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09 May 2024
Barrister says Post Office lawyers misled him over Horizon cases
By Karl FlindersSimon Clarke told public inquiry he believes he was misled by Post Office internal lawyers over Horizon prosecutions
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09 May 2024
'Secure by design' makes waves at RSA Conference 2024
By Alexander CulafiCybersecurity vendors and public sector organizations heavily promoted the secure by design approach, particularly for generative AI tools and projects.
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09 May 2024
Red Hat CTO, Nvidia AI exec reveal joint LLMOps roadmap
By Beth PariseauThe company leaders discussed deepening integration between OpenShift AI and Nvidia NIMs, how they fit into RHEL AI and what's surprised them about AI growth so far.
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01 Jun 2023
AI interview: Dan McQuillan, critical computing expert
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonCritical computing expert Dan McQuillan speaks to Computer Weekly about the top-down imposition of artificial intelligence on society, and how AI is a fundamentally political technology shaped by humanity’s most reactionary tendencies
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01 Jun 2023
Met Police director of intelligence defends facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Met Police’s director of intelligence has appeared before MPs to make the case for its continuing use of facial-recognition technology, following announcements from the force and the Home Office that they intend to press on with its adoption
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01 Jun 2023
CIO interview: Adam Warne, CIO, River Island
By Mark SamuelsThe privately owned fashion retailer places a premium on its high street presence, but sees digital innovation as key to improving customer service in stores
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01 Jun 2023
How India’s DICV is tapping smart manufacturing
By Pratima HarigunaniDaimler India Commercial Vehicles has deployed augmented and virtual reality, advanced sensors, data analytics and other technologies to improve manufacturing processes and customer fleet management
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01 Jun 2023
HSBC explores quantum computing for finance sector
By Karl FlindersUK banking giant works with quantum computing specialist to explore the technology’s potential in the finance sector
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31 May 2023
Lloyds Bank calls on tech companies to control social media ‘wild west’
By Karl FlindersLloyds Banking Group is calling on tech giants to step forward in the fight against online fraud, which emanates in the social media ‘wild west’
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31 May 2023
8x8 to measure more than revenue with Elevate enhancements
By Simon QuickeComms player introduces changes to partner programme in a move that will give more a chance to climb tiers and gain rewards
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30 May 2023
UK, US and Australia jointly trial AI-enabled drone swarm
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonBritish, American and Australian military organisations have trialled the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in drones in a collaboration designed to drive their adoption of AI-powered military tools
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30 May 2023
Jamf extending channel reach
By Simon QuickeApple device management specialist is looking to work with managed service providers and security players to get in front of more customers
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30 May 2023
Europe’s central bank reveals drop in Euro Zone card fraud
By Karl FlindersEuro Zone card fraud drops with card-not-present scams down following the introduction of Strong Customer Authentication rules
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30 May 2023
Downstream breaches of Capita customers spreading
By Alex ScroxtonAs many as 90 organisations that used Capita services have now reported data breaches arising from various security incidents at the outsourcer
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30 May 2023
Tech jobs to go as part of JPMorgan layoffs
By Karl FlindersAccording to reports, US banking giant to cut hundreds of jobs, including role reductions in technology and operations
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26 May 2023
Birmingham council leader admits £100m budget hole in ERP upgrade
By Cliff SaranCity council’s plans to replace flagship SAP system, which has been running since 1999, is not going to plan
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25 May 2023
Cabinet Office publishes response to data sharing for digital ID consultation
By Lis EvenstadThe majority of respondents to government’s consultation on data sharing for digital identity are critical to the plans and concerned about data privacy, but Whitehall’s response says many of the responses ‘were driven by anti-digital commentaries’
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25 May 2023
Alert over Chinese cyber campaign targeting critical networks
By Alex ScroxtonA Chinese threat actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed infiltrating CNI networks in a cyber espionage campaign, according to intelligence
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25 May 2023
Fintech pioneer Anne Boden steps aside from challenger bank CEO role
By Karl FlindersFintech pioneer to step aside for a new CEO after 10 years building a UK banking unicorn
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25 May 2023
Digital channels thriving for M&S but profits down
By Clare McDonaldMany of M&S’s digital offerings have gained more users over the past year, but after a long programme of transformation, profits are still smaller this year than last
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24 May 2023
Kuwait bank introduces biometric payments card
By Karl FlindersMiddle East bank launches payment cards with fingerprint sensor technology embedded
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24 May 2023
Two-thirds of all 2022 breaches resulted from spear phishing
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonResearch by Barracuda Networks has found that, despite the low volume of spear-phishing attempts, the attacks are highly successful and have major consequences
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24 May 2023
JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank adds more than a million customers in a year
By Karl FlindersThe app-based bank launched in the UK by US giant JPMorgan has added one million customers in the past 12 months
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23 May 2023
Visa to recruit 1,500 tech staff in Poland
By Karl FlindersVisa’s latest global tech hub will recruit up to 1,500 staff, with focus on artificial intelligence, cyber security, and resilience in payments and ecommerce sectors
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23 May 2023
Starmer pledges to reform the NHS through technology
By Lis EvenstadThe Labour Party wants to create an NHS powered by ‘groundbreaking technology’, with genomics testing for every baby, modernising appointment booking and overhaul incentives for tech adoption
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23 May 2023
Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage
By Antony AdsheadAMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage
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22 May 2023
Startup partnerships play bigger role in challenging market
By John MooreChannel allies become more valuable as startups look for cost-efficient routes to market and vie to stand out in crowded sectors such as cybersecurity.
