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AI firms can’t be trusted to voluntarily share risk information

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Artificial intelligence (AI) companies cannot be relied on to voluntarily share information about system capabilities and risk, say current and former employees, in an open call for greater whistleblower protections. During the second global AI Summit in Seoul, 16 companies signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments, which is a voluntary set of measures for how…

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Mystery Post Office software developer revealed in 1995 Horizon project document

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As former subpostmasters await answers from a government-backed investigation into the Post Office Capture software system, a 27-year-old Horizon project document answers a critical question. Since the airing of ITV’s drama about the long-running Post Office Horizon scandal, former subpostmasters who had suffered similar problems with the Capture software that pre-dated Horizon have come forward. Questions…

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Fujitsu had Post Office ‘over a barrel’, inquiry told

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The Post Office board was desperate to end its IT contract with Fujitsu as early as 2013, but the supplier had the Post Office “over a barrel”, according to a former non-executive board member. During the latest Post Office scandal inquiry hearing, where former Post Office chair Alice Perkins faced questions, a document from July…

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European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market

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In an interview with Computer Weekly, Gaia-X CEO Ulrich Ahle admitted that stubborn international differences in law and technology standards have stopped foreign suppliers from joining its EU-government-funded effort to build the software infrastructure, called a dataspace, for a digital European single market. Connecting to global dataflows is vital for his scheme. As he spoke,…

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The importance of getting everyone involved in the diversity drive

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. June 2024 At a Computer Weekly diversity in tech event, more than 100 experts from the tech and employment sectors shared their ideas for improving diversity in the technology industry. Download the full report here. Table Of Contents Speed up the move to a more equitable…

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Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed

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The Post Office’s most senior executives misled subpostmasters over progress on its IT project to replace the controversial Horizon system a day before Computer Weekly revealed the project required £1bn funding and had been labelled “unachievable” by government auditors. The Post Office’s claims that it has been working closely with the people who run its…

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Uncomfortable truth about agile transformations

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Over the past few months, I’ve worked with an experienced clinical psychologist and a PhD-trained research team including a psychologist and an academic behavioural scientist to understand what separates the best-performing teams from those that struggle. Research shows that 81% of business decision-makers in the UK and 89% in the US are concerned about the…

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Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team

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Fujitsu is making job cuts in its UK-based Oracle Practice as the company attempts to reduce costs and increase competitiveness amid the fallout of the Post Office scandal it played a part in. The move comes after the Japanese IT giant told UK staff in April that about 100 sales, pre-sales and logistics jobs were…

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NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack

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NHS services at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals and other sites in the capital have been disrupted, and a major incident declared, after a cyber attack hit partner Synnovis – which provides laboratory and diagnostic services to NHS sites across several London boroughs. The incident appears to have been first detected…

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Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

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Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers.   A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…

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