Birmingham Oracle project: Data cleansing and resourcing issues
Questions raised during the latest audit committee meeting at Birmingham City Council show continued concerns among councillors that the project will fail to go live…
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HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has chosen SAP S/4Hana in the cloud, using the supplier’s Rise pathway, for an overhaul of its core tax and…
Canva uses 1Password to secure ID during growth phase
In May 2019, graphic design platform Canva fell victim to a major cyber security breach in which a threat actor known as Gnosticplayers hacked its…
Police intercept evidence from Sky ECC cryptophone network ‘unreliable’, Antwerp court told
A court in Belgium has refused to allow defence lawyers in a high-profile drugs case extra time after a forensic expert found that digital evidence…
History repeats itself in Post Office Capture redress scheme with low-ball offers made
Subpostmasters who suffered at the hands of errors in the Post Office’s Capture software, like Horizon users, are receiving derisory compensation offers, but face a…
Police Digital Service future remains uncertain as ‘radical’ Home Office policing reform unveiled
Uncertainty about what the future holds for the Police Digital Service (PDS) continues, despite the UK government confirming the organisation is set to be absorbed into…
Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans
The Home Office has outlined plans for the massive roll-out of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial-recognition technologies as part of sweeping reforms to the UK’s…
Diversity Think Tank: We can’t afford to roll back DEI
We are experiencing a deliberate, and often quiet, roll back of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within UK businesses which will have long-term damaging…
Microsoft has already contracted GPUs to balance costs
Among the insights revealed during the latest quarterly earnings call from Microsoft is that it is de-risking its artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration expansion, with customers…
Ex-directors of firm linked to Satoshi Nakamoto imposter sue over whistleblowing retaliation claims
Two former directors of nChain UK, the London blockchain company associated with a computer scientist who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, are…
RAMP ransomware forum goes dark in probable FBI sting
The Russian-speaking RAMP cyber crime forum – one of the most significant players in the underground cyber criminal ecosystem – has gone dark following what…
Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears
There is virtually nothing in the Metropolitan Police policy to constrain where it deploys live facial recognition (LFR), the High Court has heard during a…