UK businesses losing half a million pounds per cancelled digital project

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ISSUE DATE: 18 October 2017 TOP STORIES UK businesses losing half a million pounds per cancelled digital project UK businesses are losing almost £500,000 pounds for every cancelled digital project, with a lack of the right skills a major contributing factor. READ MORE → CW500: How the NHS WannaCry cyber attack unfolded NHS Digital’s head of security talks about the security landscape in the NHS and why it led to extra challenges when the WannaCry cyber attack hit the NHS in May 2017. READ MORE → Apple Irish datacentre objectors to seek fresh High Court appeal against project The remaining objectors to Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry, Ireland, are preparing to launch another appeal against the project, which has now been delayed by more than two and a half years. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH UK intelligence agencies ‘unlawfully’ sharing sensitive personal data, court hears A secret court will decide whether Intelligence agencies are “unlawfully” sharing huge datasets containing sensitive information about the population with industry, government departments and overseas intelligence services. READ MORE → NHS lost further 162,000 patient documents, PAC hearing reveals NHS England CEO Simon Stevens admits a further 162,000 lost patient documents have been found, following news earlier this year that a probe had discovered more than 700,000 documents went undelivered. READ MORE → Is artificial intelligence hype sowing damaging confusion? IT vendors have leapt on the artificial intelligence/machine learning bandwagon, spreading a level of confusion that threatens potential technology benefits with AI washing. READ MORE → Discussing DevOps: A toast to the T-shaped engineers In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led digital transformation. READ MORE →

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