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July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

European cyber cops target NoName057(16) DDoS network

A Europol operation has succeeded in disrupting a pro-Russian hacktivist network accused of conducting DDoS cyber attacks on targets in Ukraine and Europe. Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA

Research from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030 Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Thousands of women in tech leave their roles each year

At the launch of the Lovelace Report, experts state that women in the tech workplace aren’t being promoted, which in turn is pushing them out of the industry Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 E-Zine

Vive la AI

In this quarter’s CW EMEA, we look at how one of the Netherlands’ leading technology education centres, Eindhoven University of Technology, fell victim to sophisticated cyber attacks. What unfolded in the university’s reaction is evidence that the ... Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

NetBox Labs raises $35m to modernise infrastructure operations

Significant investment in second funding round as core platform’s adoption said to be ‘exploding’ as companies race to better deploy, manage and secure business-critical networks and infrastructure Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

UK government-funded mobile mast upgrades mark milestone in Wales

Latest development in £1.3bn mobile upgrade scheme sees upgrade of existing mobile masts which previously only connected EE customers and anyone making 999 calls Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Fujitsu outage crashes Post Office Horizon system

Japanese IT giant’s time serving the Post Office is due to end next year, but problems persist Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration

The foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’

UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

Lack of automation hinders UK fibre industry

Study highlights how long-established manual workflows and fragmented processes are delaying time to revenue and compounding operational costs Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: How (agentic) AI can help with unstructured data

In this podcast, MongoDB CTO Boris Bialek discusses how artificial intelligence can bring together multiple levels of corporate data to better automate processes and how agentic AI can be a key part of that Continue Reading

July 17, 2025 17Jul2025 News

LG adds extra gear to automotive content platform for Kia

Electronics giant’s Automotive Content Platform to power in-car streaming for European models of all-electric SUV, marking an expansion of in-car experience to key region following successful deployments in Korea Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Co-op chief ‘incredibly sorry’ for theft of 6.5m members’ data

Co-op chief executive Shirine Khoury-Haq has revealed that all the personal data of all 6.5 million of its members was compromised in the April 2025 cyber attack on its systems Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Scattered Spider playbook evolving fast, says Microsoft

Microsoft warns users over notable evolutions in Scattered Spider’s attack playbook, and beefs up some of the defensive capabilities it offers to customers in response Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

UK government to invest £1m in building out regional tech clusters

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is leading a push to make the UK tech sector less London-centric Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief

The data protection commissioner for Hamburg believes Meta’s AI training should be stopped Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

UK mobile, broadband outpace delivery targets

Second year of government department said to be driving the UK’s leading position in science and technology, and makes clear the success of current broadband roll-out plans Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

BBC plans to outsource and offshore thousands of tech roles

The BBC is drawing up plans to outsource roles in its digital product group and finance, which could include some being carried out overseas Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 In Depth

Pure Storage profits from all-flash, as-a-service and cloud focus

Storage profile: Pure Storage evolves its all-flash offer across multiple workloads while embracing cloud models in data management, as-a-service and containerisation Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Forrester urges IT leaders to dump technical debt

IT needs to invest in innovative technologies and outsource legacy IT management to tackle volatile global markets, says Forrester Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 News

Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO Continue Reading

July 16, 2025 16Jul2025 Blog Post

Clarifai drives agentic AI development with MCP server hosting & OpenAI compatibility

Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform company... and the organisation has announced software designed to help build AI agents. By integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting with ... Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

UKtech50 2025 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

From chess prodigy to AI visionary, this year’s most influential person in UK technology is far from ordinary. From using AI to win video games to discovering the structure of proteins, Demis Hassabis is a force to be reckoned with Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK technology

Computer Weekly has announced the 15th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Current approaches to patching unsustainable, report says

Organisations are struggling to prioritise vulnerability patching appropriately, leading to situations where everything is a crisis, which helps nobody, according to a report Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

MoD cyber breach put thousands of Afghan lives at risk

More than 18,000 Afghan citizens eligible to relocate to the UK under a government programme to protect them from the Taliban were put at risk in a heretofore unreportable data breach Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Memphis Light, Gas and Water deploys private 5G for grid modernisation

Collaboration said to mark a milestone in building a smarter, more resilient and future-ready utility infrastructure with private 5G wireless network to modernise comms, cyber defence and operations Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

