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Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed

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Former subpostmasters and Post Office branch staff who were wrongfully convicted of crimes based on flawed computer evidence in Scotland have had their convictions quashed. Emergency legislation to exonerate wrongfully convicted Post Office workers has completed its journey through Scottish Parliament and each will now receive initial compensation of £600,000, with the ability to claim…

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Drilling into data to help the UK’s energy transition

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 11 June 2024 Drilling into data to help the UK’s energy transition Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how data is accelerating the UK’s energy transition to net zero. With Windows 10 support ending next year, we examine…

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Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech

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“We’re about to see a revolution in space. Very few people have even grasped how much of a revolution it’s going to be.” If that claim came from the marketing director of a technology company, you’d probably roll your eyes. Yeah, yeah – space is going to be big, right? Heard it all before… Well,…

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Post Office Capture software training deficit echoes systemic Horizon problems

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Subpostmasters used pre-Horizon Capture software without any training from the Post Office, a failing that mirrors one of the causes of the Post Office Horizon scandal. Despite a Post Office document from 1995 outlining the training users received, former subpostmasters, who encountered serious problems with Capture, have come forward revealing they had no training. One…

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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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