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  • March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

    Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI

    HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline

  • March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

    Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto

    The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data

  • March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

    Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public

    Technology practitioners and experts gathered at an annual Alan Turing Institute-run conference discussed the need for more inclusive approaches to AI governance that actually engage citizens and workers

  • March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

    How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure

    Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads

  • March 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

    Singapore refreshes geospatial masterplan

    Masterplan aimed at driving mainstream adoption of geospatial applications and grooming geospatial talent, among other goals, will help to position Singapore as a global geospatial hub

  • March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

    Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing

    Privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group have submitted formal complaints to UK and French data regulators about allegedly unlawful data processing by online advertising firm LiveRamp

  • March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

    How PSA is reducing empty trips for trucking firms

    The Singapore port operator has built a platform that leverages Here Technologies’ trip planning and location services to help container trucking firms improve operational efficiency

  • March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

    APAC firms bullish on IT spending

    More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region

  • February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

    How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity

    TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories

  • February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

    Secret court hears claims of police surveillance against journalists

    Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey argue that the use of covert powers by the police to identify their confidential sources represents an attack on press freedom

  • February 23, 2024 23 Feb'24

    Home Office signs tech and data sharing deal with Frontex

    The UK’s deal with the EU border agency is intended to improve operational cooperation, and will expand British authorities’ access to technology and data that can be used to reduce small boat crossings of the English Channel

  • February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

    Uber CEO denies pricing algorithm uses ‘behavioural patterns’

    Uber workers are concerned about what data is being used by the company’s algorithm to set variable pay and pricing levels after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admits to using drivers’ ‘behavioural patterns’

  • February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

    Alibaba Cloud debuts Model Studio

    Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio provides access to its Qwen family of foundation models and other third-party models and a suite of tools to speed up training and deployment of large language models

  • February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

    Met Police to scrap and replace ‘racist’ Gangs Violence Matrix

    A database used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and track people linked with gang violence is being decommissioned and replaced. The decision follows a long-running controversy over its discriminatory impacts on young black people, but ...

  • February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

    How DBS is industrialising AI across its business

    Southeast Asia’s biggest lender is building a strong data foundation and upskilling employees on data and artificial intelligence to realise its vision of becoming an AI-fuelled bank

  • February 09, 2024 09 Feb'24

    Amazon defends facial-recognition tech sale to FBI despite moratorium

    The FBI has confirmed it is using Amazon’s Rekognition image and video analysis software, but Amazon says it is ‘false’ to suggest this violates the company’s self-imposed moratorium on selling facial-recognition technology to US police

  • February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

    Government reaffirms commitment to hold off on AI laws

    The UK government reaffirming its commitment hold off on artificial intelligence legislation has been received positively by industry for balancing innovation and safety

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    UK government responds to AI whitepaper consultation

    The UK government is considering introducing binding legal requirements for companies developing the most powerful AI systems, and has outlined a range of funding to realise the ambitions of its ‘pro-innovation’ framework for artificial intelligence

  • February 06, 2024 06 Feb'24

    CIO interview: Stuart Birrell, chief data and information officer, EasyJet

    The short-haul airline fills an aircraft every 10 seconds through its e-commerce operation – all while transforming its booking systems and migrating its IT estate to the cloud

  • February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

    Welsh workers’ AI experiences shaped by uneven power dynamics

    Workers in Wales are being negatively affected by the unregulated introduction of artificial intelligence into workplaces due to asymmetric power dynamics

  • January 26, 2024 26 Jan'24

    GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright

    AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly

  • January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

    UN chief blasts AI companies for reckless pursuit of profit

    The United Nations general secretary has blasted technology companies and governments for pursuing their own narrow interests in artificial intelligence without any consideration of the common good, as part of wider call to reform global governance

  • January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

    ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality

    The UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government

  • January 15, 2024 15 Jan'24

    AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF

    While artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities

  • January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

    UK government seeks public views on impacts of AI-generated porn

    The government’s Pornography Review will look in part at the use of AI throughout the industry to generate sexually explicit content without people’s consent

  • January 10, 2024 10 Jan'24

    Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill

    The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK

  • January 03, 2024 03 Jan'24

    Fighting money laundering with AI

    Mike Foster, CEO of SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, talks up how AI can be used to fight financial crime and how the company’s technology can augment existing AML investments

  • December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

    Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

    From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  • December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

    Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

    Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

  • December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

    Top 10 business applications stories of 2023

    Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth

  • December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

    Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

    Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage

    The UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development

  • December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

    Top 10 storage stories of 2023

    In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

  • December 19, 2023 19 Dec'23

    Top 10 information management stories of 2023

    Generative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO

  • December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

    Police defend facial recognition target selection to Lords

    Senior police officers confirm to Lords committee that facial recognition watchlist image selection is based on crime categories attached to people’s photos, rather than a context-specific assessment of the threat presented by a given individual

  • December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

    CDO interview: Andy Moore, chief data officer, Bentley Motors

    Data sits at the heart of the luxury car maker’s plans for a future with electric vehicles and a ‘hyper-personalised’ customer experience

  • December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

    No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

    The UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary

  • December 05, 2023 05 Dec'23

    CIO interview: Jarrod Phipps, Holman

    The automotive services firm is accumulating vast amounts of data from its fleet and using it to bring insights to improve customer and employee experiences

  • December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

    Human augmentation tech requires dual use oversight

    Researchers investigating human augmentation technologies must acknowledge the potential military applications of their work, and military bodies cannot be allowed to dismiss ethical concerns in their pursuit of national security interests, says NGO...

  • December 01, 2023 01 Dec'23

    Lords committee urges caution on UK use of autonomous weapons

    UK government must ensure proper democratic oversight of its development and use of AI-powered weapon systems, says Lords committee

  • November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

    Re:Invent 2023: Selipsky cues Q to project future shape of work

    At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, Re:Invent, CEO Adam Selipsky hails GenAI capacity of product Q to reshape the future of work

  • November 23, 2023 23 Nov'23

    DWP to surveil bank accounts of benefit claimants for fraud

    The UK government has outlined how it plans to tackle benefit fraud by giving the Department for Work and Pensions new powers compelling banks to collect and share data on claimants’ bank accounts

  • November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

    Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract

    NHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to US data specialist Palantir, prompting concerns from data privacy practitioners

  • November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

    AI productivity gains could result in four-day weeks for millions

    Autonomy think tank publishes paper on potential for artificial intelligence-driven large language models to shorten people’s work weeks