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August 17, 2020
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Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic
With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications
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August 17, 2020
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Aug'20
O2 Business debuts IoT toolkit to support UK firms in post-lockdown return to office
Suite of internet-of-things products includes thermal-imaging tablet that can read a user’s surface body temperature from a metre away
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August 17, 2020
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Aug'20
The Security Interviews: How Crest is remaking the future of consultancy
Crest president Ian Glover taught himself cyber security while working on government computing systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Now he is on a decade-spanning mission to change security consultancy models
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August 17, 2020
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Aug'20
Coronavirus: Government faces renewed calls for extended support for self-employed
The second phase of the government’s income support scheme for the self-employed goes live today, prompting renewed calls for the eligibility criteria to be broadened so that more people can benefit
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August 17, 2020
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Aug'20
DBS Bank teams up with AWS on AI skills
Singapore’s DBS Bank is organising an AWS DeepRacer League to equip thousands of employees with skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Cisco-led consortium eyes up rural UK 5G opportunities
Part government-funded communications project develops first-of-its-kind deployment toolkit for next-generation networks using 5G technologies to empower rural and poorly connected communities
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August 14, 2020
14
Aug'20
ICO acknowledges GDPR concerns over A-level results scandal
Information Commissioner’s Office says it has engaged with exams regulator Ofqual after its use of an algorithm to calculate A-level grades backfired
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August 14, 2020
14
Aug'20
UK government investigates AI labour market
Survey will seek to discover new requirements and issues posed by artificial intelligence technology
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Gigaclear to take on 120 engineers for rural broadband expansion
New full-time field engineers will join rural broadband provider’s in-house team by the end of March 2021 to increase company’s build capacity
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
US decision to file new charges against Julian Assange ‘astonishing and potentially abusive’
Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a potential abuse of process
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Coronavirus: The pandemic’s impact on tech jobs, now and in the future
For some, the coronavirus pandemic has meant furloughs and job losses; for others, it has meant expansion and hiring. What impact has the outbreak had on technology recruitment, and will this carry on into the future?
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Bayer taps Verizon for global network infrastructure
Pharmaceutical giant chooses Verizon to provide software-defined infrastructure to support its future cloud-based business needs
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Russia’s Fancy Bear targets Linux environments with Drovorub malware
The Russian intelligence-linked Fancy Bear group is deploying a new malware called Drovorub against Linux environments as part of a cyber espionage operation, according to US warnings
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August 14, 2020
14
Aug'20
Nissan Motor Company to migrate off-premise HPC workloads to Oracle Cloud
Motor manufacturer is preparing to shift various latency-sensitive workloads off-premise and into the Oracle Cloud
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August 14, 2020
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Aug'20
Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal
Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown
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August 14, 2020
14
Aug'20
Oracle and Salesforce sued over online ad tracking
Class action lawsuits filed in Amsterdam and London will accuse Oracle and Salesforce of breaching GDPR in their processing and sharing of personal data to sell online advertising
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Ed Sheeran is not promoting investment opportunities, says NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre has issued a new warning after uncovering a series of online scams promoting fraudulent celebrity-endorsed investment opportunities
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs
Almost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic process automation
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Loan charge: HMRC tells contractors not to ‘hold out hope’ of revised down settlements emerging
With the 30 September 2020 loan charge policy settlement date fast approaching, HM Revenue & Customs tells those in its scope to abandon hope of revised down settlements being offered at this stage
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
UK government redesigns contact-tracing app and begins new trial phase
No official launch, but app is upgraded to offer alerts based on postcode, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test booking in conjunction with the official Test and Trace programme
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
PCCW Global furthers global IoT reach with Nayar Systems
Industrial internet of things firm collaborates with global comms services provider to reduce the time and cost of deploying the services most required by high-tech elevator systems
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Computing students achieve high A-level grades despite coronavirus outbreak
Students taking computing at A-level have achieved higher grades than last year despite the uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
CIO interview: Mark Gannon, director of business change and information, Sheffield City Council
Like many organisations, the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital change in Sheffield, and its IT leader is looking to build further on that momentum
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Ericsson hits 100th 5G commercial agreement milestone
