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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The numbers inside the angry notification bubbles on our phones and computer screens have become meaningless. I have 66,394 unread emails, 416 unlistened-to voice mails and 316 alerts from my bank. There are push alerts, piling up for everything from old grocery orders to breaking

Two recent major contracts point to the return of big outsourcing contracts. Earlier in January, Canada Post announced it has entered into an agreement to transition Innovapost, its IT shared-service provider, to Deloitte Canada, in a bid to improve the delivery of digitally enabled products and services. Vodafone also announced a $1.5bn, 10-year deal

Fujitsu has put bidding for UK public sector contracts on hold during the current public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history, in which the Japanese supplier is implicated. Under-fire Fujitsu has also confirmed it will contribute to the financial redress for subpostmasters who suffered as a result of being blamed

Data has never been more valuable. It’s the lifeblood of modern business and is simultaneously increasingly vulnerable to attack. The growing use of hybrid cloud and remote working means that bad actors have a larger attack surface than ever before. The result? A rapidly evolving threat landscape that’s progressively more difficult to police. On

London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable people and the rising costs being borne by local authorities. In 2017, telecommunications providers announced their plans to switch off the UK’s old

Ciaran Martin, the founding chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is to join the recently launched Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) non-profit as chair of its technical committee The CMC is a partnership between law firm Weightmans and insurer CFC, and is described as a “first-of-its-kind” project to independently declare and

At the same time that UK political parties vie in their condemnation of the Post Office scandal, they unite in their promotion of AI as the answer to tricky social problems. This means that, in effect, they are arguing for more of the same; for more occasions where computing and bureaucracy combine to mangle

Government plans to update the UK’s surveillance laws could divert tech companies away from safeguarding the privacy and security of their customers towards meeting the surveillance needs of government. The warning from technology companies comes in a briefing for government ministers on the risks posed by government plans to modernise the Investigatory Powers Act

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is leaving the company’s board of directors after 12 years, marking the end of her leadership of the transformative — and often controversial — social media giant. Sandberg, who helped turned the company from a viral social media