Tamlin Magee

2 days ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

UK retail brands have taken a digital battering over the past few months. Over 10 days in April and early May, Marks and Spencer (M&S), the Co-operative Group and Harrods were hit by cyber attacks that crippled their business-critical services, including ecommerce and payments processing. Then, in June, H&M suffered an IT outage, which briefly took its in-store payments systems offline. Although the cause of the H&M outage has not been announced, some observers speculate that hackers are to blame.

3 days ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Generative AI is fundamentally changing nearly every job role, or is expected to do so in the next few years. But one task in particular may be especially vulnerable to disruption by AI: coding. Unsurprisingly, software engineers and developers are slightly wary of their employers’ efforts to adopt AI solutions. Right now, only low-level, simple coding tasks are at risk of automation. But as the technology improves, GenAI could force even adept coders into redundancy.

1 week ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

The UK government has revealed a raft of major infrastructure projects at today’s ‘spending review’. The review focused largely on housing, defence and transport across the country, although there were a few further details on the £86bn package of science and tech investments announced earlier this week.

1 week ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Digital sovereignty – a government’s ownership and control of the technology infrastructure supporting digital networks within its jurisdiction – is rising up the political agenda in Brussels. Digital infrastructure and services are based overwhelmingly in the US, and the government there has for decades used this technological dominance as a tool for foreign policy and spycraft.

2 weeks ago | raconteur.net | Tamlin Magee

Many words have been uttered in awe and fear about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs – but fewer about the labour that fuels AI. While the generative AI providers promise an automated future, behind the curtain millions of invisible gig workers are busy completing tasks such as software development, data annotation and content moderation to power said platforms, for little money and without basic workplace protections.