options, pros and cons
We look at cloud vs on-premise for AI workloads, why cloud is sometimes best, and the technologies speeding AI in the cloud such as parallelism and GPUDirect Continue Reading
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News
07 May 2025
ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary
At its Knowledge 25 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow painted an orchestrated agentic AI future for its Now platform and targeted CRM as prime field for growth Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
06 May 2025
How generative AI is playing out in the media industry
GenAI is proving a double-edged sword in society at large, but especially in the creative industries Continue Reading
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Feature
06 May 2025
Driven by data: The RAF’s revamped maritime patrol capabilities
Computer Weekly visited RAF Lossiemouth to see how its fleet of Boeing P-8A surveillance aircraft, supported by NetApp storage, keep watch over the North Atlantic gap Continue Reading
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News
06 May 2025
Interview: Joe Depa, global chief innovation officer, EY
Accounting firm EY is focused on ‘AI-ready data’ to maximise the benefits of agentic AI and enable the use of emerging frontier technologies for its business and clients Continue Reading
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Feature
06 May 2025
Agentic AI could yield creative futures if it augments human workers
Can artificial intelligence systems capable of autonomous action and decision-making become a reality that augments human workers? Or will they be agents of oppression, hell-bent on efficiency? Continue Reading
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06 May 2025
UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns
The Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will commit murder, but critics say the profiling in these systems raises ‘serious concerns’ over racism, classism and data inaccuracies Continue Reading
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News
02 May 2025
Government and Ofcom disagree about scope of Online Safety Act
MPs heard different views from the online harms regulator and the UK government about whether and how the Online Safety Act obliges platforms to deal with disinformation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
29 Apr 2025
Edinburgh University evaluation of NHS AI Lab finds early promise
A report into the NHS AI Lab from the University of Edinburgh identifies early signs of return on investment amid barriers to scaling and implementation Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
29 Apr 2025
VeeamON shows Veeam on Linux, RAG from backup, and cloud features
Veeam showed a new Linux appliance, features in Veeam Backup & Replication that will see it run corporate backups as RAG data, and new cloud features that include Entra ID backup Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
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Opinion
28 Apr 2025
How to tackle transformation fatigue
Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of consultancy Emergn, argues that transformation fatigue is a mounting concern for technology leaders, and suggests ways to tackle it Continue Reading
By- Alex Adamopoulos
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News
28 Apr 2025
Pharma leaders see AI revolutionising medicine
Pharmaceutical industry experts at Gitex Asia 2025 discuss how AI is revolutionising drug discovery, from accelerating clinical trials and diagnosing rare diseases to validating traditional medicines Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
25 Apr 2025
UK MoJ crime prediction algorithms raise serious concerns
The Ministry of Justice is using one algorithm to predict people’s risk of reoffending and another to predict who will commit murder, but critics say the profiling in these systems raises ‘serious concerns’ over racism, classism and data inaccuracies Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Podcast
23 Apr 2025
Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO
Computer Weekly talks to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s expertise in massive volumes of data and a roadmap that includes Myriad, a new file system for forever flash in the AI era Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Finding revenue gains from parked cars
Singapore real estate investment firm CapitaLand Investment taps machine learning models to optimise space utilisation across 23 commercial buildings and business parks Continue Reading
By- Eileen Yu
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News
21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Taking the big bang approach to reporting
A company-wide SAP revamp has transformed Bosch Global Software Technologies’ financial and HR processes, delivering granular insights and streamlined operations Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2025
Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance
The bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
16 Apr 2025
Footballers object to processing of performance data
Football players are seeking to gain more control of their performance data through ‘stop processing’ requests, in an attempt to strike a better balance between firms’ commercial interests and the data rights of footballers Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
16 Apr 2025
Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim
The pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Apr 2025
What is a data lake?
