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Connectivity becomes the weakest link in Britain’s workplaces

Study finds internet and connectivity failures have overtaken software problems as the biggest cause of lost productivity, with the average UK employee losing 93 working hours a year to IT issues
Uplink internet traffic growth breaks further record

Study finds upstream demand reshaping network performance and capacity with upstream usage up 19.2% year on year in second quarter of 2026, three times that of downstream
Will digital government recover from DSIT breakup?

Computer Weekly looks at what Burnham’s decision to dismantle DSIT means for the UK tech sector, and how the department will be split up
Digital government services increase accessibility gap

Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen
Samsung brings Galaxy ecosystem into eyewear

Smart devices developed with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker intended to show how intelligent eyewear can become part of a user’s personal style
Alphabet borrows $100bn to pay for AI investments

The parent company of Google and YouTube has increased its debt portfolio from $16bn to $100bn to pay for AI infrastructure

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
Journalist Richard Medhurst had his mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data?

How can journalists protect confidential data and sources on their phones when crossing borders?
CW@60: How tech escaped the machine room - and why it never really did

Julian David, CEO of the influential tech trade association TechUK, looks at what’s changed in tech across his career – and perhaps more importantly, what hasn’t

Digital downgrade: Andy Burnham's fragmentation of tech policy is a backward step for the UK- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

It’s taken a few days to work out exactly what has happened to technology policy and digital delivery in the aftermath of new prime minister Andy Burnham’s day-one scrapping of the Department for ... Continue Reading
Veraification Of The Need To Track And Control Those Pesky AI Agents (no spelling mistakes)- Networks Generation

Increasingly, AI is turning into a Science Fiction movie - the real life version. Meantime, the fightback has started - from within. For starters, why have one company in this AI era, when you can ... Continue Reading
Edge series - Mirantis: Managed edge is a fleet management problem, not a platform slogan- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Dom Wilde in his capacity as SVP and GM for cloud infrastructure business at Mirantis. Mirantis is known for its enterprise ... Continue Reading
Lightfield: Legacy CRM wasn't built to work with agents- CW Developer Network

CRM software has spent the last two decades helping companies keep track of customers. Lightfield thinks the next two decades may look rather different. More AI-native than the likes of Salesforce ... Continue Reading

Viva la devolution – rebalancing power through technology

A note for Andy Burnham - on how digital operating models and infrastructure can improve UK devolution and strengthen democratic accountability
Does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill make you feel secure?

The UK government's latest cyber security regulations are hugely important but remain riddled with inconsistencies and vagaries - substantial changes are needed before it becomes law
Has Microsoft overstretched its cloud elasticity?

Microsoft promised "infinite" cloud scalability, but signs of capacity strain and regional rollbacks suggest it may be overstretched, forcing customers to rethink vendor lock-in