A National Audit Office (NAO) report into the government’s planned net-zero technology investments has concluded that further action is needed to ensure it gets value for money from the £4.2bn it has set aside to support the initiative. The government committed in June 2019 to the UK becoming a net-zero greenhouse gas-emitting economy by […]

A police operation to crack the EncroChat encrypted phone network which led to thousands of arrests worldwide is a judicial and political scandal, Spanish lawyers have claimed. Guillermo Rocafort, speaking at a conference on EncroChat organised by the Madrid Bar Association, said a French Police operation to hack the encrypted phone network was a […]

The major colocation hubs of Europe are expected to see record amounts of take-up in 2023, but CBRE predicts the softening demand for cloud services could lead to a decline in how much datacentre capacity the hyperscalers want in the future. The real estate advisory has published the latest version of its quarterly colocation […]

The UK government has unveiled a national semiconductor strategy with funding to support what it sees as the UK’s unique strengths in compound semiconductors, research and development, intellectual property and design. Compared to the European Chip Act, which has set aside €43bn of funding until 2030, the UK strategy involves up to £200m investment […]

Campaigner Alan Bates, the man who led a group of over 500 former subpostmasters to expose the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, fears victims will not receive full compensation until 2025, because the government scheme lacks drive and is “bogged down in bureaucracy”. Bates has accused the Post Office of failing to disclose information […]

The man who led a group of over 500 former subpostmasters that exposed the Post Office Horizon IT scandal fears victims will not receive full compensation until 2025 because the government scheme to pay them lacks drive and is “bogged down in bureaucracy”. He accuses the Post Office of failing to disclose information vital […]

As governments look to regulate the online world, the scrutiny of the algorithms that sit behind popular websites and apps is only going to increase. With doubts over whether self-regulation can ever really work, and with many systems remaining opaque or hard to analyse, some experts are calling for a new approach – and […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) centred on the provision of tech giant GreenLake’s proposition to public sector organisations to run their workloads and applications in the cloud. The MoU will provide public sector organisations with access to HPE’s portfolio of compute products, […]

UK policing minister Chris Philp is pressing for facial-recognition technology to be rolled out by police forces across England and Wales, and will likely push to integrate the tech with police body-worn video cameras. According to a report co-authored by academics Pete Fussey and William Webster on behalf of Fraser Sampson – the biometrics and […]

What is commodity hardware? Commodity hardware in computing is computers or components that are readily available, inexpensive and easily interchangeable with other commodity hardware. Almost all PCs use commodity hardware. The term is most used for general-purpose servers that can be used in any role. Commodity hardware is synonymous with off-the-shelf hardware. It is contrasted […]