A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed for analytics applications. Continue Reading
By- Nick Barney, Technology Writer
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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News
15 Apr 2025
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
14 Apr 2025
Meta settles lawsuit over surveillance business model
Meta settles lawsuit over use of personal data in targeted advertising, opening up the possibility of other UK users raising legal objections to its processing Continue Reading
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News
11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
11 Apr 2025
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
10 Apr 2025
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
At its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
Microsoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’ Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
08 Apr 2025
Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
IT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
31 Mar 2025
Reassessing UK law enforcement data adequacy
Computer Weekly takes stock of proposed changes to the UK’s law enforcement data protection rules and how it could affect data adequacy with the European Union Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
31 Mar 2025
UK law enforcement data adequacy at risk
The UK government says reforms to police data protection rules will help to simplify law enforcement data processing, but critics argue the changes will lower protection to the point where the UK risks losing its European data adequacy Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
27 Mar 2025
UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation
Most of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Opinion
27 Mar 2025
Unleashing the power of data: redefining UK industrial growth
There’s a barrier stopping the use of AI to boost the economy. Government data that is essential to create game-changing LLMs is not yet AI-ready Continue Reading
By- Nigel Shadbolt, The Open Data Institute
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News
25 Mar 2025
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
It is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
Oracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2025
Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data
Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Mar 2025
Cinema is given a new lease of life by Danes and data
Those who think that cinema is dying out are failing to see the full picture and move with the times, according to Danish entertainment company Nordisk Film Continue Reading
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Opinion
17 Mar 2025
Data protection and AI: what to know about new UK cyber standard
A strategic governmental steer on AI, putting guidance above rigid legislation offers the adaptability needed to innovate responsibly, contends Kiteworks executive John Lynch Continue Reading
By- John Lynch
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News
17 Mar 2025
Online Safety Act measures come into effect
Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
17 Mar 2025
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
14 Mar 2025
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will win out Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Definition
14 Mar 2025
What is unstructured data?
Unstructured data is information, in many different forms, that doesn't follow conventional data models, making it difficult to store and manage in a mainstream relational database. Continue Reading
By- Nick Barney, Technology Writer
- Katie Terrell Hanna
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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News
13 Mar 2025
Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies biometric data would be repurposed in this way Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
12 Mar 2025
Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play
Salesforce executives present its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a ‘whole system’ approach not hung up on large language models. They say it is a ‘holy trinity’ of data, apps and agents Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
11 Mar 2025
Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce
Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
11 Mar 2025
UK government under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack, hears PAC
The Commons Public Accounts Committee heard government IT leaders respond to recent National Audit Office findings that the government’s cyber resilience is under par Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Opinion
10 Mar 2025
2024: the year misconfigurations exposed digital vulnerabilities
Small configuration errors cascaded into major outages during 2024. Mike Hicks, from Cisco ThousandEyes, propounds techniques to defend digital resilience against tales of the unexpected Continue Reading
By- Mike Hicks
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News
07 Mar 2025
Government to create digital sourcing strategy
Government officials revealed to the Public Accounts Committee that it will develop a sourcing strategy for digital technology, steering departments on what to build themselves and what to procure Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2025
NHS chief data officers concerned by FDP roll-out
The Chief Data and Analytical Officers Network has raised concerns over the way the NHS Federated Data Platform is being implemented and NHS England’s approach to its adoption Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2025
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Podcast
03 Mar 2025
Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise
We talk to Sir Martin Sorrell of S4Capital about the use of artificial intelligence in advertising and marketing and how enterprises can take advantage of the productivity it offers Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
02 Mar 2025
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Feb 2025
Speed and skills are essential for the UK to realise its AI ambitions
This is a guest blogpost by David Hogan, vice-president Enterprise, EMEA at NVIDIA. This summer, the Isambard AI supercomputer in Bristol will be fully operational, marking a significant step ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
27 Feb 2025
MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation
Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Opinion
26 Feb 2025
Everything, everywhere, all at once: automated decision-making in public services
Despite the UK government's fervent embrace of artificial intelligence, there is still little meaningful transparency around the scope of the technology's deployment throughout public services Continue Reading
By- Jasleen Chaggar, Big Brother Watch
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News
26 Feb 2025
Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database
Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
26 Feb 2025
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
21 Feb 2025
Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project
Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
21 Feb 2025
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
20 Feb 2025
Watchdog approves Sellafield physical security, but warns about cyber
