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• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Post Office scheme was a ‘charade’ that never intended for large compensation pay-outs

  The Post Office established a scheme to compensate subpostmasters affected by tech faults, but it was just a ‘charade’, says Public Inquiry KC

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Microsoft sees datacentre investments key to AI leadership

  Microsoft is reportedly spending between $50 to $100m to build out AI infrastructure

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  European Parliament approves platform worker directive

  The approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic ...

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Global 5G non-terrestrial networks show growth but stay in infancy

  Mobile industry trade body’s latest report on satellite networks for cellular comms shows that while satellites are rapidly gaining prominence, the full extent of their potential to complement terrestrial networks, phone services and broadband is ...

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Post Office ‘lied’ to subpostmasters when forced to meet them, says former federation representative

  Post Office executives were forced to meet subpostmasters to discuss an unexplained error in their branch, then misled the branch managers over remote access

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption

  The parent company of Google has increased artificial intelligence R&D spending and raised cloud sales commissions to boost adoption of Google Cloud

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  INDO-MIM taps 3D printing in precision manufacturing

  The precision metal parts manufacturer is using HP’s Metal Jet S100 printers to produce components using metal powder for the automotive, healthcare and other industries

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Progress being made on gender diversity in cyber

  Women make up a higher percentage of new entrants to the cyber security profession, particularly among younger age groups, and are increasingly taking up leadership positions and hiring roles, but challenges still persist

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge

  Evidence in the questioning of 35-year Post Office veteran reveals the lengths the Post Office went to in hiding computer system vulnerabilities

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  UK gigabit maintains steady progress

  Latest study of UK communications market from national regulator finds access to gigabit broadband and 5G mobile coverage has risen over past 12 months

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Executive interview: Salesforce AI head discusses dynamic flowcharts

  Business workflows can usually be mapped onto flowcharts which depict the set of actions an IT system takes, but large language models can make this dynamic, according to Jayesh Govindarajan, senior vice-president of AI at Salesforce

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Meta chief lays out long-term AI plan

  During the company’s first quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg and chief financial officer Susan Li discussed Meta’s long-term bet on AI

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology

  Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Extreme Connect 2024: AI in networks to live or die by trust

  Cloud networking provider unveils hub for research, development and innovation in networking previews, tapping AI to offer a new way to design, optimise and deploy networks

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community

  Mandating multifactor authentication for select developers has been a huge success for GitHub, the platform reports, and now it wants to go further

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Cyber training leader KnowBe4 to buy email security firm Egress

  Security awareness training and phishing simulation specialist KnowBe4 is to buy email security expert Egress

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  TikTok ban sails through US Senate

  A law that will ban TikTok in the US unless its owner sells up pronto passed the US Senate by a landslide majority after being included in a package of military aid

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage

  AI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Education will be key to good AI regulation: A view from the USA

  Computer Weekly sat down with Salesforce’s vice-president of federal government affairs, Hugh Gamble, to find out how the US is forging a path towards AI regulation, and how things look from Capitol Hill

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  SAP earnings rise, but no support extension

  Support for SAP ECC is due to end in 2027. The company hopes customers will choose to buy into its business AI portfolio

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  ITV News tech failures nearly caused ‘holes’ in live broadcasts

  Software purchased by ITN to be used to create bulletins and other content for ITV News is still experiencing problems almost a year after its introduction

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Lords debate amendment to law on use of computer evidence in light of Post Office scandal

  Peers to debate amending the law on the use of computer evidence in court, which is partly to blame for the wrongful prosecutions of hundreds of former subpostmasters

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  HPE looks to go beyond standards requirements with Wi-Fi 7 access points

  HPE announces Wi-Fi 7 wireless access points to provide managed ‘comprehensive’ edge IT solution to provide extended user and IoT connectivity, in-line processing, enhanced security and maximised performance

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  UK altnets claim to outpace Openreach in UK fibre

  Research from Independent Networks Cooperation Association finds that despite challenges, alternative broadband providers enjoyed robust growth in 2023

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Extreme Connect 2024: Wi-Fi 6E to drive connectivity revolution in infinite enterprise

  Extreme Networks kicks off annual conference with a launch it says will revolutionise outdoor connectivity through Wi-Fi 6E certification, with first significant customer deployments by leading entertainment company, major league baseball sports ...

