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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers 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
Post 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
The 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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21 May 2024
Epicor unveils Grow portfolio of AI, BI capabilities
Epicor unveiled AI and BI capabilities in its new Epicor Grow portfolio, including Prism, which enables customers to build generative AI tasks on their Epicor ERP data.
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 10 nations and EU recommit to safe inclusive AI
During the latest AI Summit in South Korea, the participating governments reaffirmed their prior commitments to deepening international cooperation on AI safety, and have agreed to launch an international network of ‘safety institutes’
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21 May 2024
AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments
Prominent artificial intelligence companies from around the world have committed to a set of voluntary AI safety measures, which includes developing continuous risk assessment processes, setting acceptable risk thresholds, and ensuring greater transparency
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21 May 2024
Enterprise sector shines in steady Q1 for Zoom
Zoom’s latest financial results show continued growth beyond its roots, driven by a commitment to meet customer needs and enhance productivity
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21 May 2024
Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity
During its annual Next conference in Barcelona, Nutanix has expanded its hardware partner programme to grab new business from Broadcom
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21 May 2024
AST bolsters UK position with Symatrix buy
Tie-up of Oracle specialists will provide operations on both sides of the Atlantic for expanding American business
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21 May 2024
Parliamentary committee criticises big tech response to election threats
Parliamentary committee says tech companies ‘regurgitated publicly available content’ and failed to address questions raised by MPs and peers
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21 May 2024
Post Office clique deepened Horizon scandal
A 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
DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format
NoSQL database specialist adds generative AI for datacentre deployments where cloud is a no-no for cost, security or compliance reasons, with a focus on vector storage
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20 May 2024
Channel round-up: Who’s gone where?
We highlight more executive moves across the industry in the past week
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20 May 2024
UK AI Safety Institute to open San Francisco branch
News of the AI Safety Institute’s expansion to the US follows the first public release of its AI safety testing results
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20 May 2024
Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves
Red 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
More 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
As 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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17 May 2024
MuleSoft integration tackles EDI supply chain data issues
Salesforce integrates EDI data into its platform for users who deal with many suppliers -- or distributors -- with MuleSoft in an attempt to solve an age-old integration snafu.
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17 May 2024
Post Office CEO Paula Vennells ‘didn’t believe there were miscarriages of justice,’ inquiry told
As the nation waits for the impending appearance of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells at the public inquiry, a former colleague reveals her certainty that there were no miscarriages of justice
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17 May 2024
Post Office considered asking Computer Weekly to review Horizon IT system
The Post Office CIO was tasked by directors with sizing up Computer Weekly for the task of reviewing a forensic investigation into Horizon
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17 May 2024
Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum
The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton
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16 May 2024
Vodafone Business Ireland and RingCentral team for hybrid work collaboration
Business division of telco and cloud comms service provider add Ireland to territories for unified communications and collaboration solutions designed to allow businesses to embrace the evolving landscape of hybrid work
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15 May 2024
Avaya looks ahead with acquisition, cloud CX, RingCentral deal
Rumors of Avaya's demise have been greatly exaggerated, CEO Alan Masarek assures longtime customers while making acquisitions, partnership deals and building a SaaS CX stack.
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15 May 2024
Critical SharePoint, Qakbot-linked flaws focus of May Patch Tuesday
A 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
HP, Google bring Starline collaboration out of lab and into workplace
Tech firms unveil collaboration technology project based on AI and 3D imaging, designed to make co-workers feel like they’re together from any distance
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15 May 2024
Comms director at centre of cover-up never thought Post Office were the ‘baddies’
Head of communications at the Post Office painted a rosy picture of the error-prone Horizon system when challenged
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15 May 2024
Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements
Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks
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14 May 2024
Google readies Gemini for Workspace, adds AI 'Teammate'
Google will roll out new GenAI in Gmail and Docs first and then other apps throughout the year. In 2025, Google plans to introduce an AI-powered assistant named Teammate.
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14 May 2024
Genesys debuts customer service GenAI, journey management
Customer journey management and a bevy of generative AI tools, including more trademark empathy detection, were added to Genesys Cloud's contact center platform.