SailGP unfurls private, public 5G connectivity across UK event sites

Leading UK operator and comms tech provider forge partnership with global racing championship that will see its 5G Standalone network slicing capabilities deliver real-time communications, telemetry and live video Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

NCSC sets up Vulnerability Research Initiative

The NCSC is expanding its vulnerability research project to draw in external expertise Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Businesses say they are getting four Oracle Java audits a year

Changes to Oracle Java licensing now means that IT leaders need to be wary of the footprint of this widely deployed enterprise platform Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Interview: Philip Colligan, CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation

With the trend of ‘vibe coding’ growing, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO warns schools should not be complacent about continued coding education Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Enhanced mobile connectivity takes flight at Manchester Airport

Passengers to UK’s third busiest airport now served by enhanced indoor wireless network coverage and capacity, especially when the outdoor signal from cell towers doesn’t effectively penetrate into buildings Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance

The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Soaring cloud costs force firms to curtail IT staff hiring and AI efforts, research shows

Research from Akamai Technologies shines a light on how rising cloud costs are affecting business spending in other areas of IT Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 Opinion

Data (Use and Access) Act: Reflections on an eight-month statute

It took a long time, but the government's new data legislation finally made it into the statute book - it holds a lot of promise, but also leaves a lot of unanswered questions Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

UK government adds funding for connected and automated mobility

Funding added for UK connected and automated mobility pathfinder programme that addresses the challenges of bringing CAM vehicles to market Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 Opinion

The big lie of artificial intelligence

The companies promoting AI fail to mention it's often underpinned not by code but by humans tagging data and viewing unsavoury content - AI could not exist without cheap labour largely outsourced to the Global South Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 Blog Post

Platform engineering - Zencoder: Inside AI, build once... scale everywhere

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev in his capacity as CEO of Zencoder. Zencoder is an AI coding agent platform designed to accelerate software ... Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 E-Zine

Mobile fit for festival fun

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dig into the inner workings of the networking infrastructure that ensured revellers at this year’s Glastonbury Festival were able to stay connected to update their socials and the folks back home on how great a ... Continue Reading

July 15, 2025 15Jul2025 News

Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC

Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Potential £230bn boost from improved UK mobile coverage

Economic study calls for UK government to support acceleration in investment in mobile networks through reforming planning laws and significantly increasing the availability of spectrum for operators to reap huge financial rewards Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

EXA unveils high-capacity fibre route for key Euro business centres

Dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider expands its current reach, deploying new high-capacity 1,200 km fibre connection route from London to Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels. Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Luxury retailer LVMH says UK customer data was stolen in cyber attack

French luxury goods retailer LVMH has disclosed multiple cyber attacks in 2025 so far, and their impact is now spreading to the UK as a new incident affecting Louis Vuitton comes to light Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Home Office dumps Fujitsu from IT services contract

Home Office to take IT service desk contract in-house, with staff set to transfer from Fujitsu Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services

The UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

CityFibre to gain more than £2bn in financing round

CityFibre reveals cash injection to ‘supercharge’ next phase of growth and to boost UK economy through large-scale deployment of 10Gbps XGS-PON network Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

Nokia network APIs available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Comms tech provider’s applications programming interface now available on Marketplace, specifically quality of service on demand, number verification and device location verification Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

UK sets sights on humanoid robot future

AI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 Blog Post

CNCF CTO: From golden paths to guardrails, platform engineering's role in developer velocity

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF. As readers will know, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an open source software ... Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 In Depth

Assessing the risk of AI in enterprise IT

We speak to security experts about how IT departments and security leaders can ensure they run artificial intelligence systems safely and securely Continue Reading

July 14, 2025 14Jul2025 News

AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

EU broadband challengers warn of fixed connectivity monopolies

Non-incumbent EU fixed broadband providers raise alarm at proposed legislation, insisting that regulatory certainty is needed to drive investment in connectivity Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

MoD supply chain cyber scheme gets up and running

The Ministry of Defence and IASME have launched a certification scheme for organisations working in the UK defence supply chain, with construction firm Morgan Sindall the first business to achieve compliance Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

Pobl Group builds on managed SD-WAN for housing development

Three-year contract for managed software-defined wide area network service follows merger creating Wales’s largest housing association Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI

Panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted

When looking into how some education providers in the UK are using AI, Ofsted found many have hit the ground running Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

