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• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Scottish Water taps BT, Accenture to plot digital future

  Scottish utility firm inks strategic relationships with tech firms to continue digital journey, looking to deliver more resilient, secure and efficient services as well as strengthen technology foundations

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  AMD CTO: Europe’s AI opportunity lies beyond semiconductor manufacturing

  Mark Papermaster says Europe’s commitment to interoperability and diversity of supply could become a strategic advantage as AI infrastructure grows more heterogeneous

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Chelsea & Westminster Hospital goes live with all-operator mobile

  Neutral host provider delivers all-operator 4G mobile connectivity to leading medical facility as part of UK government’s ambition to shift services from analogue to digital

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  O2 hits Giga Site mobile network milestone

  UK operator reveals latest part of Mobile Transformation Plan passing the halfway mark on plan to have 1,000 advanced mobile sites across the country

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Ofcom green-lights UK Wi-Fi access across entire 6 GHz band

  UK comms regulator announces prioritised spectrum sharing framework for Wi-Fi in the Upper 6 GHz band, available on the same licence exempt basis as the Lower 6 GHz band

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet

  AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  UK regulator crackdown on finfluencers gathers pace

  After a slow start, the Financial Conduct Authority’s is taking action to curb the activities of unregulated individuals who use social media to give financial advice

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder victim of mass Oracle breach

  Employee data at US-based cosmetics firm Estée Lauder was compromised through a vulnerability in Oracle’s software, likely orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  How Lithuania became a tech startup nation

  Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Burnham government to drop digital ID and tech department

  Controversial ID Scheme and government technology department to be tossed on scrap heap as new prime minister enters 10 Downing Street

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Dutch Surf tests practical route out of Big Tech dependency

  The Netherlands’ education and research IT cooperative is running pilots with open source tools, placing working alternatives alongside existing Big Tech services

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Where AI fits in modern supply chains

  We find out how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI), GenAI and agentic AI to streamline supply chain operations

• July 20, 2026 20 Jul'26

  Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI

  Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E

  For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Frustration as Post Office Horizon replacement contract signing delayed again

  If signed off, cloud-based EPOS system will replace controversial Horizon software from Fujitsu

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

  The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos

  David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse

  The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  VodafoneThree calls for policy changes to drive UK mobile growth

  Mobile network operators in the UK are battling with energy costs, planning red tape and regulations, all of which are impacting their investment plans

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?

  Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA's venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what no other supplier can

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack

  Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  A fifth of PC devices still on Windows 10

  While support ended in October 2025, community-driven insights from Lansweeper has found that smaller businesses are still using Windows 10

• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres

  To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

  Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Are UAE enterprises ready for agentic AI?

  Enterprise leaders must hit the ground running by aligning their company’s processes, governance, talent pool and technology to keep up with the fast-evolving agentic AI operations or risk lagging in the global digital race

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham takes aim at outsourcing

  Soon-to-be-appointed prime minister adds weight to government’s existing plan to ‘end era of outsourcing’

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure

  PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

  The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Digital Dubai and Emirates Group deepen collaboration on shared digital platforms

  Agreement will give Emirates Group access to Dubai’s expanding ecosystem of digital services, data capabilities and shared platforms as the emirate pushes towards a more integrated, AI-enabled digital economy

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  ICO ‘less effective as a regulator’ due to toxic culture

  Staff of the UK’s data protection watchdog say it was ‘less effective’ due to a toxic workplace culture upheld by senior leadership team

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative

  The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

  India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens, with much of the software coming from a Spanish company – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  IDCA warns of ‘delay tax’ as AI datacentre power surges 50%

  Global datacentre electricity consumption reaches 1.9% of all generation, with ‘zombie workloads’ wasting 3GW of US capacity alone and a 100MW project delay costing up to $1bn

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  PAC raises more questions over Capita’s role in government

  Report demands answers on Capita’s suitability to run HR and payroll services to 250,000 civil servants

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  PAC worried shared services strategy set to fail

  The committee says Cabinet Office has no clear plan or timeline for achieving its predicted £4.3bn in savings from the strategy, as it continues to be delayed and suffers from lack of departmental buy-in

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals

  AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Study reveals Microsoft tactics to lure Windows users

  The Edge browser may have a small market share, but research commissioned by Firefox shows how Microsoft muscles in

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus

  550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  DMCC launches cyber security hub as UAE accelerates development of digital resilience ecosystem

  DMCC Cyber vertical brings together more than 200 cyber security firms under the DMCC Tech platform, reinforcing Dubai’s ambition to become a global technology and cyber innovation hub

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  AI skills fund launches in Barnsley

  The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Interview: Lucie Audibert, solicitor in MP Jess Asato’s Grok case

  AWO solicitor Lucie Audibert speaks with Computer Weekly about representing Labour MP Jess Asato’s legal claim against xAI’s chatbot Grok, its nudification capabilities and how this case may define what liability for developers of AI tools look like

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey

  Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem

  Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter

  Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  UK and EU impose sanctions on hacking groups linked to Kremlin

  Hackers linked to Russian intelligence behind attack on Poland’s energy infrastructure, theft of credentials and using vulnerable routers to attack critical national infrastructure  

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike

  Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  European Commission accepts SAP’s on-premise ERP commitment

  The ERP provider has accepted that it will no longer charge admin fees for returning maintenance customers, and has stated it will offer on-premise flexibility

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators

  IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  The quiet rise of digital identity: Convenience, control and the new social contract

  Governments are rapidly expanding digital identity systems, promising greater convenience and faster access to services, but concerns around privacy, trust, surveillance and inclusion continue to grow