HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will review the IR35 off-payroll working legislation in response to the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) claims there are “structural problems” that need addressing in terms of how the tax avoidance rules work in the public sector. Several months have passed since the PAC published its damning report on the fallout […]

It is a long-held belief that security needs to become more prominent in the development lifecycle. Instilling this belief in the developer community, however, has proven to be rather challenging. Work has been ongoing from different angles to achieve the goal of secure development, but we still seem to have some way to go […]

By What is a plotter? A plotter is a printer that interprets commands from a computer to make line drawings on paper with one or more automated pens. Unlike a regular printer, a plotter can draw continuous point-to-point lines directly from vector graphic files or commands. Types of plotters include the following: Drum plotters, which […]

Police investigating potential perjury by former Fujitsu employees during trials of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft and fraud have interviewed a key former subpostmaster witness. Almost two years after it launched its investigation, the Metropolitan Police has interviewed a former subpostmaster who was blamed for unexplained accounting shortfalls that were later proven to be […]

Cyber criminals are exploiting some of the astounding new images captured by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope to indiscriminately spread malware to their targets, according to intelligence shared by the threat research team at cloud security analytics specialist Securonix. In a new report, Securonix analysts D Iuzvyk, T Peck and O Kolesnikov said they […]

Local authorities across the UK are experiencing an average of 10,000 attempted or successful cyber attacks every single day and have seen a 14% year-on-year increase in incidents to over two million so far this year, according to new figures published by Gallagher, a provider of insurance broking and risk management services. Gallagher lodged […]

Professional cyber security association and certification body (ISC)² has formally launched two cyber careers schemes, Candidates and Certified in Cybersecurity, as it seeks to broaden access into the sector and plug a shortfall in security professionals that is approaching three million globally. Its new (ISC)² Candidates scheme is designed for individuals who are already […]

A group of Google workers and Palestinian rights activists are calling on the tech giant to end its involvement in the secretive Project Nimbus cloud computing contract, which involves the provision of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to the Israeli government. Calls for Google to end its involvement in the contract […]

We talk to Jeff Whitaker, vice-president for product marketing at scale-out NAS maker Panasas, about why storage is the key bottleneck in artificial intelligence (AI) processing. In this podcast, we look at the key requirements of AI processing and how paying attention to the storage it requires can bring benefits. Whitaker talks about the […]

Arm has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm and Nuvia for breach of licence agreements and trademark infringement. The chipmaker filed the lawsuit against Qualcomm and two of its subsidiaries in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.  In a statement about the lawsuit, the company’s officials said: “Arm is filing this claim […]