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14 May 2024
HR vendors give managers more upskilling control
New tools from Oracle and ServiceNow focus on giving business leaders more control over upskilling and reskilling in an effort to address the AI skills gap.
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14 May 2024
Scotland’s Post Office scandal victims to be exonerated en masse
The Scottish parliament will introduce its own legislation to exonerate subpostmasters with convictions based on evidence from Post Office Horizon system
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14 May 2024
Salesforce adds generative AI tools to Education Cloud
Customers discuss Salesforce's GenAI push into education with features that target business process automation for K-12 and college students and administrators.
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14 May 2024
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads
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14 May 2024
NHS trust dismisses governors who questioned allegations of email tampering
Two NHS trust governors who raised questions in a dispute over allegations of email tampering concerning whistleblower Peter Duffy have been dismissed after an investigation that followed their suspension
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13 May 2024
How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation
SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint
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13 May 2024
Norway bolsters digital transformation drive
Norway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year
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10 May 2024
Generative AI is everywhere – but policy is still missing
Use of advanced artificial intelligence is outpacing organisations’ ability to govern the technology, warns ISACA research
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10 May 2024
Knowledge24: GenAI dominates ServiceNow annual user conference
ServiceNow put the future use of GenAI at the centre of its annual user conference, Knowledge24
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10 May 2024
Mudd named as Bytes CEO
After sitting in the hot seat on an interim basis for the past few months, Sam Mudd’s move as Bytes CEO becomes permanent
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09 May 2024
FTC's noncompete ban could increase turnover in tech
The FTC noncompete ban could drive higher quit rates, affecting innovative sectors like technology. Experts say HR managers must balance talent gains with potential staff losses.
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09 May 2024
Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs
Red 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
Fujitsu’s Post Office Horizon admission was ‘bombshell’ amid ‘religious panic’ over reliability
Barrister Simon Clarke was representing the Post Office when he discovered an expert witness had misled courts in subpostmaster trials
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09 May 2024
Executive interview: Adding common sense to generative AI creativity
We speak to the chief scientist at Neo4j about why graph databases should work alongside large language models to keep them in check
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09 May 2024
Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms
In the draft codes, Ofcom calls on technology firms to use ‘robust’ age-checking and content moderation systems to keep harmful material away from children online
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08 May 2024
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year
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07 May 2024
Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves
Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads
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07 May 2024
Sprinklr's AI digital twin for CX emulates whole companies
Sprinklr CEO Ragy Thomas 'bets the company' on its moonshot digital twin technology that emulates a whole customer's organization, with AI assistance, to complete CX tasks.
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07 May 2024
AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure
The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028
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07 May 2024
Police told in 2016 that Post Office prosecutor withheld evidence of Horizon errors from court
A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial
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06 May 2024
Judge overseeing Workday AI lawsuit has questions
Judge Rita Lin seeks clarity on Workday's liability in an AI lawsuit alleging hiring discrimination. The case could set a precedent for AI vendors' responsibility.
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06 May 2024
Microsoft beefs up cyber initiative after hard-hitting US report
Microsoft 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
Microsoft, Google seek green card rule change
Tech companies struggle with green card sponsorships amid job cuts, but a proposed rule change, sought by the industry, could exempt certain tech jobs from labor market tests.
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03 May 2024
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned
The 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
Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs
Chair of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has written to the UK’s digital secretary about the government’s approach to generative AI, lamenting a lack of support for copyright holders and measures to ensure competition in AI markets
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03 May 2024
Post Office legal boss withheld details from statutory body reviewing miscarriages of justice
The Post Office’s top lawyer held back vital information when requested by the criminal cases review commission, preventing wrongful convictions from being reviewed
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02 May 2024
Post Office investigators saw subpostmasters as ‘enemies’ – and that’s what they became
Post Office investigators were only focused on getting money from subpostmasters blamed for accounting shortfalls, according to a 2013 report commissioned by organisation’s legal boss
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02 May 2024
Can SAP Labs’ AI plan accelerate cloud migration?
