Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates, has become the 14th person to be named Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK technology. The list was created in 2012 to make the amazing women in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible, originally showcasing only 25 women before growing to include 50 women in…
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Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations Processing System (Tops), when it went live on 27 October 1975, the system revolutionised the control of all rail freight operations across Britain online and in real time. It used…
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A former subpostmaster who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s faulty Capture accounting software has said the announced compensation scheme “discriminates” against claimants. The scheme is offering initial redress payments of £10,000, with final award bands up to £300,000, to subpostmasters who suffered as a result of the Capture software’s flaws, with “exceptional…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…
The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states – Indiana, Kentucky and Rhode Island – slated to start enforcing their own rules on 1 January 2026, according to a…
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Fujitsu grew its UK public sector business over the last 12 months despite widespread criticism for its role in the Post Office scandal.The sales increase for the year to April 2025 is in contrast to a sharp decline in the previous year, which included the immediate backlash after ITV’s dramatisation of the scandal widened understanding…
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DC01UK has confirmed that colocation giant Equinix has acquired the 85-acre plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire it secured planning permission for transforming into a hyperscale datacentre campus back in January 2025. The acquisition, according to DC01UK, represents one of the largest infrastructure and real estate transactions in the world, with Equinix confirming it…
Siemens and Capgemini have announced they are teaming up to develop technologies for product engineering, manufacturing and operations that are artificial intelligence (AI)-based from the get-go. The goal of the products, said to be AI-infused from inception, is to connect industrial machines with digital technology, for what they jointly call “intelligent manufacturing”. The two firms,…
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Michael Herron, the UK head at French IT service provider Atos, has told Computer Weekly that ensuring future talent can get on the first rung of the career ladder – despite the implications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – is a subject close to his heart. Organisations need to rethink career paths as GenAI increasingly…
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The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations, including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Lloyds Banking Group. The outage, which AWS confirmed started just before 8am UK time on 20 October, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 datacentre region…
