Category: ComputerWeekly

Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regs
08
Oct
2024

Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regs

Ahead of next week’s International Investment Summit, the government has announced the formation of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which…

How datacentres can turn the tide on carbon emissions
07
Oct
2024

How datacentres can turn the tide on carbon emissions

Net-zero by 2050 seems further away than ever. Google and Microsoft admitted their emissions are rising from artificial intelligence (AI)-related datacentre…

Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry
07
Oct
2024

Post Office boss Nick Read ‘inadequate, greedy and self-interested’, whistleblowers tell inquiry

Nick Read has overseen a collapse in trust of the Post Office and not only as a result of the…

Why responsible AI is a business imperative
07
Oct
2024

Why responsible AI is a business imperative

The arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompted a great deal of discussion of speculative AI harms, with controversies over…

Shrinking the carbon footprint of datacentres
07
Oct
2024

Shrinking the carbon footprint of datacentres

The ease with which IT leaders can make use of powerful public cloud services for digitally enabled business initiatives and…

Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter
06
Oct
2024

Whistleblowers call out ongoing cover-up by Post Office CEO in explosive letter

As the outgoing Post Office chief executive Nick Read prepares to face the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal,…

UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities
05
Oct
2024

UK telcos including BT at risk from DrayTek router vulnerabilities

Some of the UK’s largest communications services providers (CSPs) may have been at significant risk from a series of 14…

NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in
04
Oct
2024

NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has this week celebrated eight years since opening its doors as the country’s…

Post Office senior executive suspended over allegations of destroying evidence
04
Oct
2024

Post Office senior executive suspended over allegations of destroying evidence

The Post Office is investigating allegations that a senior executive instructed staff to destroy or conceal documents that could be…

Post Office recruiting tech-savvy board member amid unravelling IT disaster
04
Oct
2024

Post Office recruiting tech-savvy board member amid unravelling IT disaster

The Post office is currently looking for a non-executive board member with a technology background as it deals with ongoing…

Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai
04
Oct
2024

Cups Linux printing bugs open door to DDoS attacks, says Akamai

A series of four vulnerabilities in the Common Unix Printing System, or Cups, leading to remote code execution (RCE) appear…

Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears
04
Oct
2024

Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears

A former detective wrongly claimed that a solicitor representing journalists who had been subject to unlawful police surveillance attempted to…