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SAS has launched a free programme to train 10,000 job seekers in data skills, called STEP.
The programme has come out of an internal SAS UK and Ireland employee competition, provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ahead of launch, Roderick Crawford, vice-president and country manager, SAS UKI,...
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The CEO of the Football Association Wales (FAW) is stepping down after losing a no confidence motion triggered by the controversial appointment of an executive involved in the Post Office IT scandal.
Jonathan Ford will leave the organisation this month after 11 years in the role,...
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Microsoft has patched a total of 89 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its latest Patch Tuesday update, which dropped on 9 March, including 14 bugs rated as critical – but the latest round of updates is overshadowed by the developing crisis around four CVEs disclosed...
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OVHcloud has confirmed that no one has been harmed in a fire that broke out and destroyed one datacentre at its server farm campus in Strasbourg, France, in the early hours of Wednesday 10 March.
According to local press reports, the fire broke out at 12.47am...
Source is New York Times
MOSCOW — The Russian government said on Wednesday that it was slowing access to Twitter, accusing the social network of failing to remove illegal content and signaling that the Kremlin is escalating its offensive against American internet companies that have long provided a haven...
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The government has refused a freedom of information (FOI) request for copies of emails sent between the former Post Office CEO and the government department responsible for the organisation.
The request was made by an individual with an interest in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal,...
Source is New York Times
China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging the sectors where the United States or others could cut off access to crucial technologies. And when its leaders released their most important economic plans last...
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When the French gendarmerie, Dutch police and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) infiltrated the EncroChat encrypted phone network last summer, organised crime groups around the world opted to switch to a new phone supplier.
That supplier was Sky ECC, now the largest supplier of crypto...
Source is New York Times
To those fearful of a future in which videos of real people are indistinguishable from computer-generated forgeries, two recent developments that attracted an audience of millions might have seemed alarming.First, a visual effects artist worked with a Tom Cruise impersonator to create startlingly accurate...
Source is New York Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in an ethnically diverse neighborhood to persuade people to sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations.It was just after 11 a.m. when they...
