all that technology won't implement itself

Science, Innovation and Tech Committee chair Chi Onwurah has written to Google and OpenAI asking for details of the companies' responses to the govt consultation on AI and copyright. The companies had declined to appear before the committee while the consultation was underway.

Today our @AP White House reporter was denied access to the Oval Office because the Associated Press recognizes the international body of water on our southern coastline as the Gulf of Mexico, while acknowledging President Donald Trump's order to rename it the Gulf of America. Our explanation on why is here: ap.org/the-definitive-source…

Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO Alex Karp ... by ME! theregister.com/2025/02/04/p… via @theregister

Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers? theregister.com/2025/01/28/u… via @theregister

The budget for UK council's delayed ERP project went from £2.6 million to around £40 million. How are they paying for it? By selling assets. By me. theregister.com/2025/01/27/w…

Hi, I'm working on a story following the allegations around hashtag blocks and auto-follows on #Meta platforms yesterday. I'd love to speak to someone who understands it all more technically inc. hashtag blocks how the POTUS page transferral works etc. Hmu! #journorequest

What is reality? How much of what we perceive is constructed by our minds? Really thought-provoking episode of @BBCRadio4 4's Sideways yesterday "Reality Shifters" featuring the brilliant ⁦⁦@anilkseth⁩. BBC Radio 4 - Sideways, 67. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026vv…

outstanding story. the government is addicted to consultancies

It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever theregister.com/2025/01/02/t… via @theregister

#journorequest have you ever been to a botox party? i want to hear from you – can be anonymous! DMs open or get me at dayna.mcalpine@id.huffpost.co.uk 💉

#PostOfficeScandal Latest piece in @TheRegister by @datadictum We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry Fujitsu (@fujitsu_uk ) has said it continually told the @PostOffice about problems with Horizon, the computer system at the center of one of the UK's widest miscarriages of justice, as its client prosecuted branch managers for accounting discrepancies. Speaking at the closing statements of the statutory inquiry into the complex computer scandal, Richard Whittam KC, the lawyer representing Fujitsu, said the Japanese tech services group and Horizon IT platform provider had told the Post Office about bugs, errors and defects (Beds) and their impact on Post Office branch accounting over a 25-year period. Horizon is an EPOS and back-end finance system for thousands of Post Office branches around the UK, first implemented by ICL, a UK technology company later bought by Fujitsu. From 1999 until 2015, around 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongfully convicted of fraud when errors in the system were to blame. It destroyed the lives of many involved, leaving some bankrupt and others feeling suicidal, with several succeeding in ending their lives. While a number of convictions have been quashed in the courts, 60 people died before just seeing any sort of justice served. A statutory inquiry into the mass miscarriage of justice launched in 2021 is ongoing. Whittam told that inquiry yesterday: "In general, Fujitsu routinely and continually shared information concerning the existence of the impact of Beds with Post Office. [It] therefore follows the contemporary, contemporaneous knowledge of [Beds] within Post Office went well beyond acknowledgement of the mere theoretical possibility of [Beds]. Post Office has been aware for at least 25 years of the potential for and the existence of [Beds] in Horizon, as well as the potential for those which are unknown and unresolved to exist. Post Office was also aware in 1999 of the potential for [Beds] to impact upon the integrity of branch accounts.” The lawyer for the Post Office denied senior figures knew of these problems, while the lawyer for former CEO Paula Vennells denied she knew of problems with Horizon. However, during the Inquiry’s hearing for closing statements of core participants, Whittam said: "Fujitsu has identified at least 70 individuals within Post Office and Royal Mail, in relation to whom the inquiry has received unequivocal evidence of their knowledge of [Beds]. This includes members of the Post Office board, senior executives, in-house lawyers, as well as individuals working in Post Offices security and investigations teams. That knowledge spans the entire entirety of the period being examined by the Inquiry.” He went on to say that in its closing submissions, the Post Office “sought to obfuscate” its share of responsibility for the scandal and wrongly tried to “deflect blame to Fujitsu and other third parties”. “[The] Post Office has sought to characterize itself as the subordinate partner in the relationship with Fujitsu and as operationally and technically dependent on Fujitsu,” he said. However, these submissions were “unsupported by any reference to the evidence before this inquiry”. “That's unsurprising, because the submissions bear no resemblance to that evidence,” Whittam said. Nicola Greaney KC, speaking for the Post Office, said the public sector organization regretted its reliance on Fujitsu and its belief in the reliability of Horizon which “emerged in those early days, was allowed to take root within post office in the decades that followed.” She said a “mindset” took hold in Post Office founded on the assumption that there were no Beds in Horizon. “Such problems as did arise in Horizon were due to user error or dishonesty, [due to] a strong resistance to countenancing the existence of any flaws in Horizon, a mindset that saw it as an advantage not to keep postmasters informed about systems issues that were identified, a mindset that positively discouraged more widespread dissemination of information, a mindset that focused on protecting the Post Office brand and the commercial interests of the company. This mindset was compounded by an organizational hierarchy, which meant that junior employees did not feel able to escalate issues upwards,” she said. Greaney added that senior figures failed to take a sufficient overview of Horizon. “Important senior roles were occupied by individuals who regrettably lacked sufficient understanding of the obligations and responsibilities attached to those roles. They either did not have sufficient personal experience of Horizon technology, or were not sufficiently senior within the overall organization to carry out those roles,” she said. She put this phenomenon down to “a series of governance failings in the organization.” Read the full piece here👇 theregister.com/2024/12/18/w… #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #MrBates #MrBatesVsPostOffice #MrBatesPBS #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOffice

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion go.theregister.com/feed/www.…

Databricks collects $10 billion in latest funding round - blocksandfiles.com/2024/12/1…