Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations Processing System (Tops), when it went live on 27 October 1975, the system revolutionised the control of all rail freight operations across Britain online and in real time. It used…
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tete_escape/Shutterstock Scams, ransomware, and social engineering attacks are big business. The FTC says that scams cost consumers more than $158.3 billion in 2023. Worse yet, over half of all adults (nearly 60%) worldwide have experienced a scam, according to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance. It’s clearly a problem that continues to grow. Taking measures to protect oneself is…
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M. Sadoon/Shutterstock I fly cross-country on a regular basis and it’s nearly impossible for me to imagine traveling without my iPhone these days. From booking flights to finding restaurants to eat at in a new city, I’ve found that the right apps can turn a stressful trip into a seamless adventure. Sure, there’s a certain…
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A former subpostmaster who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s faulty Capture accounting software has said the announced compensation scheme “discriminates” against claimants. The scheme is offering initial redress payments of £10,000, with final award bands up to £300,000, to subpostmasters who suffered as a result of the Capture software’s flaws, with “exceptional…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…
The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states – Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island – slated to start enforcing their own rules on 1 January 2026, according to a…
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The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as part of the 2025 Spending Review. The funding, spread over the next five years, is a key pillar in Labour’s industrial strategy to grow the economy and improve people’s lives. Earlier…
Fujitsu grew its UK public sector business over the last 12 months despite widespread criticism for its role in the Post Office scandal.The sales increase for the year to April 2025 is in contrast to a sharp decline in the previous year, which included the immediate backlash after ITV’s dramatisation of the scandal widened understanding…
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Ericsson and the Saudi Railway Company (SAR) have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy 5G-enabled technologies across the national rail network. The partnership is a strategic alignment with Saudi Vision 2030, the country’s sweeping blueprint for economic diversification and infrastructure modernisation. The initiative will see Ericsson bring its global expertise in advanced mobile communications…
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On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for more than eight hours. According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Microsoft cloud revenue surpassed $49bn, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year. Overall, Microsoft posted revenue…
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