Category: ComputerWeekly

Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections
18
Mar
2024

Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections

Deep fake technology distributed through the messaging service Telegram and other platforms is likely to unleash a torrent of artificial…

Gartner: Three top trends in cyber security for 2024
18
Mar
2024

UK’s AI ambitions pointless while cyber security is still neglected

With only 13% of UK organisations charitably described as “resilient” to cyber crime, the country’s ambitious plans to become a…

Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error
16
Mar
2024

Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error

A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been…

London Mayor’s Office reprimanded over data breach
15
Mar
2024

London Mayor’s Office reprimanded over data breach

The London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), which oversees London’s Metropolitan Police Force, has been reprimanded by the…

IBM says all the building blocks for analogue AI are in place
15
Mar
2024

Creative workers say livelihoods threatened by generative AI

Tools such as Open AI’s DALL.E 2, SORA and Chat GPT, Google’s Bard (now Gemini), and Microsoft’s Copilot, now make…

Post Office CEO’s claim to be ‘working hard’ on Capture investigation in doubt
15
Mar
2024

Controversial Post Office Capture software was completely rewritten in 1994

More details of problems with a pre-Horizon accounting system used by subpostmasters emerges, despite the Post Office’s failure to respond…

Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development
14
Mar
2024

French datacentre operator to prototype using site’s waste heat to generate renewable energy

French datacentre operator Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to prototype a means of reusing waste server farm…

Bulk sender authentication: More vital than ever
14
Mar
2024

Questions raised over NHS deletion of thousands of emails during whistleblower tribunal

NHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal decision which raises questions about information governance in…

Plexal launches Cyber Runway 3.0 accelerator programme
14
Mar
2024

MPs will attempt to amend law on overturning Post Office scandal convictions

MPs will propose amendments to legislation that aims to overturn wrongful subpostmaster convictions and speed their financial redress. Liam Byrne…

Fujitsu staff had ‘unrestricted and unauditable’ remote access to Post Office branch systems
14
Mar
2024

Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word

The children of former subpostmasters whose lives were ruined by the Post Office Horizon scandal have come together to form…

TikTok fined €345m under GDPR for failing to protect children’s privacy
13
Mar
2024

US authorities move a step closer to banning TikTok

The American authorities have moved a step closer to an outright national ban of often-controversial China-owned video-sharing app TikTok, following…

Tech jobs are on the rise, but soft skills are most coveted, says WEF
13
Mar
2024

Microsoft AI-powered cyber service to go live in April

Almost a year after its debut, Microsoft has announced it will be bringing its Copilot for Security artificial intelligence (AI)-backed…