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July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

US CISA agency extends Iran cyber alert, warns of CNI threat

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reiterates guidance for operators of critical national infrastructure as it eyes the possibility of cyber attacks from Iran Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Google fixes type confusion flaw in Chrome browser

An actively exploited type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser needs immediate attention from users Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Scattered Spider link to Qantas hack is likely, say experts

A developing cyber attack at Australian airline Qantas that started at a third-party call centre is already being tentatively attributed to Scattered Spider. Find out more and learn about the next steps for those affected Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Blog Post

Why the Gov.uk App could (maybe, possibly...) be a turning point for digital government

Twelve years ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) told us that it was “not ‘appy at all”. The March 2013 blog post that announced GDS would not develop a government mobile app and would ... Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

TSB faces another risky IT migration as Santander eyes UK bank

TSB’s customers were moved to the in-house-developed platform of its parent, Sabadell, in a disastrous migration in 2018 Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Network failures see third of UK businesses lose £4m a year

Research finds as many as half of UK businesses have been forced to urgently re-evaluate their tech infrastructure following a wave of high-profile IT outages Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Bias and lack of flexibility hindering diversity, finds DSIT

A diversity and inclusion report compiled for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology outlines the many barriers to diversity in the UK’s tech sector Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Opinion

Technology’s true test - serving people, society, economy, and the planet

The TechUK President's Awards reflect the ambitions that everyone in technology should be striving for - to improve, not simply transform, the world in which we live Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Digital Catapult claims milestone in UK advanced connectivity landscape

Deep tech innovation organisation awarded accreditation as the UK’s only European Open Testing and Integration Centre. Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Law professor urges CMA to take swift and urgent action over Microsoft cloud licensing

University of Leeds law professor has published an academic paper calling on the UK Competition and Markets Authority not to drag its heels on correcting Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing habits Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Digital workers at US bank to get their own email accounts

The financial services sector is leading the way when it comes to using AI across operations – and it’s not afraid to talk about it Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Opinion

Shared services in the public sector – is bigger really better?

CIO Sean Green discusses the role of shared services in the UK public sector today Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Ericsson recommits to UK 6G research programme

Global tech provider offers commitment to UK government in driving research and playing an active role in shaping the technologies and standards that will define 6G Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 Blog Post

Sysdig delivers integrated cloud security AI analyst

The time has come for AI-driven precision across prevention, detection, investigation and response. This is the message from real-time cloud security company Sysdig. Sysdig Sage is said to equip ... Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer

Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025 Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Virgin Media O2 boosts mobile network through Vodafone spectrum acquisition

Details released of spectrum transfer agreement between leading UK telcos, which is expected to materially enhance Virgin Media O2’s network position and improve connectivity experience of businesses across the country Continue Reading

July 02, 2025 02Jul2025 News

Qantas customer data exposed in contact centre breach

Australian flag carrier is investigating significant data theft of personal information for up to six million customers after a third-party platform used by its call centre was compromised Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare. Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Blog Post

Nutanix CEO: Building the infrastructure to harness AI’s potential

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami is fond of a big picture wide-angle view… after all, he used his keynote at this year’s .NEXT user conference in Washington, D.C. to explain to attendees how and why ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

ING Bank transforming operations through agentic AI

Netherlands-headquartered international bank is using artificial intelligence throughout its operations Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

Openreach adds 21 locations in broadband upgrade footprint

UK’s largest broadband network provider makes significant addition to infrastructure, staying on track to make full-fibre gigabit available to 30 million premises in all corners of the UK by 2030 Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 In Depth

NetApp: Not just NAS filers, and a comprehensive cloud strategy

NetApp market share has slipped, but it has built out storage across file, block and object, plus capex purchasing, Kubernetes storage management and hybrid cloud Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: AIOps in storage management, security and sustainability

Dell’s Stewart Hunwick explains why AIOps – artificial intelligence for IT operations – is key to gaining efficiencies in storage management and sustainability, and discusses reactive and proactive data security Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 Blog Post

OpenELA compatibility toolset helps Linux distros reduce testing costs

OpenELA has announced ELValidated, a verification and interoperability suite for Enterprise Linux operating systems. This gives developers the ability to verify the compatibility of their ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 E-Zine

Empowering professionals

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we put HMRC’s online IR35 status checker under the microscope, after an FOI response revealed usage of the tool has plummeted over the past three years. We also hear how GenAI is being put to the test to enhance the ... Continue Reading

July 01, 2025 01Jul2025 News

Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 News

Government launches Gov.uk App

The public beta version of the app will allow users to access government services on their phones, based on their needs and interests Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 In Depth

Precision-bred veg from Phytoform Labs: Meet the AI startup looking to boost the UK’s food security

Phytoform Labs is on a mission to shore up the nation’s food supplies using artificial intelligence-backed biotechnology – and the humble tomato Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 Opinion

Better governance is required for AI agents

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 30, 2025 30Jun2025 News

Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand

Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 Blog Post

Overture Maps GERS, an open standard for interoperable geospatial IDs

The Overture Maps Foundation is focused on continuing what it calls its “collaborative efforts” to build interoperable open map data. The foundation has now announced Global Entity Reference System ... Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 News

How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing Continue Reading

June 30, 2025 30Jun2025 News

Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest

Days after news emerged of a Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023’s infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Scattered Spider cyber gang turns fire on aviation sector

Multiple reports are emerging of cyber attacks on airlines – Google Cloud’s Mandiant believes them to be linked Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Over 2 million affected by US supermarket breach

Belgian-Dutch supermarket operator Ahold Delhaize reveals that more than two million people, including employees, had their data compromised following a November 2024 ransomware attack Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence

We speak to Chris Loake, group CIO at Hiscox, about the roll-out of Microsoft Copilot and how to succeed with AI projects Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance

The founder of the National Cyber Security Centre spoke with Computer Weekly at Infosecurity Europe 2025 about how artificial intelligence might disturb the attacker-defender security equilibrium Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

MPs propose ban on predictive policing

MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Fujitsu’s grip on HMRC loosening but bags of taxpayer cash still to be made

The complicated and risky nature of replacing IT suppliers in major government contracts means Fujitsu will be cashing in for years to come Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 Blog Post

Quantum Computing: A UK moon shot or £670m research indulgence?

Among the questions raised during the inaugural Quantum Datacentre Alliance forum held at Battersea power station in London, was one from a delegate from the government’s Quantum testbed programme, ... Continue Reading

June 27, 2025 27Jun2025 News

Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’ Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Seven main suspects under police investigation in national Post Office probe

The national police investigation into crimes related to the Post Office scandal expects the number of suspects to continue to rise Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Sky ECC distributor released from French custody pending trial

Canadian businessman accused of distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones has been released on bail after over four years in custody without a trial Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

British hacker IntelBroker faces years in a US prison cell

US authorities have unsealed charges against 25-year-old hacker Kai West, aka IntelBroker, accusing him of being behind multiple cyber attacks Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Next phase of fintech reflected in strong financials, says World Economic Forum

Digital-powered finance firms might not be growing their customer base as fast as the immediate post-pandemic period, but revenue and profits are strong Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Glasgow Council services remain offline a week after cyber attack

Disruption continues a week after core services at Glasgow City Council were forced offline following a cyber attack on a third-party IT services provider Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

UK rail network gets on track for enhanced connectivity

Partnership between UK rail infrastructure provider and communications firm aims to boost 4G/5G connectivity on trains and in stations, tackle signal blackspots in tunnels, and pave the way for train performance improvements across Britain Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Aviva Stadium upgrades 5G infrastructure

Ireland’s premier sporting venue upgrades communications infrastructure to offer 5G capability claiming to have improved significantly mobile performance, coverage and capacity Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 Blog Post

Platform Engineering - Sidero Labs: Central IT, now with YAML!

This is a guest post by Justin Garrison, head of product at Sidero Labs - the company specialises in Kubernetes infrastructure automation, developing tools including Talos Linux, a security-focused ... Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

Public sector spends £16.6bn directly with tech suppliers every year

Government and public sector bodies spent big on technology last year, but the majority of the money went to large IT suppliers, with 84% of the total spend going to so-called ‘tech titans’, according to a report from Tussell Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years

A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 News

AI competitiveness maxing out US bandwidth

Research finds growing demand to bring compute and data closer to the edge for real-time performance. Hyperscalers and datacentres are securing dense metro networks to support AI inference and regional interconnects Continue Reading

June 26, 2025 26Jun2025 Podcast

Pure CTO drills down on key-value, no DFMs on FA//ST, and fast object

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage CTO Rob Lee about use of key-value stores in its storage OS, plus why its much-vaunted DirectFlash isn’t in the new FlashArray//ST product Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 Blog Post

MuleSoft Connect AI 2025: The journey from digital... to agentic

Keen to ingest an 18-inch pizza’s worth of API integration, automation and management, the Computer Weekly Developer Network headed to MuleSoft Connect AI 2025 in New York this month to get closer ... Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Swisscom claims world first with sovereign SASE connectivity service

SASE applied at heart of leading Swiss telco’s converged networking and cyber security offering to deliver customised, advanced networking and security services directly from its own infrastructure Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Latest Citrix vulnerability could be every bit as bad as Citrix Bleed

A Citrix NetScaler flaw that was quietly patched earlier in June is gathering widespread attention after experts noted strong similarities to the Citrix Bleed vulnerability that caused chaos in late 2023 Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 Blog Post

