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Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light

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A government review of a local council’s decision to block a US-based company from building a hyperscale datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has concluded the project should proceed. Buckinghamshire Council refused permission in November 2022 for US investment company Affinius Capital to proceed with its plans to redevelop an industrial estate in Court Lane, Iver, Buckinghamshire…

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Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans

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The Post Office has created a new role to bolster its tech leadership team amid an ongoing project to replace the Horizon system supplied by Fujitsu. This comes at a time when the organisation faces tough decisions over the move away from the controversial IT system used in all Post Office branches. Subpostmasters were blamed…

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AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…

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UK medical trial of four-day week finds staff happier and more productive

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Learning technology firm Thrive has taken part in the UK’s first medical trial of the four-day work week, which found that shorter hours lead to happier, more productive staff. Conducted by Thrive in partnership with the University of Sussex, the trial collected data on 115 Thrive employees between July and October 2024, including research tests…

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Justifying ECC upgrade: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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“We all want to do this,” says Conor Riordan, chair of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG),” describing the transition to cloud-based ERP with SAP Rise. “We all want to get to the end point. We just can’t get there as fast as SAP wants us to go.” Computer Weekly met up with…

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Met Police challenged on claim LFR supported by ‘majority of Lewisham residents’

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The Metropolitan Police has claimed its live facial-recognition (LFR) deployments in Lewisham are supported by the majority of residents and local councillors, but a community impact assessment (CIA) obtained by Computer Weekly shows there has been minimal direct consultation with residents, while elected officials continue to express concern. In August 2024, Lewisham councillors complained there…

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Government agencies urged to use encrypted messaging after Chinese Salt Typhoon hack

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US government agencies have been urged to use end-to-end encrypted messaging services, including WhatsApp, Signal and FaceTime, following disclosures that China has breached US telephone networks in a hacking operation that undermines US national security.In a letter to the US Department of Defence (DOD), two prominent senators warned the DOD is placing security at risk…

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What do the Home Secretary’s policing reforms mean for the future of the Police Digital Service?

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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has become a landing zone for Whitehall’s various digital functions since the new government came to power in July 2024. Responsibility for running the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has transferred from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, but it seems…

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US TikTok ban imminent after appeal fails

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An appeals court in the United States has upheld a law passed by Congress earlier in 2024 to ban China-owned video-sharing social media platform TikTok in the US on national security and data protection grounds The law sailed through the US legislature back in April, after being included in a wider package of aid for…

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