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June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 Opinion

Fortifying retail: how UK brands can defend against cyber breaches

The recent spate of cyber attacks on UK retailers has to be a wake-up call to build more cyber resilience into digital supply chains and fortify against social engineering attacks Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI

Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

CityFibre triples business Ethernet availability

UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform provider makes Ethernet services available to 180,000 more UK businesses underpinned by nationwide 10Gb XGS-PON upgrade, with investment in a dedicated business ethernet platform Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman

Alibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

Ericsson, Supermicro advance enterprise connectivity for edge AI systems

Global comms tech provider and application-optimised IT services firm collaborate to simplify and accelerate edge AI deployments by bundling 5G connectivity with pre-validated AI compute Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

European telcos team to gain edge, AI factories

Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor announce partnership with AI technology leader to build infrastructure to support generative and agentic AI services for regional enterprises Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative

The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER

When commercial AI meets the world’s most ambitious science experiment, nuclear fusion, surprising things start to happen Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 Blog Post

Platform Engineering - WisdomAI: The engineering workflow has shifted (for the better)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sharvanath Pathak in his capacity as co-founder & CTO of WisdomAI. WisdomAI is a knowledge platform that connects into ... Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 Blog Post

Alibaba Cloud: Containers will power the future of AI

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Yi in his position as Alibaba Cloud principal engineer, director of engineering for container service. Yi writes in ... Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

VodafoneThree begins operation with 5G SA, broadband push

UK’s largest communications company comes to life backed by £11bn infrastructure investment with push on 5G Standalone networks and partnerships with full-fibre fixed broadband providers Continue Reading

June 13, 2025 13Jun2025 News

AI Summit London: Managing legacy IT and the pace of AI development

While there appears to be no stopping the progress of AI, businesses need to get a handle on technical debt and decide when to build or buy AI Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

Cisco Live 2025: The digital workplace gets closer to ‘distance zero’

Research reveals disconnects between employer expectations and employee preferences around return-to-office policies in the new world of hybrid working, but also finds acceptance and uptake of cutting-edge collaboration tools Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025 Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

Apple encryption row: Does law enforcement need to use Technical Capability Notices?

History shows that law enforcement can bring successful prosecutions without the need for the Home Office to introduce ‘backdoors’ into end-to-end encryption Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

France is committed to AI, says president Macron

The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’ Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

Urgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

MPs to investigate potential for government digital identity scheme

Amid growing calls for a national digital ID scheme, Home Affairs Committee launches inquiry into likely benefits and risks Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 Blog Post

GenAI: Talk to me

Who would have thought that a black slab of Gorilla Glass in a titanium frame that fits in the palm of your hand would not necessarily offer the best user experience? A recent YouTube video ... Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 Opinion

AI vs creative industries - the UK government's foolish choice

The UK government is cosying up to Big Tech when instead it should be vociferously protecting the creative industries from the avarice of AI giants Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 News

Agentforce London: 78% of UK companies use agentic AI, says Salesforce

Salesforce released Digital Labour Trends survey data to coincide with its Agentforce London 2025 event that found 78% of UK organisations are using agentic AI Continue Reading

June 12, 2025 12Jun2025 Blog Post

Platform Engineering: Datadog defines components of Internal Developer Portal

In line with our platform engineering series, we can make note of monitoring and security platform company Datadog now launching its Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to serve as a portal built on ... Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review

The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

WhatsApp seeks to join Apple in legal challenge against Home Office encryption orders

WhatsApp today applied to intervene in an Investigatory Powers Tribunal case that is considering the UK’s ability to issue a technical capability notice on Apple to ‘weaken encryption’ Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Podcast

Podcast: Data management and storage strategy in the AI era

We talk to Pure Storage EMEA field chief technology officer Patrick Smith about the challenges of data management in an era of AI and data proliferation, and how storage functionality can help Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Blog Post

AeraHUB 25 London: Software that 'learns work', not software you learn

The Computer Weekly Developer Network went to AeraHUB 25 London this week, a “decision intelligence event” hosted by Aera, an organisation that lays a claim to having developed the very first ... Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Opinion

Cyber security beyond compliance: Why resilience is the new boardroom imperative

Cyber security has been everything from a tick-box exercise to a compliance headache for organisations - but the pressing threats we face mean cyber resilience must become a boardroom issue Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Opinion

Human vs digital therapy: AI falls short when IT pros need help

Stressed IT and cyber professionals are turning to AI chatbots for support, but is handing people's mental wellbeing over to algorithms really such a bright idea? Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Opinion

Investor behaviour in the wake of cyber's 'black swan' moment

So-called Black Swan events expose the blind spots in even the most sophisticated forecasting models, signaling a need to rethink how businesses, and those investing in them, quantify and prepare for cyber risk. Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row

