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Subpostmaster redress claim on βpauseβ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system....
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Subpostmaster redress claim on βpauseβ as UK government agrees to look at complaints about scheme for those who suffered hardship from using the Post Office Capture system....
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Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims the final quarter of 2025 saw it achieve its fastest rate of growth in 13 quarters...
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Bank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector....
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The Department for Business and Trade has offered to step-in and pay the Β£104.4m the Post Office owes HMRC for incorrectly assessing the IR35 status of the "unusually large" population of contractors it engaged to assist with dealing with the fallout from the Horizon IT scandal...
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The DWPβs 2023-2030 Data Strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing and embed a data culture...
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Organisations shift from artificial intelligence (AI) pilots to operational deployment as governments prioritise digital sovereignty and infrastructure control....
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Salesforce's Connectivity Benchmark Report points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and siloed systems....
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Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAIβs dominance...
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As the UK government develops its new National Cyber Action Plan, a report from the Rusi think tank urges Westminster to take a more interventionist approach....
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While AI presents a significant opportunity to further the way we do business, what if itβs time to consider a new direction? What if the safest and most effective path for AI isnβt to go larger, but smaller instead?...
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Exploitation of CVE-2025-40551, an RCE flaw affecting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, appears to be spreading, and defenders are on high alert....
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By investing in independent AI literacy initiatives that are accessible to all and not just aimed at onboarding uncritical users and consumers, the UK can help to ensure that its AI future is shaped with the UK publicβs benefit at the heart....
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This weekβs edition of the Computer Weekly ezine digs into the latest twist in a long-running datacentre planning saga, concerning a server farm in Iver, Buckinghamshire, that the government has now admitted it was wrong to grant planning permission for. We also hear from the head of a...
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The UK government has named Barnsley as the nationβs first βtech townβ, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses....
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The Investigatory Powers Act (IPA 2016), at 10 years old, is now becoming seriously out of date. It provides the main legal framework within which the police, the intelligence and security services, and the courts get access to and use evidence in electronic form. Digital evidence now ...
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As organisations across the UAE move to AI orchestration, leaders are being forced to rethink skills, governance and accountability in an emerging hybrid workforce....
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Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year...
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While the UK has the data assets and the expertise to deliver real public benefit with artificial intelligence, a lack of consistency, completeness and interoperability in its data foundations risks missing these opportunities...
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IT leaders need to assess the cost implications of migrating from vSphere 8 to the latest supported VMware product offering...
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ai71βs Klemensas Mecejus explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack constructionβs productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead...
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Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support....
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Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology...
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Ransomware-as-a-service operations are increasingly seeking to forge connections with employees, contractors and trusted partners of their target organisations as an alternative to straight-up hacking, says NCC....
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We take a look at what chief information security officers and IT decision-makers should consider when looking at AI-enabled IT security....
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A court in Belgium has refused to allow defence lawyers in a high-profile drugs case extra time after a forensic expert found that digital evidence obtained by police in a hacking operation against the Sky ECC encrypted phone network and relied on by prosecutors was βunreliableβ. The A...
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Councillors at audit committee urged to ensure strong project governance and adequate tech staffing levels and change management procedures...
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HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAPβs cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience....
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As it underwent a growth spurt in the early 2020s, graphic design platform Canva turned to 1Password to manage identity across its expanding organisation....
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Two former directors of London tech company nChain, associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, have told an employment tribunal they were dismissed in retaliation for whistleblowing....
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Even without recent news in the US, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were dialled back in UK businesses last year due to tight budgets and economic uncertainty. Is it the end of the DEI push as we know it, or just a momentary blip in the fight for a diverse tech workfo...
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