Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 23 July 2024 Serving up a GenAI experience at Wimbledon Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Wimbledon to find out how technology is improving the tennis experience for fans. We talk to Meta’s AI research…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
Women are well represented in tech leadership positions across Europe, according to half of the people asked during the annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey. While this may seem positive, it is also misguided, with numbers collected by the Tech Talent Charter finding women made up only 21% of senior tech leaders in the UK…
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