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14 Oct 2024
AWS expands datacentre hardware recycling programme to Dublin
By Caroline DonnellyThe public cloud giant is expanding its reverse logistics programme to Ireland, as part of its ongoing net-zero push
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13 Oct 2024
Half of UK tech workers planning to leave role, finds Harvey Nash
By Clare McDonaldA large number of people in the UK, and globally, are looking to switch tech roles, according to research by Harvey Nash
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11 Oct 2024
Zero-day flaw behind Rackspace breach still a mystery
By Arielle WaldmanMore than two weeks after threat actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party utility to breach Rackspace, the details about the flaw and the utility remain unknown.
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses
By Karl FlindersThe Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself
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11 Oct 2024
Post Office set to axe in-house-developed New Branch IT software
By Karl FlindersTroubled business may ditch its plan to build a new core branch system in-house and buy an off-the-shelf alternative
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10 Oct 2024
Gartner: AI can be catalyst for new business models
By Ai Lei TaoGartner expert Nicholle Lindner explains how companies like Klarna are leveraging AI to drive new revenue, and what businesses need to consider when embracing the technology
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10 Oct 2024
Government launches cyber standard for local authorities
By Alex ScroxtonLocal government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks
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10 Oct 2024
Internet Archive web historians target of hacktivist cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThe Internet Archive nonprofit digital library and Wayback Machine operator has been attacked by pro-Palestinian hacktivists
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10 Oct 2024
How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit
By Alex ScroxtonThreat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them
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10 Oct 2024
UK and US pledge closer working on children’s online safety
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIn their first agreement on the subject of children’s online safety, the UK and US governments have said they will create a new working group to boost cooperation
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10 Oct 2024
Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
By Mark SamuelsThe technology chief reflects on a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games – and how what he learned as a former Olympic medallist helped him be a better IT leader
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10 Oct 2024
Post Office dragging its feet getting rid of tainted staff, despite government ‘green light’
By Karl FlindersFormer minister gave Post Office ‘green light’ to take robust action against existing staff with links to Post Office scandal wrongdoing
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09 Oct 2024
Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge
By Karl FlindersPost Office boss Nick Read was not prepared for the task ahead of him when he joined the organisation as CEO in 2019
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09 Oct 2024
Barracuda steps up partner enablement
By Simon QuickeBarracuda enhances support for its channel, with a focus on extending security support for technical specialists
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09 Oct 2024
MoneyGram customer data breached in attack
By Alex ScroxtonMoneyGram confirms that customer data has been stolen in an incident that appears to have started with a social engineering attack on its IT helpdesk staff
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09 Oct 2024
Five zero-days to be fixed on October Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonStand-out vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday drop include problems in Microsoft Management Console and the Windows MSHTML Platform
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08 Oct 2024
Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals
By Alex ScroxtonThe number of active cyber criminal ransomware gangs has surged by almost a third in the space of 12 months, according to the latest intelligence from Secureworks
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08 Oct 2024
Post Office IT transformation project was ‘set up to fail’, chairman tells inquiry
By Karl FlindersPost Office interim chairman tells Horizon public inquiry that the Post Office needs to reset New Branch IT project
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08 Oct 2024
UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses
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08 Oct 2024
DWP CIO Rich Corbridge leaving to join property developer
By Bryan GlickThe digital chief at the Department for Work and Pensions is moving on only 18 months after starting his role in the civil service
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08 Oct 2024
Can the Post Office project to replace Horizon be rescued?
By Bryan GlickEvidence from the Post Office public inquiry shows huge problems with the critical project to replace the troubled Horizon IT system – after two government-mandated reviews, is there any sign it can succeed?