Senior conservative MP David Davis says the Home Office should disclose how many secret orders it has issued against telecoms and internet companies to Parliament Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

UK government recommits to Edinburgh supercomputer plan with £750m funding pledge

After pulling the plug on plans by the previous government to build a supercomputer in Edinburgh, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology commits £750m to a very similar initiative Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

West Brom Building Society project to meet customers’ digital demands

Calls from customers for a choice of digital channels drove West Brom Building Society’s digital transformation project Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

How breaking things builds resilient systems

To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems though chaos engineering practices Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

June Patch Tuesday brings a lighter load for defenders

Barely 70 vulnerabilities make the cut for Microsoft’s monthly security update, but an RCE flaw in WEBDAV and an EoP issue in Windows SMB Client still warrant close attention Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

Cyber Bill at risk of becoming a missed opportunity, say MPs

An APPG report warns that the government’s flagship cyber security legislation is too narrow in its scope and risks missing opportunities to embed resilience at the heart of the British economy Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

Cisco Live 2025: The network critical for the future of the AI era

Network giant unveils simplification of network operations, delivers exponential performance with next-generation devices and fuses security into the network Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 Blog Post

Jasper marketing software goes multi-agent

Jasper might be best known as a semi-precious aggregate of microgranular quartz, a city in Alberta, Canada and as a popular name for a dog. But, outside of stones, dogs and Canadian national park ... Continue Reading

June 11, 2025 11Jun2025 News

London Tech Week: More funding, fellowships and skills

The government wants to make the UK the best place for tech and AI, opening pathways for global talent and venture capital funding Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI

FCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 In Depth

Tariff turmoil: IT procurement and the public sector

In the first of a two-part series, we look at the current tariff turmoil in public sector IT procurement, the particular challenges faced by public sector procurement, and how the cloud and pay-as-you-go can help Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri

Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 In Depth

IBM reorients storage to cloud, containers and as-a-service

Storage profile: We look at Big Blue’s storage offer, which spans file, block and object, on-premise, in the cloud, and mainframes, while also embracing containers and the cloud Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

HMRC paid Fujitsu £310m last year, but Post Office supplier’s UK business faces gradual decline

While victims are made to fight for every penny they are owed, the IT supplier at the centre of the Post Office scandal is handed hundreds of millions of pounds by UK government Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing

Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 Blog Post

The data deficit undermining Britain’s public sector AI push

This is a guest blogpost by Matthew Houlihan, senior director of government affairs, Cisco. The UK is racing to transform its public services for the digital age—and rightly so. The potential ... Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 E-Zine

Escaping an X

In this week’s Computer Weekly, the public’s changing relationship with social media is put under the microscope, as users become discomforted by changing content moderation policies. HMRC’s hunt for a hyperscaler to oversee a 10-year datacentre ... Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

Microsoft given until 25 July to respond to UK cloud licensing legal claim

The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has given Microsoft just over a month to prepare a response to a group legal claim over its cloud licensing practices Continue Reading

June 10, 2025 10Jun2025 News

Third-party security weaknesses threaten Europe’s big banks

Security breaches via third parties increased by 25% at Europe’s largest finance firms Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 Blog Post

The importance of simplifying IT: enterprise capability without the complexity

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Tickle, SVP and GM International at Freshworks. Most IT leaders aren’t looking to be dazzled by the latest AI trends. What they really want is straightforward: ... Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Nokia takes the helm of Proactif to deliver ‘state-of-the-art’ UxV platforms

Comms tech provider selected to lead major project backed by initiative aiming to redefine how Europe uses robotics and unmanned vehicle technologies to manage emergencies and critical infrastructure Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Labour commits £17.2m to support Spärck AI scholarships

The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 In Depth

Are we normalising surveillance in schools?

Children and teenagers are subjected to a vast array of surveillance technologies in schools. These are intended to keep them safe, but are we normalising surveillance for young people? Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn milestone

The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 Blog Post

Platform Engineering - GigaOm: It’s no quick fix, it’s a state of mind

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Collins in his capacity as VP of engagement and field CTO at GigaOm. Collins starts our platform engineering series (as ... Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 Blog Post

Information overload needs more than AI — think collaboration and automation tech

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, chief executive officer, the SER Group. In it he talks about why artificial intelligence is not the whole answer to handling vast swathes of corporate ... Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost

Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Government to create online platform for public sector tech buyers

The National Digital Exchange will be a one-stop shop for public sector tech buying, allowing organisations to rate and review products and gain access to pre-approved tech deals Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace

Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 In Depth

Local council devolution: Could it accelerate the pace of local government cloud adoption?

