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March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Budgets rise as IT decision-makers ramp up cyber security spending

Few IT leaders surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study say they are spending less this year Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Virgin Media O2 boosts mobile coverage in smart pole trial

UK operator claims successful innovation in trial using smart poles installed beside existing on-street broadband cabinets to accelerate mobile network roll-out across the UK by converting cabinets to mobile base stations Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Employees more comfortable than bosses with GenAI, research shows

While many workers are getting used to artificial intelligence, managers have concerns about the impact on jobs Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

CCS slammed over errors in G-Cloud 14 data protection documents

The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections

Deep fake services advertised on Telegram and other platforms pose a risk to upcoming elections in Europe, Asia and the US Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Vodafone gets down to business with growth plan

Leading operator closes sale of Italian division and reveals go-to-market plan with pivot towards enterprise communications and business-related internet of things services in strongest current markets Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Liverpool to get AI hub for health and social care

Artificial intelligence platform set to use NHS Integrated Care System Data to make better and decisions for patients in Liverpool, with a focus on mental health services Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

G7 nations sign deal to harness AI potential

G7 nations will produce a joint report on how to increase artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, boost growth of the quantum sector and create an AI toolkit to inform policy-making Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO

Benefits of artificial intelligence in public sector will only be realised if government ensures overall programme for adoption is supported by realistic plan to tackle range of longstanding barriers Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

Neos Networks beefs up C-suite to prep for new phase of accelerated growth

Following recent investments in its UK-wide high-capacity network, critical network infrastructure provider makes two C-level appointments aimed at making the company ready to embark on a new phase of accelerated growth Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 News

HUDs head automotive road safety initiatives

Tech firm examines the impact of road safety initiatives on heads-up display adoption in automotive industry as it looks for solutions to driver distractions Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 Opinion

Digital government: problems on the horizon

Are government’s digital programmes becoming the next Post Office Horizon scandal? Continue Reading

March 18, 2024 18Mar2024 In Depth

Tips to improve IT sustainability

With every business function being asked to look closely at their carbon footprint, we look at ways to achieve greener IT operations Continue Reading

March 17, 2024 17Mar2024 News

UK’s AI ambitions pointless while cyber security is still neglected

The UK’s AI ambitions may be at considerable risk without stronger cyber defences across the private and public sectors Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error

An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 In Depth

Creative workers say livelihoods threatened by generative AI

Computer Weekly speaks with various creative workers about the impact generative artificial intelligence systems are having on their work and livelihoods Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

UK government calls on comms firms to limit installation of telegraph poles

After public demonstrations, minister urges communications industry to ‘do whatever it takes’ to share existing infrastructure to avoid ‘inappropriately or unnecessarily throwing up’ new telegraph poles Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

London Mayor’s Office reprimanded over data breach

The London Mayor’s Office has been reprimanded by the ICO after an internal error exposed the data of people who had made complaints against the Metropolitan Police Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

NHS to extend use of AI to cut waiting times and missed appointments

Following a pilot of AI software predicting likely missed appointments at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, 10 further trusts will deploy the system Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

Government pumps £1.1bn into tech skills training

Government funding will be used to allow more than 4,000 students to pursue PhDs in technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 6G Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 Blog Post

Making IT sustainability more objective and actionable

I’ve heard a lot of pitches from technology companies on how they can help customers achieve their sustainability goals, and many of these follow a familiar pattern. They start with the global ... Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

eSIM to accelerate IoT automotive, smart city programmes

Research finds tech and market developments are accelerating eSIM adoption in IoT sectors such as automotive and smart cities, with the latter sector expected to witness highest demand for eSIM-enabled services Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

Controversial Post Office Capture software was completely rewritten in 1994

MP demands that the Post Office put effort into fully explaining the development and use of error-prone software used before Horizon in the 1990s Continue Reading

March 15, 2024 15Mar2024 News

CityFibre lights up footprint expansion with Lit Fibre acquisition

UK’s leading independent fibre network provider enters agreement to acquire alternative fibre network operator and add up to third of a million premises to ready-for-service footprint Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

French datacentre operator to prototype using site's waste heat to generate renewable energy

Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to experiment with reusing waste datacentre heat to grow algae for use in green energy generation Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

Questions raised over NHS deletion of thousands of emails during whistleblower tribunal

NHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal ruling that found no procedural unfairness when an NHS trust deleted thousands of emails. The case that raises wider questions about the use of electronic evidence Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

Home Office plans to give UK police forces auto-redaction technology

The department has funded a market review of redaction tools and aims to deliver AI-powered automated redaction tools to the police as quickly as possible Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

Fibre, FWA set the pace in fixed broadband growth

OECD research reveals that optical fibre and fixed wireless access are the two fastest growing fixed broadband technologies in countries that it covers, with their dynamism in stark contrast to the decline in DSL Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 Blog Post

Green coding - Qt: What’s bloating your code?

