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Subpostmaster redress claim on β€˜pause’ 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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07.02.2026 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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07.02.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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07.02.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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06.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The DWP’s 2023-2030 Data Strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing and embed a data culture...
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06.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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06.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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06.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance...
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05.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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05.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While AI presents a significant opportunity to further the way we do business, what if it’s time to consider a new direction? What if the safest and most effective path for AI isn’t to go larger, but smaller instead?...
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05.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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05.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 public’s benefit at the heart....
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04.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week’s 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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04.02.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first β€˜tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses....
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04.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ai71’s Klemensas Mecejus explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead...
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04.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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04.02.2026 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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03.02.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œunreliable”. The A...
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03.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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03.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience....
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03.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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03.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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31.01.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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31.01.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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