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• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  HSBC fined £64m for automated transaction monitoring failures

  Bank hit by multimillion-pound fine for failures related to its transaction monitoring, which failed to spot potential money-laundering activity

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  EE to upgrade 4G in more than 2,000 rural UK areas by 2024

  BT-owned UK mobile operator sets out to improve rural connectivity across the UK as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, with more than 1,500 upgrades to follow as it invests to reduce partial notspots

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  5G, fibre flourish in UK in 2021

  Full-fibre broadband is now available to more than eight million homes as roll-out accelerates and ‘decent’ broadband is at highest-ever level

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

  Building society’s tech teams work with consultancy Contino to implement new website using the chaos engineering method

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Pressure on government to pay fair compensation to subpostmasters left out of current schemes

  MPs demand that the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in court should be properly compensated for their losses and suffering

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Gig economy algorithmic management tools ‘unfair and opaque’

  Report published by Worker Info Exchange warns of algorithmically enabled rights abuses in the gig economy, noting the insufficient transparency of employers and the lacklustre nature of legal redress

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Asda follows EG Group sibling in selection of Rise with SAP

  Retailer is looking to improve the agility of its operations in the cloud with a move to Rise with SAP on Microsoft Azure, and to streamline its procurement with SAP Ariba

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  After Log4j, December Patch Tuesday piles on the pressure

  December’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft contains several critical CVEs, but this month all attention is focused on the fall-out from Log4Shell, and burn-out is becoming a real issue

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Digital Ethics Summit: Innovation needs regulation to be ethical

  Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  AIB signs up to z15-powered transformation

  Irish bank has continued its investment in IBM z-series hardware and the Red Hat software portfolio to help it achieve its digital transformation goals

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  UK government to take ‘whole-of-society’ approach to cyber

  Second iteration of the UK’s National Cyber Strategy broadens its focus to build a ‘whole-of-society’ security posture

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  CMA wants Apple and Google to open up mobile ecosystem

  Interim report from Competitions and Markets Authority finds Apple and Google exert too much control over the mobile device market

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Which? tells banks to stop rushing branch closures

  Consumer rights protector says banks should pause branch closures until they can ensure people have access to cash and services

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Neos Networks brings high-capacity fibre access to leading UK cities and Oxfordshire

  UK business connectivity provider opens first of four metro access networks to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses and those in the City of London while also announcing rural county expansion plan to connect over 200...

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Avaya enhances educational and logistics environments with UCaaS and cloud

  Supply chain leader supports business expansion and supercharges agent retention with cloud comms platform, and enables ‘exceptional’ education experiences for thousands of students with unified comms as a service

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  UK advances research of autonomous robots in lab environments

  The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has been awarded new funding to develop the equipment alongside industry and academia

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Increased Altice BT shareholding fuels UK government jitters

  Significant increase in stakeholdership by potential buyer of UK incumbent telco prompts UK government to warn of potential threat to levelling-up agenda

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Multibillion-dollar quantum opportunities if error rate recedes

  Management consultant McKinsey discusses a potential $700bn opportunity in the pharma, finance, automotive and chemicals sectors

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Almost half of networks probed for Log4Shell weaknesses

  Close to half of corporate networks have already been actively targeted by individuals seeking to exploit the critical Log4Shell Apache bug

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Joint committee publishes report on improving Online Safety Bill

  MPs and peers release report on Online Safety Bill following five-month inquiry into the draft legislation and make a number of recommendations on how it can be improved to deal with harmful content and abuse on the internet

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Lords urge regulators to evolve as digital change accelerates

  A cooperative approach with common objectives is needed to resolve potential conflicts between bodies in digital regulation as well as better oversight, according to a House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Government must go further after agreeing to pay compensation for wrongly convicted subpostmasters

  The government has agreed to pay compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, but continues to refuse to pay a significant group of victims

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  IT priorities 2022: Ransomware and cloud drive storage and backup

  The pandemic and the move to the cloud has driven cloud storage as a key priority

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  How to scale up your AI initiatives

  Executive sponsorship, a strong data foundation and having ‘analytics artists’ are among ways to scale up AI initiatives beyond the pilot stage

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Oxford City Council services back online after weekend outage at SCC datacentre

