Imagine the prospect of the first day in a new job as a software developer. Beyond the meetings with HR, managers and team leaders, there is also likely to be a stack of training material and documentation around company policies to get through. These things precede the really hard stuff, which is around getting to…
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The 12th Computer Weekly list of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech is now open for voting, giving readers and opportunity to express who they feel should be given the top spot. Each year, the list of 50 women acts to make role models in the technology sector more visible and accessible in the…
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As 2023 dawned, the direction that the technology recruitment market would take was highly uncertain. We had seen two boom years due to pent-up demand during the pandemic, but with downside economic indicators gathering – rising costs, rampant inflation, interest rates increasing – would that hold? We trusted our instincts and predicted that the market…
Google has moved to speed up the frequency it pushes out security updates and patches for the Chromium open source code underpinning the Chrome web browser, with the intent of minimising the time threat actors have to exploit n-day vulnerabilities and better protect end-users. Chrome is estimated to account for just under 63% of the…
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Computer Weekly’s list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has been running since 2012 to make female role models in the UK’s technology sector more visible and accessible.In 2015, the Hall of Fame was introduced alongside the top 50 to recognise women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector, as…
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As chief technology officer (CTO) at Gulf Bridge International (GBI), Gavin Rea is responsible for the design, operation and evolution of GBI’s submarine cable and associated terrestrial cable networks. GBI provides connectivity from the Gulf into Europe, India and Southeast Asia, and connectivity among the Gulf states.“GBI has been in operation for 11 years now,”…
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Amid the ongoing Black Hat USA and DEF CON cyber jamborees, Microsoft has addressed a little over 70 vulnerabilities in its August Patch Tuesday update, including two zero-days already being exploited, more than 20 remote code execution (RCE) flaws, and six critical bugs. Of the two zero-days fixes, the first comes in the form of…
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Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare III will be released on November 10, and we got the briefest of teases in a new trailer today. Activision confirmed today’s reveal last week after the game leaked online. The teaser doesn’t provide much to go on except the release date; platforms are unannounced, but we imagine it’ll be on…
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Microsoft has publicly confirmed that a potentially dangerous flaw in the Azure public cloud platform – which was the subject of a full and frank attack on the firm’s vulnerability reporting and disclosure processes by Tenable CEO Amit Yoran last week – has been fully addressed for all affected users. Microsoft had already told Computer…
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