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China is having its techlash moment.The country’s internet giants, once celebrated as engines of economic vitality, are now scorned for exploiting user data, abusing workers and squelching innovation. Jack Ma, co-founder of the e-commerce titan Alibaba, is a fallen idol, with his companies under...
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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is fully reviewing five cases of potential miscarriage of justice in relation to subpostmasters prosecuted by the Post Office.
In September 2020, the SCCRC took what it described as an “unusual step” and wrote to 73 people with criminal...
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OVHcloud has moved to assure customers that a clean-up effort is underway at its datacentre campus in Stasbourg, France, as the firm battles to restore services at the site in the wake of this week’s fire.
As reported by Computer Weekly, a fire broke out at...
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Data-driven innovation has the potential to transform our society and economy. Data-driven technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can be harnessed to help us tackle complex challenges, from climate change to levelling up the UK’s regions.But as is so often the case in times of great...
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Oracle Corporation has announced third-quarter 2020-21 revenue of $10.1bn, up 3% on the same quarter last year. The supplier declared an operating profit of $3.9bn, up 10% on last year.
CEO Safra Catz said in the earnings release: “We continued to extend our huge lead in...
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The end of the Emotet botnet has shaken up the cyber criminal underground, with malicious actors turning to other means to distribute malware and ransomware, according to Check Point’s latest monthly threat charts.
In the past few weeks, the firm reported in its February Global Threat...
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A cyber attack on video surveillance startup Verkada that has seen around 150,000 video cameras, many of them in secure locations, compromised by a hacktivist collective, is prompting warnings both around basic security hygiene, and the ethics of surveillance technology.
According to Bloomberg, the group behind...
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A drone flies into a bar, swoops through an adjacent bowling alley and crashes into the pins.The drone’s operator, who shot the 87-second video in a Minneapolis bowling alley last week to rally support for the business, didn’t expect it to be viewed hundreds...
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The national parliament of Norway, the Storting, has come forward as another victim of cyber attacks arising from a series of dangerous ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server that affect more than 100,000 organisations worldwide and are being actively exploited by malicious actors.
In a statement,...
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IFS is increasing the cloud delivery of its products while rebranding itself as beyond enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Darren Roos, CEO at IFS, told Computer Weekly ahead of the official launch of IFS Cloud that because half of the supplier’s revenue now comes from field service...