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07 Oct 2024
Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry
By Karl FlindersOutgoing Post Office boss Nick Read faces public inquiry for three days this week, with no shortage of questions to answer
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06 Oct 2024
Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter
By Karl FlindersA letter from Post Office staff to MPs, statutory inquiry chair Wyn Williams and the Post Office chairman demands their intervention and an investigation into the organisation's leadership
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04 Oct 2024
UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities
By Alex ScroxtonA series of vulnerabilities in DrayTek's Vigor router product lines affects multiple comms service providers in the UK, according to new analysis
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04 Oct 2024
NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in
By Alex ScroxtonOutgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne
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04 Oct 2024
Post Office senior executive suspended over allegations of destroying evidence
By Karl FlindersStatement to public inquiry reveals that investigation is underway over allegations that a senior Post Office executive instructed staff to destroy evidence
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04 Oct 2024
Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
By Alex ScroxtonThe Cups Linux printing vulnerabilities disclosed at the end of September would seem to have a nasty sting in their tail, according to researchers at Akamai
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04 Oct 2024
Post Office recruiting tech-savvy board member amid unravelling IT disaster
By Karl FlindersPublic inquiry told that the Post Office is currently recruiting a tech-savvy non-executive director
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04 Oct 2024
Late evidence in Post Office Capture investigation could not be reviewed
By Karl FlindersEvidence failed to reach investigators in time for report into controversial pre-Horizon Post Office software
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04 Oct 2024
Data and technology key to the future of the subsurface, report says
By Lis EvenstadThe 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
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04 Oct 2024
Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears
By Bill Goodwin and Cormac KehoeDarren Ellis, who led a surveillance operation against journalists who exposed police failures, wrongly accused a solicitor of attempting to buy arms
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03 Oct 2024
Ex-PSNI officer seeking legal advice over comments made at Investigatory Powers Tribunal
By Bill GoodwinEx PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists
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03 Oct 2024
Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft 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
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03 Oct 2024
SOC teams falling out of love with threat detection tools
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity 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
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03 Oct 2024
Sophos steps up partner training as skill gaps continue
By Simon QuickeSecurity player Sophos rolls out more education for the channel at a time when customer security skills continue to be in short supply
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03 Oct 2024
Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
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03 Oct 2024
DSIT launches digital government panel
By Lis EvenstadThe 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’
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03 Oct 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu: from blood brothers to bad blood
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office chief transformation officer’s evidence to the public inquiry reveals organisation’s strained relationship with main IT supplier Fujitsu
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02 Oct 2024
Detective behind ‘unlawful’ surveillance blamed Catholics for ‘perverse’ court decisions
By Bill GoodwinA 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
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02 Oct 2024
Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay
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02 Oct 2024
Azul benefits from indirect strategy
By Simon QuickeAzul updates progress made as a result of expanding its channel base and its plans to increase support
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02 Oct 2024
Post Office spending £80,000+ a week on engineers who can’t work, as IT project burns cash
By Karl FlindersRevelation is latest evidence of the Post Office’s struggles to replace Fujitsu’s controversial Horizon software used in branches
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02 Oct 2024
‘Shocked’ MoneyGram hits back at Post Office
By Karl FlindersMoney transfer fintech wrote to subpostmasters expressing its disappointment with the Post Office over end of contract
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01 Oct 2024
Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case
By Bill Goodwin & Cormac KehoeFormer 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
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01 Oct 2024
Post Office ditches MoneyGram after cyber attack
By Karl FlindersThe 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
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01 Oct 2024
Cyber teams say they can’t keep up with attack volumes
By Alex ScroxtonOver 60% of European security pros say their teams are understaffed, and over 50% don’t have enough budget, according to data from ISACA
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30 Sep 2024
Investigation finds 'reasonable likelihood' Post Office Capture software caused accounting losses
By Karl FlindersAn 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
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27 Sep 2024
Hyperscalers' mass, AI role dominate partner ecosystems
By John MooreSeemingly saturated, the massive partner networks of the top cloud vendors still attract service providers and often serve as their top ecosystems, according to a new survey.
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27 Sep 2024
UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC
By Alex ScroxtonThe 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
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27 Sep 2024
More parallels between Post Office Capture and Horizon scandal revealed
By Karl FlindersPost Office dramatically increased the number of investigations into subpostmasters after Capture Software was introduced
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26 Sep 2024
Racist Network Rail Wi-Fi hack was work of malicious insider
By Alex ScroxtonPolice have revealed that this week’s racist cyber attack on public Wi-Fi networks at stations across the UK appears to have been the work of a malicious insider, after arresting an employee of one of the service providers
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26 Sep 2024
Subpostmasters living years with disputed but unresolved debts to the Post Office, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersContinued errors with the Horizon system mean subpostmasters have unresolved account shortfalls hanging over them for years
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26 Sep 2024
HPE unifies channel team to improve experiences
By Simon QuickeVendor brings channel staff under one umbrella in response to partner feedback
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26 Sep 2024
Government plans reverse pitch events to drive digital change
By Lis EvenstadThe government will hold three events for startups to showcase and collaborate with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice to solve key problems faced by the departments
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26 Sep 2024
Fujitsu accused of ‘paying lip service’ to Post Office scandal victims
By Karl FlindersVictims of the Horizon scandal believe Fujitsu’s offer of support to be a 'box-ticking' exercise with no commitments, nine months after seemingly heartfelt pledges
