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08 May 2024
Germany: European Court of Justice ruling on EncroChat could lead to new legal challenges
By Bill GoodwinA ruling by the European Court of Justice could prompt legal challenges in EncroChat prosecutions in Germany and other EU states
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07 May 2024
Red Hat OpenShift AI links LLMs into hybrid cloud
By Beth PariseauAn extensively updated OpenShift AI will underpin RHEL AI and, if Red Hat has its way, enterprises' AI infrastructure from the edge to the public cloud.
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07 May 2024
SentinelOne: Ransomware actors are adapting to EDR
By Arielle WaldmanAt RSA Conference 2024, SentinelOne's Alex Samos discussed ongoing global threats such as ransomware and how threat actors are changing their techniques.
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17 May 2023
Altnets claim vital role in bringing competition to UK digital transformation
By Joe O’HalloranStudy by trade association for UK’s independent broadband suppliers shows further rapid progress in rolling out full-fibre networks, prompting calls to UK comms regulator to change national service pricing structures
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17 May 2023
Pentera ups ante in penetration testing
By Aaron TanThe Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform
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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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17 May 2023
CIO interview: Ravi Malick, Box
By Karl FlindersRavi Malick has always been a technologist at heart, and via political science, startups and consultancy, landed in his current role at Box
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16 May 2023
CIOs take on organizational adaptability, resilience
By John MooreCIOs and other tech executives are bracing their organizations to remain flexible in a period of unpredictable developments and bounce back when they take a punch.
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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
OpenAI CEO advocates for AI regulation
By Makenzie HollandTo mitigate harms caused by artificial intelligence, industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said regulation will be necessary.
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16 May 2023
Executive interview: DNS designer David Holtzman discusses net security
By Cliff SaranHow is it possible for criminals to lure people onto fake websites? Holtzman says it’s because DNS is fundamentally insecure
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16 May 2023
Gartner highlights four trends shaping enterprise cloud, edge and datacentre investments
By Caroline DonnellyAnalyst lifts lid on how enterprise attitudes to cloud, datacentre and edge-related digital transformation projects are changing
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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
NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout
By Antony AdsheadNetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families
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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
Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage
By Antony AdsheadObject storage specialist announces v2.0 of Artesca, with a heavy focus on functionality that can protect against ransomware such as object locking, sharding, backup to object etc
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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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16 May 2023
Interview: Rachel Phillips, vice-president UK&I, Okta
By Clare McDonaldHybrid working is the new normal for many, but while it offers many benefits, it has also introduced complications, explains Okta’s Rachel Phillips
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16 May 2023
Virgin Media O2’s Shared Rural Network roll-out reaches 50th site
By Joe O’HalloranAs part of its commitment to the £1bn programme designed to bring significant improvement to UK mobile coverage in non-metro areas, leading UK operator rolls out reliable 4G coverage across 50 rural sites in area covering almost 2,200km2
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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: Zuellig Pharma dispenses healthcare insights with data platform
The regional pharmaceutical giant’s business intelligence-as-a-service offering is touted to plug data gaps and has helped one pharmaceutical client improve customer loyalty
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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
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
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
ServiceNow looks to transform retail IoT and beyond with G2K acquisition
By Joe O’HalloranDigital workflow company to add AI-based smart IoT technology provider to its portfolio to enable businesses to use digital and in-store data with enterprise-grade business processes
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15 May 2023
Big consultancies snapping up channel talent
By Simon QuickeEY and Accenture have each dipped into the mergers and acquisitions space to add more services and technical capabilities to their offerings
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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
Demand for access to talent driving UK IT outsourcing growth
By Karl FlindersOrganisations in the UK are increasing the amount of IT work they outsource to enable them to access talent
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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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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
Let’s put an end to secrecy and cover-ups in ransomware attacks
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and the ICO are calling for organisations to bite the bullet and be more open about cyber security and ransomware incidents, and the community is firmly behind them
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12 May 2023
IT leaders missing vital connection between enterprise network and employee experience
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey reveals that despite the rise of hybrid and remote working, and as digitisation demands increase, companies are struggling to connect their employees to the enterprise network
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12 May 2023
Customers will continue to rely on channel talent
By Simon QuickeOutsourcing study indicates that investment in external support will increase in many cases as users struggle to find skilled staff
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12 May 2023
IR35 compliance review: HMRC applauded over handling of 18-month investigation
By Caroline DonnellyThe government tax agency has been praised for its ‘pragmatic’ approach to handling an 18-month private sector IR35 compliance investigation
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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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12 May 2023
How Splunk is driving security automation
By Aaron TanSplunk’s head of security in APAC talks up the company’s efforts to ease the workloads of security analysts amid lower adoption of security automation and analytics in the region
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12 May 2023
Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore
By Aaron TanAzure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations
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11 May 2023
FTC examines competition in cloud computing
By Makenzie HollandThe Federal Trade Commission is examining the impact of a handful of big tech companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google providing a large portion of cloud services.
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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
U.S. debt crisis could hit government contractors hard
By Makenzie HollandGovernment contractors should prepare now for the U.S. to default on its debt, which would result in halted payments among other challenges.
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11 May 2023
Google AI targets programmer productivity
By Cliff SaranGoogle is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation
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11 May 2023
Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023
By Stephen WithersAustralia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget
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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
Google teases generative AI expansion within its own cloud
By Beth PariseauGoogle's new generative AI features, including a coding assistant, were tied closely to GCP in preview demos this week, while industry experts said its LLM still lags rivals.
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10 May 2023
Cloud repatriation vs. multi-cloud: IT seeks cost relief
By Beth PariseauAmid fiscal worries, IT orgs reassess cloud investments. Whether they go back on-premises or expand to multi-cloud, they face similar distributed computing management challenges.
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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
Riverbed hands MSPs digital experience managed net offering
By Simon QuickeVendor is continuing to increase its activity in the unified observability market with its latest programme for managed service partners
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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
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
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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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10 May 2023
Nebulon aims Tripline at ransomware detection in storage
By Antony AdsheadTripline claims ransomware detection from samples every 30 seconds and works in conjunction with snapshots to deliver recovery from an attack in four minutes
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10 May 2023
How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks
By Aaron TanApplying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats
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09 May 2023
Light May Patch Tuesday will weigh heavily on Windows admins
By Tom WalatA zero-day that targets the Secure Boot feature will require extensive work from sysadmins to protect Windows systems from the Black Lotus bootkit.
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09 May 2023
OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe
By Yann SerraOVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup
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09 May 2023
Westcon continuing to focus on sharing data insights
By Simon QuickeDistributor has placed value on sharing customer and market insights with channel to drive further growth
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09 May 2023
UKtech50 2023: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders
By Lis EvenstadEach year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2023
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09 May 2023
Tech jobs are on the rise, but soft skills are most coveted, says WEF
By Clare McDonaldResearch by the World Economic Forum has found technology jobs are currently some of the fastest growing, but firms still want employees to have transferable skills
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08 May 2023
Chat control: EU lawyers warn plans to scan encrypted messages for child abuse may be unlawful
By Bill GoodwinLeaked legal advice warns that European ‘chat control’ proposals to require tech companies to scan private and encrypted messages for child abuse are likely to breach EU law