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Cellular IoT connectivity market powers on

Research predicts robust growth for cellular internet of things sector, projecting 6.5 billion IoT devices connected to networks worldwide by 2030, generating annual connectivity revenues of €21.5bn
UK public don’t trust Fujitsu, but government does

Quick poll reveals that the public mistrust Fujitsu two and a half years on from its public shaming
Bahrain denied sovereign immunity over spyware attack in UK

The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware
HSBC chooses Singapore for global AI centre of excellence

UK-headquartered bank will develop artificial intelligence in Singapore-based centre of excellence
Hyperoptic delivers record performance, reaches two million homes

UK altnet claims record revenue growth and EBITDA improvement for 2025 and first half of 2026, with investment in network expansion said to drive continued business
AI agents move from experiment to operations in UAE retail

As the UAE’s retail sector expands and operations become more complex, AI agents are being deployed across pricing, inventory and merchandising, but fragmented data and the rise of shadow AI could create risks for businesses

CW@60: Being there at the start of business computing

Former LEO programmer Peter Byford reflects on working with the world's first business computer
CW@60: The mirror and the machine - three decades on the frontlines of the tech revolution

Every technology innovation and every IT project is, at its heart, a human-interest story - and those delivering the IT should always remember that, says IT services veteran Sam Kingston
From knowing to doing: embodied AI gets to work

At Hyundai’s smart factory in Singapore, robots handle two-thirds of the assembly work, offering a glimpse of AI that can sense, decide and act in the physical world

Atomicwork CEO: A genuine architectural leap - building agents with “job roles”- CW Developer Network

The AI industry has (many would agree) proven (some would say comprehensively) that large language models can be driven to perform almost anything we ask of them. We have seen examples of software ... Continue Reading
Where does the rewiring of Central Government leave Cyber/Digital Skills?- When IT Meets Politics

Will the moving digital skills to DCMS and AI skills to Number 10 make it easier or harder to build bridges and addressing shortages (quality and relevance as well as numbers) across the divide ... Continue Reading
AWS bets big on Lean programming language to bring mathematical guarantees to agentic AI- CW Developer Network

As we know, AI agents are now engineered to be capable of taking on higher-stakes decisions, so there needs to be a commensurately higher-stakes shift in the way we handle and manage agentic code. ... Continue Reading
Domino Data Lab: Agentic AI is scaling faster than governance - the split explained- CW Developer Network

Domino Data Lab this week released its Fifth Annual Domino Enterprise AI Report, a study that finds the share of enterprises whose ROI fails to outpace their investment has held at 57% since 2025, ... Continue Reading

Departmental deckchair shuffling is not good for digital

The new prime minister's abolition of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology raises many worrying questions about UK government digital policy
Why some VMware customers pay for upgrades they never use

The sheer complexity of migrating off VMware is one of the reasons some organisations continue their VCF subscriptions
Why every SaaS platform needs a sanctions kill switch

The legal question is whether software has become an economic resource. The practical question is whether your platform has a sanctions kill switch.