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April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 Blog Post

Tech sovereignty in a "special relationship"

How much investment does the UK need in tech to be in a position where it can limit the impact of geopolitical turmoil and the goings on in the White House? With King Charles having to navigate the ... Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

Leeds Bradford Airport takes mobile connectivity to higher altitude

Neutral host provider installs all-operator 4G mobile connectivity to English airport’s refurbished terminal and newly opened extension as an ongoing managed service, ensuring connectivity for passengers and staff Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 Blog Post

SAS cements agentic AI-ready data management foundation

Implementing agents and automation, with governance built in, now appears to be a central mission for organisations in practically every vertical, as they look to operationalise AI at enterprise ... Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

HSBC collaborates on noisy qubit real-world application

Researchers have demonstrated that usable results for financial modelling are achievable even on current noisy quantum computers Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 Blog Post

Is enterprise technology on the cusp of quantum AI?

As the enterprise technology stack and its corresponding supply chain functions now align to (soon, we hope) support quantum hardware in a stabilised state, discussion is still open as to when this ... Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

MP committees to double up on Capita’s civil service pension crisis

Parliamentary committees to hold joint hearing to investigate the problems experienced in Civil Service Pension Scheme Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

Vernon Building Society uses AI to amplify human touch

Century-old mutual society is using artificial intelligence to bring mortgage processing onto a single platform Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

DP World Tour Europe selects HCLTech for ‘total shop window rebuild’

Sports association signs up Indian IT firm as global partner as it rebuilds its website and fan app in the ‘era of AI’ Continue Reading

April 29, 2026 29Apr2026 News

Monday.com targets third wave of AI with OpenClaw service

The work management software firm’s Globster service brings OpenClaw to consumers and businesses in a bid to democratise access to agentic AI capabilities Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

WhatsApp’s encryption protects servers but leaves users exposed to client-side attacks

The use of encryption helps to secure WhatsApp’s infrastructure, but researchers at Black Hat Asia warn platform’s architecture is driving hackers to target user devices directly Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 Blog Post

Cribl Guard proactively ‘sieves out’ risks in hidden sensitive data

As AI platform competencies now span outwards across every tier, aspect and transept of the enterprise IT stack, we must now work to engineer and architect the most efficient, secure and ... Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 Opinion

Why AI agents are triggering a rethink of enterprise identity

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the intersection of AI and IAM. In this article, we look at the specific impacts of agentic AI on the security stack. Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 Blog Post

SAS tools up industry-grade AI agents & models

The rise of agentic AI services is far outstripping the previous generations of predictive and generative AI that had us momentarily gripped not so very long ago, as the enterprise technology ... Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Court of Appeal rejects Post Office Capture case delay request

Three convictions based on the Capture system have reached the Court of Appeal, which has rejected the Post Office’s request to delay its response, advancing long-awaited justice for affected subpostmasters Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Vect ransomware actually destructive wiper malware

Analysis of a form of ransomware called Vect has uncovered a serious flaw that breaks its core functionality and turns it from a locker to a wiper Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation

Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Liz Kendall talks up work with ‘middle power nations’ on sovereign tech

The technology secretary speaks about the importance of forging alliances to make UK tech more resilient to geopolitical pressure Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 Blog Post

Virtue AI PolicyGuard stacks custom AI guardrails with compliance frameworks

There’s a whole lot of discussion around the need to give enterprises control over how AI policy is defined and enforced across agents, models and applications. Deeper than those core parameters, ... Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Zero waste drives datacentre sustainability shift in UAE

Khazna’s DXB8 becomes the first datacentre globally certified for zero waste, highlighting how circular operations are emerging alongside power, cooling and AI infrastructure as a core design priority Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Lloyds Bank compensates another 1,625 customers after ‘alarming’ data breach

Bank pays out compensation to more customers and reveals expansion of affected group Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Government funds self-learning AI company

The £500m UK government Sovereign AI Unit co-invests with the British Business Bank to help AI company Ineffable Intelligence create self-learning algorithms Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 News

Oracle is turning corporate software over to AI agents

As Oracle rolls out a slew of agentic AI tools and applications, a senior company executive explains how enterprise workflows are changing and why software pricing models may be due for a shake-up Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 E-Zine