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25 Sep 2024
Pure Storage arms UK channel with greater insights
By Simon QuickeVendor extends scheme that has been running in the US to cover EMEA and share more intelligence
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25 Sep 2024
Post Office IT procurement mess saw £35m spent on air conditioner, says board member
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT procurement mistakes have wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money, non-executive board member tells public inquiry
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24 Sep 2024
Money transfer firm MoneyGram rushes to contain cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonMoney transfer specialist MoneyGram services remain down several days after a network outage developed into a full-blown cyber security incident
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24 Sep 2024
Unique malware sample volumes seen surging
By Alex ScroxtonBlackBerry’s latest ‘Global threat intelligence’ report details a surge in unique malware samples as threat actors ramp up the pace of targeted attacks
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24 Sep 2024
Post Office IT department’s focus on chasing a discount meant botched procurement
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT team and executives slammed for rushing into tech hardware purchase while eyeing a discount
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23 Sep 2024
Fujitsu faces financial challenges, with doubts over its commitment to righting Post Office wrongs
By Karl FlindersFujitsu worker tells Computer Weekly that firm only cares about shareholders and not subpostmaster suffering
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23 Sep 2024
Home Office eVisa scheme is ‘broken’, says Open Rights Group
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonDigital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the 'hostile environment' around immigration status
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23 Sep 2024
UK, US and Canada to collaborate on AI and cyber security
By Lis EvenstadInternational collaboration agreement will see the governments of Canada, the UK and the US work together to research, evaluate and test new defence technologies
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23 Sep 2024
Metro Bank outsources IT to Infosys to cut costs and digitally transform
By Karl FlindersIndian IT services giant taken on to support Metro Bank’s digital transformation in multi-year deal
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23 Sep 2024
Post Office system still causing unexplained shortfalls for over half of subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersA quarter of today’s subpostmasters are ‘very dissatisfied’ with how the current Horizon IT system works
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20 Sep 2024
UN body urges ‘globally inclusive and distributed’ AI governance
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA United Nations body set up to investigate the international governance of AI says the nature of how the technology currently operates requires a global approach to regulation that prioritises equity and inclusion
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19 Sep 2024
Plex adds connected worker capabilities to MES
By Jim O'DonnellConnected worker capabilities are now part of the Plex smart manufacturing platform, designed for manufacturers to address worker shortages and improve safety and productivity.
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19 Sep 2024
HSBC tests post-quantum VPN tunnel for digital ledgers
By Cliff SaranEncryption required for post-quantum cryptography will have a material impact on the performance of distributed ledgers
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19 Sep 2024
Post Office scandal victim becomes first to receive £600,000 under new redress scheme
By Bryan GlickThe compensation payment raises hopes that other wrongly convicted subpostmasters will receive payments far more quickly under new scheme
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19 Sep 2024
Government on the hunt for science and tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadThe prime minister’s Council for Science and Technology is looking for 10 members to join the council, which advises government on science and technology issues
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18 Sep 2024
M1 ditches 70% of legacy systems in cloud transformation drive
By Aaron TanSingapore telco M1 is switching off 70% of its legacy systems by the end of 2024 and leveraging Salesforce to offer more personalised services
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18 Sep 2024
Dreamforce 24: Salesforce taps Nvidia to power Agentforce
By Alex ScroxtonAt Dreamforce in San Francisco, Salesforce and Nvidia detail some of the tech that will power the software giant's newly launched Agentforce service
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18 Sep 2024
Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLaw enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre
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18 Sep 2024
Public digital transformation will be challenged by austerity
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPublic sector and IT industry figures gathered at TechUK’s 10th annual Building the Smarter State event discussed how Labour’s ‘mission-driven’ policy approach can drive digital transformation efforts in the context of fresh austerity measures
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18 Sep 2024
Post Office chief executive Nick Read quits
By Bryan GlickAfter months in the spotlight and calls for his resignation from victims of the Post Office scandal, CEO Read will step down in March 2025
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18 Sep 2024
Dreamforce 2024: Salesforce calls on customers to flesh out AI vision
By Alex ScroxtonA stream of customers helped Salesforce make the case for its Agentforce artificial intelligence offering on the opening day of the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco
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18 Sep 2024
Police make arrests after hacking Ghost encrypted comms app
By Bill GoodwinAn international police operation has penetrated an end-to-end encrypted communications service allegedly used by organised criminals in Australia, Ireland, Sweden and Italy
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17 Sep 2024
Barclays takes on more GreenLake
By Cliff SaranBarclays has ramped up its HPE-powered private cloud, as it continues to modernise IT and reduce its carbon footprint
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17 Sep 2024
Fujitsu loses £50m in sales after Post Office scandal furore
By Karl FlindersSupplier of the controversial Horizon IT system has been hit by public outrage after the Post Office scandal became mainstream news
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16 Sep 2024
EasyDMARC planning to invest in channel
By Simon QuickeSecurity player will use some of its recently secured funding to build out the support it can provide to partners
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13 Sep 2024
Mid and South Essex deploys shared care record
By Lis EvenstadThe shared care record is live across the region’s NHS providers, allowing them to share patient information from GPs, hospitals, and mental health and community services
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13 Sep 2024
Vodafone/Three merger likely to increase mobile prices, warns competition watchdog
By Bryan GlickA Competition and Markets Authority investigation finds the proposed merger of the two mobile operators would be bad for competition – but offers companies the chance to suggest remedies
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13 Sep 2024
Municipal makeover: Indian cities embrace cutting-edge tech
By Pratima HarigunaniFrom AI-powered stray dog management to blockchain-secured building permission certificates, municipal corporations across India are ditching outdated processes for digital tools
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12 Sep 2024
AI and sustainability on tap for Oracle Cloud applications
By Jim O'DonnellOracle unveils new capabilities for AI use cases, smart manufacturing and sustainability for Oracle Cloud SCM applications at Oracle CloudWorld this week.
