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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
By Patrick ThibodeauEmployers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
By Karl FlindersPost Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
By Hannah NelsonThe Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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23 Jul 2024
GitLab users cautiously optimistic on Datadog DevSecOps deal
By Beth PariseauDatadog is reportedly a suitor for GitLab; existing users understand the rationale for such a deal, but key questions must be answered before they'd adopt deeper integrations.
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
By Karl FlindersFormer government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
By Cliff SaranThe ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
By Aaron TanHuawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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22 Jul 2024
Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites
By Cliff SaranWe speak to a CIO who relies on a screen reader to do his job and find out how accessibility technology has evolved
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
By Alex ScroxtonThe concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
By Karl FlindersEvidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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18 Jul 2024
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
By Karl FlindersThe government referred allegations about subpostmasters’ mistreatment by the Post Office to the alleged abuser itself
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18 Jul 2024
Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC
By Aaron TanNeo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models
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16 Jul 2024
AI gateways emerge in response to governance concerns
By Beth PariseauEnterprise IT investment is pouring into AI, but security and governance remain major stumbling blocks to production. Enter API gateway vendors eager to assist -- and cash in.
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16 Jul 2024
Fujitsu analyst gave witness statements when more qualified colleagues refused
By Karl FlindersFujitsu employee provided witness statements to courts in cases against subpostmasters despite not understanding the evidence, after qualified IT experts refused
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16 Jul 2024
Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost
By Alex ScroxtonCyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market
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15 Jul 2024
How Snowflake is tackling AI challenges
By Aaron TanSnowflake’s regional leader Sanjay Deshmukh outlines how the company is helping customers to tackle the security, skills and cost challenges of AI implementations
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15 Jul 2024
Civil servant said subpostmasters’ threat of legal action was ‘sabre-rattling’
By Karl FlindersPost Office scandal public inquiry hears damning evidence capping off a bad week for the reputation of high-profile civil servants
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11 Jul 2024
Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future
By Kim LoohiusIn only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain
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10 Jul 2024
IT ops pros grapple with glut of AI assistants
By Beth PariseauAfter nearly two years of hype, it's still early for enterprise GenAI. That said, skepticism -- and outright pessimism -- have begun to emerge about AI assistants for IT automation.
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10 Jul 2024
Tennis and technology: How Wimbledon gave fans a GenAI experience
By Bryan GlickComputer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to see how tennis fans are benefiting from the latest developments in artificial intelligence
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10 Jul 2024
Civil servant was lone voice on Post Office board to query legal plan that blew taxpayers' cash
By Karl FlindersGovernment representative felt he was 'in a minority of one' on the Post Office board of directors in questioning the handling of a High Court battle with subpostmasters that cost £100m
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09 Jul 2024
Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention
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09 Jul 2024
Government left monitoring of Post Office to ‘luck’
By Karl FlindersIf the Post Office board failed to spot bad faith within its management, it would be down to ‘luck’ for the government to find out
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08 Jul 2024
Sir Alan Bates welcomes MP’s elevation to House of Lords
By Karl FlindersFormer Labour MP has moved to the House of Lords where he will continue campaigning for justice for victims of the Horizon scandal
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02 Jul 2024
Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN
By Aaron TanKyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud
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28 Jun 2024
How FWD is driving its digital strategy
By Aaron TanFWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services
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27 Jun 2024
Experts shocked by ‘extraordinary’ claim made by Post Office IT expert witness
By Karl FlindersA former Fujitsu engineer made an ‘unbelievable’ claim about evidence he gave in witness statements when acting as an expert witness during Post Office prosecutions of subpostmasters
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26 Jun 2024
Datadog DASH updates push into fresh IT automation turf
By Beth PariseauA series of product updates at Datadog DASH broke out of the vendor's usual observability domain and into territory held by Atlassian, PagerDuty and others.
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25 Jun 2024
JFrog buy bolsters MLOps combo with DevSecOps
By Beth PariseauJFrog plans to meld AI/ML development with established DevSecOps pipelines through the acquisition of Qwak in a bid to help more enterprise AI apps reach production.
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24 Jun 2024
Workday GenAI upgrade aims to speed and simplify app dev
By Patrick ThibodeauWorkday speeds up creation of apps with AI-powered Developer Copilot and Visual UI Mode. Low-code improvements aim to help citizen developers.
