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US indicts three cyber pros who moonlit for ransomware gang

US prosecutors have indicted three cyber security professionals who are alleged to have extorted multiple organisations using the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware locker in their spare time. Between them, the three racked up five known victims, a doctor’s office and an engineering company based in California, a medical device company based in Florida, a pharmaceutical company based…

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Yes, You Can Run Windows 95 In Your Browser, And It’s Glorious

Brooks Kraft/Getty Images Released on August 24, 1995, Microsoft Windows 95 was one of the most anticipated software launches at the time. It was a huge change over the previous release Windows 3.1, adding a bunch of new features and introducing what we now know as plug and play for external peripherals. Over one million…

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Police Digital Service defends IT contractor cuts amid concerns over IT project delivery

The Police Digital Service (PDS) has dismissed concerns about the quality and pace of its work being hampered by a cost-cutting push to reduce headcount in its flexible IT workforce, while acknowledging its efforts to improve workplace culture remain ongoing. The Home Office-funded company is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the National…

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Unearthed report reveals source of Post Office’s tenuous Capture sales pitch

An internal Post Office report has been unearthed that reveals the organisation was targeting sales of its flawed Capture system to thousands of branches with misleading claims on error reduction. The 13-page report from July 1993, which has been disclosed to Computer Weekly by a source, was titled: Capture: An investigation into changes in cash…

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Computer Weekly’s Women in UK Tech Rising Stars 2025

Role models are everywhere, and while Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech highlights the women at the top of their game in the technology sector, every woman in a tech or digital role has the potential to inspire someone else into the industry. People across all levels in the tech…

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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2025

Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates, has become the 14th person to be named Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK technology. The list was created in 2012 to make the amazing women in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible, originally showcasing only 25 women before growing to include 50 women in…

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Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation

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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Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’ and is ‘discriminatory’

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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AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit

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…

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Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025

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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