Century up for Swedish communications tech firm in next-generation infrastructure wins with deal at Telekom Slovenije to supply essential RAN and Packet Core technology
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
Muslamic Makers launches careers discovery programme
Tech community Muslamic Makers has launched a programme to help Muslim talent develop skills and understand more about digital careers
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August 13, 2020
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Aug'20
APAC consumers do not feel responsible for data security
Just one in four consumers believe they should protect their own data, underscoring the tightrope between security and convenience that organisations have been walking on
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Broadband upstream usage, speeds spike higher in Q2 2020
As the need for remote working, learning, information and entertainment makes broadband access more important than ever, a consumption report finds mass usage of applications such as Zoom driving uptake of higher-speed packages
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
EU and US start discussions on ‘enhanced’ Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement
Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty
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August 12, 2020
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Beyond.pl plots Polish datacentre campus expansion to capitalise on growing continental cloud demand
Polish colocation provider Beyond.pI says expansion plans are in direct response to growing demand for sustainably powered datacentre capacity in central Europe
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Government awards funding for innovation projects
The funding for innovative projects forms part of the government’s plan to increase research and development spending, which it claims will aid the UK’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores
Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
How Dharma ransomware became an effective services business
New research looks under the bonnet of a Dharma ransomware attack, with the ransomware's ease of use being particularly dangerous for small to medium-sized enterprises
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
NHS SBS spies £75m savings on IT purchases through new procurement framework
NHS organisations and public sector bodies will be encouraged to use £500m procurement framework to acquire IT software and hardware in a more cost-effective way
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
CIOs raise IT budgets as increased remote working drives security concerns
Research finds that as the pandemic forces companies to accept the idea of permanent massed remote working, CIOs are waking up to the threat of increased cyber attacks
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits
Microsoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Security training body Sans Institute hit by data breach
Around 28,000 items of personally identifiable data were lost in a phishing attack on Sans, proving that even the professionals can be caught out
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court
In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws
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August 12, 2020
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Aug'20
SD-WAN revealed as key enabler for ‘new normal’ remote workforces
Research from software-defined network and cloud platform provider shows the increased importance of software-defined infrastructure to the new work environment
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
NHS hit by thousands of malicious emails at height of pandemic
The NHS received nearly 30,000 malicious emails at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in March and April
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Citrix users urged to patch five XenMobile CVEs
Patches are available for CVEs 2020-8208 through 8212 and should be installed as soon as possible
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
PCCW Global and Sure Universal team up for home-based medical IoT
Leading IoT software and platform developer teams with Hong Kong telco to offer global network of connected solutions for medical care from home, providing a customisable platform and interface to deliver global connectivity, simplify device ...
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August 11, 2020
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DAG Wireless unveils 4G/5G infrastructure for in-flight connectivity
Broadband access products provider announces new FCC and DO-160 certified in-flight broadband network designed to offer first-class wireless connectivity experiences
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Coronavirus: Phishing lures pivot to exploit vaccine hopes
Phishing emails are increasingly luring in victims with subject lines relating to the development of a vaccine for Covid-19
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure
HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Pandemic acts as catalyst for digital-led recovery
Economies with strong digital services are set to grow cross-border trade, while 3D printing could revolutionise goods manufacturing
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Equinix expands into India through $161m acquisition of two local datacentres
Colocation giant looks set to tap into the huge demand for cloud and internet services from enterprises in India
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
French data protection authorities to probe TikTok as suitors circle
France’s CNIL has confirmed a new investigation into TikTok’s data protection practices
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
Hospitality sector is failing on contact-tracing obligations
Cyber security experts urge the government to do more to help small hospitality businesses improve their contact-tracing data-handling practices
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August 11, 2020
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Aug'20
UK government gigabit broadband scheme nears half a million new premises benchmark
UK government celebrates reaching gigabit broadband services deployment milestone as part of its ambitious target over the lifetime of parliament
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August 11, 2020
11
Aug'20
Looming threat of Covid-19 and IR35 reform conspire to keep contractor confidence dampened
Quarterly data on how confident freelancers feel about their job and earning prospects highlights the negative impact Covid-19 and the government's looming tax reforms are having on the sector