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22 May 2023
Post Office scandal – cover-up a ‘dark chapter’ in government, corporate and legal history
By Karl FlindersThird phase of public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal reveals extent of Post Office and Fujitsu cover-up of software problems that went on to write ‘as dark a chapter in our governmental, corporate and legal history as can be imagined’
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22 May 2023
Facebook owner Meta fined record €1.2 billion over EU-US data transfers
By Bill GoodwinDecision could have implications for other companies using Standard Contractual Clauses to share data between Europe and the US
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22 May 2023
Worker-focused AI Bill introduced by backbench MP Mick Whitley
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUsing the 10-minute motion rule, backbench Labour MP Mick Whitley has introduced a worker-focused artificial intelligence (AI) bill to Parliament, which outlines a similar approach to AI being advocated by unions in the UK
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21 May 2023
AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables
By Stephen WithersMelbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards
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19 May 2023
Spanish lawyers claim police hacking of EncroChat cryptophones breaches human rights law
By Bill GoodwinLawyers speaking at the Madrid Bar Association question the legality of a cryptophone hacking which has led to arrests of organised criminals in multiple countries
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19 May 2023
National semiconductor strategy: Balancing skills, migration and security
By Cliff SaranThe UK government is putting £1bn into semiconductor research and design over the next 10 years to develop a robust chip sector
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19 May 2023
Campaigning former subpostmaster fears compensation for scandal victims will be delayed to 2025
By Karl FlindersThe man who exposed the Post Office scandal fears a long delay for victims due to compensation process being "bogged down by bureaucracy"
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18 May 2023
Acronis adds EDR to endpoint security
By Nicole LaskowskiAcronis EDR uses Intel threat detection technology to uncover sophisticated attacks, such as fileless malware, but it also has to compete in a crowded market.
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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
Veritas and Dynatrace using programmes to drive channel to cloud
By Simon QuickeVendors using training, certifications and incentives to reward those that line up behind their cloud priorities
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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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17 May 2023
Home Office pushes for more police facial-recognition deployments
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAn independent report commissioned by the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales reveals that the UK policing minister is pushing for wider adoption of facial-recognition technology by police, and further criticises the government’s proposed changes to surveillance oversight
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17 May 2023
How Rolls-Royce uses citizen developers
By Cliff SaranThe engineering company is using Microsoft Power Apps to democratise digitisation
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16 May 2023
Plexal launches Cyber Runway 3.0 accelerator programme
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe latest iteration of Plexal’s government-backed cyber security startup accelerator will run four work streams to boost startups at various stages of maturity and growth
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16 May 2023
No10 Innovation Fellowship Programme ramps up AI focus
By Lis EvenstadSecond round of the programme, run jointly by Number 10 and the Government Digital Service, focuses on AI and automation
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16 May 2023
UK renews tech and science deal with Japan
By Lis EvenstadDeal focuses on innovation and will see countries collaborate on networking and investment, joint R&D programmes, and exchange schemes
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15 May 2023
Partner ecosystem upbeat on market prospects, generative AI
By John MooreService providers express optimism despite the continuing economic uncertainty, looking to emerging technologies and services stalwarts such as cyber and cloud.
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15 May 2023
Alibaba Cloud signals ambitions to bolster global partner network
By Simon QuickeFirm uses channel event to outline the incentives and support it is offering as part of a push to widen its indirect base
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15 May 2023
Post Office executive told to report false bill of health on controversial software
By Karl FlindersA 2010 Post Office internal review of the Horizon software was designed to ignore the system’s problems to reassure stakeholders amid questioning of its reliability
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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
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
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
Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds NCA EncroChat hacking warrants were lawful
By Bill GoodwinInvestigatory Powers Tribunal refers questions over whether messages obtained from the EncroChat encrypted phone network are legally admissible back to the criminal court
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11 May 2023
Panasas, DataDome and Zebra leaning on partner programmes
By Simon QuickeVendors Panasas, DataDome and Zebra looking to drive growth and line up partners behind technologies experiencing strong customer demand
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11 May 2023
AI outcry intensifies as EU readies regulation
By Cliff SaranPolicymakers are battling to keep pace with AI developments, while experts warn of societal impact
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11 May 2023
Journalists’ confidential communications subject to unlawful spying, court hears
By Bill GoodwinCampaign group Liberty and the National Union of Journalists tell Court of Appeal the government has not gone far enough to protect confidential journalist information and sources from surveillance
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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
UKtech50 2023: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
By Lis EvenstadOur judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of more than 300 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology
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10 May 2023
Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
By Alex ScroxtonExceptional costs arising from the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on the systems of outsourcer Capita will be somewhere between £15m and £20m, the organisation says