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The UK government has released a framework on the use of automated decision-making systems in the public sector, setting out how the technology can be deployed safely, sustainably and ethically.
Developed collaboratively by the Cabinet Office, the Central Digital and Data Office, and the Office for...
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Zhang Yiming, who helped found TikTok’s parent company, the Chinese internet conglomerate ByteDance, and turned it into a globe-straddling giant, will step down as chief executive at the end of the year to focus on long-term strategy, he wrote in a letter to employees...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.If Amazon’s Alexa thinks you sound sad, should it suggest that you buy a gallon of ice cream?Joseph Turow says absolutely no way. Dr. Turow, a professor...
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Colorado on Tuesday made it illegal to share the personal information of public health workers and their families online so that it can be used for purposes of harassment, responding to an increase in threats to such workers during the pandemic.Known as doxxing, the...
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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...