London Underground expands 4G, 5G coverage

More sections of the Tube gain high-speed mobile coverage as roll-out of 4G and 5G continues along further stretches of the Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team

Escher, which supplied middleware in the Post Office Horizon system, is eyeing up the contract to replace the controversial software Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

European 5G landscape “on a rollercoaster”

Research finds impact of spectrum availability across Europe leading to disparity of 5G download speeds with increases in the use of the 3.5GHz spectrum strongly correlating with faster 5G downloads Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say

A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment

The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor Continue Reading

July 11, 2025 11Jul2025 News

AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Ambient ERP – breaking free of the enterprise software triad

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer, Unit4. Imagine a future where your back-office applications are context-aware, operating in the background, only surfacing what ... Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP

Scheme will see SMEs and innovative startups working in sensitive sectors receive advice on enhancing cyber and physical security measures to protect their valuable intellectual property Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

How to lay solid data foundations for AI

This is a guest blogpost by Jamie Hutton, CTO of Quantexa. A Salesforce study has that around 33% of executives view AI as overhyped. But this scepticism may be misdirected. As Quantexa we are ... Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

Following exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Four arrested in M&S cyber attack investigation

Police have made four arrests in connection with a trio of cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Podcast

Podcast: HDDs performance metrics and the workloads they excel at

We talk to Toshiba’s Rainer Kaese about spinning disk performance, why HDDs are good at what they do and how hard disk drives still come out top in workloads that suit them Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

Oxfordshire County Council completes GigaHubs project

Partnership between business-dedicated network provider and local authority brings to fruition vision of a ‘smart county’ that will see gigabit-capable connectivity deployed at rural public buildings, such as schools, GP surgeries and libraries Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 News

AI-RAN Alliance draws more than 100 members in first year

Global consortium aiming to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into radio access networks passes milestone over the course of first 12 months and adds leading European telco to its ranks Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Platform engineering - Mirantis: A route to resilience & compliance as-a-Service

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Rizzo in his capacity as strategy lead for Mirantis. Mirantis is known for its approach designed to simplify cloud ... Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Opinion

SAP’s Christian Klein – cloud, data, AI: How to harness new engines of progress

SAP’s chief executive outlines the triadic philosophy behind the company’s approach to business AI Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Blog Post

Sysdig launches open source cloud security community

Sysdig is on a mission. That mission is one designed to unite millions of cloud security professionals and “builders” (spanning software application development practitioners, data science gurus, ... Continue Reading

July 10, 2025 10Jul2025 Opinion

Why proactive asset management is mission-critical for APAC datacentres

The Asia-Pacific region is leading a global datacentre expansion, but surging energy demands and the risk of outages will require datacentre operators to adopt proactive strategies to ensure a resilient and sustainable digital future Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Fleet-wide Starlink Wi-Fi takes off at Virgin Atlantic

Elon Musk-led satellite operator engaged to provide leading UK airline with ‘the fastest, most reliable connectivity in the sky’ with ‘no-charge’ streaming quality and gate-to-gate connectivity in all cabins Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Mini gets into gear with Transatel to drive connected car services

NTT subsidiary teams up with BMW Group division to enable connected car services for vehicles across 27 countries in Europe and deliver a more connected automotive ecosystem Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Ofcom: use comms regulation to drive innovation

As it looks to boost British business by achieving its ambitions in connectivity, UK comms regulator outlines three key areas to prioritise Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 Blog Post

Enterprise IT risks of AI and agentic AI

Everyone involved in IT needs to be focused on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on enterprise cybersecurity. Yet precious little energy is being expended on making sure AI is ... Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud

The National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Accounting watchdog ‘disclaims’ College of Policing financial accounts after serious IT failures

The professional body for policing in England and Wales failed to properly manage its transition to new accounting and payroll systems Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

UK government signs deal with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants in AI by 2030

Technology secretary Peter Kyle announces deal with Google Cloud as part of a push to loosen the grip of legacy tech on the UK public sector, while also committing to growing the amount of money government spends with homegrown tech suppliers Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 News

Three-quarters of UK champion continued broadband infrastructure investment

Study from trade association for organisations building and delivering UK’s internet services finds almost half of Brits would sooner give up the gym than lose web access, but also highlights a need for real partnership and bolder action to bridge ... Continue Reading

July 09, 2025 09Jul2025 Podcast

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