The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the UK’s governance of artificial intelligence (AI), which will examine how to ensure the technology is used in an ethical and responsible way. In July 2022, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) proposed “a pro-innovation framework for regulating […]

The global cyber security skills shortage shows no signs of abating, with the estimated shortfall of security professionals growing by 700,000 or 26% in the past 12 months from 2.7 million to 3.4 million, according to the latest annual sector assessment by certification body and professional association (ISC)². In its 2022 Cybersecurity workforce study, […]

A former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worker who blew the whistle on the bank’s lax data protection practices – and to this day has thousands of sensitive customer data files under her bed – is demanding that RBS parent NatWest Group pay for her data controller fee. The whistleblower and the NatWest Group […]

IBM Research has unveiled plans to build a prototype chip specialised for artificial intelligence (AI). The chip, which IBM has named Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU), marks the first complete system on a chip from the IBM Research AI Hardware Centre. In a blog discussing the new chip, IBM researchers wrote: “We’re running out of […]

Computer Weekly has announced the 2022 list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology, including this year’s winner, Flavilla Fongang, founder of both 3 Colours Rule and the Global Tech Advocates Black Women in Tech group. The list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology has grown significantly since it was launched […]

“My favourite colour is red, and every single colour has subconscious meaning,” says Flavilla Fongang, founder of 3 Colours Rule and the Global Tech Advocates Black Women in Tech group. She always wears a “power colour” when she’s networking. “I realised how much colour has an impact in terms of how people perceive us,” […]

Role models are an important part of making sure the future generation is encouraged to pursue a role in the technology sector, whether that role exists now or is yet to be created. But sometimes it can be hard to see the path to greatness – while the women featured in Computer Weekly’s list […]

Many forecasted the VPN’s demise for years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, during the early month of the pandemic, the value of VPNs surged. VPN strategies that were just beginning to percolate gushed out within weeks as companies raced to find new ways to connect their remote workforces. But it’s time to ask: What […]

Overall volumes of ransomware activity dropped somewhat during the third quarter of 2022 as the cyber criminal underground regrouped and refocused following the apparent demise of the Conti operation and the subsequent rise of LockBit, but a slight uptick in September may herald new campaigns, according to an assessment of the threat landscape conducted […]

Lloyds Banking Group has launched a financial technology (fintech) sandbox where fintechs can design and test their applications in the bank’s IT environment. The Innovation Sandbox, as it is known, will see the bank work with fintechs to improve the digital products and services it offers its customers. A number of experiments have already […]