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28 Aug 2025
CDC Director fired as FDA restricts COVID-19 vaccine use
CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired the same day the FDA rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting use for seniors and high-risk younger people.
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28 Aug 2025
Salesforce Agentforce for Public Sector woos government users
Salesforce sets up MCP servers and testing environments for AI agents, and customizes Agentforce for the government vertical.
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28 Aug 2025
Most providers not ready for telehealth flexibilities to expire
In a new survey, healthcare providers cited technology gaps and privacy concerns as major challenges for a potential rollback of telehealth flexibilities at the end of the month.
Business Apps News from the past 365 days
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12 Sep 2024
Lord introduces bill to regulate public sector AI and automation
A private members’ bill seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated technologies throughout the public sector has been brought to Parliament
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12 Sep 2024
Data sharing for immigration raids ferments hostility to migrants
Data sharing between public and private bodies for the purposes of carrying out immigration raids helps to prop up the UK’s hostile environment by instilling an atmosphere of fear and deterring migrants from accessing public services
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12 Sep 2024
Government receives report on second controversial Post Office IT system
Former subpostmasters suffered as a result of unexplained accounting shortfalls which they believe were caused by errors in Post Office Capture software, used before the controversial Horizon system
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12 Sep 2024
Logicalis on track to hit sustainability targets
Channel player shares insights into how it’s reducing emissions across its business and supplier ecosystem
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12 Sep 2024
UK and others sign first ‘binding’ treaty on AI and human rights
The UK, US and EU have all signed a treaty from the Council of Europe that aims to mitigate the threat AI poses to human rights, democracy and the rule of law, but commentators say it lacks enforcement mechanisms and creates loopholes
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12 Sep 2024
Mainframe teams turn to AI for modernisation gains
Given the skills crisis, generative artificial intelligence may offer a way for IT and business leaders to modernise their mainframe environments
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11 Sep 2024
Oracle launches over 50 AI Agents for business use
The new agents will automate business processes. The agents show the growth in generative AI and move the market beyond the chatbot use case into a work assistant application.
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11 Sep 2024
U.S. finds women persistently underrepresented in tech
Women make up less than a quarter of high-skill tech workers, according to a new U.S. report. The reasons for this low number, which hasn't changed much since 2005, are unclear.
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11 Sep 2024
NetSuite ERP gets Redwood UX, more AI and procurement
At SuiteWorld, Oracle NetSuite showed a new Redwood Design System UX, as well as AI embedded across applications, a new procurement application and data sharing with Salesforce.
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11 Sep 2024
NetSuite ERP gets Redwood UX, more AI and procurement
At SuiteWorld, Oracle NetSuite showed a new Redwood Design System UX, as well as AI embedded across applications, a new procurement application and data sharing with Salesforce.
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11 Sep 2024
Lawmakers take aim at employee monitoring software
AI-enabled employee monitoring software's role in measuring performance is raising concerns that it might help automate hiring, firing and promotion decisions.
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11 Sep 2024
Latin America move ‘a natural choice’ for Assured Data Protection
Following the announcement of a joint venture with Rubrik to cover the Latin America region, Assured Data Protection’s co-founder shares details of the motivation behind the decision
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11 Sep 2024
September Patch Tuesday: Update before 1 October
Four critical remote code execution bugs in Windows and three critical elevated privileges vulnerabilities will keep admins busy
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11 Sep 2024
Oracle focuses on CX platform as it exits ad business
Oracle rolls out generative AI tools for sellers, beefs up CDP to reinforce B2B buying and selling team interactions, and adds industry-specific features.
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11 Sep 2024
How Sonar is elevating code quality in the age of AI
Sonar’s code quality platform helps developers maintain secure, high-quality code amid the rise of artificial intelligence-based coding assistants, now expanding into the Asian market
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10 Sep 2024
Oracle makes OCI GenAI Agents with RAG available
The offering provides RAG capabilities for customers that use Oracle databases. Use cases include legal research, finance and customer service support.
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10 Sep 2024
Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24
Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda
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10 Sep 2024
JFrog and GitHub unveil open source security integrations
Secure software specialist JFrog is working with code development service GitHub to integrate the onboard capabilities of its Software Supply Chain Platform service into GitHub’s platform
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10 Sep 2024
Sony Research, AI Singapore to refine Sea-Lion for Tamil
Sony Research and AI Singapore are collaborating to enhance the Sea-Lion LLM for Tamil, a language spoken in Southeast Asia and India
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09 Sep 2024
At CloudWorld, Oracle completes hyperscaler trifecta with AWS
Oracle opens up its annual CloudWorld event with a plethora of announcements, launching a partnership with cloud giant AWS and expanding previously announced tie-ups with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
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09 Sep 2024
Post Office scandal victims given route to appeal unfair financial settlements
Subpostmasters who feel they received inadequate financial redress in the Horizon Shortfalls Scheme can appeal the settlements through a new independent process
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09 Sep 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
Another busy week for HR departments across the industry, with some fresh faces and well-deserved promotions being given the chance to shine in new positions
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09 Sep 2024
Forrester: IT budget growth pushed towards cross-functional teams
Analyst firm Forrester has forecast a slight increase in IT budgets for 2025, but technical debt is one of the areas likely to feel the squeeze
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09 Sep 2024
Salesforce Industries clouds for verticals adds 100 AI features
A new AI toolkit for Salesforce's industry-specific clouds delivers more than 100 features for companies in 15 industries to automate common tasks, each with their own data model.
