UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial deployments…
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A senior director at the National Crime Agency (NCA) lost her job after sending sensitive and secret information over her personal email and on WhatsApp in what was described as a “serious information security” breach. Nikki Holland, former director of investigations at the NCA, was responsible for some of the UK’s most high-profile criminal investigations,…
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At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the next few weeks, it emerged that the venerable institution had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, and that its data…
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The Apple Vision Pro becomes available to preorder next week, with shipments set to start on February 2nd. That’s when you’ll have to head to a local Apple retail store to pick up your unit. It’s unclear from Apple’s Vision Pro release date announcement how ordering the first batch of spatial computers will work. Reports say…
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If you’ve ever heard the phrase “addition by subtraction,” you’ll understand Google’s latest move. This week, Google announced that it plans to eliminate more than a dozen features from Google Assistant in the coming weeks. Google Assistant VP Duke Dukellis explained in a blog post that the team is “prioritizing the experiences you love and…
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The concept of working ‘on any device from anywhere’ is not new, but the Covid-19 pandemic brought the security challenges of remote working into sharp focus. For many enterprises the immediate issue was enabling a suddenly home-based workforce (many of whom had no previous experience of working away from the immediate office environment) to stay…
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With spending on IT in the finance sector expected to emerge from the doldrums, we kick off our review of Computer Weekly articles with research from software giant Finastra and its prediction that investment in IT will begin to flow in the second half of next year. Furthermore, for the first time in a few…
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ASML on Thursday said that it had shipped its pilot High-NA EUV scanner to Intel. The Twinscan EXE:5000 extreme ultraviolet (EUV) scanner is AMSL’s very first High-NA scanner, and it has eagerly been awaited by Intel, who first placed an order for the machine back in 2018. Intel will be using the new machine to…
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Andy Moore, chief data officer at Bentley Motors, had a passion for cars as a young child. Luckily for him, it’s an interest he’s been able to foster during his career as a digital leader at Bentley, where he’s worked for more than 20 years. “I stayed here because every time I’ve looked for my…
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Well, we knew this day was coming. While some of us loved the idea of a social network free of them altogether, no social media company can resist the urge to add a feature that has become synonymous with the existence of any social app: hashtags.Today, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to Threads to officially…
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