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Amazon is embarking on a UK-wide hiring spree across its online retail and cloud computing business divisions, having committed to creating 10,000 new permanent jobs this year.
If it hits its hiring target, the company will have more than 55,000 people working for it in the...
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The Irish national Health Service Executive (HSE) has been forced to shut off all of its IT systems following a major ransomware attack, while it triages and investigates the scale of the incident, causing significant and unavoidable disruption to patient services across Ireland, although Covid-19 vaccine...
Source is New York Times
What would George Washington look like if he were a modern-day politician? That question occurred to George Aquilla Hardy, a musician, 14 months into the pandemic. There he was at 23, stuck in his childhood bedroom in Dorset, England, instead of playing music festivals.Because...
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The government has confirmed funding of £36m for a wave of technical bootcamps, paid for out of the National Skills Fund, that are designed to bolster digital and other technical skills and inject a new wave of skilled individuals into the workforce.
Delays in the processs...
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Another two former subpostmasters have had their convictions for financial crimes overturned, following a hearing in Southwark Crown Court.
Oyeteju Adedayo and Parmod Kalia had their convictions quashed in the London court. They were convicted over a decade ago based on evidence from the Horizon accounting...
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The Cabinet Office is inviting technology startups to develop digital and data-related climate solutions as part of its new Tech for Our Planet challenge programme.
Run in partnership with government technology (GovTech) accelerator Public, the programme will allow startups to apply for one of six core...
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The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) developed software to help Dutch police filter life-threatening messages sent by suspected criminals using the encrypted EncroChat phone network.
After placing a “software implant” on an EncroChat server in Roubaix, French investigators began collecting live data from phones on 1 April...
Source is New York Times
In a 28-second video, which was posted to Twitter this week by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to launch rocket attacks at Israelis from densely populated civilian areas.At least that is what Mr....
Source is New York Times
Last February, when Glauber Contessoto decided to invest his life savings in Dogecoin, his friends had concerns.“They were all like, you’re crazy,” he said. “It’s a joke coin. It’s a meme. It’s going to crash.”Their skepticism was warranted. After all, Dogecoin is a joke...
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As we settle into our new digital lives, where the internet has become our workplace, our classroom, our shopping venue and our social lifeline, our behaviours have changed forever.
While a pandemic-driven increase in cyber crime and an exacerbation of existing fraud trends were, to a...
