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July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42

Mimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister

Former government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’ Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness

The SAP CEO said the quiet part out loud while answering a question on the cloud backlog during the company’s most recent earnings call Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

Vodafone Spain, MasOrange agree terms to create joint venture

Leading Spanish fixed operators propose deal to create joint venture to deliver ‘highly efficient’ fibre infrastructure for broadband customers Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use

The Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded Chelmer Valley High School in Chelmsford for introducing facial recognition and failing to conduct a legally required data protection impact assessment and obtain the explicit consent of students Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

The data, networking and GenAI driving The Open golf championship

Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at the 152nd Open golf tournament to find out how private 5G, data visualisation and deep learning tools are enhancing the ancient traditions of the sport Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

New tech could help 18.6 million more NHS patients get better treatment

Study from a leading UK operator calculates that almost two-fifths of NHS staff believe new digital tools could help the health service reach 3% to 5% more patients, potentially benefiting at least 51,000 more people daily Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human

Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

UK altnets celebrate further full-fibre milestones

North of England gigabit deployments see Brsk rolling out full-fibre broadband to approximately 30,000 homes and businesses in Runcorn, Cheshire Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 Blog Post

Snowflake goes massive on Meta LLM for open source inference difference

Snowflake says it will now host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for developers to build AI applications. The Data Cloud ... Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 Blog Post

CrowdStrike reveals Windows weakness

The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is delivered as a “template instance”. This is data stored in a ... Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update

Enterprises that emerged unscathed from the roll-out of the botched CrowdStrike software update are being urged to view it as a wake-up call rather than a lucky escape Continue Reading

July 24, 2024 24Jul2024 News

WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears

Defence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers

A three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Innovations to power secure-by-design development

Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy

Former government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes

Google abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 In Depth

Enhancing mobile app security with behaviour-based biometrics

Behavioural-based biometrics offer tantalising advantages over more traditional biometric solutions. Learn about some of the benefits and potential challenges for safe and secure implementation Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Global broadband reliability gets consistently higher

Latest study from Opensignal places UK among the top countries for broadband reliability, reaching third out of 18 markets surveyed, behind only Sweden and Norway Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

UK 5G reaches new heights in successful flight trials

UK consortium completes flight trials for airborne next-generation mobile infrastructure designed to offer applications such as restoring networks after disasters where traditional mobile infrastructure has been disrupted Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 In Depth

Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

We look at hybrid multicloud storage, making the best of on-premise and multiple cloud application locations, its key benefits, some pitfalls and the technologies to build it with Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?

The ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen? Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 In Depth

IT sustainability: Why we’re still waiting for quantified emissions reductions

It is not all down to greenwashing. Genuine challenges stand in the way of many organisations implementing IT in support of their environmental, social and governance goals Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 Podcast

Podcast: Sustainable data storage and how to achieve it

We talk to NetApp’s Grant Caley about data storage energy needs and how they can be reduced by use of QLC flash, efficient datacentre hardware and putting data on the right media Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry

Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

NTT Data unveils Edge AI platform for industry, manufacturing

Infrastructure and services company claims to be breaking down IT/OT silos with what it says is industry’s first fully managed Edge artificial intelligence offering, enabling advanced AI use cases for industrial and manufacturing applications Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 In Depth

Engaging young people with careers in STEM at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

Backed by astronaut Tim Peake, the Future Lab exhibition at Goodwood’s annual celebration of motoring aimed to engage children with the excitement of technology innovation. Computer Weekly went to take a look Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Virgin Media O2 to begin 2G network transition

After announcing that it will be turning off 3G in 2025, operator reveals plans to start moving customers off 2G network, claiming to be the first UK company of its kind to make such a move Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 Blog Post

Cohesity CTO: Turning 'backup into heads-up' through generative AI

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down this month with Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity to examine the methodologies, principles and practices that underpin a more proactive ... Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 News

Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023

Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads Continue Reading

July 23, 2024 23Jul2024 E-Zine

Serving up a GenAI experience at Wimbledon

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Wimbledon to find out how technology is improving the tennis experience for fans. We talk to Meta’s AI research chief about the challenges and opportunities of large language models. And we ... Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

Apollo takes off for Converge to break optical networking terabit barrier

Philippines fibre broadband and technology provider taps technology firm to deploy optical network system to enhance network capacity from 800Gbps to 1.2Tbps per channel Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites

We speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation

The UK authorities have taken down a major component of the multinational DDoS cyber attack-for-hire ecosystem, hacking into the digitalstress.su service and exfiltrating data on its users, who now face arrest Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

Nokia, Bharti Airtel claim success in 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial

Global comms tech provider successfully completes first 5G non-standalone Cloud RAN trial with leading Indian telco to deliver higher levels of service innovation, higher network automation, flexibility and efficient scaling of resources Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

