Amazon faces £635M fine for GDPR violations

It's the largest GDPR fine the bloc has ever handed out for data protection reasons | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 2 years ago

Booking.com fined €475,000 for late reporting of data breach

Travel firm delayed reporting the breach by 22 days, exceeding the 72-hour limit | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 3 years ago

Microsoft announces passwordless authentication in Azure

Announcements made at Ignite 2021 event | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 3 years ago

The FT goes 'cloud-only', using AWS and GCP

Greg Cope, technical director for enterprise services, and interim CTO Mark Ridley discuss the successes and pitfalls along the way, as the organisation managed to ditch all of its data centres during the global pandemic | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 3 years ago

Monzo: Learned a lot from self-hosting Kubernetes, but wouldn't do it again

Don't need to do it the hard way anymore | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 3 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee Launches 'Contract for the Web' to Govern Internet Giants

Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee's 'global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone',Communications,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Tim Berners-Lee,internet,Google,Facebook,China,Contract for the Web | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 4 years ago

Facial recognition roll-out across London's Kings Cross estate–Canary Wharf next

Question marks over GDPR opt-outs for facial recognition surveillance systems springing up across London,Security,Cloud and Infrastructure,Big Data and Analytics ,Facial recognition,Canary Wharf,Kings Cross,Google,GDPR,privacy,Security | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 4 years ago

190k Docker Hub user names and passwords exposed in security breach

Bitbucket and Github access tokens for Docker autobuilds also exposed,Security,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Docker Hub,container images,Bitbucket,Github access tokens,Security,Docker | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 4 years ago

Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems

Attackers could potentially change the course of a flight using $600 worth of commercially available equipment,Security ,Aircraft,Security,Cyber Crime,Hackers,hijack | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 4 years ago

Google now pays more money in EU fines than it pays in taxes

Google files 2018 revenues revealing that it pays $900m more in fines than it pays in taxes,Cloud and Infrastructure ,Google,Alphabet,European Commission | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Understanding the Economics of Running Open Source Software (Tom G Lane 2015)

Open-source pioneer Tom Lane talks us through the tricky calculations surrounding enterprise free-to-use software,Open Source ,postgres,Tom Lane,Crunchy Data,Hortonworks,Big Data,skills,Oracle,Microsoft,databases,open source,software development | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Legislators need to be leading the debate around AI not playing catchup

As technology advances exponentially legislators need to find a way to do the same, argues panel,Big Data and Analytics,Legislation and Regulation ,datastrategy,ai,Machine Learning,IoT,Lloyds Banking Group,Orange | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum

The Internet Archive's Wendy Hanamura on progress towards a decentralised web,Internet ,ethereum,IPFS,blockstack,OmiseGO,Etherium,blockchain,MaidSafe,Tim Berners-Lee,Brewster Kahle,decentralisation | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?

Ethereum developer and others on the difficulties in disrupting the prevailing model,Internet ,ethereum,IPFS,blockstack,OmiseGO,Etherium,blockchain,MaidSafe,Tim Berners-Lee,Brewster Kahle,decentralisation | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Peter Cochrane: Is AI Schrödinger's Brain?

Artificial intelligence today is barely intelligent at all. So what will it take for true AI to be developed, asks Peter Cochrane?,Big Data and Analytics,Strategy ,Peter Cochrane,ai,Artificial Intelligence,social credit rating | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Airports are ill-equipped to handle cyber attacks, says report

Airports could face millions in damages,Security ,Security,cyber attacks,Cyber | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago

Ryanair to shift infrastructure to Amazon Web Services closing most data centres

Ryanair going all in on AWS to rebuild business around machine learning,Cloud and Infrastructure,Hardware ,Ryanair,Amazon Web Services,AWS,Machine Learning,datacentres,John Hurley,Amazon S3,SageMaker,Amazon Lex,MyRyanair | Continue reading

@computing.co.uk | 5 years ago