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Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

2 months 3 weeks ago
Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog

The UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). However, the public spending watchdog found the department's ability to expand this work is limited by fragmented IT systems and poor cross-government data standards.…

SA Mathieson

The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse

2 months 3 weeks ago
When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella

Opinion  When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer "tech journalist," you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: "What's this AWS thing, then?" You already knew a lot of people were having a very bad day in Bezosville, but if the news had reached an Edinburgh black cab driver, new adjectives were needed.…

Rupert Goodwins