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Maurice Kalinowski, product director at Qt - the company is known for its cross-platform application and UI ... Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

Passalacqua hotel claims exceptional guest connectivity with AI-driven Wi-Fi 7

Prestigious hotel on the shores of Lake Como to become one of the world’s first early adopters of Wi-Fi 7 to give not only high connectivity speeds, but also low latency and increased capacity Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

MPs will attempt to amend law on overturning Post Office scandal convictions

Business and trade select committee chair says the job is not done with legislation to overturn wrongful subpostmaster convictions and provide financial redress Continue Reading

March 14, 2024 14Mar2024 News

Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word

The children of victims of the Post Office scandal have formed a group that will hold Fujitsu’s European boss to his promise of support Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

US authorities move a step closer to banning TikTok

Lawmakers in Washington DC have moved a step closer to enacting a broad national ban on controversial video app TikTok in the US, with global ramifications Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

BT, Broadpeak intro multicast tech to enhance network video streaming

UK’s leading network provider teams with content delivery network firm to enhance live video streaming quality and reliability using adaptive bit rate and multicast-assisted unicast delivery technology Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April

After a year being previewed by beta customers, Microsoft’s much vaunted Copilot for Security service is about to go on general release, promising time savings and improved accuracy for hard-pressed security pros Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 Blog Post

Green coding - PagerDuty: Mindfulness mechanics, an efficient code system is an 'off' system

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mandi Walls in her role as DevOps advocate, PagerDuty – the company is known for its platform designed to automate critical ... Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

British Library opens up over ransomware attack to help others

The British Library has opted for full transparency after experiencing a devastating ransomware attack, publishing details of the intrusion, its response and the lessons it has learned Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

SEA-ME-WE 4 doubles undersea capacity with optical link

Optical communications technology provider Ciena doubles capacity of undersea cable links covering South/Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to 122Tbps Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

UK gets funding boost through EU Horizon chip initiative

Signing up to the Chips Joint Undertaking means the UK will receive up to £35m to support chip development Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

TotalEnergies upgrades OT network to increase safety, performance, cyber security

Global multi-energy company upgrades operational technology network on its North Sea oil and gas platforms with next-generation infrastructure to ensure efficient operation of critical infrastructure Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?

Nutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

Traveller experience takes off at Houston Airports with HPE Aruba mobility

One of North America’s largest public airport systems modernises connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and networking infrastructure to boost quality of passenger experience and contribute to sustainability goals Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

Unprecedented bill to exonerate hundreds of wrongly convicted Post Office workers arrives

Unprecedented legislation that will see hundreds of former subpostmaster convictions for fraud and theft overturned begins its journey through Parliament Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

Omnispace, MTN team to develop, deploy satellite IoT, 5G NTN services

African space-based mobile communications industry gains higher orbit as continent’s largest mobile operator enters partnership with non-geostationary satellite constellation firm Continue Reading

March 13, 2024 13Mar2024 News

AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

March Patch Tuesday throws up two critical Hyper-V flaws

Two critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V stand out on an otherwise unremarkable Patch Tuesday Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 Opinion

A new security partnership to build a silicon valley in South Wales

The £140m acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab by American firm Vishay is to be welcomed but the UK needs needs security, stability and strategic investment to grow our domestic semiconductor capability, writes Alun Cairns MP Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Openreach, Focus Group boost broadband focus in South West England

Openreach claims major milestone inunderserved region’s digital transformation, while UK provider of essential business technology beefs up regional presence with key acquisition Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Labour will use AI to grow the economy by 0.5%, says shadow tech secretary Peter Kyle

The Labour Party plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in small businesses and across government to grow the economy, but transparency and building trust with the public will be key Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Nationwide IT infrastructure poised to absorb Virgin Money

A Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money will be the biggest financial services acquisition since 2008, but what about the IT challenges and opportunities that go with it? Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Industry partnerships and data key to better public services

Using public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 Blog Post

Green coding - Tricentis: Testing times for suboptimal algorithms & code bloat

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mav Turner, chief product and strategy officer at Tricentis - a company known for its software testing platform aligned to ... Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration

Declaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

More DDoS attacks launched against APAC financial firms

The financial sector in Asia-Pacific saw more DDoS attacks in 2023, but no notable impact was reported, according to a report by Akamai and FS-ISAC Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads

Software-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Current subpostmaster account shortfalls reveal extent of Post Office’s pre-2019 neglect

Hundreds of current subpostmasters might have been hounded for money or prosecuted had the Post Office not been forced to change its ways in 2019 Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Digitally transforming government: MoJ and GDS on using mobile devices and GenAI to help people

During a fireside chat at the Tech Show London, GDS CEO Tom Read and the Ministry of Justice CDIO Gina Gill swapped stories on how their teams are using technology to improve the quality of life for citizens Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 News

Starlink launches constellation, improves comms latency

After launch of 23 craft for growing satellite constellation, Elon Musk-led US spacecraft manufacturer reveals steps taken to improve quality of experience and service Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 Blog Post

Qwiet AI tunes in high-fidelity AI AppSec tooling

Coders code, obviously. But in fact (and as we know) as the law of thirds governs a lot of what happens on the command line. That ⅓ 33.3% law of thirds comes down to the fact that a third of ... Continue Reading

March 12, 2024 12Mar2024 E-Zine

From grassroots to Wembley – how tech supports English football

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the CIO of The Football Association about how technology supports the national game from grassroots to the England teams. 5G Advanced is here – we report from MWC 2024 on the next steps for the mobile ... Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 Blog Post

What to expect from NTT Research's ‘Upgrade’ 2024

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to San Francisco for Upgrade 2024, NTT Research’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, so what can we expect? Since the millennium, some ... Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Birmingham City Council’s Oracle implementation explained: What went wrong?

