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How retailers are using technology to survive

People not offered help to improve digital skills, BCS finds

More than 1,300 teachers trained by National Centre for Computing Education

MI5 accused of withholding surveillance compliance failures from cabinet minister

$60m Middle East tech fund targets 120 startups

How retailers are using tech to cope with changing footfall

Lords propose making tech giants pay for using news

CIO interview: Simon Bateman, Allica Bank

UK government ramps up efforts to regulate tech giants

NI police unable to delete data seized unlawfully from journalists for 10 years

Algorithmic transparency obligations needed in public sector

How to modernise identity governance and administration

This Christmas, Covid-19 heightens retail security risks for everyone

Government must hold technology companies to account on e-waste

Data safes will give users control over their data

Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

Interest in UK digital talent visa surges despite pandemic

Why automation isn’t always an improvement

IP surveillance: The storage it needs, on-premise and in the cloud

AWS outage: Downtime incident blights users of one of Amazon’s major US datacentre regions

CW Nordics: Bank branch closures continue as digital banking grows

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle combine to launch cloud-based vaccine management in Africa

Three cyber criminals arrested in Nigerian BEC investigation

Scottish government unveils strategy for digital planning

Merger of national policing systems over budget and behind schedule

UK government Geospatial Commission stipulates actions to exploit location data

From front line to back office – how supporting the cyber community keeps the NHS safe

Brain researchers get NVMe-over-RoCE for super-fast HPC storage

Securing UK’s critical national infrastructure is a 2021 priority

Use of abusive stalkerware against women skyrocketed in 2020

Microsoft Windows’ future is all about users

Fintechs take stock amid economic shocks

How retailers are using digital to engage with Covid Christmas shoppers

Three options for next year’s IT strategy

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to intelligent workload management

Belgian security researcher hacks Tesla with Raspberry Pi

Post Office accused of lying and being in contempt of Parliament in IT scandal

Orange Business Services strikes global partnership with AWS to accelerate enterprise cloud take-up

How Covid-19 has accelerated tech innovation in the NHS

Nominet introduces new resources for cyber scam victims

Telcos could face huge fines under new security laws

Amazon Swedish language site will expand reach of local retailers

NCSC issues retail security alert ahead of Black Friday sales

Manchester United praised for swift response to cyber attack

Finnish finance giant pilots fingerprint payments

MPs subjected to over 22 million malicious email attacks in 2020

Love (and impact sourcing) in the time of Covid

Subpostmasters want £300m from a government that allowed Post Office ‘reign of terror’

Fix bottlenecks before tackling business process automation

Pioneering companies use AI to drive profit

Security pros fear prosecution under outdated UK laws

Local authorities lagging behind in digitisation of citizen records

CW APAC: Expert advice on zero-trust security

Lush’s 25-year journey to digital excellence

Covid-19 shift to remote working adds to Earth’s growing e-waste problem

Data silos and IT complexity stifle business potential

Cut jobs or cut software spending?

Security sector broadly backs Boris Johnson’s Cyber Force

Gaia-X: Inside the bid to create an open, next-gen data infrastructure for European enterprises

Fujitsu staff under investigation for potential perjury in Post Office IT trial named

Nokia Software embarks on ‘carbon negative’ datacentre revamp push with HPE Greenlake

Need to know: Five key things about backup testing

2021 the year of commodity ransomware, says Sophos

ZSL uses Google Cloud and machine learning to protect endangered species from poachers

US cyber security chief fired for contradicting Trump

The case of Julian Assange as he faces US extradition bid – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

IT managers raise concerns over retaining and attracting SAP skills

Automated image recognition: How using ‘free’ photos on the internet can lead to lawsuits and fines

Kaspersky shuts down data-processing activities in Russia

HMRC warns over uptick in Self Assessment tax scams

Ransomware stats overload risks confusing buyers

Covid-19: Pandemic-induced surge in public cloud spend predicted to run until 2024

Botched software update to blame for Post Office Horizon crash

Financial services data volumes heighten risk of insider breach

Brexit and risks to data privacy and governance

How Mastercard is taking digital payments into a new era

How to build an effective vulnerability management programme

Privacy advocates call for European probe into Palantir

Resident Evil studio Capcom confirms scale of Ragnar Locker breach

Atos debuts OneCloud initiative to help accelerate enterprise migrations to sustainable cloud setups

Martha Lane Fox: My life in tech

Human error blamed in Welsh Covid-19 patient data leak

Hackney systems could be unavailable for months, says council

Post Office explanation of IT system outage so vague it is ‘pointless’

