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ICO reprimands Essex school for illegal facial recognition use

4 minutes of reading / compliance, Computer, GDPR, Tech / By

The UK’s data regulator has reprimanded a secondary school in Essex for illegally deploying facial-recognition technology to take cashless canteen payments from students. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has the power to serve formal reprimands, as well as fines and other enforcement notices, when organisations break the…

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Engaging young people with careers in STEM at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

9 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, automation, ChatGPT, Computer, Google, machine learning, Meta, robotics, Tech, virtual reality / By

The UK tech sector continues to struggle with skills shortages, especially in emerging and high-priority areas such as cyber security and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the contributory factors is a lack of interest in computer science education in schools. Computer Weekly recently reported that low uptake of computing-related subjects at GCSE level is threatening…

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Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By

Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to become a 100% renewably powered company seven years ahead of schedule. The online retail giant published its sixth annual Global sustainability report on Wednesday 10 July, which revealed Amazon had…

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NCA cracks digitalstress DDoS-for-hire operation

3 minutes of reading / Computer, Tech / By

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has infiltrated and disrupted digitalstress.su, an underground criminal marketplace that hired infrastructure out to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and is thought to have been responsible for tens of thousands of cyber attacks around the world. Working alongside the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which arrested…

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Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites

6 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, AWS, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

A graphical user interface (GUI) is the way many people interact with computing devices, ranging from smartphones and smart TVs, to laptops, desktops and website navigation. Although smart speakers and the likes of Siri on iOS devices have given people an alternative user interface, where they can request information and do a limited range of…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists

3 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, data science, Tech / By

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has upped its data personnel budget to £5.37m over the course of the past 12 months, according to data obtained by a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The information, acquired and analysed by artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data management provider Ataccama, confirmed a total of 97 personnel, working…

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How the Mercedes F1 IT team helped Lewis Hamilton win the British Grand Prix

10 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, data analytics, data science, edge computing, SAP, Tech, Technology / By

When Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line for his emotional win in the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, there would have been a good few fist pumps from the IT team at his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team. While fans focus on the race engineers that helped get the Mercedes car back to the…

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AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection

5 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Computer, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft claim their ability to accurately assess the Scope 3 emissions generated by their activities is being hampered by lacklustre embodied emissions data provided by the third parties that build and kit out their datacentres. The three hyperscale public cloud firms, along with Meta, Digital Realty and Schneider Electric,…

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