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Post Office Capture and Ecco+ users asked to make contact with Scottish statutory body

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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is attempting to contact any former subpostmasters that could have been prosecuted for unexplained losses on the Post Office’s pre-Horizon Capture software. There are former subpostmasters that, like Horizon users, could have been convicted of crimes based on data from these systems. Since the Post Office Horizon scandal…

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Gmail ‘bubble’ encryption may be an S/MIME killer, says Google

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Google is this week unveiling an enhanced client-side encryption (CSE) standard across its widely-used Gmail service – which marks its 21st birthday on 1 April – that it hopes may render the long-in-the-tooth Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) standard for end-to-end encrypted email (E2EE) obsolete once and for all. S/MIME is used for public-key encryption…

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Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn

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As LinkedIn’s chief product officer (CPO), Tomer Cohen oversees the teams responsible for product management, user experience and design, and customer operations. His journey to his C-suite role came after admiring the company from afar. Cohen moved to Silicon Valley in 2008 from Israel to study at Stanford University. He attended a lecture discussing the…

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Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, Cisco, Computer, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, Tech / By

Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…

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Data maturity survey finds a quarter of organisations with no strategy

4 minutes of reading / AI, Computer, Tech / By

According to research published by data management consultancy Carruthers and Jackson, 26% of organisations, mostly in the UK and US, lack a formal data strategy, and 39% have little or nothing in the way of data governance frameworks, but are increasing their use of artificial intelligence (AI) regardless. Nevertheless, data leaders surveyed in the consultancy’s…

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NRF review: no escaping AI for retail in 2025

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Senior retailers and technology providers from around the world converged on New York City for Retail’s Big Show, organised by the National Retail Federation (NRF), where they gained insights into the latest solutions affecting the sector. This year’s event attracted around 40,000 people from 105 countries representing 6,200 brands who heard about a variety of…

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Ransomware payment value fell over 30% in 2024

4 minutes of reading / agile, blockchain, Computer, Tech, Technology / By

The total value of payments made to cyber criminal ransomware gangs fell dramatically in the back half of 2024, and according to statistics released this week by Chainalysis, a supplier of blockchain and crypto services, less than half of victims of recorded incidents even made a payment. Chainalysis found that over 2024 as a whole,…

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Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud

6 minutes of reading / Apple, Cloud, compliance, Computer, Facebook, GDPR, iCloud, Meta, Tech, Technology / By

Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any Apple phone or computer user world-wide. The government has used powers under UK surveillance laws to issue a…

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UK government under fire over public sector guidance on using overseas clouds

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, Computer, HP, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

The government stands accused of sending mixed messages about its commitment to positioning the UK as a technology superpower, after publishing guidance that will pave the way for more public sector bodies to host their workloads and applications in overseas cloud environments. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) overseas data guidance dropped on…

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The story behind Alps, Europe’s second largest computer

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The Swiss National Supercomputing Center, also known as CSCS, built and deployed a new supercomputer in collaboration with Nvidia and HPE. The machine, called Alps, came on line at the end of 2024, and is already listed as the world’s seventh most powerful supercomputer – and Europe’s second most powerful. Computer Weekly sat down with…

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