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DWP ‘fairness analysis’ reveals bias in AI fraud detection system

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An artificial intelligence (AI) system used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to detect welfare fraud is showing “statistically significant” disparities related to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality, according to the department’s own internal assessment. Released under freedom of information (FoI) rules to the Public Law Project, the 11-page “fairness analysis”…

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UK police continue to hold millions of custody images unlawfully

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Millions of unlawfully retained custody images could still be used for facial-recognition purposes by UK police, says biometric commissioner of England and Wales Tony Eastaugh in wider warning about the rapid expansion of surveillance tools. In 2012, a High Court ruling found the retention of custody images in the Police National Database (PND) to be unlawful on…

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Dangerous CLFS and LDAP flaws stand out on Patch Tuesday

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Microsoft has issued fixes for 71 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to mark the final Patch Tuesday of 2025, with a solitary zero-day that enables privilege elevation through the Windows Common Log File System Driver stealing the limelight. Assigned designation CVE-2024-49138 and credited to CrowdStrike’s Advanced Research Team, the flaw stems from a heap-based buffer…

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Microsoft shares details of plans to reduce water usage of AI datacentres

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Microsoft claims to have created a blueprint for how datacentres hosting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads can be designed without needing water for cooling purposes. The public cloud giant shared details of the design in a blog post that further claims its design could eradicate the need for its datacentres to consume more than 125 million…

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Police not ruling any person or crime out of Post Office scandal investigation

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Current and former Post Office staff, lawyers and civil servants could all be questioned as part of the Metropolitan Police’s national investigation into crimes related to the Post Office Horizon scandal. In an update of its Operation Olympos, Met Police commander Stephen Clayman, who is leading the investigation, said police will “go where the evidence…

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Russia focuses cyber attacks on Ukraine rather than West despite rising tension

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Russia is focusing its cyber attacks against Ukraine, rather than stepping up its attacks against the West in response to decisions by the US and the UK to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles on Russian territory. In an interview with Computer Weekly, Paul Chichester, the director of operations of the National Cyber Security Centre…

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Computer Misuse Act reform gains traction in Parliament

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Cross-party parliamentarians will next week debate proposals that aim to fix a “glaring flaw” in the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 (CMA) as momentum gathers behind the need to reform the nearly 35 year-old law. An amendment to the proposed Data (Access and Use) Bill, led by Conservative peer Lord Holmes and Liberal Democrat peer…

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AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…

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This virtual meeting app is actually crypto-stealing malware

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The next time someone asks you to download a new app in order to connect with them, make sure to confirm that the app is real. According to Cado Security Labs (via BleepingComputer), a sophisticated scam has been making the rounds, targeting those who work in Web3 with crypto-stealing. A company called Meetio—which has repeatedly…

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UK medical trial of four-day week finds staff happier and more productive

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Learning technology firm Thrive has taken part in the UK’s first medical trial of the four-day work week, which found that shorter hours lead to happier, more productive staff. Conducted by Thrive in partnership with the University of Sussex, the trial collected data on 115 Thrive employees between July and October 2024, including research tests…

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