Embattled Post Office chief executive Nick Read is leaving the troubled organisation in March 2025. He will be replaced on an interim basis by chief operating officer Neil Brocklehurst. Victims of the Post Office scandal have consistently called for Read’s departure following years of delays in paying compensation and revelations this year that he threatened…
The new Labour government’s mission-driven policy approach can help focus digital transformation efforts throughout the public sector, but tech-enabled service improvement could still be undermined by the looming threat of austerity. At trade association TechUK’s Building the Smarter State event in London on 10 September, industry figures and public officials noted that while the government’s mission…
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The UK government’s decision to add datacentres to the list of infrastructure types considered critically important to how the nation operates is being welcomed by tech industry stakeholders, but questions remain about what the designation will mean in real-world terms for operators. As reported by Computer Weekly on 12 September 2024, the UK government confirmed…
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A new redress scheme for victims of the Post Office scandal that was launched by the Labour government in July has completed its first £600,000 payment to a former subpostmaster – just over one month after her application was submitted. The payment is significant because the new plan, the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme, is run…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 3 September 2024 The politics of techno-refusal Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we learn about the politics of techno-refusal and the lessons to be learned from a group of IT workers who spent the early 1980s sabotaging tech infrastructure. Following…
Flash drive prices fell steadily over the first three quarters of 2024 to an average of $0.085 per gigabyte (GB) in September 2024. That’s a drop of just over 10% since April and is the result of prices slackening after highs earlier in the year. Flash prices spiked significantly in late 2023 and the early…
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Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the possibility of major supply chain attacks affecting even greater numbers of downstream organisations and users. That is according to threat researchers at jFrog, who identified…
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A Canadian businessman accused of helping to facilitate organised crime through his involvement with an encrypted messaging service was arrested by French police despite “fully cooperating” with US law authorities, a French court heard. Thomas Herdman, 63, assisted US authorities in their investigation of Canadian-encrypted phone supplier Sky Global under a “proffer agreement” with the…
Dial-a-Ride, the free door-to-door transit service for disabled people operated across the capital by Transport for London (TfL), was forced to temporarily suspend new booking requests for a time as a result of an ongoing cyber attack against the wider TfL IT estate. It is understood that the continuing incident, the nature of which has…
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Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson has announced she is to step down from her post effective immediately, and will be replaced by the artificial intelligence (AI)-led cyber specialist’s chief operating officer (COO), Jill Popelka. The split comes in the wake of a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire the LSE-listed supplier by US private equity house Thoma Bravo,…
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