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24 Jun 2024
Metropolitan Police could investigate one of its own staff in Post Office probe
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office investigator deleted references to software errors in a witness statement from Fujitsu’s Gareth Jenkins during the wrongful prosecution of a subpostmaster
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19 Jun 2024
SUSE Rancher gears up amid VMware-Broadcom 'feeding frenzy'
By Beth PariseauSUSE Rancher bolsters its bid to capture users dissatisfied with Broadcom's changes to VMware with the acquisition of StackState and other updates to its Prime package.
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17 Jun 2024
Once ridiculed Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates receives knighthood
By Karl FlindersCampaigner for justice, once labelled a ‘nutter’ and a ‘thief’, knighted for his work to expose the Post Office scandal
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14 Jun 2024
Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed
By Karl FlindersScotland follows England, Wales and Northern Ireland in exonerating wrongfully convicted subpostmasters en masse
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13 Jun 2024
Black Basta ransomware crew may be exploiting Microsoft zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonA Microsoft vulnerability that was addressed without fanfare in March may in fact have been exploited as a zero-day by the notorious Black Basta ransomware gang, threat hunters warn
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12 Jun 2024
Nordic innovators look to revive the zombie subscriber population
By Matthew StaffZombie subscriptions where customers buy a service and forget about it are harming the subscription economy, but software is being developed to support the subscription economy
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12 Jun 2024
Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders
By Steve RangerAmazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code
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12 Jun 2024
IT witness was hidden away from Post Office court battle, but supported it from shadows
By Karl FlindersFormer Fujitsu chief architect provided evidence support to Post Office witnesses in High Court battle despite being unfit to provide it directly
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11 Jun 2024
Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI
By Cliff SaranAt its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware
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11 Jun 2024
Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems
By Kim LoohuisExpertise in complex Cobol systems, critical to major financial institutions, is dwindling in The Netherlands, resulting in retired professionals returning work
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10 Jun 2024
Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems
By Karl FlindersPost Office branch managers have told Computer Weekly they had no training on how to use Capture software, which pre-dated Horizon
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07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
By Mark BallardData initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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07 Jun 2024
Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersPost Office scandal inquiry hears how board member believed Fujitsu was exploiting the Post Office
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06 Jun 2024
Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document
By Karl FlindersCapture software was used by about 2,000 subpostmasters in the 1990s, with allegations that errors in the software caused account shortfalls
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05 Jun 2024
Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act
By Karl FlindersAlmost immediately after joining the Post Office, Alice Perkins was told about software problems and was concerned about an imbalance of power in the Post Office’s relationship with Fujitsu
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05 Jun 2024
Executive interview: Richard Wazacz, CEO, Travelex
By Mark SamuelsThe data-savvy chief executive is rebuilding Travelex as an omnichannel, digital business after the company foundered during the pandemic
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05 Jun 2024
Lack of upfront specifications kill agile projects
By Cliff SaranResearch shows there is a high chance of failure when a software development project begins without a specification being signed off
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05 Jun 2024
How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’
By Aaron TanDataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business
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05 Jun 2024
Cisco Live: AI to fuel Cisco mission to connect and protect everything
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant plots future where harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data will allow companies to connect and protect everything across a global network where data is the ultimate differentiator
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05 Jun 2024
Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress
By Karl FlindersCampaigner says former subpostmasters may have to resort to legal action in pursuit of the money they are owed
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04 Jun 2024
Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWebsites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent
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29 May 2024
JFrog-GitHub partnership eyes software supply chain security
By Nicole LaskowskiJFrog and GitHub released a set of focused integrations that provide better visibility across the software supply chain and advance the idea of 'EveryOps.'
