Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…
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The Post Office is pushing the government to give the benefit of the doubt to more than 1,000 former subpostmasters claiming compensation, where it hasn’t yet found evidence that Horizon errors caused shortfalls. The claimants have applied for a £75,000 fixed payment under the Post Office’s Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) – previously called the Historical…
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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has rejected government demands for complete secrecy over Apple’s legal challenge against a Home Office order requiring the tech giant to give UK law enforcement “backdoor” access to encrypted data stored by users of its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service. The tribunal today rejected arguments from the Home Office that…
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The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) held within its National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In an announcement posted last week, the standards body said that every CVE with a published date prior…
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The government is turning its attention to ensuring its commitment to positioning the UK as an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower does not come at the expense of the environment or the nation’s energy security. It is a balancing act the UK’s newly formed AI Energy Council will be tasked with managing, while also exploring ways…
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The Post Office has appointed a specialist investigator to review the integrity of current Horizon system data and the processes used to identify discrepancies. This follows a report by the Post Office scandal public inquiry, published in September 2024, which raised concerns about the current version of the controversial system. Investigation firm Kroll will review…
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The 4 Day Week Foundation is launching a pilot programme for companies in the technology sector to support their transition to a four-day working week. Beginning in May 2025, the programme will provide six weeks of training and workshops designed to help tech firms prepare for and implement four-day weeks. Alongside the core training programme,…
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today fined Advanced Computer Software Group – now known as OneAdvanced – £3.07m for cyber security failings that exacerbated the impact of a LockBit ransomware attack against the organisation. The cyber attack, which occurred in August 2022, saw services provided by Advanced customers – including the NHS and…
Experts have “cast doubt” on the judgment of the Court of Appeal over the conviction of a former Post Office branch manager who was refused his request to appeal his convictions for theft. In a paper, experts discuss the evidence used by the prosecution in the 2007 conviction of David Cameron, a manager at England’s…
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Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…
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