AWS has announced a winner for the most recent run of its GetIT competition aimed at encouraging interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers among young teen girls. The competition, aimed at young women between the ages of 12 and 14, asks participants to create an application designed to solve a real-world […]

Investing in cloud technologies remains a top, long-term priority for the majority of enterprises across the UK and Ireland, despite the hyperscalers feeding back about customers tightening their belts in the face of ongoing economic uncertainty. That’s according to the feedback of nearly 1,000 enterprise senior executives who participated in a study by Tata […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. June 2023 CW APAC: Trend Watch – Artificial intelligence Share this item with your network: Businesses the world over are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence in their operations. In this handbook, focused on the application of AI in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at […]

Outsourcing giant Capita – currently facing possible regulatory investigations over its cyber security affairs after over 90 of its customers, including pension funds and well-known brands such as drinks giant Diageo and retailer M&S had their customer and staff data stolen from its systems in a ransomware attack – has been awarded a £50m contract, […]

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act has passed a major milestone following a plenary vote on the negotiating position the European Parliament takes with member states. After the vote, co-rapporteur Dragos Tudorache (Renew, Romania) said: “The AI Act will set the tone worldwide in the development and governance of artificial intelligence, ensuring that this […]

In this podcast we look at containers – as deployed via Kubernetes, for example – and how storage and backup of container-generated data impacts compliance, with Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust. We talk about the inherent complexity that comes with containers despite their overall advantages in making application workloads portable. The challenge this brings is […]

A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that energy suppliers are not meeting existing demand for smart meters. While smart meters offer the potential for the National Grid to identify outages and faults, and help the grid cope more easily with peaks in demand, the organisations the NAO spoke to in […]

Pure Storage has announced the FlashArray//E, a new quad-level cell (QLC) flash-powered storage array in its FlashArray block and file access family. The company also announced – at its annual Accelerate event in Las Vegas – an industry-beating 75TB (terabyte) Direct Flash Module (DFM), which is its proprietary solid-state drive in its array products. […]

Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update, but in a departure from recent form does not appear to have uncovered any new zero days, no doubt bringing relief to security teams preoccupied with other matters. However, this is not to say that there are no issues worthy of attention, with the June update […]

TSB has called on social media giant Meta to do more to prevent online fraud that emanates in its platforms, which it said could see UK consumers lose £250m to scammers this year. The UK high street bank’s CEO Robin Bulloch has written to Meta calling on it to introduce fraud prevention measures because […]