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29 May 2024
Interview: EU data chief Ulrich Ahle on obstacles to Europe’s digital single market
By Mark BallardEU data scheme Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into Europe’s planned digital single market as opposition mounts to efforts to extend the reach of Europe’s vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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26 May 2024
Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI
By Stephen WithersNutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments
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23 May 2024
Third police probe into Post Office scandal under consideration
By Karl FlindersThe Metropolitan Police Service is looking into investigating potential corporate and individual crimes committed in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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22 May 2024
‘You knew’ – former ally accused Paula Vennells of knowing about Horizon problems
By Karl FlindersFormer Royal Mail CEO messaged Paula Vennells following the broadcasting of ITV’s dramatisation of the Post Office scandal, questioning what the former Post Office boss knew and removed her support
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21 May 2024
Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure updates target AI developers
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft updates this week aim to address the struggles of early enterprise generative AI adopters that have stalled efforts to put pilot projects into real-world production.
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21 May 2024
Post Office clique deepened Horizon scandal
By Karl FlindersA general counsel annoyed by independent investigators and comms director that bragged about his contacts were part of a Post Office clique with former CEO Paula Vennells
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20 May 2024
Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves
By Aaron TanRed Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware
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20 May 2024
Post Office directors went crawling back to Fujitsu when IBM project got complex, inquiry told
By Karl FlindersMore details emerge about how close IBM came to replacing Fujitsu and its controversial Horizon system at the Post Office
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20 May 2024
The fall from grace of ex-priest and Post Office boss Paula Vennells
By Karl FlindersAs Paula Vennells faces statutory public inquiry into Horizon scandal, Computer Weekly compiles some of its must-read articles about the controversial former Post Office boss
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15 May 2024
Critical SharePoint, Qakbot-linked flaws focus of May Patch Tuesday
By Alex ScroxtonA critical SharePoint vulnerability warrants attention this month, but it is another flaw that seems to be linked to the infamous Qakbot malware that is drawing attention
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15 May 2024
Government focuses on improving AI security
By Cliff SaranTwo codes of practice are now available to help developers boost the security of their AI applications
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14 May 2024
What Google Gemini AI updates mean for software developers
By Beth PariseauGoogle's AI dev tools deliver natively multi-modal models that can process huge amounts of data more efficiently and affordably, making it easier to develop apps using AI.
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13 May 2024
Maria 01 rolls out ambitious pan-Europe startup plan
By Gerard O'DwyerTen-year plan will see pan-Nordic tech startup ecosystem based in Finnish capital
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13 May 2024
Norway bolsters digital transformation drive
By Gerard O'DwyerNorway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year
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10 May 2024
Slow Ansible Lightspeed adoption might reflect AI qualms
By Beth PariseauCustomers with Ansible Lightspeed in pilots or production remain rare, as concerns about the risks of AI and the need to shore up a solid IT automation foundation prompt caution.
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10 May 2024
NAO report highlights tech failings in flagship DWP project
By Cliff SaranLack of tech skills, disconnected agile development and non-compliance with government standards are among the issues identified in report
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09 May 2024
Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs
By Aaron TanRed Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region
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09 May 2024
Red Hat CTO, Nvidia AI exec reveal joint LLMOps roadmap
By Beth PariseauThe company leaders discussed deepening integration between OpenShift AI and Nvidia NIMs, how they fit into RHEL AI and what's surprised them about AI growth so far.
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09 May 2024
Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability
By Karl FlindersBarrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials
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06 May 2024
Microsoft beefs up cyber initiative after hard-hitting US report
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft is expanding its recently launched Secure Future Initiative in the wake of a hard-hitting US government report on recent nation state intrusions into its systems
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03 May 2024
Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI
By Alex ScroxtonAdobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence
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03 May 2024
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned
By Alex ScroxtonThe addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern
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03 May 2024
Cloud campaign intensifies for Atlassian software products
By Beth PariseauAtlassian plans to continue updating Data Center products, but accelerating cloud updates and migrations touted at Team '24 prompt questions about their long-term future.
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02 May 2024
How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks
By Aaron TanOkta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks
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01 May 2024
Atlassian Jira now a hub for knowledge management, AI tools
By Beth PariseauAtlassian's raft of product updates at Team '24 spanned long-awaited product integrations and previews of AI automation updates, all of which advanced broader ambitions.
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01 May 2024
Amazon Bedrock users adapt app dev to GenAI
By Beth PariseauEarly adopters of Amazon Bedrock shared lessons learned about incorporating generative AI into software engineering workflows, from managing cloud costs to writing prompts.
