European Parliament approves platform worker directive
The European Parliament has overwhelming approved measures to ensure millions of people working for gig economy platforms have their employment properly classified, while also regulating…
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Post Office ‘lied’ to subpostmasters when forced to meet them, says former federation representative
A former subpostmaster forced senior Post Office executives to meet him to discuss his unexplained shortfall, but they then “lied” to him about the ability…
Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption
Google parent Alphabet has reported a 15% increase in its first-quarter revenue to $80.5bn. While advertising remains the biggest earner, the company’s cloud business, Google…
Progress being made on gender diversity in cyber
Gender diversity in the cyber security profession is improving, according to an ISC2 report on women in cyber security, which collated responses from 2,400 women…
More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge
Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd was part of the subterfuge adopted by the company to hide problems with its IT system, which included…
Executive interview: Salesforce AI head discusses dynamic flowcharts
Salesforce senior vice-president of artificial intelligence (AI) Jayesh Govindarajan leads the company’s AI organisation and is responsible for the family of products the software-as-a-service (SaaS)…
Podcast: How to prepare your data for digital transformation
In this podcast with Chris Gorton, EMEA managing director at Syniti, we look at how to optimise data for digital transformation. We talk about how…
Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community
Introducing a multifactor authentication (MFA) mandate for users of its platform has paid off for GitHub, which has reported a massive uplift in adoption in…
SuiteConnect London 2024: GenAI everywhere the refrain
Two of Oracle’s leading executives put forward GenAI ubiquity as a guiding theme of the supplier’s business applications offer in recent customer conference visits to…
Cyber training leader KnowBe4 to buy email security firm Egress
Security awareness training and phishing simulation specialist KnowBe4, the firm behind the popular Inside Man cyber training movies, has announced it is to buy UK-founded…
TikTok ban sails through US Senate
A bill giving TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance until January 2025 to sell up or get out of town has sailed through the Senate, the upper…
AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage
Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) consultancy Crater has saved around CAN$1.5m (£885,000) in researcher time after it replaced difficult-to-configure direct-attached storage with shared capacity in a…