This year’s most influential woman in UK technology – Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can – created the charity to bridge the accessibility gap that exists when it comes to female role models in the technology space. While there are many high-profile women in tech, these role models are people to aspire…
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) approach of only fining public sector organisations “in the most serious cases” is under fire from privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group (ORG), who say there is an “urgent need” to test the regulator’s claims that fines do not act as an effective deterrent for public sector bodies. The campaigners…
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The ongoing procurement process for NHS England’s Outcomes and Registries Platform (ORP) continues to draw concerns over the state of the project’s data security practices, amid claims that the whole enterprise may be riding roughshod over compliance with public sector procurement regulations. The ORP project is designed to bring together various, world-renowned clinical devices registries,…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 12 November 2024 Innovating with weather data at the Met Office Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the Met Office is using its vast stores of weather data to create innovative new products. Our latest buyer’s guide…
Nine police forces are seeking to replace their common records managements system (RMS) with a cloud-based alternative – but despite upcoming changes to the UK’s data laws, experts say the strong likelihood of a US-based hyperscaler winning the contract presents continued risks. Under the UK’s current data regime, moving sensitive police records to one of…
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The surging demand for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) workloads is likely to lead to operational constraints in AI datacentres due to energy shortages, according to Gartner. The analyst is predicting that 40% of existing AI datacentres will be affected by power supply issues by 2027, because of how rapidly energy consumption is expected to rise…
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Eighteen months after a major cyber incident in which hundreds of organisations were victimised by a ransomware gang that exploited a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer file transfer product, multiple new victims have come to light, including tech giant Amazon, which has confirmed that data on more than two million of…
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Microsoft has issued fixes addressing a total of 89 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) – 92 including third-party disclosures – to mark the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2024, including four critical issues and a number of flaws that could be considered zero-days. Out of these issues, one meets the full traditional definition of a…
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Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as a way for Red Hat and its parent IBM to lower the barrier to entry for organisations that want to run machine learning workloads without the need to deploy servers…
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Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…
