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Fujitsu police contract ‘complicates’ Post Office investigation

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The Metropolitan Police officer leading the national investigation into crimes committed during the Post Office scandal said Fujitsu’s contract to run the police network “complicates matters”. Through Fujitsu’s Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) contract with the Home Office, separate nationwide police forces share information. The network acts as the backbone for cross-force collaboration, allowing the…

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Nvidia prepares for exponential growth in AI inference

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Chipmaker Nvidia has reported revenue of $57bn for its third-quarter 2026 filing,with its datacentre business contributing the most to the company’s bottom line, posting revenue of $51bn – a 66% year-over-year  (YoY) increase compared with last year’s results. CEO Jensen Huang said the company continued to see growth in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, which require…

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Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir

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Fujitsu has raked in just under £110m from its IT services contracts with HMRC alone in six months, as the supplier continues to evade punishment for its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal. Sir Alan Bates, the campaigning former subpostmaster who led the fight against the Post Office, said there appears to be more…

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Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028

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The Post Office’s contract with Fujitsu for the supplier’s Horizon system has a built-in option to continue into 2028. The news earlier this week that the deal was being extended 12 months to March 2027, costing an additional £41m, was criticised by Post Office scandal victims and campaigners. But the official tender includes a built-in…

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Unearthed report reveals source of Post Office’s tenuous Capture sales pitch

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An internal Post Office report has been unearthed that reveals the organisation was targeting sales of its flawed Capture system to thousands of branches with misleading claims on error reduction. The 13-page report from July 1993, which has been disclosed to Computer Weekly by a source, was titled: Capture: An investigation into changes in cash…

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AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit

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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…

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Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm

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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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Shameless Fujitsu boss confident firm will be back in ‘good books’ in 18 months

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A member of Fujitsu’s top team of executives told staff he expects the firm to experience about 12 to 18 months of “flux” in the UK before getting back into “everybody’s good books”. He said this will come after Fujitsu headquarters pays its contribution to the costs of the Post Office scandal. The comment came…

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Why Keir Starmer’s mandatory national digital ID system may be neither mandatory nor national

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With nearly three million people – so far – signing an online petition against the introduction of “digital ID cards”, the government is already fighting to reclaim the initiative after prime minister Keir Starmer’s botched announcement of plans for a mandatory national digital identity scheme. Civil service officials last week attempted to quell the second…

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Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal: Everything you need to know

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The Post Office scandal began in the late 1990s, when the organisation rolled out Fujitsu’s Horizon computer system across its branch network. What unfolded over the next half-century is at the centre of public debate today, but this was not always the case. For years, Horizon issues and the plight of subpostmasters were investigated and…

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