The council swapped out a heavily customised SAP ERP system for Oracle Cloud, but since it went live, it has had numerous technical challenges Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Aryaka advances network, security convergence with SASE as a service

Cloud-based software-defined networking and security services provider claims to transform global secure networking with unified secure access service edge solution Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Government not facing up to CNI cyber risks, committee warns

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has accused the government of burying its head in the sand over the cyber threat to UK critical infrastructure Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Sateliot to launch four 5G satellites

LEO 5G internet of things satellite constellation provider reveals summer launch of satellites to connect nearly seven million IoT devices and begin to recurrently bill €187m in binding orders Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 In Depth

Open source promises advantages for business applications

Open source software may provide a cost-effective approach to building business applications, as well as ensuring transparency, but there are challenges to keep in mind Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 Podcast

Podcast: Immutable storage essential against ransomware, but...

...not all immutable storage is created equal. That’s the message from Paul Speciale of Scality, who looks at immutable storage, its variants and what’s needed to secure data Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Dutch organisations vulnerable to deepfake fraud

With the information many employees share on social media, Dutch companies are especially vulnerable to a new form of fraud Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Infor a penny, Infor a pound

How vertical enterprise resource planning specialist Infor has its sights set on a disruptive 2024 Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Global cellular IoT connections to grow by three billion in next four years

Federated learning to automate platform management, configuration of devices, security processes and connectivity in real time will be key to handling large increase in data as telco network-based internet of things flourishes Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Vinnova launches National Digital Advancement project

Swedish state innovation initiative invests in a network of regional research and development centres Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

AI Singapore, Google to build regional dataset for LLMs

AI Singapore and Google Research Asia-Pacific will build a corpus of open-source training data through Project SEALD to drive the development of LLMs in Southeast Asia Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

Cautiously optimistic: Generative AI in the enterprise

While optimistic about generative AI, enterprises are treading carefully for now, this year’s Tech Show London suggests Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 News

TechUK calls for next government to introduce ‘industrial strategy’ for AI

Trade group TechUK publishes blueprint calling for winner of next election to boost tech startups, digitise government services and accelerate technology R&D Continue Reading

March 11, 2024 11Mar2024 In Depth

A better way to manage hybrid or multicloud deployments

Cloud-native strategies notwithstanding, workloads running on-premise or in private clouds will continue to present management challenges Continue Reading

March 09, 2024 09Mar2024 Blog Post

What to expect from Appian World 2024

For what might be the fifth time this year, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at Appian World, so what can we expect? It’s hard to think about Appian World without remembering the ... Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 Blog Post

Google Pixel Watch 2

The perfect smartwatch is a good dream to work towards and the Google Pixel Watch 2 is probably a step towards that Nirvana, it’s certainly a leap forward in terms of some of the functionality ... Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 News

OSS leaders detail commitments to bolster software security

CISA has announced a number of actions to help secure the global open source ecosystem, as leading package repositories including the Python and Rust foundations advance their own initiatives Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 News

UK government reconfirms satellite programme

2024 Budget sees continued approval for connectivity funding in plan to expand space-based broadband and 5G coverage for remote areas Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 News

Ethernovia accelerates chip drive for software-defined vehicles

Silicon Valley-based startup announces sampling of scalable family of automotive PHY transceivers for software-defined vehicle applications aiming to meet rising bandwidth demands and deliver safety functionality Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 Blog Post

A taste 4 open source at Kubecon CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

As already previewed here, Kubecon CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 is staged in Paris on 19-22 March this year. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog took an early virtual tour of four companies ... Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 Blog Post

Cloudinary developer lead: When (and when not) to use multi-modal LLMs for visual content

This is a guest post by Sanjay Sarathy, VP of developer experience and self-service at Cloudinary, an organisation which helps companies unleash the full potential of their media to create the most ... Continue Reading

March 08, 2024 08Mar2024 Opinion

How to address third-party risk to ensure business resiliency

Identifying third-party risks, determining risk controls and treating third-parties as allies are some of the ways to address the risks associated with third-party transactions and business engagements Continue Reading

March 07, 2024 07Mar2024 News

PSNI chief denies ‘industrial’ use of surveillance powers against journalists

PSNI chief constable Jon Boutcher has agreed to provide a report on police surveillance of journalists and lawyers to Northern Ireland’s policing watchdog Continue Reading

March 07, 2024 07Mar2024 News

CCS U-turns on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements after supplier backlash

The government procurement agency has reversed previous plans for a £20m increase in insurance cover that threatened to deter smaller suppliers from bidding for cloud computing contracts Continue Reading

March 07, 2024 07Mar2024 News

Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI

The government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach Continue Reading

March 07, 2024 07Mar2024 News

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