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Expert investigating Capture system refuses to meet ‘untrustworthy’ Post Office

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A former long-serving Post Office executive, who is campaigning for users of a second controversial Post Office IT system, has turned down his former employer’s offer to meet to discuss the controversial Capture system. The Post Office is currently investigating claims that, like the Horizon system, Capture led to the prosecution and unfair dismissal of…

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YouTube CEO to OpenAI: Don’t you dare use our videos to train Sora (even though Google trains its AI on our data)

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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati didn’t have a good answer when The Wall Street Journal‘s ace technology reporter Joanna Stern asked her on camera in March to identify what data was used to train the company’s text-to-video generation tool Sora. And thanks to new remarks from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, it’s even more clear now why…

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AWS Public Sector Day: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis

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A hospice in South Devon is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an artificial intelligence-enabled (AI) nursng home for people with dementia. Speaking at the AWS Public Sector Day in London on Tuesday 19 March, Gill Horne, programme director for care services at Rowcroft Hospice, said the UK is in the midst of…

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The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

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Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…

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CCS holding firm on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements for prospective Lot 4 suppliers

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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is refusing to extend its decision to revise down the amount of insurance cover required by prospective G-Cloud 14 suppliers to all four of the framework’s Lots, despite pleas from suppliers to do so. The government’s procurement arm is coming under growing pressure from prospective G-Cloud 14 Lot 4 suppliers…

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ASML Delivers First 2nm-Generation Low-NA EUV Tool, the Twinscan NXE:3800E

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Our avid readers tend to look at microelectronics made using leading edge process technologies, which in case of Intel means usage of High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography a couple of years down the road. But the vast majority of chips that we are going to use in the next couple of years will be made…

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US sues Apple, alleging smartphone monopoly

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The US Department of Justice (DoJ), alongside 16 individual states and the District of Columbia, has launched an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of “broad-based, exclusionary conduct” that makes it harder for users to switch phones, undermines developers’ ability to innovate and imposes “extraordinary” costs on the mobile ecosystem. Filed in the US District Court for…

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The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum

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The idea behind DevOps is that it brings together development and IT operations – the Dev and the Ops – to make it easier to create and deploy software. Platform engineering builds on this with a team made up of product managers and engineers, creating and maintaining the shared infrastructure needed by developers.Tech analyst Gartner…

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Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto

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The Open Data Institute (ODI) is calling on UK political parties to adopt a number of manifesto commitments around data, digital and technology issues ahead of the upcoming general election. Launched at a cross-party event in the House of Commons on 21 March 2024, the ODI’s “policy manifesto” sets out what it believes is needed…

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Nationwide building society falls victim to IT outage

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Nationwide building society is recovering from an IT outage that caused significant difficulties for customers over a period of several hours, with account holders reporting problems making purchases and sending and receiving payments, including making mortgage payments and receiving salaries. The organisation, which on Thursday 21 March confirmed it had reached a formal agreement to…

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