News

IT suppliers

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023

  Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Co-op Group adds nearshore engineering resources

  Manchester headquartered Co-op group adds additional engineering resources as competition for talent in the UK ramps up

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance

  Japanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce

  The government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house

  Unison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Prime minister Rishi Sunak faces pressure from banks to force tech firms to pay for online fraud

  The UK’s major banks have told the prime minister to force tech firms to do more to prevent fraud that the banks end up paying for

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit

  Investigations into recent outages on Microsoft Azure and Outlook services have turned up evidence of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform

  Middle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Visa takeover means economic turmoil won’t slow Tink’s progress

  Tink is one of the pioneers of the open banking sector, and under Visa’s light-touch ownership is continuing to think like a startup

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Dutch government puts up €123m to address shortage of ICT workers

  Financial injection aimed at improving cooperation between vocational education and business in the Netherlands, and making the tech professions more attractive

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS

  BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030: Progress report

  Halfway into its plan to give the country a makeover by 2030, Saudi Arabia’s emphasis on technology is starting to pay off

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

  Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  TSB calls on Meta to intervene and protect users from fraud losses of £250m this year

  TSB is the latest bank to demand more action from social media sector in helping to reduce online fraud

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Banks still investing heavily in legacy payments systems

  Banks are missing out on additional revenues through payment services because they are stuck with inflexible legacy payments systems.

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Artificial intelligence creates 40,000 new roles at Accenture

  Accenture is planning to add thousands of AI experts to its workforce as part of a $3bn investment in its data and artificial intelligence practice

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  Belgian bank leaps forward in digital transformation through core banking outsourcing deal

  Online bank moves to a software-as-a-service core banking platform to ‘leapfrog’ in-house development

• June 13, 2023 13 Jun'23

  GoCardless cuts jobs and wants its ‘startup spirit’ back

  Payments fintech unicorn GoCardless will cut its workforce in the UK as part of a 15% reduction in its global workforce

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  Annual spend on regtech to reach more than £200bn by 2028

  Global corporates will spend over $200bn in 2028 as the technology is used to help organisations in more industries comply with complex regulations.

• June 09, 2023 09 Jun'23

  Extreme Networks emerges as victim of Clop MOVEit attack

  Network equipment and services supplier Extreme Networks has revealed its instance of Progress Software’s MOVEit tool was compromised in the ongoing Clop cyber attack

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques

  The UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has published a variety of case studies to show how different assurance techniques can build and maintain trust in artificial intelligence systems

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Sweden’s Ikano Bank outsources core banking to TCS

  Ikano Bank moves to cloud banking platform from Indian IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Netherlands enables contactless payments on entire public transport network

  All modes of public transport now accept payments using contactless technology after the completion of major project in the Netherlands

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Government and industry figures meet to discuss AI regulation

  Tech industry figures are broadly supportive of the need for artificial intelligence to be regulated, but despite growing consensus, there is still disagreement over what effective AI regulation looks like

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  UKtech50 2023: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 13th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  UKtech50 2023 winner: Michelle Donelan/Chloe Smith, secretary of state, DSIT

  Computer Weekly looks at the achievements and successes of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, as its secretary of state is recognised as the most influential person in UK technology for 2023

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Welsh ambulance service upgrades life-saving communications

  Welsh ambulances going through major communications upgrade as part of wider NHS programme

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Researchers in Belgium move towards industrial production of qubits

  Using existing equipment and know-how, researchers at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec) in Belgium are finding ways of mass-producing qubits

• June 07, 2023 07 Jun'23

  Government to test rural broadband options with £7m fund

  Government to fund tests of technologies that could be issued to improve internet connectivity for rural communities

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

  ESA uses NetApp as-a-service for space data ‘hot’ archive

  The European Space Agency collects data from millions of miles away. It must get storage right when there’s no chance of a u-turn to take more photos or re-record data

• June 06, 2023 06 Jun'23

  TechUK publishes ‘UK tech plan’ for next government

  Technology businesses are calling on UK politicians to devise a ‘comprehensive, forward-thinking strategy’ to realise the benefits of technology ahead of the next general election

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  Workers ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with digital surveillance at work

  Employees express discomfort towards employers’ use of various digital surveillance and monitoring techniques, which are often powered by artificial intelligence

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  Sweden is developing its own big language model

  Artificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not only for Swedish, but for all the major languages in the Nordic region: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  Met Police director of intelligence defends facial recognition

  The Met Police’s director of intelligence has appeared before MPs to make the case for its continuing use of facial-recognition technology, following announcements from the force and the Home Office that they intend to press on with its adoption

• June 01, 2023 01 Jun'23

  HSBC explores quantum computing for finance sector

  UK banking giant works with quantum computing specialist to explore the technology’s potential in the finance sector

• May 31, 2023 31 May'23

  Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

  Scale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  UK, US and Australia jointly trial AI-enabled drone swarm

  British, American and Australian military organisations have trialled the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in drones in a collaboration designed to drive their adoption of AI-powered military tools

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Fintech pioneer Anne Boden steps aside from challenger bank CEO role

  Fintech pioneer to step aside for a new CEO after 10 years building a UK banking unicorn

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Almost all ransomware attacks target backups, says Veeam

  Some 93% of ransomware attacks go for backups and most succeed, with 60% of those attacked paying the ransom, according to a Veeam survey

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Kuwait bank introduces biometric payments card

  Middle East bank launches payment cards with fingerprint sensor technology embedded

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

  Backup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

  AMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Post Office scandal – cover-up a ‘dark chapter’ in government, corporate and legal history

  Third phase of public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal reveals extent of Post Office and Fujitsu cover-up of software problems that went on to write ‘as dark a chapter in our governmental, corporate and legal history as can be imagined’

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Worker-focused AI Bill introduced by backbench MP Mick Whitley

  Using the 10-minute motion rule, backbench Labour MP Mick Whitley has introduced a worker-focused artificial intelligence (AI) bill to Parliament, which outlines a similar approach to AI being advocated by unions in the UK

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Eticas outlines approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing

  Algorithmic auditing firm Eticas speaks to Computer Weekly about its approach to ‘adversarial’ algorithmic auditing, including its strengths and limitations, and how the process works

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Home Office pushes for more police facial-recognition deployments

  An independent report commissioned by the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales reveals that the UK policing minister is pushing for wider adoption of facial-recognition technology by police, and further criticises the government’s proposed ...

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  CIO interview: Ravi Malick, Box

  Ravi Malick has always been a technologist at heart, and via political science, startups and consultancy, landed in his current role at Box

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Plexal launches Cyber Runway 3.0 accelerator programme

  The 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

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

  NetApp 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

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage

  Object 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