Inexperienced Indian tech operative’s blunder led to RBS banking meltdown
A serious error committed by an “inexperienced operative” caused the IT meltdown which crippled the RBS banks last week, a source familiar with the matter…
Alan Turing- technology genius was born 100 years ago at the weekend
The life and achievements of Alan Turing – the mathematician, codebreaker, computer pioneer, artificial intelligence theoretician was born 100 years ago on 23 June 1912.Turing…
Nat West computer glitch- a disaster waiting to happen
The STILL ongoing computer “glitch” was an attempt by the RBS bank to save money by sacking skilled UK staff and offshoring to fewer, cheaper,…
Royal Bank of Scotland customers still suffering after Wednesday’s computer breakdown.
Up to 12 million Royal Bank of Scotland, Natwest and Ulster bank customers were left unable to withdraw cash, pay bills or move money yesterday…
IBM supercomputer reclaims world’s fastest title
IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer has reclaimed the top spot on the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the USA.The newly installed system beat Japan’s K…
UK has wrong focus on cybercrime
The UK Government should focus more funds on policing the internet and less on anti virus software and snopping according to new research.Computer scientists at…
Neverseconds blogger beats Argyll Bute Council over censorship ban
A ridiculous ban by Argyll and Bute Council preventing a nine year old girl from photographing her school meals has been lifted following a storm…
Proposed UK snoopers’ charter faces severe criticism
Civil liberty groups and ISPs have voiced severe criticism over the newly published Data Communications bill aka snoopers’ charter. The controversial bill extends the type…
Cash served from bank machines- without your card
New software lets people withdraw money from cash machines using their smartphones rather than their cards has been launched.Customers who use the Royal Bank of…
Google faces new data privacy investigation
Google is to be reinvestigated over new claims that it deliberately collected personal data, including emails and passwords, while it was capturing images for its…