Conservative peer urges government not to limit open source AI
In a House of Lords debate looking at large language models and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), Tina Stowell, chair of the Lords Communications and Digital…
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Blue Yonder ransomware attack breaks systems at UK retailers
A ransomware attack on the systems of Blue Yonder, a specialist supply chain management software provider based in the US, continues to cause knock-on impacts…
Russian threat actors poised to cripple power grid, UK warns
The UK government has warned that cyber threat actors operating on behalf of the Russian regime have already orchestrated cyber attacks against UK media, telecoms,…
Google Cloud research highlights potential for GenAI to transform public sector service delivery
Encouraging the public sector to ramp up its adoption of automation and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools could generate annualised savings of £38bn by 2030,…
The Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2024
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Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems
There are “strong grounds” to raise a complaint against the government to the Parliamentary ombudsman, in regard to its handling of the scheme designed to…
Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware
Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also…
More Google search woes | Computer Weekly
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has certified a £7bn collective action against Google. The specialist UK court will require Google to defend its long-standing…
Metropolitan Police officer dismissed for unlawfully accessing Sarah Everard files
A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed after repeatedly accessing sensitive files related to the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard while off-duty, prompting concern…
Post Office scandal: How much deeper and wider can it get?
The opening up of the Post Office IT scandal has revealed smaller but no less devastating suffering endured by subpostmasters at the hands of the…
Microsoft calls on Trump to ‘push harder’ on cyber threats
Microsoft president Brad Smith has called on United States president-elect Donald Trump not to break step with his predecessor’s work on cyber security, saying that…
Geopolitical strife drives increased ransomware activity
Recorded ransomware attack volumes rose by 19% during October 2024 to a total of 468 incidents worldwide, a significant number of them in the US,…