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Who takes responsibility? Birmingham’s ERP extraordinary meeting

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Earlier this month, councillors had an opportunity to discuss the past and current issues faced by Birmingham City Council in its implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Oracle. The council’s extraordinary meeting, held on 11 March, gave council members a chance to voice their concerns following publication of a Grant Thornton report…

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Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

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The Post Office has made its first official apology to subpostmasters who used its faulty Capture accounting software and were blamed and punished for unexplained shortfalls. Ken Tooby received a letter from a senior executive who “apologised sincerely and unreservedly” on behalf of the Post Office for “failings and impact” on Tooby’s late wife June,…

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Ransomware: from REvil to Black Basta, what do we know about Tramp?

10 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Cloud, Computer, iCloud, penetration testing, Tech / By

September 2020: An affiliate of the ransomware company REvil reveals the details of a cyber attack he carried out a few months earlier against the French company Elior. At the time, ransomware was already a significant threat, but nowhere near the scale it was about to take on. It was at this time, however, that…

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CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…

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Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise

9 minutes of reading / Adobe, agile, AI, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Cisco, Computer, copywriting, fintech, Google, Meta, Netflix, Tech, Tencent / By

Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…

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European fintech must take different path to Trump’s US on diversity

3 minutes of reading / automation, Computer, fintech, Meta, Tech, Technology / By

The European fintech and banking industry must not follow Trump’s US in cancelling workforce equality programmes and must instead continue to enforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wincie Wong, co-founder of Tech She Can. During a session on women in fintech at Finovate Europe last week, Wang reflected on the direction of travel…

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Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, Cloud, Computer, Tech, Toshiba, Western Digital / By

Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…

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Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

3 minutes of reading / Computer, Fujitsu, Tech / By

The Post Office has paused its project to move all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own as the Metropolitan Police were “not keen” to progress until they were satisfied with the approach. Data from the controversial Horizon system played a key role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, which saw thousands of subpostmasters…

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NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data

5 minutes of reading / API, Computer, Tech / By

The NHS is “looking into” claims made by an IT whistleblower that patient data was left vulnerable by security failures within a private healthcare provider. The personal details of NHS patients referred to virtual healthcare provider Medefer were exposed due to an application programming interface (API) security flaw. There is no evidence that data was…

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