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• 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

  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 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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 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 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI

  Proposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  IT expert who helped expose Post Office scandal offers to investigate second controversial system

  IT expert Jason Coyne, who played a critical part in exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, said he would examine the Capture System

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Post Office boss signed off hush money to cover up smoking gun

  A former Post Office boss admitted the pain and suffering of subpostmasters could have been avoided had the organisation done the right thing

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CISOs not yet convinced to invest in AI

  CISOs say their eyes are fixed firmly on threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks, and while AI is becoming a threat that needs to be dealt with, it’s not yet an immediate spending priority

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute

  MAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Alan Bates and JFSA won’t back down in fight with government and Post Office

  Over the past 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Swedish company first to use STMicroelectronics chips

  Powerful new processors help power next-generation industrial human machine interfaces, starting in the Nordics

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index

  When the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  EU’s AI Act fails to protect the rule of law and civic space

  Analysis reveals that the AI Act is ‘riddled with far-reaching exceptions’ and its measures to protect fundamental rights are insufficient

• April 12, 2024 12 Apr'24

  UK in critical need of regulation to fight misinformation online

  Misinformation, where it is generated by AI, poses a serious threat due to the ease with which plausible false content can be created and spread

• April 12, 2024 12 Apr'24

  Government could still replace Fujitsu in key nuclear contract

  Fujitsu’s first government contract of the year could be just a stay of execution as department says that all replacement options are still being considered

• April 12, 2024 12 Apr'24

  Post Office boss said subpostmasters had hands in till and blamed technology for missing cash

  Former boss reacted to 2009 Computer Weekly expose by telling a colleague that 'subbies with their hands in the till' were blaming technology for their own theft

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown

  UK government will fund roll-out of police facial recognition across the country as part of its crackdown on shoplifting and violence against retail staff, but civil society groups say the government is attempting to police its way out of the ...

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Former Post Office executive’s neglect prolonged Horizon reliability myth

  Executive’s failure to provide terms of reference for a controversial Post Office investigation into its own computer system resulted in a one-sided whitewash report

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers

  With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Fujitsu public sector contracts dry up in Post Office scandal aftermath

  Disgraced IT supplier has won just one public sector contract following public anger over Post Office scandal

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Government dismisses Lords’ concerns over facial recognition

  UK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Subpostmasters stealing from branches ‘didn’t make sense,’ former judge tells inquiry

  The former judge who chaired a scheme set up by the Post Office to settle claims against its Horizon system said he told bosses their prosecutions of subpostmasters "didn't make sense"

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Civil servants more to blame for Post Office cover-up than ministers, says Alan Bates

  Campaigning former subpostmaster believes the civil service has more to answer for than ministers in the Post Office Horizon scandal

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  UK plc failing on multiple cyber measures

  Government report shows 50% of businesses and 32% of charities reported a cyber attack or breach in the past 12 months and organisations across the UK are failing on multiple cyber measures

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Public worried by police and companies sharing biometric data

  More than half of the British public do not feel comfortable with police forces sharing biometric data with the private sector, including facial recognition images, to tackle crimes such as shoplifting

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Is a cyber arms control treaty out of reach?

  The world needs cyber arms control more than ever, but the challenges facing a multilateral agreement will be hard to surmount, according to researchers at Germany’s Digital Society Institute

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Greek government fined over AI surveillance in refugee camps

  Greece’s Data Protection Authority has issued a €175,000 fine against the country’s migration ministry over its deployment of artificial intelligence-powered security systems in refugee camps after the watchdog’s investigation found ‘serious ...

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  UN adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on making AI safe and trustworthy

  A UN draft resolution promoting the use of artificial intelligence in sustainable development and the protection of human rights was backed by over 120 member states

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  Further extension to controversial Post Office contract with Fujitsu inevitable

  Post Office is seeking software developers as it replaces the controversial Horizon system from Fujitsu with an in-house alternative

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  Some former Post Office staff should be jailed over scandal, says government minister

  Government minister outlines the real prospect that people will be jailed for their roles in the Post Office Horizon scandal

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  MPs will grill Cabinet Office over Fujitsu contract bidding pause

  Parliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal, with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny

• April 05, 2024 05 Apr'24

  Environment Agency dumps Fujitsu as Post Office scandal takes its toll

  Troubled supplier loses flood warnings contract with government department after almost a decade

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  Fujitsu should stop bending rules, stop bidding and pay up, says MP

  MP Liam Byrne calls on Fujitsu to put actions behind the promises it made to MPs, victims of the Post Office scandal and UK taxpayers

• April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

  RDP abused in over 90% of cyber attacks, Sophos finds

  Threat actors continue to see great success using simple, tried and tested methods, and many defenders are failing to do the basics

• April 03, 2024 03 Apr'24

  Fujitsu staff instructed how to bid for government contracts during self-imposed ban

  Leak reveals how Fujitsu advises staff to approach UK government customers during its self-imposed bidding pause, as well as details of a multimillion-pound project to protect its reputation

• April 02, 2024 02 Apr'24

  Flash storage prices rise by 25% as manufacturers chase profitability

  Analysis of 30,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte rose sharply since October 2023, as memory manufacturers limit supplies and increase prices

• March 28, 2024 28 Mar'24

  Remote access is the Post Office’s known unknown

  Calls for criminal investigation after covert recordings are latest evidence to reveal extent of Post Office knowledge of remote access to subpostmaster accounts

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Cyber spies, not cyber criminals, behind most zero-day exploitation

  Analysis from Google has found that zero-day vulnerabilities are much more heavily exploited for espionage purposes than for financially motivated cyber crime

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI

  Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Leaked comms reveal Fujitsu eyeing huge UK government bounty, despite Post Office scandal promise

  While subpostmasters fight tooth and nail for justice and financial redress, Fujitsu continues to target millions of UK taxpayer pounds

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  UK regional science and tech startups grew in 2023

  Globally there is still a post-pandemic funding slump, but UK startups in regions such as Wales and Yorkshire grew private sector investment in 2023

• 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