NCSC: Beware of criminal CrowdStrike opportunists

Financially motivated cyber criminals are already conducting opportunistic attacks on organisations that leverage the CrowdStrike incident, and more targeted attacks are sure to follow Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC

With end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 In Depth

The sky’s the limit with the two sides of AI and networking

Generative AI is a hyped topic in virtually all industries. But within the realms of infrastructure management, there are two aspects to consider: AI for networking, and networking for AI Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

BT fined £17.5m for ‘catastrophic’ emergency network outage

UK comms regulator issues fine to country’s leading telco for being underprepared to handle disruption in June 2023, affecting 14,000 emergency calls and lasting 10.5 hours Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 Opinion

IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green

The hype around AI is increasingly being matched with discussions about how the technology's adoption will affect the environment, so what can IT leaders do to ensure they keep the companies they work for on the forefront of innovation, without ... Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

Openreach accelerates copper broadband Stop Sell

UK’s largest telco continues network transformation making full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses, with more than four million premises currently taking a service Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 News

Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates

Evidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 In Depth

Riding the cloud database wave

There is set to be a surge in demand for cloud databases, driven by new use cases and greater decentralised IT spending Continue Reading

July 22, 2024 22Jul2024 Opinion

Fundamental guardrails to address AI risk and value

Leveraging existing governance approaches and current success will make AI governance less daunting while supporting business goals Continue Reading

July 21, 2024 21Jul2024 News

CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices

About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

UK fibre forges forward, but further altnet consolidation likely

Moody's research finds UK roll-out of fibre broadband continues to progress, although take-up remains low compared with Europe Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 In Depth

Opening the gates of the smart city

Driven by the growing prevalence of smart tech such as 5G, AI and IoT, cities around the world will be able to become smarter places to live and work. But how can smart tech get to places hitherto unconnected to prevent a digital divide? Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system

The Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 Opinion

What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

Today’s global outage of Microsoft is rapidly sending shockwaves across all sectors, demonstrating the risk of having a single point of failure Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

Brightspeed cuts Ribbon on network transformation

US fibre builder modernises network infrastructure using real-time comms provider’s network transformation service, with aim of efficiently managing and upgrading legacy assets while enhancing scalability and innovation Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 In Depth

Interview: Nvidia on AI workload demands and storage performance

We talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about AI impacts on storage I/O, key performance metrics for storage for AI, and storage attributes required across differing AI workloads Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

East Midlands-based council has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements and efficiencies to the way it works Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally

An update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 Blog Post

Cloudera opens & elevates observability aperture

Hybrid data, analytics and AI platform company Cloudera has upped its ‘Observability Premium’ service. This toolset is designed to simplify and automate platform administration. The premium tier ... Continue Reading

July 19, 2024 19Jul2024 News

LG integrates artificial intelligence into smart factory services

After officially entering the market earlier this year, LG advances smart factory services business by integrating manufacturing data and assets with artificial intelligence and digital transformation Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams

The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 Blog Post

Generative AI tooling: Is the user the weakest link?

One of the challenges I've had with generative AI is figuring out where the real value lies, particularly in relation to tools used directly by end users. This isn't me questioning the value of ... Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 E-Zine

CW EMEA: Keeping across the rules

This issue includes all you need to know about the EU’s artificial intelligence regulations, plus an in-depth look at Saudi Arabia’s ambitious smart city project. Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective

Former Durham detective will be required to give evidence to a tribunal investigating allegations that police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phones Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk

The normalisation of sharing self-created intimate content with others is putting great numbers of people at risk of online abuse, says Kaspersky Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal

The government referred allegations about subpostmasters’ mistreatment by the Post Office to the alleged abuser itself Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Netscout expands network observability for the digital edge

Network performance management firm announces business edge observability for networks, applications and user experience to mitigate risk and reduce mean time to respond Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Soracom takes Skylo satellite integration to initial service roll-out stage

Global provider of advanced IoT connectivity announces that qualified customers can now use its CMP to activate and manage 3GPP non-terrestrial networks Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC

Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

Glasgow’s digital strategy highlights digital rights for citizens

The strategy aims to create organisational change, equipping Glasgow to reap the benefits of digital and protect its citizens’ rights Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 In Depth

Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

Sergey Pronin of Percona was all for ‘Kubernetes for stateless’ at a time when it was hard to provision storage and day-two services – then Operators and Stateful Sets came along Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 News

DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists

The Department of Health and Social Care is revealed to be the latest government entity to have invested in building out its data science capabilities Continue Reading

July 18, 2024 18Jul2024 Blog Post

What to expect from IFS Unleashed 2024

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to IFS Unleashed, held in Orlando, Florida from 14-18 October 2024. Held at the Orlando World Center Marriot, the company says that IFS Unleashed ... Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting

In the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill introduced in the King's Speech, the UK's new government pledges to give regulators more teeth to ensure compliance with security best practice and to mandate incident reporting Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Hackney Council reprimanded over 2020 ransomware attack

