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As full details about the fallout from the cyber attack on the Giant Group umbrella company emerge, contracting stakeholders say the incident should prompt the government to expedite the process of regulating contractor payroll processing firms.

New £3mn retrospective facial-recognition software purchased by the Met Police will be deployed in coming months amid continuing controversy around the use of biometric technologies by law enforcement bodies

Nearly 2TB of data was stolen from Japanese electronics firm in a Conti ransomware hit.

In an open letter to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, umbrella regulation draft policymakers Rebecca Seeley Harris and James Poyser urge the government to prioritise funding for a single enforcement body.

Robotic process automation (RPA) provides another piece of the jigsaw in Tibco’s drive to be a data company.

Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams

Microsoft and AWS are in the midst of another dispute over the outcome of a $10bn US goverment cloud contract.

TfL under fire for relying on Uber facial-verification data in licensing decisions TfL is facing numerous legal appeals from Uber drivers as a result of its decisions to revoke their private licences on the basis of mistaken information from Uber’s systems Share this item with your network: By Published: 23 Jul 2021 12:45 Transport for London’s (TfL) reliance on information from Uber’s facial verification-based driver ID system is coming under increased scrutiny following multiple in...

UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan About This Blog Computer Weekly\s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy. Latest Blog Posts Related Content The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live CIO interview: Simon McKinnon, chief digital and information officer, DWP Download Current Issue The next phase of the UK government’s plan to support a market of certified, interoperable...

The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live The UKs most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world Share this item with your network: By Published: 07 Jul 2021 0:01 Cambridge-1, the Nvidia-backed supercomputer, is now up and running, processing pharmaceutical and healthcare-related data and workloads to accelerate the pace of the UK’s genome sequenc...