One year on from M&S attack – has retail cyber security improved?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, it’s been a year since the ransomware attack that brought down Marks & Spencer – but has the retail sector learned from the experience? Connected vehicles are entering the AI era – we look at the latest automotive ... Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 In Depth

Container storage in the AI age: Block vs object and CSI vs container-native

We look at key choices when it comes to providing storage for containerised applications and whether to choose block, file or object storage Continue Reading

April 28, 2026 28Apr2026 Opinion

How to make AI work for Britain: consolidate demand, diversify supply

The government must learn from years of experience introducing digital transformation if the UK is to make the most of the opportunities AI offers to the public sector Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 Opinion

Are tech leaders risking a cyber resourcing crisis?

Tech leaders may be building up problems for the future by not sufficiently rewarding their security team Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 Opinion

Why AI is forcing a reset of the identity stack

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the intersection of AI and IAM. In this article, we explore the shift from identity management to identity intelligence. Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 News

Was Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract a botch too far?

The Cabinet Office’s decision to end Capita’s contract to administer the Royal Mail pension follows heavy criticism of the supplier’s work on the civil service pension contract Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 In Depth

Moving agentic AI from innovation theatre to enterprise production

As enterprises move from prompting chatbots to orchestrating AI agents, IT leaders must rethink governance, data architecture and cost management to avoid chaotic deployments and runaway cloud bills Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 News

DSIT gets sums badly wrong on AI datacentre carbon footprint

Government revises July 2025 projections for AI-driven datacentre carbon footprint upwards by around 100x, but Carbon Brief suggests the numbers could be much higher still Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 News

Almost 90% of women leave tech industry within 10 years

Women aren’t staying in the tech sector for longer than 10 years, but may come back after leaving if the circumstances are right for their return Continue Reading

April 27, 2026 27Apr2026 News

Port of Tyne advances connected mobility, autonomous logistics

Autonomous port logistics project delivering improvements in terms of real operational challenges, safety, efficiency and sustainability Continue Reading

April 26, 2026 26Apr2026 News

Black Hat Asia: Privacy and cyber security are inseparable

The separation of privacy and security is no longer tenable in a world where exposed personal data is increasingly the entry point for major cyber incidents, delegates at Black Hat Asia 2026 were told Continue Reading

April 26, 2026 26Apr2026 News

UKtech50 2026 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK technology is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do

At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

London Marathon runners get AI to go the extra mile

TCS has launched an artificial intelligence-powered digital mapping tool to help runners and spectators lessen the stress and find the fun during the 2026 London Marathon Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

BT has now blocked over a billion clicks to malicious websites, says NCSC

NCSC’s Share and Defend scheme has seen BT block over a billion clicks through to malicious websites Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Cisco advances path to quantum network with universal switch

Research prototype designed to connect quantum systems from different suppliers, in all major encoding modalities, at room temperature, over standard telecom fibre Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Eseye boosts global IoT resilience with SGP.32 eSIM orchestration

Internet of things connectivity provider combines SGP.32 remote provisioning with multi-IMSI, intelligent fallback and managed eSIM orchestration to ensure resilient global IoT connectivity Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Science, Innovation and Technology committee chair questions UK’s tech sovereignty approach

House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee chair Chi Onwurah questions the UK’s approach to tech sovereignty Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

UAE targets agentic AI to power half of government operations

With a two-year target to move 50% of government sectors, services and operations to agentic artificial intelligence, the UAE is positioning autonomous systems as the next phase of digital government Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Government should drop Capita from civil service scheme after it loses Royal Mail role, says union

Union representing civil servants said that when outsourcing suppliers fail, they should be dropped Continue Reading

April 24, 2026 24Apr2026 News

Capital injection, acquisition further Render Networks in critical infrastructure

Critical infrastructure software platform provider gains fresh capital to accelerate sector and portfolio expansion Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 Opinion

Can enterprise AI in Singapore succeed without Wi‑Fi 7?

