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Stop being ‘apologetic’ for differing skillsets, says Most Influential Woman in UK Tech 2021

Computer Weekly’s 2021 women in tech Rising Stars

Computer Weekly announces the 2021 Most Influential Women in UK Tech

UK AI strategy focused on economic growth, resilience and ethics

Team leaders urged to address developer mental health

Digital bank fined by regulator due to weak anti-money laundering controls

Will the end of furlough help fill tech vacancies?

Starling Bank takes its banking-as-a-service into European Union

UK consumers would collectively pay over £1bn a year for control of their data

Russia arrests prominent cyber security executive

FoggyWeb malware latest tool of dangerous Nobelium APT

Security boost in Windows 11 limits PC reuse

UK government announces industry group to lead digital pound debate

AWS courts local councils across UK and Ireland with three-month free cloud services trial offer

Dedicated number for victims of fraud launched amid national security threat

Women in fintech welcome Barclays initiative and demand more from the sector

Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?

Rebooting the hospitality sector with technology

NVMe-over-fabrics: Five need-to-knows

The Security Interviews: How SolarWinds came through its darkest hour

UK consumer trust in banks, retailers and telcos declines as scams increase

Blue Prism deal adds RPA to Tibco software product range

Digital regulators need discrete but cooperative remits

How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack

A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to SIEM and SOAR

Ultimate questions require ultimate understanding in the quantum era

Pure launches Fusion cloud control layer for storage

Dutch IT firm transforms HR policy built on lessons from pandemic

PwC initiative Tech She Can becomes independent charity

Government announces data strategy for defence

Chancellor Rishi Sunak talks tech

Uber drivers strike over pay issues and unfair dismissal claims

Fixing the SME tech crisis

Women and BAME people bear brunt of cyber crime impact

Giant Umbrella contractors suffer salary payment delays following suspected ‘data breach’

GCP gets triple-redundant NAS and built-in Kubernetes backup

Private equity cash fuels Nordic datacentre growth

Dubai International Finance Centre’s data protection law to be boosted by new federal regulation

CIO interview: Jon Braithwaite, UK & Ireland CIO, Compass Group

Scotland sees increase in job opportunities in tech

Why UK firms should reconsider jurisdiction in technology contracts after Brexit

IT systems failure blights UK Border Force electronic passport gates

Digdata partners with Facebook to encourage future data talent

IR35 reforms: HMRC confirms compliance checks under way in financial services, oil and gas sectors

Big Data London: Mitigate AI bias rather than try to remove it, say experts

Big Data London: NHS Digital data service struggled with Covid testing demands

IBM ramps up quantum education initiative

Facial recognition cannot be a standalone authentication method

London publishes guidelines for ethical use of smart city tech

HMRC postpones Making Tax Digital until 2024

Regulator concerns about resilience and security could slow cloud adoption in financial services

Tech job adverts increasing outside London bubble

Fresh alert over Conti ransomware surge

European cloud providers are growing revenue but losing market share, Synergy data shows

MoD in second leak of Afghan citizens’ data

Tech Nation announces 15 startups for 10th Future Fifty cohort

Threat actors target VMware vCenter Server users

Authorised push payment fraud sees huge increase as criminals switch tactics

SSE Renewables teams up with Microsoft for AI-led puffin conservation project on Isle of May

Government digital chief outlines extent of legacy IT challenge

JP Morgan Chase to replace core banking system with Google-inspired cloud platform

UK government launches first national artificial intelligence strategy

Dreamforce 2021: Benioff declares Salesforce as net zero and Slack ubiquitous across stack

Newham aims to harness local talent to build data economy in London

Linode commits to NVMe storage infrastructure upgrade across its global datacentre portfolio

AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone

Mastercard invests in digital competence training for five million very small businesses

Legacy, unautomated IT was root cause of human error in pensions underpayment

Foreign professionals and upskilled locals in demand as UAE sets ambitious coding targets

UK data plans aim to boost growth but will they isolate the UK from its international friends?

UK government turns to Tim Berners-Lee startup for digital identity plan

Managing cyber risk through integrated supply chains

US sanctions Suex crypto exchange over ransomware links

Dutch scientist receives top award for work on digital media’s effect on society

Investigation launched after MoD email blunder

NHS App reaches 16 million users

Digital Clinical Safety Strategy adds to NHS patient safety plan

The cities planning for ethical use of AI

UK needs coordinated effort to regain ground in high-performance computing

Open banking objectives a decade away for over a third of UK finance firms

IDC: Salesforce-related economic activity will create 271,000 UK jobs and £52bn in sales by 2026

Chancellor Rishi Sunak listens to UK tech – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

Spanish police bust Mafia-linked phishing gang

Hyperscale cloud giants look to pick up the pace of self-built datacentres in London

London Tech Week: London and South losing out on productivity

BlackMatter gang ramps up attacks on multiple victims

Kioxia revisits SLC flash to power FL6 and rival Optane

How Estonia’s country-as-a-service scheme has attracted tens of thousands of foreign entrepreneurs

UK government announces digital trade strategy

Dear Chancellor: Unlocking private sector collaboration is the key to tech growth

Trust deficit retards predictive analytics adoption in banking, says Qlik

NGO Fair Trials calls on EU to ban predictive policing systems

Putting data at the heart of policymaking will accelerate London’s recovery

Climate change and datacentres: Weighing up water use

UK tech sector on track for another record year of investment

British home computing inventor Sir Clive Sinclair dies

JP Morgan launch of UK digital bank expected next week

Is the tech sector facing an IT skills exodus?

