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The government has confirmed that the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal will now proceed on a statutory basis, with the power to compel witnesses and evidence.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) minister Paul Scully told the House of Commons that “nothing...
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The role of application programming interfaces (API) in building composable business was one of the key themes of the Mulesoft Connect 2021 virtual conference.
In his opening keynote, Mulesoft CEO Brent Hayward said “nearly 60% of customer interactions became digital when the pandemic hit”, which is...
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The UK’s technology sector has seen a tenfold increase in both venture capital investment and the number of billion-dollar “unicorn” companies over the past decade, industry figures reveal.
Between 2010 and 2020 investment in the UK’s tech industry grew from £1.2bn to £11.3bn, with most of...
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Google’s company-wide decarbonise push continues apace, with the tech giant announcing the emergence of a new capability that allows it to shift movable compute tasks to datacentres where there is a surplus of carbon-free energy available.
The company said this capability means it can shift tasks...
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In a new low for the cyber criminal “fraternity”, the Conti ransomware gang has started to leak personally identifiable information about Irish hospital patients, stolen in its attack on the country’s Health Service Executive (HSE), in the face of refusals to negotiate or pay a ransom...
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Which? has called on banks to be more transparent about the proportion of victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud they refund.
Barclays has signed up to a code to do so and has revealed that 74% of customers who suffered losses because of APP fraud...
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Last Wednesday, a message appeared in a new WhatsApp channel called “Death to the Arabs.” The message urged Israelis to join a mass street brawl against Palestinian citizens of Israel.Within hours, dozens of other new WhatsApp groups popped up with variations of the same...
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“It would have been an amazing merger,” said David Barden, a senior research analyst at Bank of America. “It would have kind of perpetuated the AT&T juggernaut of growth through acquisition — not through organic — but it failed.”Mr. Stephenson then looked to the...
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“This would really put the spotlight on that next stage of innovation,” said Debbie Altenburg, an associate vice president at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. “There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making...
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The government has responded to its National Data Strategy consultation by putting an emphasis on “data as an asset” rather than a “threat to be managed”, and pledging delivery as the next step.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) originally published guidance for the...
