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(Image credit: Shutterstock) Last year, the UK government spent a total of $6.23 billion on IT, up from $5.95 billion the year before, a new report from market insight company Tussell suggests. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) which, according to Computer Weekly, has several large ongoing technology programs, spent $4.96bn on IT between 2016 and 2020. The Tussel report states that more than 60 percent of all spending in this period went to the top ten largest suppliers. Among those is...

09 June 2021, 04:06 pm FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) confirmed that it was able to arrest the sellers of Anom encrypted devices, offering these phones to various crime groups.    (Photo : Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The FBI seal is on display during a conference with Attorney General John Ashcroft June 21, 2001 in Washington, DC. Ashcroft announced the indictments of 13 Saudis and one Lebanese in connection with the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American servicemen...

Tussell report finds that central government increased tech spend during the Covid-19 pandemic, and HM Revenue and Customs is the biggest spender.

Bosnian serb military leader, ratko mladic, against his genocide conviction. amazon, reddit, twitch — a number of the worlds most visited websites — all went down today in a massive outage. you may have had trouble accessing them. the disruption was caused by problems for a content delivery network called fastly. this is what you may have seen. brian glick is editor in chief of computer weekly. he explains what happened. a part of the internet that most people using the internet never see ha...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Curtis Anderson in his capacity as senior software architect at Panasas -- a company known for its PanFS parallel file ...

UK immigration exemption in Data Protection Act found unlawful Court of Appeal rules immigration exemption unlawful, but further hearings will follow to decide what remedies must be put in place Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 Jun 2021 14:00 The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s “immigration exemption” in the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 18) is unlawful, overturning a High Court decision from 2019. The immigration exemption, which is found in Sch...

The Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry begins with subpostmaster campaign group waiting for full details before committing its support.

Digitisation and the return to work, albeit in a hybrid fashion, are driving demand for PCs – but supply is plagued by component shortages.

Professional IT body wants changes to how computer evidence is used in court in the wake of the Post Office case.

In this weeks Computer Weekly, we talk to the scientists behind the UKs gene sequencing work during the coronavirus pandemic to find out how cloud and data analytics enabled their success. Its three years since GDPR entered into law – we assess its progress. And we examine low-code software development for a small business. Read the issue now.