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09 Sep 2024
How MongoDB is driving AI adoption in ASEAN
MongoDB field CTO Boris Bialek delves into how the company is supporting ASEAN organisations in their AI journey, highlighting the importance of data governance and real-time capabilities in driving successful adoption
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06 Sep 2024
In $1.9B deal, Salesforce buys data backup company Own
In the lead-up to its annual user conference, Salesforce buys Own Company for $1.9 billion, its second acquisition of the week and its third for 2024.
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06 Sep 2024
Certinia adds Customer Success Cloud to its lineup
Certinia bolsters its professional services software platform with the release of CS Cloud for customer success management shortly after its summer update to its PS Cloud offering.
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06 Sep 2024
Salesforce intros action models to fuel AI agentic workflows
Salesforce looks to push itself into a leadership position with new large action models. The first mover advantage is good but puts the vendor in a delicate position.
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06 Sep 2024
TD Synnex cuts emissions as green progress continues
Distributor TD Synnex shares progress report on how it is has improved on its sustainability and social commitments
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05 Sep 2024
Tencent Cloud debuts palm scanning tech in global markets
Tencent Cloud launches palm verification technology for global markets, offering AI-driven identity authentication to support contactless payments and security access management
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05 Sep 2024
BCS ushers in 2024 apprentice class
Channel player welcomes its largest intake as it continues to invest in skilling the next generation of datacentre experts
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05 Sep 2024
Salesforce Foundations opens up marketing, ecomm features
Enterprise Salesforce users will get Foundations, a basic set of tools and Data Cloud functionality to complement their Sales and Service modules.
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04 Sep 2024
PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise
Thousands of PyPI packages are at risk of an attack technique dubbed Revival Hijack, which exploits a loophole in the platform’s package naming feature
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04 Sep 2024
Lloyds Bank uses artificial intelligence to check trade finance documents
Bank is automating checks of digital and paper-based documentation in trade financing with the help of artificial intelligence
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04 Sep 2024
Schneider Electric welcomes European channel chief
Schneider Electric shuffles its executive pack and brings in an experienced channel leader to run its partner efforts in Europe
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04 Sep 2024
Retailers question using live facial recognition for shoplifting
Retailers praise benefits of retrospective over live facial recognition in dealing with shoplifting, but stress there are ongoing concerns around the ethical, legal and safety implications of using the technology in stores
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04 Sep 2024
Fraud and scam complaints hit highest ever level in UK
The Financial Ombudsman Service says it recorded almost 9,000 complaints about fraud and scams from April to June, the most ever recorded
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04 Sep 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu malevolence and incompetence means huge final taxpayers’ bill
The human tragedy caused by the Post Office scandal cannot be measured, but the total financial cost will be well beyond the £1bn set aside by the government
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04 Sep 2024
How digital models help Anglian Water manage leaks
We speak to Anglian Water about how it uses digital technologies to improve operations and provide on-site engineers with the data they need
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03 Sep 2024
Mueller latest to leave SAP leadership ranks
SAP CTO Juergen Mueller is leaving the company as the result of an incident at an event, leaving questions about the direction of SAP's Business Technology Platform.
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03 Sep 2024
TSB systems could be on the move again as BBVA eyes its parent
TSB was migrated to the systems of Sabadell in a project remembered for its monumental IT meltdown in 2018
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03 Sep 2024
Chief data officers highlight data integrity woes
In a report from the company co-founded by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, CDOs discuss the challenges of artificial intelligence and using increasing amounts of personal data
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03 Sep 2024
Swedish law firms debate AI’s future impact on profession
Swedish law firms examine the use of artificial intelligence in their businesses as the sector sees a surge in take-up
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03 Sep 2024
Nationwide development platform uses Red Hat technology
Building society is speeding up its software releases through Red Hat cloud application development platform
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02 Sep 2024
Navigating the shifting sands of open source
As open source matures, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is grappling with issues ranging from licence rug-pulling and the rise of artificial intelligence to the changing dynamics of open source contributions