The UK government is on a mission to rationalise the number of local councils through its devolution agenda, which will see authorities gain autonomy over their budgets. We weigh up the impact this could have on cloud adoption in local councils Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

US lawmakers say UK has ‘gone too far’ by attacking Apple’s encryption

US politicians are calling for Congress to rewrite the US Cloud Act to prevent the UK issuing orders to require US tech companies to introduce ‘backdoors’ in end-to-end encrypted messaging and storage Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 Opinion

An industrial strategy without tech is no strategy at all

Ahead of the delivery of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy white paper, TechUK sets out how the tech sector can drive growth, and the steps the government should take to harness it Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 In Depth

What happens if Silicon Valley’s AI investment bubble bursts?

US tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital to develop artificial superintelligence, but authoritarian regimes around the world could keep the pursuit of a techno-utopian future alive when the bubble subsides Continue Reading

June 09, 2025 09Jun2025 News

Orange, Eutelsat expand LEO satellite partnership

Multi-year agreement enhances access to the benefits of low Earth orbit satellite communications to telco’s enterprise and government customers, and supports mobile backhaul to meet global demand Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 In Depth

In conflict: Putting Russia’s datacentre market under the microscope

Russia’s war with Ukraine has created a whole host of problems for the growth of the country’s datacentre market Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 News

CSC, Surf and Nokia achieve 1.2 Tbps data transfer in supercomputer trial

Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 News

UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 News

‘Severe’ network outages costing $160bn globally

Research reveals costly impact of outages and spotlights a critical turning point in enterprise network architecture changing how IT leaders think about the network, such as what it is, what it enables and how it protects organisations Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 Opinion

How to increase business value with AI agents

To overcome the complexity of deploying agentic AI at scale, organisations must mix and match capabilities, understand key limitations, and take an agile approach to implementation Continue Reading

June 06, 2025 06Jun2025 News

CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk

To manage risk effectively and secure board-level buy-in, CISOs must stop talking about technology and start speaking the language of business, according to a senior Check Point executive Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Whitehall fails to recognise digital procurement challenge, says PAC

Committee concerned that Government Commercial Function doesn’t understand the scale of reform needed to address long-standing digital procurement issues, including lack of skills and leadership Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

HMRC phishing breach wholly avoidable, but hard to stop

A breach at HMRC saw innocent taxpayers tricked into letting scammers impersonate them through simple phishing attacks leading to account takeover. Such attacks are avoidable, but hard to stop Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Citigroup cuts thousands of staff at China-based tech centres

Financial services giant Citigroup is drastically reducing headcount in its Chinese tech delivery centres as it restructures its technology operation Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 Blog Post

Vast Data & Cisco team up to twist turnkey for enterprise AI

Vast Data Cisco have expanded their collaborative partnership. The two firms say they are focused on creating a validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage and ... Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 Opinion

CISOs: Don't block AI, but adopt it with eyes wide open

The Security Think Tank considers how CISOs can best plan to facilitate the secure running of AI and Gen AI-based initiatives and ensure employees do not inadvertently leak data or make bad decisions. Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI

OpenAI’s recent acquisition heralds a new direction for generative AI, away from the screen-based user experience Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

UK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’

People experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system explain the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration status in the face of a hostile and unresponsive bureaucracy Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Verizon Business opens availability for V2X connected-driving platform

Integrated mobile network vehicle-to-everything communication platform allows connected vehicles to talk to each other, road users and infrastructure Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive

Putting all of its data in AWS cloud will support bank’s use of artificial intelligence to offer customers more personalised services Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Real AI use cases emerge for SDVs but readiness gaps persist

Research finds nearly two-thirds of global automakers believe artificial intelligence use cases – such as predictive maintenance, over-the-air optimisation and personalisation – will drive software-defined vehicle adoption Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 Opinion

Building the foundations: A national roadmap for digital identity and sovereign data

Now the UK government has offered some clarity on the future of private and public sector digital identity services, it's time to work together to put the essential foundations in place to make digital ID work for everyone Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps

GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 News

Istres deploys private 5G network to bolster smart city safety

Southern French city establishes dedicated mobile infrastructure to improve coordination and emergency rapid response capabilities, and support fixed and mobile video surveillance and encrypted communications Continue Reading

June 05, 2025 05Jun2025 Opinion

Diversity Think Tank: Inclusion matters – here’s why you should care

Even without recent news in the US, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were dialled back in UK businesses last year due to tight budgets and economic uncertainty. Is it the end of the DEI push as we know it, or just a momentary blip ... Continue Reading

June 04, 2025 04Jun2025 Blog Post

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