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08 May 2024
National Security Agency warns against paying ransoms
By Arielle WaldmanRob Joyce and David Luber discussed how the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare exemplified the cons of paying ransom demands.
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08 May 2024
Experts highlight progress, challenges for election security
By Alexander CulafiInfosec professionals at RSA Conference 2024 discussed digital and physical security challenges for election cycles across the globe in a post-COVID landscape.
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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18 May 2023
Federal regulators urge HR to perform AI bias audits
By Patrick ThibodeauThe EEOC's latest warning about AI bias in hiring might prompt employers to conduct AI audits, either done internally or with independent third parties.
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18 May 2023
SAP pushes business-grade AI, but customers aren't biting
By Jim O'DonnellBusiness-oriented AI headlined this week's SAP Sapphire, which includes new partnerships with vendors like Microsoft, but customers expressed only cursory interest.
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18 May 2023
Eticas outlines approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAlgorithmic auditing firm Eticas speaks to Computer Weekly about its approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing, including its strengths and limitations, and how the process works
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18 May 2023
Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government
By Cliff SaranThe Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT
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18 May 2023
PTC stitches the digital thread for tomorrow’s Industry 4.0 digital transformation
By Joe O’HalloranWith the software-as-a-service genie well and truly out of the bottle, leading engineering design and manufacturing company outlines roadmap for next generation of digital transformation providing a more agile and collaborative environment of creativity
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17 May 2023
Florida immigration law creates problems for HR, economy
By Patrick ThibodeauA new Florida immigration law requires companies with 25-plus employees to use E-Verify to check work authorization status. Experts fear it could result in significant job losses.
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17 May 2023
Channel widens supplier relationships to extend choice
By Simon QuickeIn the hunt for products at a good price, the procurement ecosystem has widened – but that has caused its own problems
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17 May 2023
Zoom takes on Anthropic's AI assistant for Contact Center
By Mary ReinesThe video and collaboration platform vendor has allied with OpenAI spinoff Anthropic and is integrating Anthropic's chatbot, Claude, for a decentralized approach to training AI.
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17 May 2023
Knowledge 2023: Ready for the exponential enterprise, says McDermott
By Brian McKennaServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott called for IT and ‘the business’ to finally come together in what he called the ‘exponential enterprise’ at the supplier’s Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas
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16 May 2023
SAP Business AI and sustainability dominate Sapphire
By Jim O'DonnellThe new SAP Business AI, which embeds AI into a number of SAP products, and new SAP sustainability products including its 'green ledger' highlighted the first day of SAP Sapphire.
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16 May 2023
SAP's new CX tools for retailers include generative AI assistant
By Mary ReinesThe vendor's new tools include Digital Assistant for better personalization, accelerators to use customer data to improve CX, and a platform to sell excess products on the market.
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16 May 2023
APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards
By Aaron TanThe region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023
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16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation
By Aaron TanThe company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency
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16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: Transdev Sydney Ferries taps 5G to improve public safety
Moving to a 5G network has significantly improved video quality and reduced the time needed to scour hours of footage, enabling the ferry operator to quickly investigate customer cases
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16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation
By Aaron TanDBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity
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16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: SensorFlow reaps returns with re-architecture
By Edwin YappSmart building management specialist SensorFlow re-architected its entire platform to reduce cost, complexity and implement a real-time business intelligence dashboard for its customers
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15 May 2023
SAP's next step for CRM? Industry-oriented CX
By Jim O'DonnellSAP has tightened its approach to CX, providing a composable architecture designed for specific industries that shifts away from competing with market leaders such as Salesforce.
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15 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh
By Edwin YappThe state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities
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15 May 2023
MS macro-blocking has forced cyber criminals to innovate
By Alex ScroxtonOne year after Microsoft started blocking VBA and XL4 macros by default, the cyber criminal ecosystem has all but stopped exploiting macros in their attacks. They’re instead innovating at an unprecedented rate
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15 May 2023
Online sales suffer as consumers hit shops for bargains
By Clare McDonaldWhile overall shopping figures saw year-on-year growth in April 2023, online sales took a hit as shoppers look for cheaper goods in stores
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12 May 2023
IT Priorities 2023: Business automation intensifies as data governance returns
By Brian McKennaBusiness automation and a renewed focus on data governance to get more value from data have attracted more interest for UK enterprise software investment, says the TechTarget IT Priorities 2023 survey
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12 May 2023
MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent and the latter as not stringent enough in many areas, despite positive progress in others
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12 May 2023
BT unveils secure networking service for UK business customers
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco teams with US cyber security company to launch secure software-defined networking service for business customers available on a managed services basis
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12 May 2023
IT Priorities 2023: Budgeting for IT innovation
By Cliff SaranIn spite of the economic slowdown, IT leaders are driving forward investments in IT
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12 May 2023
Post Office lawyer bragged how team ‘destroyed attack on the Horizon system’ and put woman in prison
By Karl FlindersA senior Post Office lawyer appeared gleeful in email about how his team helped prosecute a subpostmaster who was sent to prison
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11 May 2023
AI, cloud and networks set to take SAP Sapphire stage
By Jim O'DonnellSAP Sapphire 2023 will be dominated by news about generative AI, but SAP needs to clarify information around S/4HANA Cloud and prove its products help customers solve problems.
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11 May 2023
Google adds Adobe's image generator, Firefly, to Bard
By Mary ReinesThe AI-backed chatbot will have artmaking abilities with Firefly, an image generator that was trained on hundreds of stock images to avoid copyright infringement.
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11 May 2023
Webex and Google drive improved collaboration capabilities
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration arm of networking giant reveals enhanced relationship with IT behemoth centred on creating faster synergy offering seamless way to connect through meetings and messaging and to improve automotive meeting experiences
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11 May 2023
Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push
By Caroline DonnellyLong-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings
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11 May 2023
Fujitsu staff had ‘unrestricted and unauditable’ remote access to Post Office branch systems
By Karl FlindersFujitsu engineers could make changes to Post Office branch accounts without anyone knowing
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10 May 2023
Zendesk out with generative AI-supported tools for better CX
By Mary ReinesIn partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the customer service vendor introduces smart CX tools such as sentiment analysis for faster workflows and bots for contextual replies.
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10 May 2023
Secure Boot vulnerability causes Patch Tuesday headache for admins
By Alex ScroxtonApplying the fix for a security bypass zero-day affecting the Windows Secure Boot feature will be a long process that will drag into 2024, but for good reason, says Microsoft
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10 May 2023
Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services
By Cliff SaranA Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation
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09 May 2023
HireVue, a video interview pioneer, acquires Modern Hire
By Patrick ThibodeauHireVue has acquired Modern Hire, creating a combined customer base of 1,150 and little overlap. The companies aim to develop an integrated HR platform.
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09 May 2023
LinkedIn layoffs a response to slower revenue growth
By Patrick ThibodeauLinkedIn is cutting 716 jobs, including management roles, and making organizational changes to speed up decisions. Despite LinkedIn’s layoffs, the tech industry is hiring.
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09 May 2023
Coveo brings AI to SAP Commerce Cloud search
By Jim O'DonnellThe Coveo Search and Recommendations platform can now be integrated into SAP Commerce Cloud, echoing a trend in e-commerce and bolstering the enterprise vendor's embrace of AI.
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09 May 2023
IT Priorities 2023: Collaboration technologies to benefit from future of work investment drive
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds that as businesses settle into hybrid work, UCaaS and other collaboration technologies are regarded by IT professionals as crucial tool for driving employee productivity and workflow optimisation