
New IT Chief Hired by Post Office While Awaiting Funding for Horizon Replacement
The Post Office is appointing a new technology leader as it awaits government funding for its Horizon IT system replacement programme, which was at the

HS2 reaches £6.2m settlement with HMRC for IR35 compliance issues in public sector reforms
HS2, the UK’s high-speed rail network development body, has paid a final settlement of £6.2m to HMRC for non-compliance with IR35 tax avoidance legislation. This

Dawn Project criticizes Big Tech companies for peddling artificial intelligence products that don’t deliver as promised
The Dawn Project, a safety advocacy group, is intensifying its efforts to highlight the shortcomings of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and the risks associated with

Leeds Teaching Hospitals implements patient records and data sharing on Azure platform
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) has successfully moved its electronic patient records system to Microsoft Azure. This migration was part of a larger initiative to

Moving to Exadata Exascale: A major architectural change in response to minimal workloads
Oracle has introduced the Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) with the goal of enhancing performance for database workloads while lowering costs. This new architecture

Nutanix partners with Dell to enable software-defined storage on PowerFlex
Dell Technologies and Nutanix have strengthened their partnership by introducing a new hyperconverged infrastructure-based appliance and planning to integrate Dell’s software-defined storage into Nutanix’s HCI

NIST introduces new quantum-safe encryption algorithms
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States has introduced three new encryption algorithms to protect critical data from cyber attacks

Kubernetes 1.31 Podcast: Exploring Storage Features
In this podcast episode, Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, discusses the storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31. He mentions the emphasis on removing

The NHS should be Labour’s primary focus for cyber security efforts
Among the five missions outlined by Keir Starmer’s government in the King’s Speech on 17 July 2024, the mission of ‘Building an NHS fit for

J.P. Morgan, a cyber criminal kingpin, seen in US courtroom
In a significant development, Maksim Silnikau, a notorious Russian-speaking cyber criminal known as «J.P. Morgan», has been extradited from Poland to the United States to

Understanding Microcontrollers: Definition from TechTarget
A microcontroller is a small integrated circuit designed to control a specific function within an embedded system. Typically, a microcontroller includes a processor, memory, and

Interview with Thomas Dekeyser: Renowned Researcher and Filmmaker
In April 1980, in Toulouse, the offices of Philips Data Systems and CII-Honeywell-Bull were set on fire by unknown culprits. French authorities scrambled to identify