Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. August 2023 A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to auditing and testing data models Generative AI has arrived on the scene with a multitude of ethical issues. In this 13-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly explores those considerations, assesses data classification tools and looks at how to improve…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 22 August 2023 Can low code/no code ease developer skills shortages? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, organisations are increasingly turning to low-code/no-code tools to enable “citizen developers” among staff – can this help to ease software developer skills shortages? SAP…
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The Metropolitan Police Service’s integrated record management system is nearly £60m over budget, and still facing major teething problems, with officers and staff raising more than 25,000 support requests in its first four months of operation, according to a freedom of information (FOI) disclosure. The Connect system – contracted to software supplier NEC Software in…
IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same name that will target private cloud hosting providers. “Our…
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A NatWest customer has praised a whistleblower for informing him that his personal data had been breached, describing the bank’s handling of the issue as “disgusting”. In the same way another former customer who contacted Computer Weekly earlier, the second NatWest customer to make contact with Computer Weekly was also offered £200 compensation by the…
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Labour MP Darren Jones has asked the minister in charge of the courts to look into the appropriateness of the rule on the use of computer evidence in court, in light of miscarriages of justice in the Post Office IT scandal. He wrote to Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk urging him to consider the issue personally after…
As hundreds of thousands of people sit back, relax and prepare for take-off this summer, many will be enabling their iPhone’s airplane mode setting, whereby their device’s radio frequency (RF) transmission technology is switched off, severing their connection to their mobile network for the duration of the flight. Also known as flight mode or flight…
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Computer expert Junade Ali is known publicly for developing what is believed to be the first compromised credential checking protocol, which checks if a password has been used following a data breach. He admits his career in IT and cybersecurity has been somewhat non-traditional. After leaving school with no formal qualifications, Ali began his working…
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The Bank of England’s core IT system, which settles £775bn worth of UK payments a day, experienced a major outage due to a “technical issue”. The Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, which settles payments between banks, was offline from the beginning of business on August 14 until until about 12.00. RTGS settles payments made between…
The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales has handed in his resignation to the Home Office, citing delays to the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill. As biometrics commissioner, Fraser Sampson is responsible for oversight of how police collect, retain and use a range of biometric material (including digital facial images),…
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