Top notch R&D centre shows it is more than just a bunch of boffins with electric cars and robots as it opens doors to AI-curious SAP partners and customers.
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02 May 2024
With Tribble, RFP writers get their own shot of generative AI
Some large enterprises' sales organizations respond to a hundred or more requests for proposals daily. A new GenAI tool from ex-Salesforce execs could ease the workload.
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01 May 2024
Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers
Developer 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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01 May 2024
DWP anti-fraud measures will allow monitoring of bank accounts of landlords, carers and parents
Parliamentarians raise concerns that a proposed law to require banks to monitor the accounts of millions of people receiving state benefits could lead to those on welfare being denied accommodation or bank accounts
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30 Apr 2024
IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity
IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers to containers and OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan
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29 Apr 2024
Case study: Seeing clearly with data at Specsavers
Helen Mannion, director of global data and business transformation at high street opticians firm Specsavers, opens up about the importance of data to the organisation
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29 Apr 2024
Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey
Oracle 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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29 Apr 2024
Post Office misjudged campaigner it labelled a ‘bluffer’
Social media, a trade union and tech expertise helped former subpostmasters expose Post Office bug myth
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26 Apr 2024
Google delays third-party 'Cookiepocalypse' until 2025
Google has yet again delayed the deprecation of third-party cookies. Marketers and advertisers now have until 2025 to remediate their ad tech.
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26 Apr 2024
Microsoft, SAP add more AI to manufacturing, supply chain
At the Hannover Messe industrial show, Microsoft debuted Fabric AI for OT and IT data, and the copilot template for factory operations; SAP unveiled AI capabilities for manufacturing.
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26 Apr 2024
Post Office scheme was a ‘charade’ that never intended for large compensation pay-outs
The Post Office established a scheme to compensate subpostmasters affected by tech faults, but it was just a ‘charade’, says Public Inquiry KC
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26 Apr 2024
Microsoft sees datacentre investments key to AI leadership
Microsoft is reportedly spending between $50 to $100m to build out AI infrastructure
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26 Apr 2024
European Parliament approves platform worker directive
The approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic decision-making at work
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26 Apr 2024
AI not yet making a channel marketing impact
Lack of guidelines, concerns over data, and a failure to deliver compelling results are hindering adoption of artificial intelligence tools
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26 Apr 2024
Post Office ‘lied’ to subpostmasters when forced to meet them, says former federation representative
Post Office executives were forced to meet subpostmasters to discuss an unexplained error in their branch, then misled the branch managers over remote access
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26 Apr 2024
Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption
The parent company of Google has increased artificial intelligence R&D spending and raised cloud sales commissions to boost adoption of Google Cloud
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26 Apr 2024
INDO-MIM taps 3D printing in precision manufacturing
The precision metal parts manufacturer is using HP’s Metal Jet S100 printers to produce components using metal powder for the automotive, healthcare and other industries
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25 Apr 2024
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud gets GenAI for banking
If Salesforce can talk the highly conservative, highly skeptical and highly regulated financial industry into adopting GenAI, the company could win over a lot more customers.
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25 Apr 2024
Executive interview: Salesforce AI head discusses dynamic flowcharts
Business workflows can usually be mapped onto flowcharts which depict the set of actions an IT system takes, but large language models can make this dynamic, according to Jayesh Govindarajan, senior vice-president of AI at Salesforce
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25 Apr 2024
Oracle expands generative AI across its CX applications
Oracle beefs up its Fusion Cloud Customer Experience applications with GenAI tools for users of its sales, field service, marketing and contact center.
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25 Apr 2024
Meta chief lays out long-term AI plan
During the company’s first quarter earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg and chief financial officer Susan Li discussed Meta’s long-term bet on AI
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24 Apr 2024
Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community
Mandating 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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24 Apr 2024
TD Synnex launches group to focus on AI
Distributor forms group to bring together businesses and individuals with different skills and resources to maximise benefits of artificial intelligence
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24 Apr 2024
HubSpot embraces GenAI with Service Hub updates and more
A reimagined, generative AI-infused Content Hub leads the way for a passel of HubSpot updates for users of its sales, service, marketing and digital payment platforms.
