Lords to challenge controversial DWP benefits bank account surveillance powers
Members of the House of Lords are pressing for changes to legislation that will give the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) new powers to…
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TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has published a “ready-to-go” law for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, setting out a range of new legal…
Security Think Tank: Approaches to ransomware need a course correction
Back in 2015, my team and I were speaking at the government’s Security & Policing event in Farnborough. We had an interesting conversation with a…
IT talent trap: How cloud skills suffer as a result of supplier lock-in
Supplier lock-in, especially at hyperscale level, is a fact of life in the cloud that can mean in-house skills wither on the vine. However, cloud…
IT expert who helped expose Post Office scandal offers to investigate second controversial system
The forensic IT expert who proved the Post Office’s Horizon software was error- and bug-ridden said he will carry out a similar examination of the…
Mandiant formally pins Sandworm cyber attacks on APT44 group
Google Cloud’s threat intel and research unit, Mandiant, has today formally attributed the cyber espionage and warfare campaigns carried out by a Russian actor widely…
CIO interview: Attiq Qureshi, chief digital information officer, Manchester United
Senior executives in any corporate boardroom like to talk about winning. Winning deals, winning market share, winning customers. It’s the sort of language any IT…
IFS builds AI and automation into ERP to help businesses boost productivity
When IFS’s new CEO Mark Moffat took the reins in January this year, he inherited a rapidly changing enterprise resource planning (ERP) business. His predecessor,…
VMware: Broadcom faces EU complaint over unfair licensing
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Broadcom was being investigated by the European Union (EU) over its changes to software licensing of VMware. The news…
ODI and Arup collaborate on data-sharing initiative to help companies reach net-zero goals
Arup and the Open Data Institute (ODI) are working on the next stage of their project to improve net-zero data sharing to make building projects…
EU AI Act explained: What AI developers need to know
The European parliament approved the European Union (EU) AI Act in March 2024, and its goal is to provide artificial intelligence (AI) developers and deployers…
Post Office boss signed off hush money to cover up smoking gun
A former Post Office senior executive agreed the suffering of subpostmasters could have been avoided if the organisation had investigated reported IT problems rather than…