Were it not for an unexpected general election announcement on an otherwise unremarkable wet Wednesday in May, we would now be debating the Post Office Offences Bill in the House of Lords. On the face of it, this is unproblematic. The Bill was passed in what is called “wash up”, the period following the prime…
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A group of NHS clinicians responsible for registries holding health information on millions of patients are warning of the risk of a major data breach through an NHS England project they claim has neglected basic IT security measures. The programme to set up an Outcome Registries Platform (ORP) has received little attention outside the NHS,…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has walked free from prison and will no longer be extradited from the UK, after reaching a plea deal with US authorities. According to WikiLeaks, Assange left high-security London prison Belmarsh on 24 June and has already flown out of the UK after being granted bail. While WikiLeaks noted on X…
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While almost three-quarters (74%) of in-progress SAP S/4HANA implementation projects are being deployed on public clouds, analyst Gartner has urged IT leaders to avoid simply mirroring their on-premise setups in the cloud. Gartner’s Top practices for deploying SAP S/4HANA in the public cloud report identifies several benefits of public cloud deployments, including the ability to…
SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink Read More »
Just hours after Google revealed that its 2024 hardware reveal event is taking place in August, Samsung announced that the next Galaxy Unpacked will take place a month earlier. Samsung shared an invitation on its website today inviting fans to tune in on July 10 when the company takes the stage in Paris, France to…
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Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new way to virtualise applications, but storage and data protection functionality was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications, with all that’s required for the storage…
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I was wrong to think iOS 18 wouldn’t be worth trying out while in beta without Apple Intelligence features. In fact, WWDC 2024 gave me plenty of reasons to install iOS 18 beta 1 on my iPhone 14 Pro. It also confirmed that my hardware isn’t good enough to run Apple’s AI, though Apple Intelligence…
iOS 18 public beta is probably coming soon to an iPhone near you Read More »
The dominant hold that Microsoft has on government IT is coming under close scrutiny, following the software giant’s disclosure it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted within its hyperscale cloud infrastructure. As exclusively revealed by Computer Weekly on 19 June, Microsoft has advised Scottish policing bodies it cannot guarantee that data hosted…
Microsoft broke European Union (EU) antitrust rules by bundling in its cloud-based communications and collaboration software Teams when users purchased its online productivity suite, Office 365. That is the preliminary view of the European Commission’s (EC) ongoing investigation into the distribution strategy of Microsoft Teams, which began in July 2023 in response to two separate…
European Commission declares Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive Read More »
All four iPhone 16 models will feature a brand-new button. It’s called the Capture button, and almost every iPhone 16 leak says it’ll be a camera-centric button. We’ve also seen iPhone 16 dummy units and purported cases showing the location of the Capture button. Moreover, several reports have explained how the Capture button should work.…
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