Category: ComputerWeekly

Bank of International Settlement sets up channel secure from quantum breach
01
Nov
2023

Banking should start testing out quantum ideas

Banks should be setting up a quantum computing taskforce, a report from UK Finance has concluded. The Identifying and seizing…

What secure coding practices mean to modern cyber security
01
Nov
2023

Incident response planning is vulnerable to legacy thinking

Part of the challenge is demonstrated in the question here. Our legacy thinking may lead us into thinking about incident…

Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation
01
Nov
2023

Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation

Lloyds Banking Group has described the opening of a tech delivery centre in Hyderabad, India, as a “pivotal moment” in…

University of Glasgow launches Centre for data science and AI
01
Nov
2023

Government announces millions to fund AI skills

The government has announced it will be providing £118m in funding to improve artificial intelligence (AI) skills in the UK….

French supreme court dismisses legal challenge to EncroChat cryptophone evidence
01
Nov
2023

The cause of the Post Office Horizon scandal? The Law Commission? Judges? Lawyers?

From 1999, Post Office Limited prosecuted subpostmasters, subpostmistresses and employees for theft and fraud based on evidence produced by the…

Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
01
Nov
2023

Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals

Poppy Gustafsson describes the past 10 years as “exhilarating”, but when asked if, when she helped set up Darktrace in…

The world's most advanced Arabic LLM is now available on open source
31
Oct
2023

The world’s most advanced Arabic LLM is now available on open source

Inception, an Abu Dhabi-based subsidiary of G42, has released an Arabic large language model (LLM) to open source. The new…

Women in tech – is retention currently more important than hiring?
31
Oct
2023

We mustn’t let the return to offices kill the growth of women in tech

Slow progress on gender diversity Getting this right remains a key issue because women are still woefully under-represented in the…

How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?
31
Oct
2023

How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?

The research and development team at Spotify has nominated four open source projects to receive a share of its annual…

Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings
31
Oct
2023

Biden’s AI plans focus on US workers’ protection

US president Joe Biden has set out the country’s strategy for artificial intelligence (AI), balancing responsible innovation with safety and…

Post Office scandal inquiry phase 4: Here come the lawyers…
31
Oct
2023

SEC sues SolarWinds, alleging serious security failures

The US government’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged SolarWinds and its chief information security officer (CISO) Timothy Brown…

Open banking regulator sets out next steps
31
Oct
2023

Over a quarter of UK adults use buy now, pay later fintechs

Fintech-based credit services, known as buy now, pay later (BNPL), were used by over a quarter of adults in the…