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 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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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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Subpostmasters fighting for financial redress for the suffering inflicted upon them by the Post Office will resort to legal action against the government within months if the stalemate continues. Two decades after some had their lives upturned by the Post Office, and following a huge court victory in 2019, many are still without fair financial…
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Richard Wazacz is a tech-savvy chief executive. With a strong background in digital businesses, he took up the challenge of leading foreign exchange specialist Travelex in June 2022 as the company looked to transform and grow in the post-Covid age. As CEO of a data-rich finance business, Wazacz is interested in how technology can help…
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The Post Office’s former chair learned of concerns about Horizon almost immediately after joining in 2011, yet failed to challenge the organisation’s line that the system was robust. Alice Perkins chaired the Post Office for about four years from July 2011 – a period when it was defending the Horizon system’s reliability amid challenges from…
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Former bosses at Copeland Borough Council blame a 2017 ransomware attack for the authority’s failure to submit audited accounts for its final four years of business. As part of local government reform, Copeland was incorporated into the joint Cumberland authority on 1 April 2023.Auditors from Grant Thornton have now also lambasted Copeland for its response…
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While experts have questioned why Birmingham City Council (BCC) chose to modify and adapt a new Oracle system rather than alter its own business processes – a decision that led to a £100m bill for taxpayers – a series of documents seen by Computer Weekly reveal project management failures over a number of years contributed…
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The second global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in South Korea saw dozens of governments and companies double down on their commitments to safely and inclusively develop the technology, but questions remain about who exactly is being included and which risks are given priority. Speaking with Computer Weekly about developments during the AI Seoul Summit,…
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Dell has upgraded its PowerStore midrange block (and file) access storage arrays with Intel Xeon central processing units (CPUs) to give a claimed performance boost of 66% over the previous version. Meanwhile, one model in the new PowerStore Prime range also offers high-capacity QLC drives for read-heavy workloads. In addition, Dell CEO Michael Dell hinted…
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