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Challenging AI hype narratives with director Valerie Veatch

Computer Weekly speaks with Valerie Veatch, the director of a documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence, about the difficulties of challenging hype narratives and the pressing need to build a culture of technological...
Ministers refused to sign off £563m Capita contract

The ramifications of Capita’s botched Civil Service pension contract continue as politicians distance themselves
Kmart taps Google AI to launch virtual try-ons in retail first

The retailer is deploying Google Cloud’s AI capabilities to let customers preview clothes on themselves and visualise furniture in their homes as it embraces conversational commerce to win over shoppers
StarHub to trial SIM-based IDs for governing AI agents

The telco is building a trust layer that will assign unique identities to AI agents, allowing it to monitor and block malicious agentic activity in real time
Scottish social enterprise supports national cyber efforts

Cyber and Fraud Centre has supported community cyber resilience in Scotland to the tune of £3m in its first year operating as a social enterprise
NatWest inks AI deal for trade finance

NatWest bank wants to streamline trade finance while improving compliance through the use of artificial intelligence

CISO burnout: How to prevent contagion across the team

If employers fail to nip the problem of their CISO’s chronic, unmanaged stress in the bud, there could be serious consequences, not just for cyber security leaders themselves but for their teams too
What VTEX’s AI push really means for European retailers

Brazilian platform provider VTEX is pushing hard into Europe with bold claims around artificial intelligence, but how relevant is that pitch for European CIOs?
Kazakhstan: The Freedom to tap into data reserves

Continuing our round-up of the IT communications industry in Kazakhstan, we look at who could be the country’s and the region’s main player in driving digital transformation

OurSQL Foundation launches to support MySQL developers- Open Source Insider

A new community initiative aims to support MySQL users around best practices, future developments and knowledge sharing. The OurSQL Foundation is a vendor-neutral MySQL community initiative aimed ... Continue Reading
Cogent zeroes in on zero-day response for rapid remediation- CW Developer Network

AI-native enterprise security company Cogent has driven forward a new pair of tools, which it hopes will capture the hearts and minds of software application developers working with cybersecurity ... Continue Reading
How simplifying IT helps teams perform at racing speed- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Musidora Jorgensen, UK & Ireland Country Leader, Freshworks In Formula 1, performance is measured in milliseconds. Every system, every process and every decision has ... Continue Reading
Panther pounces on push to position agents as primary workers in the SOC- CW Developer Network

CEO and founder of closed-loop AI security architecture Panther Jack Naglieri thinks that security teams should be reorganising themselves around AI agents in the security operations centre (SOC). ... Continue Reading

Inside FDP - part 5: Addressing the objections

Many people - in the NHS, in Parliament, in the tech sector and beyond - have raised objections to FDP and its supplier. Some have merit, others less so
Agentic AI: Trading one lock-in for another

IT and business execs are being encouraged to move quickly to benefit from what IT providers are offering in terms of agentic AI
The Isle of Wight can settle more than the digital ID argument

The unique circumstances of the island and its residents offer a compelling location for testing out digital government initiatives in the real world - and to help avoid future IT failures