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Saudi Arabia calls for humanitarian AI after tightening screws on rights protesters

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Saudi Arabia (KSA) has called for a global agreement to govern artificial intelligence (AI) with humanitarian and democratic values, earning the incredulity of rights activists campaigning to free people imprisoned for decades for criticising the Gulf state on social media.  Using the diplomatic honour the United Nations (UN) bestowed on it by allowing it to…

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Former subpostmasters invited to take part in Post Office Capture compensation scheme development

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Former users of a pre-Horizon Post Office accounting system, who suffered as a result of its errors, are being invited to tell their stories to the government as it attempts to ascertain common themes that will help in the design of its compensation scheme. The government has recognised that problems with the Post Office’s Capture…

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Nato membership boosts Finnish civil and military tech startups

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Finland’s fast-expanding defence sector is witnessing a surge in tech startups chasing new business opportunities on the back of the country’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in April 2023.   The so-called Nato dividend is causing the country’s defence sector to experience accelerated growth as more companies capitalise on membership to innovate,…

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Black mothers seek ‘total agency’ over perinatal healthcare data

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A group of black women in Birmingham have initiated a community-led research project that aims to give black mothers “total agency” over how their perinatal healthcare data is gathered, interpreted and ultimately used. Drawn from Maternity Engagement Action (MEA) – an organisation that provides safe spaces and leadership for black women throughout pregnancy, birth and early…

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German court finds hacked EncroChat phone evidence inadmissible

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A Berlin court has raised questions over whether data from 120 million messages obtained by police hacking an encrypted phone service can continue to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in Germany and other European countries.The Landgericht Berlin Regional Court has ruled that text messages intercepted by French police from the EncroChat encrypted phone…

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Top 10 cyber security stories of 2024

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The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to dominate the headlines. This year, we steer away from AI fear, uncertainty and doubt to focus on some of the other big…

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The Security Interviews: Martin Lee, Cisco Talos

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The first thing worth knowing about the first ever ransomware locker is that its use was apparently motivated by revenge rather than outright criminality. The second thing worth knowing is that there was not a Russian speaker in sight. In fact, its author, Joseph Popp, grew up in Ohio and was educated at Harvard University.…

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Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2024

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This year signalled a worrying time for diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector as many firms began rolling back their initiatives and efforts. This lack of commitment led many notable diversity organisations to dial back their own efforts, not wanting to contribute to allowing firms to pretend to be making a difference rather…

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CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

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Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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