Enterprises are quickly discovering that their wireless infrastructure is the real barrier to AI readiness. To achieve true transformation, it is time to stop relying on legacy networks and treat Wi-Fi 7 as a business enabler Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

FairPrice to roll out AI-powered smart carts to more stores

Shoppers can expect smart carts that slash checkout times to just 36 seconds, while supermarket staff will get an AI sidekick to automate daily operations Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 Opinion

Google Cloud Next: It’s time to create value, not slop, from the AI boom

Attendees at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas are backing AI all the way to the bank. But as AI turns up in everything, everywhere, all at once, we’re going to need to get a lot stricter about what we use it for. Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 In Depth

AI drives software productivity – and challenges – for Motorway

We talk to Ryan Cormack of used car marketplace Motorway about how AI-driven development increases the speed and productivity of engineering and the challenges it brings Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

5G market enters selective and strategic phase of development

Research finds 5G market no longer defined simply by how many 5G networks exist, but by what those networks are becoming, shaped by ability of operators to translate technical capability into commercial value Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Medical data of half a million Britons on sale in China after Biobank breach

Biobank operator is taking steps to improve security after biological, health and lifestyle information from its database was offered for sale on a Chinese website Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Freshwave claims next evolution of 5G indoor mobile

In a claimed UK market first, a service powered by Ericsson’s Radio Dot System will offer all-operator 4G/5G signal indoors, with central London location already live Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Digital twin of athlete’s heart to demonstrate future of healthcare

IT services firm opens a window to the future of healthcare and physical training as tech advancements converge Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 Blog Post

D-ID agentic video platform creates ‘new generation of digital humans’

The market for agentic AI services is as wide and broad as real life, or so it seems. With the realms of language, voice and image all being fair game (and with taste and sensory perception, ... Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

SITA launches campus network to keep airport operations connected

Air transport industry technology provider taps networking giant to keep transport hubs connected and running smoothly, without the cost and effort of managing networks in-house Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Chinese hackers using compromised networks to spy on Western companies, says Five Eyes

Companies urged to take countermeasures as Chinese hacking groups use networks of infected home and office devices ‘at scale’ to evade security monitoring systems Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS

The UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 Blog Post

Boost cooks up SmokedMeat, open source framework for CI/CD pipelines protection

Boost Security has announced SmokedMeat, an open source red team framework for CI/CD pipelines that shows how attackers exploit pipeline vulnerabilities and move through modern software delivery ... Continue Reading

April 23, 2026 23Apr2026 News

Using AI to manage insider risk amid Middle East conflict

As geopolitical tensions reshape the cyber threat landscape across the region, organisations are turning to artificial intelligence-driven behaviour analytics, investigative automation and monitoring of AI agents to detect insider risk faster and ... Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Bunnings shows off AI shopping agent at Google showcase

The Australian hardware chain has gone from digital laggard to e-commerce pioneer, teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a conversational AI assistant that turns simple queries into DIY project plans Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

NCSC heralds end of passwords for consumers and pushes secure passkeys

UK National Cyber Security Centre is urging consumers to replace passwords and two-factor authentication with passkeys, following a technical study that shows they are more secure and easier to use Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Interview: Critical local infrastructure is missing link in UK cyber resilience

Jonathan Lee, director of cyber strategy at Trend AI, argues for more focus on local and municipal cyber resilience Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Government terminates Capita’s Royal Mail pension contract

Contract termination comes as Capita’s failings in a separate government pension scheme hit the headlines Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

UK to build ‘national cyber shield’ to protect against AI cyber threats

Security minister Dan Jarvis calls for artificial intelligence companies to work with government to develop AI-driven cyber defences Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Lloyds Register evaluates AI-based nautical navigation

Lloyds Register assessment used a computer vision system to identify and categorise complex navigation scenarios, working in conjunction with human crew Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Microsoft faces court battle in £2bn Windows Server class action

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed the unfair licensing case against Microsoft to go ahead Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

A&K Travel journeys with Colt for global quantum-safe network

Travel giant chooses services arm of digital infrastructure provider to build out its global connectivity network based on quantum-safe encryption systems that operate without distance limitations Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

UK government beats drum for fintech industry at Fintech Week

UK government announces open banking strategies during London Fintech Week, including regulation and £1m investment Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Egypt targets nearshore IT outsourcing market as global demand shifts

Talent scale, cost advantage and AI capability position Egypt as an alternative to Eastern Europe in evolving sourcing strategies Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model? Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure

UK-based IaaS ‘sovereign’ provider, with multiple public sector-facing clients, replaced end-of-life 3PAR arrays with FlashArray storage that saw it reduce power consumption by 85% Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 News

Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans

Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey Continue Reading

April 22, 2026 22Apr2026 Blog Post

Gitar tunes up to tighten strings on AI-generated code

No doubt keen on string-based instruments, the founders behind San Francisco-based Gitar have created a developer infrastructure company known for technology that works to build AI agents used to ... Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

Nation states responsible for ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks against UK, says NCSC chief

The UK is facing four nationally significant cyber attacks a week, the majority from hostile states, NCSC chief, Richard Horne, will warn at the CyberUK conference Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 Opinion

Anthropic's Mythos raises the stakes for security validation

Letting probabilistic AI models autonomously operate inside production networks creates real safety and auditability issues, and that core security validation still needs deterministic guardrails. And Anthropic just raised the stakes. Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

More finance firms join FCA’s AI testing initiative

Barclays, Experian and UBS join the FCA’s live AI testing initiative, exploring cutting-edge technologies like agentic AI and SLMs to ensure safe, responsible innovation in UK financial markets Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

Sans Institute preps live systems for Nato cyber exercise

Cyber training body the Sans Institute is preparing live power generation IT and OT systems for Nato’s annual Locked Shields blue team exercise, which this year appears more relevant than ever Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 Opinion

M&S one year on: turning anticipation into secure by design

The cyber attack on M&S last year marked a turning point for resilience in the retail sector. One year on, knowing how to avoid the next incident is no longer the priority and being ready for when it happens is key. Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 Blog Post

Photonics - Scintil: Why AI’s next bottleneck is the network, not the chip

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Crowley, CEO at Scintil Photonics. Scintil is known for its work in DWDM laser sources for AI. Using its SHIP™ ... Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced

Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration

The emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 News

Middle East CIOs move from cloud-first to sovereign-first in a high-risk digital era

As artificial intelligence scales and regulatory pressure intensifies, resilience – not cost – is becoming the defining metric of enterprise technology strategy, says Nischal Kapoor, chief revenue officer at e& enterprise Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 E-Zine

Will the UK’s datacentre strategy deliver?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we dive into the data around datacentres – and discover that the UK government’s ambitions for growth look unachievable. We talk to the European data chief at Toyota about the car maker’s plans for analytics and AI. ... Continue Reading

April 21, 2026 21Apr2026 Blog Post

CloudBolt COO defines Kubernetes automation at the speed of trust

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yasmin Rajabi, COO at CloudBolt. CloudBolt is known for as the 'cloud ROI company' as it helps organisations be more ... Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 News

Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 News

Business leaders marked down on AI workforce strategy

Research from Accenture has found that while workers feel their jobs will change, employers are less likely to invest in workforce transition Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 News

Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto vows to upskill and invest in tech

Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament Election, Labour promises digital and tech NHS funding worth £680m, ‘digital playgrounds’ and to create a digital skills passport Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 Blog Post

Cyber Security Q&A With Avella's Daryl Flack (Claude wasn't invited to the session :)

I recently talked in this 'ere blog about a mighty fine conversation I had with Avella Security's Daryl Flack. So good that we decided to follow it up with a Q&A with yer man. I created four ... Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 Podcast

Software billing gap: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to Griff Parry, CEO and co-founder of m3ter about why billing based on consumption sometimes fails Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 Blog Post

Ataccama banks clever on helping financial institutions meet EU AI Act

Data trust platform company Ataccama has announced that its Ataccama ONE data trust platform will provide capabilities that empower financial institutions to meet the requirements of the EU AI ... Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 Opinion

Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matters

Governments may continue to look for ways to restrict end-to-end encryption, but the greater danger lies in demanding insecurity by design that would undermining trust, resilience, and the security of the global communications ecosystem. Continue Reading

April 20, 2026 20Apr2026 News

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