Police Digital Service taps up former biometrics commissioner as interim CEO
The Police Digital Service (PDS) has lined up an interim successor to recently departed CEO Ian Bell, who resigned as a director last month following…
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Body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch recovered after freak storm
Following the sinking of his luxury yacht on Monday, Reuters has reported that the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered. Lynch was…
Number of girls taking GCSE computing grows three years in a row
The number of girls choosing to take computing at GCSE level is rising steadily, with 2024 seeing the third consecutive year of growth. This year,…
Post Office apologises for IT problem text alert that was never sent
The Post Office has apologised once again to subpostmasters after it was confirmed that a text message intended to warn branch managers of a problem…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Sustainable innovation in the age of AI
The current wave of digital transformation, accelerated by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. As AI continues…
Tech sector layoffs mount amid AI investment frenzy
Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to…
More execs recognise data as assets than in 2020
Capgemini has reported that organisations today are more effective at embedding data and insights into core business processes. Its update of a 2020 study is…
Podcast: Ransomware and what data storage can do about it
In this podcast, we look at ransomware and data storage with Chris McKean, a solutions specialist at NetApp. He talks about what storage suppliers can…
Pakistani national arrested over Southport ‘cyber terrorism’
Authorities in Lahore, Pakistan, have arrested and questioned a web developer named as Farhan Asif on suspicion of cyber terrorism in relation to misinformation posted…
Women in data: Claire Thompson, chief data officer, L&G
It’s almost become a cliché to say that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. However, Claire Thompson, group chief data and analytics officer…
Number of women choosing computer science degrees up 8%
There has been an 8% year-on-year increase in the number of women studying for computer science degrees in the UK, according to research by BCS,…
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration
Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard…