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December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Streisand effect: Businesses that pay ransomware gangs are more likely to hit the headlines

Research by ransomware expert Max Smeets suggests companies that pay up to criminal gangs are more likely to attract press attention Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 In Depth

AI and digital twins: a powerful partnership for urban management

Digital twin virtualisations are increasingly being used to design and reconsider urban environments, with city planning, management and operations set to benefit tremendously from AI capabilities Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Trump plans bonfire of US state-level AI regulation

US president’s executive order targets state-level AI regulatory frameworks across the country, saying they are too onerous and endangering leadership in the field Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

National Audit Office praises Bank of England after complex mega-project

Public spending watchdog says the Bank of England’s core system replacement project offers lessons to other government departments Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

US nears universal adoption as North America leads 5G

Study finds over 99% 5G penetration in US, almost three times more than global average, with global 5G connections reaching 2.8 billion and global cellular IoT subscriptions surpassing four billion Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 Opinion

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Progess in decarbonisation made in 2025, but gaps remain

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation changed during 2025 Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

ESA promises smarter flights for ITA Airways through sat comms

Italian airline deploys comms system designed to enable digital, real-time connectivity and offload current ground systems for air traffic management, showing how satellites can complement terrestrial infrastructure Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance

The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 Opinion

Quantum risk to quantum readiness: A PQC roadmap

No one knows exactly when quantum computing will arrive, but accelerating progress is prompting security and IT leaders to recognise the potential risks. So how do organisations begin implementing post-quantum cryptography? Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 Opinion

What lies in store for cyber security skills in 2026?

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Interview: Erik Mayer, transformation chief clinical information officer, Imperial College

With both a clinical and a digital background, the healthcare tech leader is using data to improve collaboration across an NHS trust for the benefit of medical staff and patients Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Three in five businesses more confident in Wi-Fi investment

Research finds 60% of businesses see converged Wi-Fi and 5G as key to enterprise flexibility, with 38% planning to roll out Wi-Fi 7 in 2025/2026, while 65% say 6 GHz availability is important to their Wi-Fi business Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Consumers trade up smartphones for AI

Quarterly study of US mobile trade-in arena finds 46% growth year-on-year driven by accelerated adoption of AI-enabled devices and expansion of the secondary market, with the third consecutive record-breaking quarter for revenues Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 News

Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power Continue Reading

December 12, 2025 12Dec2025 Blog Post

Refactoring the C-Suite: Why leadership needs a ‘full stack’ architecture rewrite

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Lee Whitmore, author, podcast host and leadership coach. With a thorough understanding of software application development ... Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 Blog Post

Sonatype Guide aims to steer secure open source agentic development

AI-driven DevSecOps company Sonatype has come forward with Sonatype Guide. This is a developer tool designed to make AI-assisted software development faster and safer. With some many AI coding ... Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

Interview: Art Hu, global CIO, Lenovo

The IT chief at the PC, servers and storage supplier is using his experience of rolling out tech internally to boost the growing services ambitions of the Chinese tech giant Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 In Depth

Unlocking intelligent automotive: why openness wins

Cars are rapidly becoming rolling computing spaces, but mobile networks have not kept pace. Networks must evolve into programmable platforms that developers at automotive enterprises can directly build on Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

Harrow Council votes on Cellnex to advance borough connectivity

North London council announces a partnership with telecoms infrastructure operator to deploy small cell technology and target connectivity blackspots around high streets and transport hubs Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

Oracle expects to increase OCI margins by 30-40%

Market analysts are concerned about the AI bubble bursting, but Oracle’s latest earnings call shows it is still expanding datacentre roll-outs Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 Opinion

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Why 2025 was a turning point for greening up enterprise IT

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation changed during 2025 Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 Blog Post

HPE hybrid cloud: Morpheus is a wide awake for virtualisation

HPE starts its press statements with a quote, straight up, no preamble. Recent work emanating from the company sees Fidelma Russo, executive vice president of hybrid cloud and CTO at HPE remind us ... Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 In Depth

AI investment and its potential effects on urban digital twins

Investment in AI will support developing the technology as an enabler for digital twins across virtually all application areas. But analysts voice serious concerns that spending on AI has created a massive bubble that is ready to pop Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 In Depth

AI drives storage array makers to embrace data management

We look at the efforts of storage suppliers to move to data management, often driven by AI – but analysts highlight the contradiction between supplier and customer needs Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

Microsoft expands bug bounty scheme to include third-party software

The company is to offer bug bounty awards for people who report security vulnerabilities in third-party and open source software impacting Microsoft services Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

Qatar launches Qai to accelerate national and regional AI ambitions

State-backed company Qai aims to build secure AI infrastructure and position Qatar as a leading Gulf innovation hub Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 News

UAE’s e& enterprise brings Amdocs and Nvidia AI into live telco operations

The Emirati operator moves beyond pilots, using AI agents to streamline customer care and network operations Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 Blog Post

2025: The year we rode the enterprise AI wave

With the start of the Christmas festivities and the year coming to a close, the team at Computer Weekly has been looking back on what the last 12 months has meant for corporate IT. What is ... Continue Reading

December 11, 2025 11Dec2025 Blog Post

Arcjet turbocharges in-code developer defences

Enterprise software application development is continually charged with the need to simplify, coalesce and automate core functions into what vendors often call a unified platform, a single pane of ... Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 News

Google DeepMind partners with UK government to deliver AI

The partnership promises to provide scientists with access to advanced AI models, as well as help the government become more streamlined Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 Opinion

Security pros should prepare for tough questions on AI in 2026

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 News

How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak

Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 News

IT spending bonanza biggest in 30 years

Artificial intelligence is driving purchases of IT products and services at a level not seen since the web went mainstream Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 Blog Post

Becoming influential – choosing our top 50 women in UK tech

Every year, Computer Weekly compiles a list of excellent women in the technology industry with a focus on a particular trait: “influential”. But what does influence actually mean? When the judges ... Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 News

UK government funds 80 digital skills schemes

The £11.7m Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund will support projects across the UK to help people gain digital skills and access to devices Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 News

Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 Blog Post

NTT DATA 2026 AI analysis points to maverick playbook moves

AI is here, but is it? Through the rise and development of predictive, generative and agentic AI services, we have heard so many vendors (and indeed AI advocates and evangelists) tell us about the ... Continue Reading

December 10, 2025 10Dec2025 Blog Post

Ataccama Snowflake partnership aims to solidify data trust leadership

Agentic data trust company Ataccama has announced a key development (actually a strategic investment) with Snowflake Ventures. Snowflake Ventures is the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of ... Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Opinion

How APAC telcos are reclaiming relevance with AI-ready infrastructure

In part three of this series, we explore how Singtel, China Telecom and SK Telecom are pivoting away from head-on competition with hyperscalers to become enablers of the AI era through sovereign cloud and edge platforms Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Opinion

How AI agents are driving the future of security operations

AI agents can transform security operations and ease workloads, but security teams need to look past the hype to find tools that truly augment human analysts and deliver measurable outcomes Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Microsoft patched over 1,100 CVEs in 2025

The final Patch Tuesday update of the year brings 56 new CVEs, bringing the year-end total to more than 1,100 Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Interview: Meet the competition lawyer taking Microsoft to task over its cloud licensing tactics

Microsoft’s approach to cloud licensing has been labelled anti-competitive and cost-prohibitive to enterprises by regulators, and now Maria Luisa Stasi is the competition lawyer looking to take the company to task over its behaviour Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 In Depth

The agentic AI future of enterprise architecture

As agentic AI changes business processes, it will also redraw the role of enterprise architecture Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Airline set to launch with end-to-end AI workflows

IBM has been working with Riyadh Air to develop a digital-first, AI native airline that uses its Watson technology on OpenShift running on Azure Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Blog Post

LangGrant LEDGE: LLM enterprise database (orchestration) governance engine

Database modernisation and synthetic data company LangGrant has launched LEDGE MCP server. This technology enables LLMs to reason across multiple databases at scale, execute multi-step analytics ... Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

How Chinese-owned Radisson Hotel Group split US enterprise resource planning

During the UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Birmingham, Computer Weekly met with the SAP platform lead at Radisson Hotel Group Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Opinion

Are we mistaking regulation for resilience?

We have a growing number of cyber compliance regulations, yet our country’s cyber resilience remains fragile. What is going wrong? Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

MPs maul digital ID plans in Parliamentary debate

MPs brand the government’s digital ID plans ‘un-British’ and ‘an attack on civil liberties’ during debate on the controversial policy Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Blog Post

SmartBear: Context is the new code: why self-service QA will deliver AI’s promised productivity

This is a guest post to follow up the recent Computer Weekly Developer Network series on self-service computing written by Scott Kingsley, VP of engineering, SmartBear. SmartBear is known for its ... Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 Opinion

Digital sovereignty about outcomes, not theoretical ideals

SAP’s chief executive counsels against abstractly idealistic conceptions of digital sovereignty that over-focus on physical data centres Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data

Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Cloudera CEO on the Middle East’s hybrid AI future: ‘Workload portability is the foundation’

Charles Sansbury explains how Gulf enterprises are driving demand for private AI, data sovereignty and hybrid architectures as hyperscalers compete for their workloads Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Why bug bounty schemes have not led to secure software

Computer Weekly speaks to Katie Moussouris, security entrepreneur and bug bounty pioneer, about the life of security researchers, bug bounties and the artificial intelligence revolution Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash

Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia team to deliver end-to-end enterprise network services

Enterprise secure networking services provider and global comms tech firm expand partnership to provide joint networking, driving digital transformation at deployment sites Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 E-Zine

Supporting sustainability in IT

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, there is a focus on IT sustainability, as we dig into how to ensure the networking infrastructure underpinning our artificial intelligence workloads is as green as possible. We also speak to the chief ... Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures Continue Reading

December 09, 2025 09Dec2025 News

OAIC to launch blitz on privacy compliance

Australia’s privacy watchdog will begin the new year with a compliance sweep targeting businesses that run afoul of privacy rules, including the over-collection of personal information in-person, warning that non-compliance could trigger fines Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 Opinion

Ethical hackers can be heroes: It's time for the law to catch up

The UK government's plan to finally rewrite the 1990 Computer Misuse Act to provide much-needed legal protections for ethical hackers is welcome, but now we need firm action. Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

Malicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

UK altnet market ‘entering its most dangerous phase yet’

Research predicts shakeout for UK’s independent broadband sector, with likely survivors being those companies that build infrastructure where it matters, invest where returns can be realised and collaborate where value can be unlocked Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

SBB undertakes Europe’s first major railway with IMS, VoLTE comms

Infrastructure upgrade offers onboard 4G service designed to ensure nationwide comms for rail network ahead of planned decommissioning of 3G, redefining connectivity and reliability Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

Number of UK social care providers using digital records hits 80%

Use of digital records in social care has doubled, as the UK government explores options to link digital care records with the NHS Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 Blog Post

Pryon: LLMs know how to speak; memory directs what to say

Many of our core enterprise computing infrastructure core contrasts are changing. Where we were concerned with CPU ‘clock speed’ and the relative performance of any given member of the Intel ... Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 News

Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Continue Reading

December 08, 2025 08Dec2025 In Depth

Forrester: The role of internal developer platforms in DevOps

How does a self-service internal developer platform enable organisations to improve their DevOps workflows? Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 News

Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads

Exploitation of an RCE flaw in a widely used open source library is spreading quickly, with China-backed threat actors in the driving seat Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 News

Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator

Data, automation and artificial intelligence are driving the regulator to take new approaches to its work and how it supports the pensions industry, leading to improved experiences for everyone in the UK who has a pension Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 News

Edinburgh Airport grounds flights due to IT issue affecting air traffic control provider

An unspecified IT issue affecting Edinburgh Airport’s air traffic control services provider has led to flight delays and cancellations Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 News

Cloudflare fixes second outage in a month

A change to web application firewall policies at Cloudflare caused problems across the internet less than three weeks after another major outage at the service, but no cyber attack is suspected Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 News

Jersey to get remote monitoring for vulnerable adults

Jersey’s Family Nursing and Home Care (FNHC) hopes remote monitoring service will help keep people out of hospital and support care at home Continue Reading

December 05, 2025 05Dec2025 In Depth

Ryder Cup takes its best network shot

The Ryder Cup sets sporting and organisational bar higher than ever, depending on ‘an AI-driven connected intelligence platform’ to gain required real-time insights and intelligence Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Opinion

From trust to turbulence: Cyber's road ahead in 2026

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026. Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

NCC supporting London councils gripped by cyber attacks

Three west London councils hit by a cyber attack continue to investigate as services remain disrupted nearly two weeks on Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS launches Kiro IDE for real agentic development at scale

AWS used its re: Invent conference to announce Kiro, an AI IDE that helps software engineers move from concept to production through a simplified developer experience for working with AI agents. ... Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 Blog Post

AWS simplifies model customisation

AWS used its re: Invent 2025 conference to detail its work focused on simplifying model customisation to help developers build faster, more efficient AI agents. The company says that, now, Amazon ... Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Constrained budgets left security teams short-handed in 2025

With 2024 seeing surges in security funding cuts, lay-offs and hiring freezes, 2025 brought some relief for cyber pros, but constrained budgets are leaving security teams short-staffed Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 News

Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies Continue Reading

December 04, 2025 04Dec2025 In Depth

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