Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff. The council, which…
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Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk
The growing normalisation of the widespread storing and sharing of self-created intimate images in the UK is heightening the risk of online abuse faced by…
Lawyers and journalists seeking ‘payback’ over police phone surveillance, claims former detective
A former detective regarded as a key witness in an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully monitored the phones of journalists has accused lawyers of…
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
The government trusted the views of the Post Office over allegations by subpostmasters that they were being mistreated over unexplained branch losses, and ignored what…
DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of the past 12 months, according…
Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’
Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open…
UK Cyber Bill teases mandatory ransomware reporting
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is to bring forward a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill in the new parliamentary term, with the intent of strengthening the…
Tech workers misinformed about number of women at top, finds Computer Weekly
Women are well represented in tech leadership positions across Europe, according to half of the people asked during the annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey.…
Hackney Council reprimanded over 2020 ransomware attack
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has strongly reprimanded the London Borough of Hackney over a series of failings that led to a devastating ransomware attack…
Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests
Police Digital Service (PDS) CEO Ian Bell is no longer a director of the company, two weeks after it emerged two of its employees had…
Labour government plans new laws around cyber security, data sharing and skills
The Labour government has announced its legislative agenda for the new Parliament, with the King’s Speech outlining bills covering cyber security, data sharing and skills…
AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft claim their ability to accurately assess the Scope 3 emissions generated by their activities is being hampered by…