Thailand’s former PM Thaksin Shinawatra jailed for eight years upon return from exile

Thailand’s divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra was jailed Tuesday as he returned to the kingdom after 15 years in exile, hours before parliament votes to install his party’s candidate as the new prime minister. Issued on: 22/08/2023 – 07:22 3 min The billionaire landed in a private jet at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport at 9 am … Read more

Russia scrambles jets to intercept two drones over Black Sea, Moscow says

Russia’s air force scrambled two jets to force two drones to stop reconnaissance near the Crimean peninsula, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. The news came after Russia said one of its jets had “destroyed” a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat near a gas production facility in the Black Sea. Read our live blog for all the … Read more

Deaths reported as Greece wildfires spread, forcing evacuations

Eighteen suspected migrants were found dead Tuesday in a Greece forest fire near the Turkish border as scores of firefighters battled to contain the second deadly wave of blazes to hit the country in a month. Issued on: 22/08/2023 – 07:06Modified: 22/08/2023 – 14:39 2 min Fire department spokesman Yiannis Artopios said the victims were … Read more

Alternative perspectives: relational and virtue ethics in tech

If you are involved in collecting and analysing data, or developing or applying algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, you probably want to do so responsibly. You can turn to documents that list and discuss ethical principles, such as preventing harms, human dignity, human autonomy, fairness, equality, transparency and explicability. Great principles – but … Read more

Can low code/no code ease developer skills shortages?

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 22 August 2023 Can low code/no code ease developer skills shortages? Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, organisations are increasingly turning to low-code/no-code tools to enable “citizen developers” among staff – can this help to ease software developer skills shortages? SAP … Read more