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24 Apr 2024
SAP earnings rise, but no support extension
Support for SAP ECC is due to end in 2027. The company hopes customers will choose to buy into its business AI portfolio
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24 Apr 2024
ITV News tech failures nearly caused ‘holes’ in live broadcasts
Software purchased by ITN to be used to create bulletins and other content for ITV News is still experiencing problems almost a year after its introduction
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23 Apr 2024
SAP earnings for Q1 indicate strong cloud growth
SAP's cloud revenue for the first quarter of 2024 indicates healthy growth and sets the stage as customers plan cloud migrations and implementations of business AI functionalities.
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23 Apr 2024
FTC bans noncompete agreements in split vote
Now that the FTC has issued its final rule banning noncompete clauses, it's likely to face a bevy of legal challenges.
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23 Apr 2024
Post Office boss used husband’s descriptions in 'Orwellian' ploy to downplay Horizon problems
Post Office CEO sought advice from husband on what words to use in reports to downplay known errors in software, inquiry told.
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23 Apr 2024
Expert investigating Capture system refuses to meet ‘untrustworthy’ Post Office
A former Post Office executive has refused to meet his past employer to discuss the controversial Capture system
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23 Apr 2024
Vodafone Business aims to help SMEs boost productivity and security
Following research showing how small and medium-sized businesses could increase profits and efficiency by making better use of digital tools, UK comms provider unveils campaign to help SMEs source digital tools to boost productivity and security
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22 Apr 2024
SAP Emarsys launches Product Finder AI shopping tool
SAP Emarsys moves deeper into generative AI with Product Finder, a product recommendation tool that promises to improve e-commerce and marketing message relevancy.
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22 Apr 2024
NCSC announces PwC’s Richard Horne as CEO
Former PwC and Barclays cyber chief Richard Horne set to join UK’s National Cyber Security Centre as CEO
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22 Apr 2024
Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own
Post 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
Unisys reveals no link to development of controversial Post Office software
IT supplier finds no evidence that it was involved in the development of controversial Post Office software
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19 Apr 2024
How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare
Manipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations
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18 Apr 2024
TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI
Proposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them
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18 Apr 2024
IT expert who helped expose Post Office scandal offers to investigate second controversial system
IT 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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17 Apr 2024
Certinia adds AI capabilities to PSA cloud suite
The PSA vendor adds AI functionality to its professional services cloud applications that are designed to help services firms manage customers, personnel, resources and projects.
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17 Apr 2024
VMware: Broadcom faces EU complaint over unfair licensing
CEO Hock Tan responds to complaints, opening up partner programme to smaller resellers and standardising on core licensing
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17 Apr 2024
ODI and Arup collaborate on data-sharing initiative to help companies reach net-zero goals
The built environment is responsible for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint. Better data sharing could be the key to reducing that
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17 Apr 2024
IFS builds AI and automation into ERP to help businesses boost productivity
Changing of the guard has ERP firm set for renewed focus on AI and core business
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16 Apr 2024
Zendesk users get generative AI infusion for customer service
Zendesk customers get their shot of GenAI, which comes in the form of agent tools, self-service workflow assistants and workforce management features.
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16 Apr 2024
Major UCaaS-related outages experienced by 97% of enterprises in 2023
Survey from provider of performance management, cyber security and DDoS protection services calculates that UCaaS outages can cost up to $1m or more in lost sales and productivity
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16 Apr 2024
Post Office boss signed off hush money to cover up smoking gun
A former Post Office boss admitted the pain and suffering of subpostmasters could have been avoided had the organisation done the right thing
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Gleaning data insights with AI
Hong Kong-based Citic Telecom CPC has built a data platform that leverages large language models to generate insights and speed up data retrieval and analysis
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Making AI pervasive
DBS Bank’s AI Industrialisation Programme has been instrumental in industrialising the use of data and artificial intelligence across its business, resulting in over S$370m of incremental economic benefits