“We all want to do this,” says Conor Riordan, chair of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG),” describing the transition to cloud-based ERP with SAP Rise. “We all want to get to the end point. We just can’t get there as fast as SAP wants us to go.” Computer Weekly met up with…
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The Metropolitan Police has claimed its live facial-recognition (LFR) deployments in Lewisham are supported by the majority of residents and local councillors, but a community impact assessment (CIA) obtained by Computer Weekly shows there has been minimal direct consultation with residents, while elected officials continue to express concern. In August 2024, Lewisham councillors complained there…
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US government agencies have been urged to use end-to-end encrypted messaging services, including WhatsApp, Signal and FaceTime, following disclosures that China has breached US telephone networks in a hacking operation that undermines US national security.In a letter to the US Department of Defence (DOD), two prominent senators warned the DOD is placing security at risk…
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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has become a landing zone for Whitehall’s various digital functions since the new government came to power in July 2024. Responsibility for running the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has transferred from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, but it seems…
The September 2024 cyber attack that forced Transport for London (TfL) to suspend multiple services across the capital has cost it more than £30m to date, it has emerged. In a financial update to its board, TfL said that previous forecasts of an operating surplus of £61m had now been slashed to £23m, largely due…
An appeals court in the United States has upheld a law passed by Congress earlier in 2024 to ban China-owned video-sharing social media platform TikTok in the US on national security and data protection grounds The law sailed through the US legislature back in April, after being included in a wider package of aid for…
The UK government has warned that cyber threat actors operating on behalf of the Russian regime have already orchestrated cyber attacks against UK media, telecoms, political and democratic institutions, and critical national infrastructure (CNI), and are poised to conduct even more devastating attacks. Speaking at the Nato Cyber Defence Conference in London, Pat McFadden, chancellor…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 26 November 2024 The Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2024 Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal the 50 most influential women in UK technology for 2024. Read an interview with the winner, co-CEO of Tech She Can, Sheridan…
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A Manchester law firm has started on-boarding clients for a probable class action against Microsoft and Google, which it believes to be unlawfully collecting and using peoples’ personal data to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. Following a two-year-long investigation into the data practices of the tech giants, Barings Law believes the extensive information being…
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Atos has overseen the deployment of the first multi-region public cloud for pan-European civil-military aviation organisation Eurocontrol, which will be used to host air traffic management (ATM) applications. News of Atos’s involvement with the project emerged in an announcement that it had secured a contract extension with Eurocontrol to continue supplying mission-critical services to the…
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