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Labour fleshes out R&D funding

Over the next five years, £85bn has been set aside by the government to fund research and development
Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025

Nine state-level data protection laws have come into force in the US this year, and three more are slated for January 2026. Navigating this complex landscape is becoming a challenge
AWS ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre exit contract

A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from MPs, the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the tax agency’s £500m datacentre exit project
Nokia, Zayo team on future-ready IP network infrastructure

Upgraded IP network architecture seeks to provide operator’s customers with faster, broader set of services, including cloud access, datacentre connectivity and secure high-speed links
Zoom looks to launch next era of custom enterprise AI

AI-first work platform provider deploys AI leader’s technology to adapt to users’ personal work habits through model customisation and retrieval-augmented generation, with federated AI stack
Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’

Subpostmasters frustrated after meeting with government minister on the announcement of compensation scheme for those who had problems with Post Office Capture

Pulling the plug: A way to halt a cyber attacker in your network?

Rumours of an organisation taking its systems offline during a cyber attack spurred conversation on the consequences of simply pulling the power, or internet access, to stop intruders. We consider the ethics and practicality
Interview: Lenovo’s Mary Jacques on combining environmental sustainability with circularity

The Hong Kong-headquartered hardware supplier remains serious about tackling climate change – and achieving results, including Scope 3 emissions reduction
AI and digital twins to serve increasingly complex robot management

Proliferating fleets of robots, diffusion of humanoids, and the emerging robot class of androids will increase complexities of robot management in the future. AI and digital twins will become increasingly important management tools

Far more ‘reasonable’, Confluent extends AI agent strategy- CW Developer Network

Agentic artificial intelligence has superseded its predictive and generative cousins wth even more hype and hyperbole than expected. But as these services now start to come online and impact real ... Continue Reading
Confluent launches Private Cloud for simplified, scalable & secured streaming- CW Developer Network

Cloud is complicated. But of course it shouldn’t be. On the face of it (and according to all the promises made by the hyperscalers and the cloud-native advocate glitterati) cloud computing comes ... Continue Reading
IFS progresses from ‘promise to performance’ on Industrial AI - CW Developer Network

No longer ‘just’ the ERP company that we perhaps once thought of, IFS has over the last decade shown itself to be aligned to a defined set of specific verticals for the provision of field service ... Continue Reading
A case for AI Qwerty- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Techies love the 80:20 rule. Imagine there’s a bit of tech that would do the 20% of laborious tasks people have to do during their working day. Over the course of a 35-hour week, a 20% not working ... Continue Reading

Use second-layer tools for AI safety

While some enterprises find it difficult to adopt AI, they can now use second-layer AI tools that enable businesses to implement the technology safely
Why layered resilience is the only true safeguard for SMEs

Real resilience doesn’t come from last minute panic once the storm has hit, it comes from layering defences through education, prevention, cure and – most importantly – recovery.
US government shutdown is a wake-up call for cyber self-reliance

As the US government shutdown heads towards a second month, could the disruption to cyber security programmes be the impetus end-users need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?