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Carol Hancox
October 23, 7:46 PM
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The government is facing questions about why a multi-hour outage originating in a US-based cloud region belonging to Amazon Web Services caused service disruption to UK banking giants and HMRC.
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Carol Hancox
October 19, 7:00 PM
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The government has launched its first service on its digital wallet, allowing to apply and download a digital version of their HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards.
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Carol Hancox
August 23, 6:36 AM
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Lawyers acting for a boy accused of murder admitted they failed to properly check documents created using artificial intelligence were factually correct.
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Carol Hancox
July 4, 8:40 AM
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The government has launched the first version of its Gov.uk App, allowing citizens to use government services on their mobile phones.
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Carol Hancox
March 9, 7:54 AM
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New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Carol Hancox
February 8, 8:21 PM
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The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.
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Carol Hancox
February 8, 6:50 PM
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A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency.
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Carol Hancox
September 15, 2024 11:25 PM
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Data sharing between public and private bodies for the purposes of carrying out immigration raids helps to prop up the UK’s Hostile Environment by instilling an atmosphere of fear and deterring migrants from accessing public services.
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Carol Hancox
July 14, 2023 7:56 AM
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The UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in how new technologies are being developed, deployed and controlled.
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Carol Hancox
March 19, 2023 2:13 AM
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We analyzed an algorithm that evaluates people claiming welfare benefits and found shocking discrimination.
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Carol Hancox
December 8, 2022 4:07 AM
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The UK's use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants' lives.
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Carol Hancox
August 7, 2022 7:20 AM
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With a diverse population and a digital inclusion and open innovation strategy, Luxembourg has developed a new way of using technology to improve government services
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Carol Hancox
May 30, 2022 7:50 AM
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Researchers found a litany of security flaws that allow simple, quick, and cheap forgeries in Australia.
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Carol Hancox
October 21, 7:27 PM
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Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.
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Carol Hancox
August 30, 1:42 AM
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The UK information commissioner is investigating claims that the use of algorithms by the Home Office to make recommendations on migrants breaches privacy laws.
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Carol Hancox
July 25, 6:40 AM
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The local authorities hope it will create a smoother process, but some fear it will be "irritating".
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Carol Hancox
March 9, 7:57 AM
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Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce, WIRED has learned. How? By deploying a new custom chatbot.
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Carol Hancox
March 9, 7:51 AM
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Anima Interactive’s forthcoming game “Take Us North” aims to capture the lived experiences of those trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
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Carol Hancox
February 8, 6:57 PM
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A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
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Carol Hancox
September 28, 2024 2:07 AM
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Digital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the hostile environment, and opens people up to a number of challenges when trying to prove their immigration status, risking a digital Windrush.
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Carol Hancox
September 3, 2023 8:02 PM
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The government has published an updated Border Target Operating model, setting out plans to maximise the use of technology to improve security and biosecurity controls and streamline imports and exports, while keeping the UK safe.
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Carol Hancox
June 25, 2023 7:52 AM
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There's so much potential for the government to use technology to improve the lives of citizens. It starts with acknowledging the importance of training.
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Carol Hancox
December 28, 2022 9:14 PM
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Throughout 2022, geopolitics has given rise to a new wave of politically motivated attacks with an undercurrent of state-sponsored meddling.
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Carol Hancox
November 4, 2022 5:25 AM
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A new report finds that municipal agencies in Washington deploy dozens of automated decision systems, often without residents’ knowledge.
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Carol Hancox
June 19, 2022 9:40 PM
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Former minister and current member of the House of Lords, James Bethell argues that the UK government needs to move with the times and embrace new communications tools such as WhatsApp.
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