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has taken Sellafield out of special measures for physical security, but harbours cyber security concerns Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
19 Feb 2025
European and African tech skills programme could increase economic ties
Africa is a continent on the up, and if Europe wants to form lucrative relationships with its nations, it must have something to trade. IT skills and knowledge exchanges unlock opportunities Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
18 Feb 2025
EY: Industrial companies worldwide stunted in emerging technology use
Businesses globally are spending more on emerging technologies year-on-year, but struggle to expand experimental use cases, finds EY’s sixth annual Reimagining Industry Futures study Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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E-Zine
18 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit calls for a rethink of regulation
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we report from the AI Action Summit in Paris on how easing red tape is overtaking safety as a priority. We examine the AI regulations that IT leaders need to understand. And we talk to the UK government’s AI minister about the country’s artificial intelligence opportunities. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Feb 2025
RAG AI: ‘Do it yourself,’ says NYC data scientist
New York City council data scientist says organisations should get their hands dirty with open source AI as his teams build AI apps to check for duplicates in legislative documents Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
14 Feb 2025
Maximising agentic AI’s impact: the importance of a strong data foundation
This is a guest blogpost by Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot. The new wave of AI has arrived in the form of agentic AI, and it is already making significant strides in the ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
14 Feb 2025
Government renames AI Safety Institute and teams up with Anthropic
Addressing the Munich Security Conference, UK government technology secretary Peter Kyle announces a change to the name of the AI Safety Institute and a tie-up with AI company Anthropic Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
13 Feb 2025
UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Two major AI initiatives launched
Sustainability and ‘public-interest’ artificial intelligence initiatives have been launched during the AI Action Summit in Paris Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
12 Feb 2025
Microsoft’s February 2025 Patch Tuesday corrects 57 bugs, three critical
Microsoft is correcting 57 vulnerabilities in its February Patch Tuesday, two of which are being actively exploited in the wild, and three of which are ‘critical’ Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
12 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: UK and US refuse to sign inclusive AI statement
The UK and US governments’ decisions not to sign a joint declaration has attracted strong criticism from a range of voices, especially in the context of key political figures calling for AI ‘red tape’ to be cut Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Feature
12 Feb 2025
Top 35 big data interview questions with answers for 2025
Big data is a hot field and organizations are looking for talent at all levels. Get ahead of the competition for that big data job with these top interview questions and answers. Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2025
Google: Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
11 Feb 2025
Rethinking AI’s place in the software stack
This is a guest blogpost by Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. DeepSeek's recent developments have ignited significant discussion in the AI community. ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
11 Feb 2025
AI Action Summit: Global leaders decry AI red tape
The focus of previous AI summits on the safety of artificial intelligence systems has been replaced by concerns there is too much regulatory red tape, which politicians and AI developers have argued is holding back innovation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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E-Zine
11 Feb 2025
A two-horse race? Competition concerns cloud AWS and Microsoft
In this week’s Computer Weekly, Microsoft and AWS don’t like it, but the UK competition watchdog says their hold on the cloud market is cause for concern. We talk to AutoTrader’s CEO about how to become a digital business. And we go behind the scenes at Zoom to see how AI will revolutionise the former lockdown success story. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2025
Natural England clears clouds with machine learning
Earth observation images from satellites can be blotted by cloud cover, but Natural England has cleared the sky using artificial intelligence Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
10 Feb 2025
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
10 Feb 2025
Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike
Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
06 Feb 2025
Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy
One quarter of organisations surveyed for the third Carruthers and Jackson Data Maturity Index found to have no data strategy as they increase artificial intelligence engagement Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
05 Feb 2025
Malaysian public sector embraces generative AI
Nearly half a million civil servants set to get access to Google Workspace with Gemini to improve delivery of public services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
05 Feb 2025
MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos
The Ministry of Defence has chosen IT services provider Kainos to develop its £50m data analytics platform across all armed services, over a three-year programme Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
04 Feb 2025
IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space
CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
04 Feb 2025
Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?
Research from customer experience firm Nice finds that AI can identify financially vulnerable people better than humans and offer more comfortable channels for financial problem solving Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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E-Zine
04 Feb 2025
The need for strong data engineering skills
In this week’s Computer Weekly, our latest buyer’s guide examines best practice in data engineering and the importance of data skills. Labour announced its first digital government strategy – but will it be more successful than years of failed plans that came before? We also look back at the networking challenges that faced Orange during last year’s Paris Olympics. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2025
Government sets out cyber security practice code to stoke AI growth
The government has set out a cyber security code of practice for developers to follow when building AI products Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
03 Feb 2025
DSIT permanent secretary says more AI transparency needed
The government must improve transparency around the use of artificial intelligence systems throughout the public sector if it is going to gain and retain trust in how the technology is being deployed Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor