Fujitsu has won just one UK public sector contract so far this year, compared with seven at this point last year, following the angry reaction to its role in the Post Office scandal. While the IT services giant’s self-imposed government bidding pause has not quashed its appetite for public sector work, the fall in contracts…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed the Github repository housing the source code for its online IR35 employment status checker tool has been restored, after it was deleted “in error” during a platform migration. The government tax collection agency recently completed the process of migrating its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to…
The Software AG International User Groups conference (IUG24) in Dublin was told this week of the supplier’s distinctive mission for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – the democratisation of business process mining and management. Stefan Sigg, chief product officer at the German enterprise software group, told a gathering of media and analysts ahead of his keynote…
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All industries are facing a growing skills gap that is blocking them from effectively implementing artificial intelligence (AI), but this gap is deepest in the public sector, with 60% identifying a shortage of AI skills as their top implementation challenge, according to a study by Salesforce. In the US, federal government agencies are already being…
A former Post Office boss has admitted his mistake in failing to give proper instructions when commissioning a 2010 report on the Horizon computer system, at a time when its reliability was being challenged by subpostmasters and MPs. The exclusion of written terms of reference to guide the author resulted in a report that only…
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Our avid readers tend to look at microelectronics made using leading edge process technologies, which in case of Intel means usage of High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography a couple of years down the road. But the vast majority of chips that we are going to use in the next couple of years will be made…
ASML Delivers First 2nm-Generation Low-NA EUV Tool, the Twinscan NXE:3800E Read More »
The Post Office’s managing director at the time Horizon system problems became public told a senior colleague that he suspected subpostmasters accused of theft were trying to blame the IT for their own actions. Alan Cook, who was managing director of the Post Office when Computer Weekly exposed the scandal in 2009, was giving evidence…
The UK government’s G-Cloud purchasing agreement was hailed – from the time of its launch in spring 2012 – as a model for how all government departments would buy their IT. G-Cloud contracts were initially capped at 12 months in length, to give buyers the freedom to switch out their cloud providers regularly for cost…
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Fujitsu’s controversial contract with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) was renewed because there were no other suppliers that could meet the regulatory duties required, but the service could be taken in-house next year. Following the announcement of Fujitsu’s first government contract of the year and a subsequent public backlash, the government has been quick to stress…
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Derby City Council has signed a £7m contract to extend the use of artificial intelligence (AI) copilot technology across more of its services, after the roll-out of AI assistants saved it £200,000. The four-year deal with ICS.AI will see the expansion of generative AI (GenAI) use into adult social care, customer services and debt recovery,…
