Retailers question using live facial recognition for shoplifting
Retailers have told the House of Lords that live facial recognition (LFR) would be of limited use in tackling shoplifting due to the associated safety…
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ERP firms target carbon reporting role
The major enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers have all embarked on a strategy to provide functionality in their product suites to help their customers monitor…
Post Office and Fujitsu malevolence and incompetence means huge final taxpayers’ bill
The £1.15bn put aside to cover the costs of the Post Office Horizon scandal won’t go near meeting the bill, raising questions over how much…
How digital models help Anglian Water manage leaks
Anglian Water is the largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales. In its Water resources management plan for 2024, the company discusses the…
Cyber firms need to centre their own resilience
Information security is essentially an information risk management discipline. By rendering many information systems inoperable, the global outage precipitated by Crowdstrike prevented several companies from…
Key-value flash targets more efficient data storage
Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least…
TSB systems could be on the move again as BBVA eyes its parent
Financial services company BBVA has received approval from the UK regulator for a takeover of Spanish rival Sabadell, which would see it take control of…
Swedish law firms debate AI’s future impact on profession
Sweden’s legal profession has opened a national discussion to examine how evolving disrupter technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) will impact law firms and the niche…
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
Flash drive prices fell steadily over the first three quarters of 2024 to an average of $0.085 per gigabyte (GB) in September 2024. That’s a…
Transport for London hit by cyber attack
Transport for London (TfL) reports that it is dealing with a cyber security incident, but tells customers that there is no evidence their data is…
Nationwide development platform uses Red Hat technology
Nationwide Building Society is using Red Hat as part of its application development platform, which is speeding up software releases and improving availability. The UK…
The politics of techno-refusal
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