Inside nib’s digital transformation journey

Minister for data John Whittingdale ousted in Cabinet reshuffle

Dutch education administrators underestimate threat of cyber crime

BitDefender launches free REvil ransomware decryptor

European president outlines tech vision to drive Europe

Travel-themed phishing lures spiked this summer

Network Rail U-turns on blanket inside IR35 contractor determinations

UN human rights chief calls for moratorium on AI technologies

Interview: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on supporting the UK tech sector

Tech Nation announces second cohort for Net Zero accelerator

Volkswagen signs up to Arm-based software-defined car standard

Transport for London contracts TCS as it modernises taxi and private hire operation

Microsoft patches 66 vulnerabilities in September update

Nordic central banks drive fintech and digital currency

HDD support and Zoned Namespaces: Key takeaways about NVMe 2.0

TikTok’s take-off fuels hyperscale datacentre spend by parent company ByteDance

Renault set to test out Google supply chain digital twin

UK government takes equity shares in more than 150 startups

Mass health tracker data breach has UK impact

Oracle Q1 2021-2 results: Cloud revenue reaches a quarter

Uptime Institute highlights patchy reporting of water use by datacentre operators

Cost of ransomware attack in financial sector exceeds $2m

Database growth needs greater team collaboration

Government minister holds secret meeting with Post Office Horizon scandal victims

Apple patches ForcedEntry vulnerability used by spyware firm NSO

CCRC refers six more subpostmaster convictions for appeal

Is 3D printing about to hit the mainstream?

Smishing attacks up sevenfold in six months

Olympus likely victim of BlackMatter ransomware

Google joins Microsoft and Facebook by pledging to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030

UK government’s new digital identity system to cost up to £400m

The digital road ahead: National Highways puts technology in the driving seat

The second coming: The Nordic datacentre market comes of age

UK GDPR faces changes under planned reforms

Five things you need to know about cloud file services

Tech R&D gets cash boost through £113m Future Leaders Fellowships

Latest Microsoft zero-day being actively exploited

Ali Ghodsi, Databricks CEO: Scandi-Californian hybrid is an ideal

CW Europe: Dutch researchers build security software to mimic human immune system

REvil reappearance may herald new ransom campaigns

Covid positive for security market, but still a source of stress

Stolen credit card data worth about £13 on dark web, PayPal worth more

Estonian government opens its digital heart to tech testers

Dell, NetApp and Pure: Healthy results on Covid easing

Security Think Tank: Optimising privacy, post-GDPR

TLA Black Women in Tech to launch book about tech role models

Procuring law enforcement tech needs greater scrutiny

ICO in bid to end cookie pop-ups

Banking anti-fraud scheme blocks 65% more fraud

Government opens £2bn chest for big data analytics

Security Think Tank: A response to planned data protection changes

Highways England delivers a digital roadmap

Nokia launches online tech scholarship for under-represented talent

NetApp and AWS launch fully managed Ontap cloud file storage

Saudi tourism development fund goes cloud-first with Oracle

The rise of the chief risk officer

Verne Global acquired for £231m as Nordic datacentre investment trend gathers pace

UK’s new data protection strategy risks costing business more than it gains

Room for improvement in UK right to repair laws

How do SOAR and SIEM services fare in a rapidly changing cyber threat landscape?

Berlin court reverses ban on use of EncroChat evidence in criminal trials

Mandiant, Sophos detail dangerous ProxyShell attacks

HPE revenue boosted by digitisation drive

Age discrimination: An overlooked diversity issue in tech

Equinix acquires two Mumbai datacentres to expand colocation operations into India

China accused of cyber attacks on Norwegian IT systems

Apple workers challenge company on toxic workplace culture

Applications for Tech Nation Global Talent Visa hit 4,000

How high can the contactless card limit go without two-factor authentication?

Protecting children in the digital playground

WhatsApp fined €225m over GDPR breaches

Finance firms faced up to £760,000 costs per DNS attack during pandemic

Five key questions to ask about storage-as-a-service and consumption models

Making the enterprise composable

National Highways sets out data-driven plan for Strategic Road Network

Twitter tests auto-block feature for accounts at risk of abuse

The Gulf is counting on its smart cities for a sustainable and profitable future

Security Think Tank: Managing data securely throughout its lifecycle

HPE signs 10-year GreenLake HPC deal worth $2bn with US National Security Agency

NTT Group to grow global datacentre footprint by 20% over next 18 months

University of Sunderland applies technology through robot dog

Makers announces winners of 2021 Women in Software Power List

Using geospatial data to unlock innovation in the property sector

Tech sector spends nearly €100m a year lobbying the EU

Experts warn on Office 365 phishing attacks

Remote workers routinely bypassed security tools during pandemic