Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 8 October 2024 Digital government on a budget Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine how Labour’s version of austerity will affect the government’s desire for digital transformation. We find out how the use of AI in the workplace is…
There can be few – if any – initiatives more important to the future of the Post Office than the replacement of the controversial Horizon IT system at the heart of the scandal that led to the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice. And yet recent revelations at the public inquiry into the scandal show…
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Rich Corbridge, the chief digital and information officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is leaving his role in November to take up a new post as chief information officer (CIO) at industrial property developer Segro. Corbridge only joined DWP in April 2023, and Computer Weekly understands his departure is for personal reasons…
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Renewables-based electricity generation in the UK shot to 39TWh (terawatt-hours) in the first quarter of 2024, or 50.9% of the mix. This is the second highest ever, after the fourth quarter of 2023. In fact, government reporting says wind generated more electricity than gas for the second quarter in a row, with fossil-based power just…
Datacentre power purchase agreements: Are they the right way to lower emissions? Read More »
Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber attack on its systems, but has waited over a week to tell customers that they have been affected. The incident first manifested as a network outage on 20 September, before being confirmed as a cyber…
The Starmer government lost little time in announcing a consultation on datacentre planning reforms, with more comprehensive, joined-up thinking favoured by industry players speaking to Computer Weekly. Cathal Griffin, chief revenue officer at colocation provider Asanti, affirms a need to “join the dots”, stating that planning reform should look holistically at building permissions, grid connections…
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You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…
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The Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library and operator of the popular Wayback Machine that holds a repository of billions of captures of web pages as they appeared in the past, has come under sustained cyber attack in the form of a significant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its infrastructure, and a major…
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Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission. The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers and infringes European Union law, and has accused Microsoft…
The British Transport Police (BTP) have made an arrest in an ongoing investigation into a cyber attack on public Wi-Fi services provided at mainline UK railway stations on the evening of Wednesday 25 September. The incident saw passengers at 19 rail stations across the country unable to access Network Rail’s Wi-Fi network, which are provided…
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