  Council has confirmed its services are back up and running after its datacentre hosting partner suffered a minor outage over the weekend

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  F1 accelerates into advanced networking

  Networking providers boost UAE circuit’s communications infrastructure and see use in providing leading team with an agile and highly automated network platform across new technology campus

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

  How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Scottish government announces support for right to disconnect

  The Scottish government is the first in the UK to publicly support a right to disconnect, which would give people the ability not engage in digitally enabled work-related activities outside of their contracted hours

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Volvo Car UK deploys Vodafone IoT stolen vehicle tracking technology

  Car manufacturer taps telco to provide 24/7 monitoring of vehicle location using internet-of-things tracking device for all models across the UK and 44 other European countries, working in partnership with local police authorities

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  What is Log4Shell, and why are we panicking about it?

  It’s been described as a ‘design failure of catastrophic proportions’ that threatens the very fabric of the digital world. Find out what the Log4j2 Log4Shell panic is all about, and what you should do about it

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2022

  Operationalising zero trust, talent retention and containerisation are just some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2022

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  SMEs dominate list of 200 fastest growing tech companies

  List of 200 fastest growing companies in the public sector is made up primarily of small and medium-sized enterprises, which collectively earned £936m from government contracts in the past fiscal year

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage and hacking charges, court rules

  High Court overturns decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder after US government gives assurances over his treatment

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Singapore and UK sign digital trade deal

  Described as the world’s most comprehensive digital agreement between two countries, the deal supports the UK’s bid to join Trans-Pacific Partnership to build trade connections with 11 Indo-Pacific markets

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Drone killer app saves Swedish lives

  Drones could get life-saving equipment to heart attack victims ahead of emergency services staff, increasing survival rates

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  C-suite’s biggest ransomware fear: Post-attack regulatory sanctions

  Exposure to regulatory sanctions such as fines are the biggest worry for C-suite executives in the wake of a ransomware attack

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Channelling Nordic startup innovation towards global survival

  Nordic startup innovation offers global organisations the green light towards sustainability

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Finland looks to democratise the ‘wild west’ of artificial intelligence

  Finland could play an important role in increasing the understanding of what artificial intelligence software can do for society

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  UAE joins the race to produce a usable quantum computer

  As part of its ongoing effort to keep up with the latest technology, the United Arab Emirates has begun work on the region’s first quantum computer

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Loan charge: Tax experts call on chancellor for simpler, more affordable policy settlement terms

  A group of tax barristers and accounting experts are calling on Rishi Sunak to force HMRC to revise its loan charge settlement terms

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  More than 50% of UK workers would quit without hybrid work

  Research provides insight into the views of UK workers regarding splitting time between the office and home

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  PAC scrutinises failure of large government IT modernisation projects

  From unskilled senior government officials to over-reliance on outsourcers and contractors, the factors underpinning unsuccessful tech-driven transformation initiatives are investigated in a new report

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  CIOs, senior IT management accelerate private 5G network deployment

  Research of more than 200 CIOs and senior executives reveals the acceleration of private 5G networks as organisations look to improve security, reliability and speed

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Young people think it’s ‘too late’ for them to get into tech

  Young people across the globe have an interest in technology careers, but a lack of training and the industry’s poor reputation for diversity are acting as deterrents

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  CDEI publishes roadmap for UK AI assurance ecosystem

  Publication from CDEI sets out the steps required to verify the effectiveness, trustworthiness and compliance of artificial intelligence systems

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Home Office slammed over police IT legacy replacement delays

  Modernisation initiative has seen a significant increase in costs and several changes in scope, and measures introduced to address issues seem ineffective, says Public Accounts Committee report

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  What are the challenges associated with the MITRE ATT&CK framework?

  Businesses sometimes struggle to use the MITRE ATT&CK framework effectively. Learn more about some of the challenges, and how to overcome them

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  UK and US to collaborate on privacy innovation contest

  Joint UK-US innovation challenge contest centring on privacy-enhancing technology announced at Summit for Democracy in Washington DC

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Aryaka announces ‘all-in-one’ SD-WAN, SASE offerings for hybrid workplace

  Cloud-first software-defined wide area network firm claims hybrid network innovation breakthrough, enabling businesses of all sizes to navigate change while focusing on growth and digital transformation