The London Borough of Hackney has been reprimanded by the ICO over a series of failures that led to a devastating cyber attack, but at the same time, the regulator praised the local authority for its response and commitment to making improvements Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests

Two weeks after news emerged that two employees of the Police Digital Service had been arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and misconduct, Companies House confirms PDS CEO Ian Bell has resigned as company director Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Tech workers misinformed about number of women at top, finds Computer Weekly

Half of IT workers in Europe believe there is good representation of women in leadership positions in tech, despite numbers telling a different story Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Viavi enhances sensing for fibre-enabled critical infrastructure

As the use of fibre optic cables increases across various industries to enable accurate, resilient monitoring while complying with security regulations, network monitoring firm unveils sensing offering for critical infrastructure systems Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Labour government plans new laws around cyber security, data sharing and skills

The King's Speech outlined the legislative agenda for the new Parliament, including several bills that will impact the tech community Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection

AWS, Microsoft and Google put their names to an open letter, calling on third-party datacentre construction and equipment providers to do a better job with helping calculate Scope 3 emissions of cloud platforms Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

How the Mercedes F1 IT team helped Lewis Hamilton win the British Grand Prix

Computer Weekly went behind the scenes with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, during its victorious British Grand Prix weekend, to find out about the role of IT in beating the stopwatch Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

Norfolk County Council looks to the skies to provide ultra-fast broadband

Complement to £5bn full-fibre broadband initiative sees IT and business consultancy collaborate with County Council using satellite infrastructure to successfully accelerate delivery across several industrial sites Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 Podcast

Accessibility: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

CIO, Suleyman Gokyigit discusses his experiences of using screen readers to support blind and visually impaired users navigate websites and apps Continue Reading

July 17, 2024 17Jul2024 News

How iProov is fending off deepfake fraud

Facial biometrics and controlled illumination can detect liveness, verify identities and help prevent deepfake attacks Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Strategic Defence Review must emphasise cyber security, says industry

Cyber security leaders say the new government's Strategic Defence Review needs to put digital security front and centre Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Fujitsu analyst gave witness statements when more qualified colleagues refused

Fujitsu employee provided witness statements to courts in cases against subpostmasters despite not understanding the evidence, after qualified IT experts refused Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost

Cyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 Blog Post

IT Sustainability: Passive vs Active Gains

In the 20 odd years that I’ve been following developments in ‘Green IT’, the industry narrative hasn’t changed that much. Once you establish that the Earth is hotting up and becoming more polluted, ... Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

CMA looks deeper into Microsoft’s AI hirings

Microsoft recently hired two former co-founders of AI specialist Inflection AI, and signed a deal to host the company’s AI model on Azure Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Sita gains higher altitude for connectivity with Heathrow Airport

Leading provider of IT to the air transport industry wins longest contract extension to date, with UK’s largest and Europe’s busiest airport to bolster network infrastructure services in expansive estate Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 Blog Post

Atlassian details developer 'happiness' quotient, workflows should work better

Atlassian CTO Rajeev Rajan kicked off his firm’s developer experience analysis this year by saying that software development teams are, of course, dealing with more complexity than ever. Why is ... Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Legal, tax and audit professionals look forward to AI efficiency promise

Hundreds of hours a year could be saved through the use of AI in the legal, tax, and risk and compliance fields Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Cloud spend trumps AI but data, security and cost a common headache

Nasuni-sponsored survey finds cloud projects higher on the to do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Virgin Media O2, EE top GWS UK connectivity experience study

Real-life testing of UK mobile and fixed connectivity services shine light on connectivity experiences as consumers spend nearly third of waking time on their phones Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Massive hyperscaler GenAI spend raises questions on costs

How much will IT buyers be expected to pay, as hyperscalers ramp up investment in AI-powered servers to support GenAI? Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 In Depth

IOWN explained: Everything you need to know

In this essential guide, Computer Weekly investigates the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network project, and why the technology it’s aiming to produce could form the future basis of networking Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Labour government begins to dish out digital responsibilities

As the new government begins to settle in, ministers with technology remits begin to emerge as DHSC and others declare which ministers will have digital responsibilities Continue Reading

July 16, 2024 16Jul2024 News

Finnish tech sector opposes government’s immigration reforms

The tech sector in Finland fears talent shortage as government introduces stricter immigration policy Continue Reading

July 15, 2024 15Jul2024 News

NHS Trusts cancelled over 6,000 appointments after Qilin cyber attack

The two NHS Trusts most heavily impacted by the Qilin ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis have cancelled over 6,000 appointments and procedures in the past five weeks Continue Reading

July 15, 2024 15Jul2024 News

Ericsson, Oppo ink global patent cross-licence agreement

Global comms tech firm teams with leading Asian smartphone provider on multi-year global cross licence covering cellular technology, including business cooperation on 5G-related projects such as device testing and customer engagements Continue Reading

July 15, 2024 15Jul2024 News

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