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Covid-19: the race to create privacy-focused contact tracing tools
As authorities seek technological solutions to the pandemic, experts fear the consequences for civil liberties
Hack from Home 'virtual hackathon' aims to kickstart privacy-enhanced apps to alleviate the COVID-19 crisis
Hackathon this weekend is supported by NHSX, Samsung and a number of global universities
From million-cluster deployments to the IoT: Rancher Labs' goals for Kubernetes
Rancher has big - and small - plans for the container orchestration platform
DataStax's Cassandra Kubernetes operator reaches GA, aims to simplify deploying clusters at scale
Cassandra is an ideal data store for Kubernetes, company says
Do we really want Palantir embedded in the NHS?
Beware bad policy made in haste because of coronavirus, say campaigners
Internet Archive opens up its 1.4 million book digital lending library for the Covid-19 crisis
National Emergency Library opened up amid concerns students will not be able to access texts during the lockdown
The smart grid future can only be open source says energy firm Alliander
As more renewable energy sources come online grids and market mechansims are changing and controlling them must be a collaborative effort, says director of systems operations Arjan Stam
Working from home, keeping connected: 17 video conferencing and collaboration tools to consider
Whether you're a global corporation or a small business, ensuring remote working colleages can keep in touch is suddenly more important than ever. We look at 17 video-enabled collaboration tools that could help bridge the communications gap.
The consortium looking to make quantum random number generation faster, cheaper and more secure
QRANGE is working on a three devices to extend the benefits of true randomness
TigerGraph releases version 3.0 of its graph database, asks techies for assistance with COVID-19 analytics
New features designed to enhance ease of use
What's happening with serverless cloud?
Serverless is gaining traction and use cases are expanding. Computing speaks to three organisations that have looked at the numbers
What's happening with open-source databases?
Cloud has changed the rules of engagement, says Aiven CEO Oskari Saarenmaa
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam postponed due to COVID-19 concerns
Coronavirus outbreak means Amsterdam event is postponed until the summer while Shanghai conference is cancelled
GitLab's Jason Yavorska on trends in the DevOps tools market
GitLab's product management director on progressive delivery, feature flags and evidence gathering
AT&T mobile users blocked from accessing Tutanota encrypted email
Some US users have been locked out for two weeks.
ProtonMail and StartMail blocked by Russia
Encrypted email providers say its part of the country's crackdown on digital privacy
Escape from Google: 12 privacy-promoting search engines reviewed
If you can live without personalisation there are plenty of alternatives
Inside the race to quantum-proof our vital infrastructure
When quantum computers arrive the Web as we know it will break. We talk to scientists cryptographers and entrepreneurs working to ensure this does not happen.
Enterprise HR systems in 2020 - steady as she goes
Delta predicts a continuation of the trends of the recent years: cloud, consolidation and AI
Tracking the threat actors: NCSC's Eleanor Fairford on the evolving threats to the UK's critical infrastructure
'We're seeing ransomware increasingly deployed against utility providers, law enforcement and emergency response units'
Forget zero-days, the most dangerous vulnerabilities are decades old, says ethical hacker
Ethical hacker Holly Grace Williams on the blind spots that lead to companies being compromised
Blockchain latest news: a state-owned quantum computer could break blockchains in as little as three years
Whichever government first produces a working device that can crack public key encryption will be 'master of the world'
Managing the inevitable: what happens when security is breached
Threats are getting more serious, but defences are evolving too.
Machine learning meets diversity at Booking.com, an interview with chairwoman Gillian Tans
'We don't have a very diverse set of people working in AI and I think that's worrying and needs to be addressed'
The challenge of making money through open source software
Computing speaks to two vendors with very different approaches
Google's quantum supremacy is real. Now we urgently need quantum-safe encryption, says UKNQT's Sir Peter Knight
'There's a lot at stake in rewiring the world in terms of encryption and we all depend on getting it right'
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: 'Is it the end of the road for Hadoop? Well what do you think?'
'I've never seen anything sink as fast as Hadoop,' says Slootman
AWS cloud growth slows as Amazon announces investments in renewables and Prime
AWS growth disappoints as Amazon announces windfarm in Scotland and continues to push Prime
Nutanix and the 'messy middle' of the subscription software model
The hyperconvergence vendor moved from selling hardware to subscription software and took a hit to revenues in the process
Managing legacy change: FBD Insurance CTO Enda Kyne on restoring IT control
'We centralised everything internally and started to get the practices right, from requirements through to development standards'
Our bots are just flowcharts, they're not going to try to take over the world, says AA Ireland's Louise McCormack
Insurance companies have no choice but to automate so they'd better start learning how
A vision for the future: out with the old at ITV
Allowing business owners to see how the technology stack works has helped break down barriers
Solid's Ruben Verborgh: 'We need competition based on quality of service not on data harvesting'
Solid developer and inrupt advisor on progress with Berners-Lee's vision of re-decentralising the web.
Graph databases - why so hard?
Graph databases are shaped the way we think, so why can't people get their heads around them?
Interview: MongoDB cofounder Eliot Horowitz - 'I'd like to see a fair fight with the cloud providers'
Horowitz discusses MongoDB's licensing and how he wants to see more VC money being ploughed into core open source
Becoming a T-shaped engineer
The FT's Angelique Vu on how she switched from the creative arts to software engineering
Choosing a cloud provider: Is bigger always better?
Expert panel debates the important factors when deciding to go with AWS, Azure or CGP or a local or specialised provider
Amazon pledges to reduce its climate footprint
Apparent change of heart welcomed by campaigners
'Cloud-first' is nonsense, think 'cloud-appropriate', says Sungard
The most important consideration in a cloud migration journey should be resilience
Cloud: Choosing the right platform for your ambitions
As AWS and Azure scoop up more of the cloud IaaS /PaaS market, what are organisations looking for? A research presentation from Computing Delta
Women are put off STEM careers and it's hurting the UK, says CWJobs
Time to stop just talking the talk, says commercial director Dominic Harvey. More diverse companies do better
Women in Tech: Learn to 'work out loud' to combat gender bias, urges Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon
Co-founder of Stemettes offers strategic advice at the Women in Tech Festival
Rolling out single-sign-on and IAM at Plan International
Security, ease of use and cloud first are technology priorities for the children's charity, says IT head Jon Winder
Fairphone announces new modular smartphone the Fairphone 3
Dutch social enterprise shines a light on murky practices in the electronics supply chain
How AA Ireland smoothed the road to more sales with bots
Bots are a win-win-win for customers, sales and staff, insists customer lifecycle manager Louise McCormack
The journey to passwordless at Zurich Insurance
Insurer is using adaptive multifactor authentication with the eventual aim of ditching passwords altogether