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01 May 2024
Australia’s Qantas apologises for mobile app data breach
By Alex ScroxtonAustralian flag carrier Qantas has apologised after a glitch in its mobile application temporarily enabled some customers to view the flights and booking details of other frequent fliers on two separate occasions
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01 May 2024
Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers
By Alex ScroxtonDeveloper security advocate Secure Code Warrior has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams
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29 Apr 2024
Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey
By Aaron TanOracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey
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25 Apr 2024
Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology
By Aaron TanZero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag
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24 Apr 2024
Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community
By Alex ScroxtonMandating multifactor authentication for select developers has been a huge success for GitHub, the platform reports, and now it wants to go further
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23 Apr 2024
Expert investigating Capture system refuses to meet ‘untrustworthy’ Post Office
By Karl FlindersA former Post Office executive has refused to meet his past employer to discuss the controversial Capture system
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22 Apr 2024
Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT scandal inquiry hears how a lawyer was at the centre of the Post Office’s attempts to prevent problems with its IT system becoming public knowledge
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19 Apr 2024
OpenTofu forges on with beta feature that drew HashiCorp ire
By Beth PariseauDefying a HashiCorp cease and desist, OpenTofu 1.7 beta ships with the removed blocks feature and client-side state encryption support long sought by the Terraform community.
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19 Apr 2024
Unisys reveals no link to development of controversial Post Office software
By Karl FlindersIT supplier finds no evidence that it was involved in the development of controversial Post Office software
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19 Apr 2024
CEST: Putting HMRC’s IR35 status checker under the microscope
By Caroline DonnellySince its launch in March 2017, HMRC's online IR35 status checker tool has come under fierce criticism and scrutiny, only exacerbated in recent weeks by the disclosure it has not been updated in five years
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18 Apr 2024
GitLab Duo plans harness growing interest in platform AI
By Beth PariseauGitLab's next release will tie its Duo AI tools to the full DevSecOps pipeline in a bid to capitalize on increased interest in AI automation among platform engineers.
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18 Apr 2024
CSA warns of emerging security risks with cloud and AI
By Aaron TanFew users appreciate the security risks of cloud and have the expertise to implement the complex security controls, says CSA chief executive David Koh
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18 Apr 2024
IT expert who helped expose Post Office scandal offers to investigate second controversial system
By Karl FlindersIT expert Jason Coyne, who played a critical part in exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, said he would examine the Capture System
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Balancing security and user experience
By Edwin YappThe National University of Singapore’s Safe initiative has strengthened the security of IT systems and end-user devices while prioritising user experience through passwordless access
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16 Apr 2024
Alan Bates and JFSA won’t back down in fight with government and Post Office
By Karl FlindersOver the past 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans
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15 Apr 2024
Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS
By Stephen WithersThe Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme
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15 Apr 2024
More social engineering attacks on open source projects observed
By Alex ScroxtonIn the wake of the recent XZ Utils scare, maintainers of another open source project have come forward to say they may have experienced similar social engineering attacks
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15 Apr 2024
Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index
By Antony AdsheadWhen the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure
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10 Apr 2024
Cyber crooks poison GitHub search to fool developers
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware
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10 Apr 2024
Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption
By Aaron TanVertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data
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10 Apr 2024
Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes
By Alex ScroxtonSalesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes
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10 Apr 2024
IR35: HMRC rushing to restore CEST source code deleted from Github ‘in error’
By Caroline DonnellyHMRC has confirmed online repository containing code underpinning maligned IR35 status-checker tool has been taken down ‘in error’ by team working to decommission legacy platform that used to host platform
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09 Apr 2024
New Google Gemini AI tie-ins dig into local codebases
By Beth PariseauGoogle ties in its latest Gemini AI model with company-specific data in a new code assistant and Vertex AI updates that also anticipate a coming wave of AI agent development.
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05 Apr 2024
How Oracle Red Bull Racing guards against cyber threats
By Stephen WithersThe F1 team is tapping managed security services, conducting penetration tests and improving security awareness among employees to fend off cyber threats such as phishing and ransomware
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04 Apr 2024
JetBrains IDEs add local AI code completion
By Beth PariseauJetBrains beats GitHub Copilot to an increasingly popular trend that circumvents copyright and data privacy concerns with cloud-based AI assistants.