MuleSoft Connect AI 2025: Live notes from the keynote

MuleSoft Connect AI 2025 was hosted in New York this month and the Computer Weekly Developer Network had a front row seat to listen to the keynote. According to an opinion piece written by Andrew ... Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Satellite data to drive innovation in UK public services

UK Space Agency announces £2.5m funding for research into applications for the use of satellite data to help transform the delivery of public services Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Thames Freeport lands multisite private 5G network

Verizon Business and Nokia to deliver multiple dedicated infrastructures to enhance port operations with AI-driven data analytics, autonomous vehicle control and real-time logistics orchestration Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 Blog Post

Platform Engineering - Nutanix: DevOps evolved with centralised control & decentralised delight

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering for hybrid multi-cloud computing company Nutanix. Stressing ... Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Brightspeed, Calix conclude ‘innovative, seamless’ 50G-PON test

US broadband and telecommunications services provider’s technology advancement centre tests passive optical fibre network capabilities that it says will support rapid, scalable growth today and for years to come Continue Reading

June 25, 2025 25Jun2025 News

Arelion upgrades Scandinavian network to support AI ‘superhighway’

IP backbone and diverse connectivity services provider deploys 1.6Tbps and scalable 400G coherent pluggable optics for network between Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

Wrongly convicted subpostmasters may have to wait another year for redress

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the government has not done enough to contact all those who qualify for Post Office scandal compensation schemes Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

UK ransomware costs significantly outpace other countries

UK organisations hit by ransomware attacks paid much higher ransoms than in other countries over the past 12 months, according to study Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

FWA flies with global 5G subs set to near three billion by end of 2025

This year’s edition of analysis of mobile communications sector highlights a significant shift in how service providers are monetising 5G, particularly through fixed wireless access, and points to a dramatic increase in 5G traffic over the next five... Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

Zopa Bank launches current account earlier than expected

Zopa launches its UK current account, five years after reinventing itself as a challenger bank Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

One year since being freed, Julian Assange still a victim of state secrecy

If the State Department’s arguments prevail in FOIA litigation, the truth about US action against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks journalists will never be known Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 News

CMA consults on Google’s search dominance

The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on whether Google should be designated with strategic market status Continue Reading

June 24, 2025 24Jun2025 E-Zine

Digital ID: cool or contentious?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dig into the discourse surrounding the proposal to roll out a national digital identity scheme across the UK, and hear from HPE’s CIO on what he’s learned from his time previously working as an IT chief in the ... Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 Blog Post

Cyber Skills Today for Economic Growth Tomorrow

Cyber security is a critical enabler of economic growth, fostering a stable environment for innovation and investment, according to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: policy statement that ... Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Widening Middle Eastern war increases cyber risk

With the entry of the US into the widening Middle Eastern conflict, cyber risk is likely to increase across the board Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations

Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands

Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 Blog Post

Let's Chat About AI In Networking And Security By The Fireside

One thing we can’t get away from right now – even if we wanted to – is AI. While there are specialist AI tech vendors, the reality is that it impacts on all aspects of IT, not least two of my key ... Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Eutelsat secures €1.35bn to expand satellite offer

Contemplated major capital increase designed to secure Eutelsat’s long-term strategic vision has been anchored by the French state and other reference shareholders Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Autonomous vehicle technology market set to roll

Research from internet of things specialist analyst projects rapid adoption of autonomous vehicle technology over the next five years. Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group

We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 News

Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops

Academics and civil liberties experts say that proposed ‘authoritarian’ powers to allow police to trawl online and cloud services used by owners of seized devices should require approval from a judge Continue Reading

June 23, 2025 23Jun2025 In Depth

Clouded judgement: Resilience, risk and the rise of repatriation

Geopolitics, data sovereignty and rising costs are driving a change in cloud thinking, but it’s slow progress Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

Cyber Essentials certifications rising slowly but steadily

The number of businesses attaining the NCSC Cyber Essentials certification continues to increase, but much more can be done to raise awareness of the scheme Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

M&S, Co-op attacks a ‘Category 2 cyber hurricane’, say UK experts

The UK’s Cyber Monitoring Centre has published its first in-depth assessment of a major incident, reflecting on the impact of and lessons learned from Scattered Spider attacks on M&S and Co-op Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

UK data reforms become law

UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 Opinion

Beyond the AI hype: How data laws quietly handed power to government and Big Tech

The UK is at risk of becoming an ‘algorithm state’ as the government hands more power to Big Tech and reduces the rights of individuals Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

European satellite operators take comms services to higher orbit

Kyivstar advances direct-to-cell services in Ukraine with Starlink integration and regulatory approval for testing, while Constellation Technologies and Operations announces the imminent launch of its first regenerative 5G mmWave payload Continue Reading

June 20, 2025 20Jun2025 News

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