IT giant Atos faces collapse if restructuring talks fail
Key government technology supplier Atos is facing “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue trading, auditors have warned in the wake of a $5bn debt…
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Council denies planning bid for datacentre near M25 a second time on Green Belt grounds
An investment company has had its second attempt at securing planning permission for a datacentre development on a patch of Green Belt Land in Iver, Buckinghamshire,…
Halo Trust partners with AWS to accelerate AI-led landmine clearance in Ukraine
The Halo Trust is tapping into Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for a pilot project to test if deploying the…
Databricks bids to marry AI and BI
Data warehousing gave birth to Business Intelligence. This was a point memorably made to me by the analyst Mike Ferguson when I interviewed him for…
Experts shocked by ‘extraordinary’ claim made by Post Office IT expert witness
A former Fujitsu engineer who gave evidence for the Post Office during trials of subpostmasters has made an “extraordinary” claim during questioning at the Post…
Ignorance of ‘legal niceties’ from Post Office expert IT witness saw innocent people jailed
A Former Fujitsu IT expert’s ignorance of the rules that expert witnesses to courts must adhere to meant subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of financial crimes…
Israel’s cyber chief calls for international front against Iranian hackers
Gaby Portnoy, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), has called for countries to work together in a “joint front” to combat Iranian…
European Commission declares Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive
Microsoft broke European Union (EU) antitrust rules by bundling in its cloud-based communications and collaboration software Teams when users purchased its online productivity suite, Office…
Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection
Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new…
SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink
While almost three-quarters (74%) of in-progress SAP S/4HANA implementation projects are being deployed on public clouds, analyst Gartner has urged IT leaders to avoid simply…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed from prison
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has walked free from prison and will no longer be extradited from the UK, after reaching a plea deal with US…
NHS experts raise warning over patient data breach risk in registries project
A group of NHS clinicians responsible for registries holding health information on millions of patients are warning of the risk of a major data breach…