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Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm

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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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Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment

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DC01UK has confirmed that colocation giant Equinix has acquired the 85-acre plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire it secured planning permission for transforming into a hyperscale datacentre campus back in January 2025. The acquisition, according to DC01UK, represents one of the largest infrastructure and real estate transactions in the world, with Equinix confirming it…

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Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech

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Siemens and Capgemini have announced they are teaming up to develop technologies for product engineering, manufacturing and operations that are artificial intelligence (AI)-based from the get-go. The goal of the products, said to be AI-infused from inception, is to connect industrial machines with digital technology, for what they jointly call “intelligent manufacturing”. The two firms,…

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Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge

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Michael Herron, the UK head at French IT service provider Atos, has told Computer Weekly that ensuring future talent can get on the first rung of the career ladder – despite the implications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – is a subject close to his heart. Organisations need to rethink career paths as GenAI increasingly…

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Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms

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The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations, including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Lloyds Banking Group. The outage, which AWS confirmed started just before 8am UK time on 20 October, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 datacentre region…

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UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty

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The UAE is undergoing a shift in its digital infrastructure landscape, with a wave of data centre and cloud investments reshaping the nation into a regional hub for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation. This momentum is not only redefining the UAE’s technological capabilities but also reinforcing its strategic vision of becoming a global nexus…

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AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to its customers inconvenienced by its largest US datacentre region suffering a 14-hour outage on 20 October, in a blog detailing the precise nature of the technical difficulties its services suffered. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the outage originated in the public cloud giant’s US-East-1 datacentre…

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Bereaved families call for public inquiry over suicide forum

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Bereaved families are calling for a public inquiry over “repeated failures” by the government and online harms regulator Ofcom to effectively deal with a “nihilistic” suicide forum. According to a report by the Molly Rose Foundation (MRF), a suicide prevention charity targeted to people under the age of 25, government departments were warned a total…

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Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records

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The Department of Business and Trade (DBT) is paying the Post Office up to £2m to search its own records, in anticipation of up to 1,500 compensation claims by former users of its faulty Capture software. The contract award is aimed at digging up the evidence required by claimants to a compensation scheme, the Capture…

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Court dismisses Apple’s appeal against Home Office backdoor

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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has dismissed Apple’s legal appeal against a government order requiring it to provide intelligence services and law enforcement with the capability to access encrypted data of Apple users worldwide. The tribunal ruled that the case would no longer proceed following a “change in circumstances”, according to court documents obtained by…

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