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12 Sep 2024
Teenager arrested in TfL cyber attack investigation
By Cliff SaranNew security measures following the cyber attack, which took down some of TfL’s services, have led to delays in contactless roll-out
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12 Sep 2024
Lord introduces bill to regulate public sector AI and automation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonData 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
By Karl FlindersFormer 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
Keir Starmer vows to create a ‘digital NHS’ following damning Darzi review
By Lis EvenstadThe prime minister promises to move from an analogue to a digital NHS after Lord Darzi’s rapid review of the health service found an NHS in disrepair, with outdated IT and low productivity
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12 Sep 2024
Mphasis expands UK roots with leap into quantum computing
By Karl FlindersIndian heritage software development services supplier opens London hub to help customers integrate the latest technologies into their business plans
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12 Sep 2024
UK and others sign first ‘binding’ treaty on AI and human rights
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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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11 Sep 2024
HMRC could lose millions in unpaid tax as non-compliant umbrella enters pre-pack administration
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC looks set to miss out on millions of pounds in unpaid tax it is owed by a non-compliant umbrella company that slipped into administration, prompting renewed calls for the sector to be regulated
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11 Sep 2024
Under-pressure Post Office botches hardware procurement in project to replace error-prone system
By Karl FlindersPressured decision-making caused mistakes in the Post Office project to replace the system at the heart of national scandal
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11 Sep 2024
Fujitsu cuts annual staff pay rise as Post Office scandal bites
By Karl FlindersUK staff morale is at an all-time low as Japanese IT giant deals with the backlash from its involvement in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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10 Sep 2024
Ada Lovelace Institute warns NHS against deploying genomics AI
By Lis EvenstadA report has found that widespread use of artificial intelligence-powered genomic health prediction in the NHS could lead to privacy and ethical issues, discrimination and dependency on the private sector
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10 Sep 2024
NetSPI chasing down significant channel growth
By Simon QuickeVendor shares update on how its partner-first approach has been progressing through the year
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10 Sep 2024
Unilever calls on Accenture to drive AI business efficiency
By Cliff SaranManufacturer Unilever is already using AI for advanced data analytics, but is now exploring how to use Accenture’s GenAI platform
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09 Sep 2024
Post Office scandal victims given route to appeal unfair financial settlements
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters 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
Interview: Jon Grainger, CTO, DWF
By Mark SamuelsThe law firm’s IT leader discusses the transition to cloud and his strategy for digital transformation, as well as the opportunities and challenges of generative AI in the legal sector
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06 Sep 2024
China dominates AI and advanced analytics research
By Cliff SaranResearch looking at each country’s AI contribution, based on the quantity and quality of researchers papers published, shows China is leading the way
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05 Sep 2024
NCSC and allies call out Russia's Unit 29155 over cyber warfare
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and counterpart agencies from the US and other countries have exposed a long-running campaign of Russian cyber espionage and warfare conducted by GRU Unit 29155
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05 Sep 2024
Fog ransomware crew evolving into wide-ranging threat
By Alex ScroxtonThe emergent Fog ransomware gang appears to be changing up its victimology in search of more cash-rich victims
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05 Sep 2024
Ongoing TfL cyber attack takes out Dial-a-Ride service
By Alex ScroxtonThe Dial-a-Ride assisted transit service for disabled people had to temporarily suspend part of its operations as Transport for London deals with an ongoing cyber attack, but the service has now been recovered