Category: ComputerWeekly

State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach
05
Feb
2025

State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach

Earlier this week, people attending OpenUK’s State of Open Con were presented with a vision of open government that has…

Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts
05
Feb
2025

Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts

Youth activists have gathered outside Meta’s London offices to protest how the company allegedly exploits younger users for profit at…

MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector
05
Feb
2025

MPs to scrutinise use of artificial intelligence in the finance sector

The Parliamentary Treasury Committee has called on consumers, finance firms and IT suppliers to provide evidence to support an inquiry…

MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos
05
Feb
2025

MoD set to develop £50m data analytics platform with Kainos

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) aims to develop its Defence Data Analytics Platform (DDAP) over the next three years, with…

Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market
05
Feb
2025

Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted…

DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres
05
Feb
2025

DSIT issues guidance to support public sector hosting of cloud workloads in overseas datacentres

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has issued guidance to support public sector bodies that want to host…

Quantum datacentre deployments: How they are supporting evolving compute projects
04
Feb
2025

Quantum datacentre deployments: How they are supporting evolving compute projects

Put lots of qubits together and you have quantum computing, requiring datacentres that can support it. A quantum datacentre though…

All change: Weighing up the options for enterprises as open source licences evolve
04
Feb
2025

All change: Weighing up the options for enterprises as open source licences evolve

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool…

IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space
04
Feb
2025

IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space

CGI continues to build on its 12-year relationship with the European Space Agency (ESA), which is helping improve scientific access…

Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?
04
Feb
2025

Can AI identify financially vulnerable people better than humans?

Some 35 million adults in the UK are financially vulnerable, according to FCA criteria. And 37% of financially vulnerable consumers…

“Unsafe At Any Speed”. Comparing automobiles to code risk
04
Feb
2025

“Unsafe At Any Speed”. Comparing automobiles to code risk

Outgoing CISA chief Jen Easterly recently compared secure software development to automotive safety, arguing that we were at an inflection…

Addressing the legacy: Modernising creaky cloud infrastructures for data benefits
04
Feb
2025

Addressing the legacy: Modernising creaky cloud infrastructures for data benefits

Despite rising demand for data-driven insights, a high share of mission-critical IT is either approaching or already at end of…