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  GooseEgg proves golden for Fancy Bear, says Microsoft

  Microsoft’s threat researchers have uncovered GooseEgg, a never-before-seen tool being used by Forest Blizzard, or Fancy Bear, in conjunction with vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?

  SaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Post Office boss used husband’s descriptions in 'Orwellian' ploy to downplay Horizon problems

  Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Nokia boosts Industry 4.0 with MX Grid, Visual Position and Object Detection

  Comms tech provider makes series of announcements to enable more effective, responsive and agile decision-making for Industry 4.0 segments by processing, and unveils visual position and object detection technology to track industrial assets via ...

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Expert investigating Capture system refuses to meet ‘untrustworthy’ Post Office

  A former Post Office executive has refused to meet his past employer to discuss the controversial Capture system

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Vodafone Business aims to help SMEs boost productivity and security

  Following research showing how small and medium-sized businesses could increase profits and efficiency by making better use of digital tools, UK comms provider unveils campaign to help SMEs source digital tools to boost productivity and security

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Lords split over UK government approach to autonomous weapons

  During a debate on autonomous weapons systems, Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current position, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Fujitsu to cut UK jobs as Post Office scandal fallout hits sales

  Japanese supplier’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal is beginning to hurt its UK business, with job cuts announced

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Former Sellafield consultant claims the nuclear complex tampered with evidence

  Whistleblower Alison McDermott claims former employer Sellafield tampered with metadata in letters used in evidence during an employment tribunal

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance

  Fujifilm to add 100TB SME-focused Kangaroo tape infrastructure in a box to existing 1PB offer, as energy efficiency and security of tape make it alluring to customers

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Government provides funding to help innovators navigate regs

  AI and Digital Hub, backed by almost £2m in funding, will coordinate regulatory advice across CMA, FCA, ICO and Ofcom

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  NCSC announces PwC’s Richard Horne as CEO

  Former PwC and Barclays cyber chief Richard Horne set to join UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as CEO

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Interview: IoT enables Dutch-French company to provide bicycle and scooter rental

  Dott’s connected system and mobile app allow users to hire vehicles and ensure safe and compliant rides in 40 cities across Europe and Israel

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market

  Fast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own

  Post Office IT scandal inquiry hears how a lawyer was at the centre of the Post Office’s attempts to prevent problems with its IT system becoming public knowledge

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  IT leaders hiring CISOs aplenty, but don’t fully understand the role

  Most businesses now have a CISO, but perceptions of what CISOs are supposed to do, and confusion over the value they offer, may be holding back harmonious relations, according to a report

• April 21, 2024 21 Apr'24

  Crime agency criticises Meta as European police chiefs call for curbs on end-to-end encryption

  Law enforcement agencies step up demands for ‘lawful access’ to encrypted communications

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Report reveals Northern Ireland police put up to 18 journalists and lawyers under surveillance

  Disclosures that the Police Service of Northern Ireland obtained phone communications data from journalists and lawyers leads to renewed calls for inquiry

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Nexfibre reaches million premises ready for service benchmark

  Months after commitment to billion-pound investment in broadband infrastructure across the course of 2024, UK wholesale provider claims massive milestone in plan to deliver full-fibre gigabit network to five million premises by 2026

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Sonatus opens software-defined vehicle R&D, engineering centre in Dublin

  Software-defined vehicle partner establishes new design centre to take advantage of highly skilled pool of technical and engineering talent, and enable closer collaboration with customers and partners in the UK and EU

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Decade-long IR35 dispute between IT contractor and HMRC prompts calls for off-payroll revamp

  An IT contractor’s business is on the brink of insolvency after a decade-long IR35 dispute with HMRC

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Unisys reveals no link to development of controversial Post Office software

  IT supplier finds no evidence that it was involved in the development of controversial Post Office software

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Tech companies operating with opacity in Israel-Palestine

  Tech firms operating in Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel are falling “woefully short” of their human rights responsibilities amid escalating devastation in Gaza, says Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  Ciena optical tech makes light waves in Canada, Indonesia

  Telcos from Europe and Asia deploy optical comms technology provider’s solutions to adapt to user and performance demand, reaching higher bandwidth and reducing energy requirements

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  CEST: Putting HMRC’s IR35 status checker under the microscope

  Since its launch in March 2017, HMRC's online IR35 status checker tool has come under fierce criticism and scrutiny, only exacerbated in recent weeks by the disclosure it has not been updated in five years