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Capita shares fell 2.9 percent at 960 pence on the London Stock Exchange at 1024 London time, making them the biggest losers on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index.

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Computing has published today that Amazon will pioneer a series of drone delivery tests along with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which will be fully involved. Amazon hopes in the near future be able to safely deliver parcels in 30 minutes in the UK and elsewhere. The CAA wants “to enable the innovation that arises from the development of drone technology by safely integrating drones into the overall aviation system. These tests by Amazon will help inform our policy and future approach” according to CAA policy director Tim Johnson.

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According to the BBC, the giant GlaxoSmithKline is to invest £275m in the UK to expand its manufacturing sites. It claimed that, despite the referendum results, the UK’s skilled workforce and competitive tax system were critical for the decision.

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Civica, the specialist in IT systems and business process for the public sector, has announced the acquisition of SFW Ltd, which currently provides digital services for the government and has an offshore development centre in India.

According to Public Technology, Simon Downing, chairman of Civica, said that the skills and experience of SFW’s 200-strong team were “an excellent fit and extend our market-leading digital services capability”.

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Pressure from Ofcom (the communications regulator in the UK) and competitors to make Openreach completely independent from BT has led the company to offer more autonomy to Openreach.

According to Computing, BT chairman Sir Mike Rake’s plan is to create an independent board for Openreach, claiming that a complete distinction between BT Group and Openreach would be the wrong decision for the future of UK superfast and ultrafast.

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According to the BBC, hackers have managed to get hold of O2 customers’ data by using usernames and passwords first stolen from gaming website XSplit three years ago to log onto O2 accounts.

When the login details matched, the hackers could access O2 customer data in a process known as "credential stuffing". The data included information like phone numbers, emails, passwords and dates of birth.

It is also believed that the same technique has been used to log onto other companies’ accounts.

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Public Technology has recently published an article based on a TechUK report, welcoming the government’s efforts to develop a single login to be used across all public sector’s platforms, which would be a local version of Verify.

GDS is currently looking at applying Verify through a series of pilot schemes, but TechUK in a statement said that although “it welcomed [GDS] efforts to apply models and approaches that have worked centrally to council services, (…) the current standards for authentication are likely to be too high for most local government services”.

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As per this Computer Weekly article, a report by The Economist, has shown that sub-standard hardware, staff shortages and poor data-sharing are impeding the adoption of cutting-edge technology by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

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Fear of a Russian cyber-attack due to an escalation of tensions with Moscow, has led Estonia to enter negotiations with the UK to store all sorts of data. They have suffered a cyber-attack from the Russians back in 2007 and has regarded its digital security as a top priority ever since, according to the Financial Times.

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