How AI is helping to drive business process optimisation

Covid-19: How retailers are using technology to respond to changing shopping habits

IT Priorities 2020: European IT budget share reflects home-working challenges brought by Covid

Ticketmaster fined £1.25m by ICO for failing to protect customer data

UK government makes inroads in maritime autonomy

Humanitarian data collection practices put migrants at risk

Police open criminal investigation into potential perjury by Fujitsu staff in Post Office IT trials

Public sector IT leaders struggle with data infrastructure legacy

DDoS mitigation strategies needed to maintain availability during pandemic

Online kids’ game Animal Jam confirms large breach

Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks

Company accused of spying on Assange acted for Ecuadorian Intelligence, says ex UC Global manager

Diversity and inclusion in tech: How to be an effective ally

TCS acquires Prudential Financial tech operation unit for free

CW Benelux: Dutch Alzheimer’s app helps dementia patients

Winners of female-only data hackathon announced

Standard Chartered embarks on five-year personalised banking push with AWS

Tim Berners-Lee startup releases decentralisation tech to enterprises

Security pros coped admirably with remote working transition

Gartner: IT spending to focus on fast time to value

Norway has lowest physical cash use in the world, says report

Amazon charged with breaching EU antitrust rules

Microsoft drops fix for serious zero-day among 112 Patch Tuesday updates

Lack of openness on Horizon errors remains as Fujitsu refuses to explain latest outage

Microsoft consumer cloud outage blights Outlook.com and OneDrive users

EU aid funds used to train ‘unaccountable intelligence agencies’ in high-tech surveillance

Intel and AMD processors affected by another side-channel exploit

DCMS’s Whittingdale: National data strategy not tied to EU trade deal

Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights

Intel Optane Persistent Memory aims to fill the gap DRAM can’t

Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach

Bright Little Labs launches Agent Asha series

IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud

Zoom rapped over historic security practices

Deutsche Bank to sell retail banking IT unit to TCS for €1

Better data sharing needed to help children during pandemic

Gartner: Composability will make business more resilient and agile

Google and OVHcloud to bring co-built cloud services to European enterprises

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to supply chain resilience

IT Priorities 2020: After Covid-19, security goes back to basics

Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged

Using digital twins to cut costs and improve safety at Shell

Quantum’s ATFS aims to classify and manage unstructured data

Spinning disk hard drives: Good value for many use cases

Tampere’s perfect storm triggers a startup revolution

French bank Crédit Agricole backs immersion cooling for datacentre scale-up push

EU moves closer to encryption ban after Austria, France attacks

Overhaul business support with a focus on tech to help SMEs weather the Covid crisis

MPs unconvinced NHS has learned lessons from failed IT programmes

Credential stuffing: When DDoS isn’t DDoS

NHS warned over Ryuk spreading through Trickbot replacements

Lockdown 2: Balancing job retention with automation

ICO sued over ‘failure’ to address ad industry practices

Finger pointed at Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon system crashes nationally

HMRC shuns Gov.uk Notify and seeks supplier to unify notifications

Quarter of UKISUG members plan S/4 Hana migration by 2022

Microsoft to support next generation of security startups

Multi-year migration of BBC Online to the cloud 'nearing completion', broadcaster confirms

Consumer rights organisation warns of computer takeover scams

BBVA creates market information infrastructure on AWS cloud

Mastercard: Looks like a tech firm, acts like a tech firm, is a tech firm

Slot of the Antarctic: Tape the best option for polar survey backup

How crowd simulation modelling enables organisations to develop social distancing strategies

Using AI to automate business processes and create revenue streams

Asda recruits new IT chief to handle transition

Pandemic prompts interest in career shifts into tech

Government releases funding for green technology businesses

Nordic countries to develop common digital system

Contractors claim IR35 reforms pose ‘bigger threat’ to their livelihoods than Covid-19 or Brexit

EU to introduce data-sharing measures with US in weeks

GDPR lawsuit against Oracle and Salesforce moves forward

Mixed blessings for robots in retail

Robot lawyer gets Sberbank role

OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges

AWS signs three-year UK government cloud deal to help SMEs win more public sector business

The UK government’s ‘flawed and misleading’ Covid-19 data

NHS weathers cyber crime storm during pandemic, says NCSC

Maze ransomware shuts down with bizarre announcement

Finnish government rolls out digital projects to support SMEs

Tackling multicloud deployments with intelligent cloud management