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Financial security experts participate in sector hackathon

Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise
Solicitor who had phone seized wrongly identified as Hamas member

A police officer wrongly described a solicitor acting for Hamas in an appeal against its proscribed status in the UK as a Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case

The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful
Broadcom updates VCF to address on-premise AI

VMware is being repositioned as a platform to lower the total cost of hosting artificial intelligence workloads in private clouds
Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way

Dutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers
Closing the AI trust gap in MENA

Alteryx’s Sabya Sen explains why confidence in AI remains low for high-stakes decisions, and what CIOs must do to turn adoption into real business value

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill prompts ethical concerns

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is intended to improve school standards, child safety and social care. However, recent amendments to the bill lead to ethical concerns regarding personal data
Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics

AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment
Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’?

Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out

Atlassian builds enriched AI‑native engineering with new functions in DX- CW Developer Network

Atlassian acquired DX around eight months ago. DX is used by enterprises to analyse the productivity levels of their software engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. The ... Continue Reading
Atlassian Rovo makes AI-native teamwork ‘real’, really- CW Developer Network

There’s a lot of debate out there in terms of when, what, how (and possibly even why) agentic functions are now going to augment human workers in real work workflows and real world working ... Continue Reading
What to expect from Alteryx Inspire 2026- CW Developer Network

Alteryx is known for its analytics automation platform and its capabilities in end-to-end automation and data-driven decision-making. The Computer Weekly Developer Network last attended Alteryx ... Continue Reading
IBM lays down ‘Big Blue’ blueprint for AI operating model- CW Developer Network

Traditionally a favourite technology conference that draws in press and swathes of coders, fans of IBM developer events will remember days at the Swan & Dolphin, when the words “Rational” were ... Continue Reading

Inside FDP – part 2: Delivering on the NHS vision for data

In the second of an exclusive series of articles by the former deputy director of data engineering at NHS England, we examine the key elements of the data architecture that supports the Federated Data Platform programme
AI to help mainframes remain business critical in 2026

Mainframes are very much still vital for performance- and security-conscious use cases. To optimise TCO, AI and hybrid cloud can help them retain their advantages
The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control

Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t control. Open standards are key to organisational agility