Gartner Symposium: Time to get rid of the dead wood
The idea of lifting and shifting workloads into the public cloud is never going to deliver a good return on investment. Instead, according to analyst…
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Post Office wrongly used public funds to pay for legal battle
The Post Office wrongly spent millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to fund its High Court legal battle with subpostmasters over the devastation caused by…
Google Cloud MFA enforcement meets with approval
The cyber security community has reacted positively to Google’s 4 November announcement that it will begin to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for millions of Google…
AI a force multiplier for the bad guys, say cyber pros
A slender 54% majority of UK cyber security professionals believe threat actors stand to benefit more from artificial intelligence (AI) than they do, according to…
Post Office appointing third-party reviewer of current Horizon system
The Post Office is in the process of appointing a third party to review its controversial Horizon computer system amid continued unexplained losses in branches.…
Research: UK residents demonstrate ‘low-level’ understanding of what datacentres do
The UK public is generally accepting of having datacentres built in their communities, despite research showing that large numbers of people have little understanding of…
Gartner Symposium: Why the chance of digital success is random
Research from analyst firm Gartner has found that just 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets, which means over half of such…
UK government launches AI assurance platform for enterprises
The UK government is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) assurance platform to help businesses across the country identify and mitigate the potential risks and harms…
Lords shoplifting inquiry calls for facial recognition laws
Lords have expressed “serious concerns” over the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology by retailers, and are calling for new laws to ensure its…
Post Office was reluctant to cut costs despite 143 central staff earning more than £100k
Former minister tells public inquiry that convincing the Post Office CEO to cut central costs was like “drawing teeth”, despite many executives and managers earning…
Starmer announces tech-enabled crackdown on people smuggling
UK prime minister Keir Starmer has committed an extra £75m to the recently established Border Security Command (BSC) to fund its acquisition and use of…
Botched Post Office website upgrade caused serious data breach
A human error during a website upgrade caused the serious Post Office data breach earlier this year, which exposed personal details of hundreds of former…