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Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Slammed By US Senators Over ‘Unacceptable’ Delay To Handling Data Leak
The fallout from the hack of Yahoo continues, with US senators lambasting firm's handling of incident
Minecraft: Education Edition Launches 1 November
Schools will be able to access the building game for $5 per year, per user
MoJ Appoints Tom Read As Chief Digital And Information Officer
Government has appointed Tom Read as the chief digital and information officer at the Ministry of Justice and will oversee digital transformation
UK Justice System Will Undergo £1 Billion ‘Wholesale Shift’ From Paper Processes To Digital Tech
The government’s ’digital by default’ missive is being levied at the justice system
Emergency Services Network Plan ‘High Risk’, NAO Warns
The plan for a new emergency-services communications network relies on an approach as yet untested anywhere in the world, the NAO warns
Public Cloud Market Will Hit $208 Billion In 2016 Says Gartner
Security concerns remain but they cannot stifle cloud adoption
Bruce Schneier: ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’
Security expert Bruce Schneier suspects state-sponsored DDoS attacks are being levied at major internet infrastructure providers to test cyber defences
13 Companies And Organisations Transforming The Healthcare Industry
TechWeekEurope identifies some of the most interesting companies in the health-tech sector
Reading Receives 30km Of CityFibre’s High-Speed Network
Reading becomes the UK's latest Gigabit City with access to ultrafast broadband
GCHQ’s CESG Approves PwC To Join The UK’s Cyber Incident Response Services
More collaboration is happening between the public and private sector to combat cyber security threats
GDS Aims To Boost Gov.UK Verify Adoption With Local Council Pilot
Government Digital Service will continue to push is government-as-a-platform plans beyond Whitehall but cloud challenges await
NHS Digital Bolsters Cyber Security Defences With Expanded CareCERT Service
Three new cyber security services will provide assessment and guidance on how NHS healthcare organisations can protect themselves
Microsoft Launches UK Cloud Data Centres
The Ministry of Defence and the NHS are amongst those signed up to use Microsoft's UK-based cloud infrastructure
IT Glitch Grounds British Airways Check-In System
A major system crash caused the airline lengthy delays and forced it to return to a manual check-in process.
OpenOffice In Danger Of Retirement, Warns Project Leader
Lack of developers blamed, but others cite poor support from Apache for the Microsoft Office alternative
Opera Investigates After Sync Server Data Breach
Opera admits breach of its servers and warns accounts and passwords could have been compromised
Twitter Pulls The Plug On More Terrorist Accounts
Twitter suspends 360,000 accounts for 'promotion of terrorism', but warns there is no magic algorithm to ID suspects
Microsoft Open Sources Powershell Tool
Also opens Powershell to both Linux and Mac OS X platforms, as Redmond continues open source push
Microsoft Extends Windows 7, 8.1 Support Deadlines
But Redmond insists enterprise customers are moving to Windows 10 faster than any version of Windows
Government Cracks Down On Illegal Phones In Prisons
Government gets powers to blacklist phones it thinks are being used by criminals behind bars
Brexit Dents UK Tech Industry Confidence
techUK members are less positive about the future of UK technology following the EU referendum than they were in March
North London Boroughs Choose Ed Garcez As CDIO
Ed Garcez, currently CIO for the London tri-borough, is to head a new combined ICT and digital service at three North London boroughs
Startup Showcase: RotaGeek
RotaGeek CEO and co-founder Chris McCullough talks about RotaGeek's smart rota software and what government can do to help startups
GDS Will ‘Not Be Broken Up’ Says New Head
Kevin Cunnington thanks predecessor Foreshew-Cain and rejects speculation about GDS future
UK Gov Gives First G-Cloud Blockchain PaaS Agreement To Credits
Credits will serve Blockchain platform to UK public sector via government's Digital Marketplace
The Changes At GDS And HMRC Signal The Demise Of Digital In Whitehall
ANALYSIS: The departure of Stephen Foreshew-Cain and Mark Dearnley could mean the end of GDS as we know it
GDS Chief Stephen Foreshew-Cain Leaves Government
GDS future questioned again as Stephen Foreshew-Cain leaves a year after being appointed
Programming Language Table Ranks C As Most Popular
Over forty years old and still going strong, as survey ranks C as the most popular programming language
Universal Credit Completion Pushed Back To 2022
Welfare policy changes have added a further four years to the troubled project's timetable