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• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters

  As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore

  The chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity

  DeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand

  Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

  Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Cyber criminals would prefer businesses don’t use Okta

  Okta details a phishing campaign in which the threat actor demonstrated some unusually strong opinions on what authentication methods they would like their targets to use

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025

  Companies House plans to start vetting director identities from mid-November, but its reliance on the troubled One Login digital identity service may be cause for concern

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework

  Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  US comms on verge of tipping point

  Research from PwC finds that from fibre roll-outs to 5G breakthroughs, America’s broadband and mobile markets are undergoing major shifts, with cable’s grip slipping, the true 5G era beginning and mobile revenues set to surge

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

  Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  AerFlex takes flight as first cloud-controlled AP-only private 5G platform

  ‘Breakthrough’ architecture claimed to be designed to eliminate deployment complexity without compromising security, performance or control

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

  The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Biglobe selects DE-CIX for faster Japan, Europe connectivity

  One of Japan’s leading IT companies connects to Frankfurt-based internet exchange for remote peering services, looking to optimise intercontinental data routing without needing a physical presence in Europe

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD

  The UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

  The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How Australian firms are using graph databases

  Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

  Cisco Talos discloses five vulnerabilities in cyber security firmware used on Dell Latitude and Precision devices, including one that could enable an attacker to log on with a spring onion

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres

  Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  ProRail modernises GSM-Railway core network in Netherlands

  Four-year project to upgrade railway comms designed to reduce downtime, cut long-term costs and improve service reliability, paving the way for on-premise, cloud-native control

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Investing in diverse business could boost UK equity market

  It’s difficult for female-led businesses to find investment, but if more funds were made available, it could boost UK equity, according to research

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Autonomous logistics project gets into gear at Port of Tyne

  Port-Connected and Automated Logistics project looks to address unique demands of quayside operations, where vehicles must coordinate precisely with cranes and navigate a constantly changing environment

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Xantaro joins Jisc Framework for next-gen education connectivity

  International service provider for carriers, service providers and enterprises awarded place on education and research sector framework, and will begin key procurement route for digital infrastructure across industry

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

  Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Halcyon and Sophos tag-team ransomware fightback

  Ransomware experts Halcyon and Sophos are to pool their expertise in ransomware, working together to enhance data- and intelligence-sharing and bringing more comprehensive protection to customers

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks

  Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Nominate: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2025

  Tell us who you think should be included in Computer Weekly’s 2025 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025

  At Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  O2 Daisy opens for business  

  Doors open on joint venture between comms provider and IT services company to offer digital-first connectivity and managed services encompassing cloud-based comms, 5G private networks and IoT

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  North Yorkshire sees 4G coverage boost through SRN

  Latest expansion of £5bn UK mobile coverage scheme takes place in North Yorkshire to offer improved connectivity in and around market towns

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

  A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Interview: How ITSM helps deliver results at McLaren Racing

  We speak to Dan Keyworth, director of business technology at McLaren Formula One Team, about how IT keeps the F1 team on track

• August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

  Low-band spectrum ‘indispensable’ to 5G evolution

  Research reveals how mobile spectrum characteristics, market maturity and use cases are shaping regulatory and operator strategies with low-band, mid-band and mmWave displaying different characteristics

• August 03, 2025 03 Aug'25

  NUS and Google team up on AI research centre

  The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts

  The UK’s largest police force is massively expanding its use of live facial recognition technology as it prepares to lose 1,700 officers and staff

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Securing agentic identities focus of Palo Alto’s CyberArk buy

  Palo Alto Networks is entering the identity security space with a multibillion-dollar acquisition, and plans to address growing concerns around protecting identities associated with AI agents

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  AWS sees revenue and profit rise in Q2, bats away competitive concerns

  AWS has filed its Q2 results, reporting another quarter of revenue and profit rises, but questions are being asked about how the company is coping with the rising competitive pressure it is under

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Sunswift gears up for wireless WAN for World Solar Challenge racing

  Comms tech provider’s 4G, 5G systems working to deliver uninterrupted connectivity for the upcoming solar car race events in Australia, combining 5G and satellite connectivity through intelligent link bonding technology

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Ministry of Justice unveils strategy for safe, secure AI

  A new chief AI officer, together with a framework co-developed with the Alan Turing Institute, form part of a three-year AI action plan at the MoJ

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme

  Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  ITU, IOWN further collaboration on next-gen photonics network

  Collaboration forged between UN agency for digital tech and Innovative Optical and Wireless Network to achieve ‘a more sustainable and smarter world on a global scale’

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  CMA told to expedite action against AWS and Microsoft to rebalance UK cloud market

  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a summary of the final conclusions it has reached following the completion of its long-running probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Microsoft reports massive cloud uptick as CMA questions licensing

  The company’s latest quarterly results show that the Microsoft cloud is booming. But the CMA is not happy with how it’s winning business

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Rakuten selects Cisco, Nokia, F5 as partners for 5G SA network

  Leading Japanese operator Rakuten unveils four key developments in 5G, cloud and AI, as well as key partners to facilitate plans to simplify operations, reduce costs and deliver better customer experiences across country

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Euro regulators approve satellite to low-power device comms standard

  IoT low-power wide area network alliance reveals regulatory decision to expand coverage into remote regions, enabling use cases such as logistics, agriculture and environmental monitoring, without requiring terrestrial infrastructure

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Datacentre operators ‘faltering’ on collecting sustainability data, Uptime Institute data shows

  Datacentre operators are ‘quietly retiring’ their net-zero strategies, as Uptime Institute data shows downturn in the number tracking key server farm sustainability metrics

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn

  The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Meta prepares for gigawatt datacentres to power ‘superintelligence’

  Meta’s latest results show a big jump in datacentre costs as it builds out personal AI capabilities

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

  The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  UK flights suspended after air traffic control outage

  Flights arriving and departing from the UK were disrupted by an outage affecting technical systems at air traffic control body NATS’ Swanwick facility

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  Scattered Spider tactics continue to evolve, warn cyber cops

  CISA, the FBI, NCSC and others have clubbed together to update previous guidance on Scattered Spider's playbook, warning of new social engineering tactics and exploitation of legitimate tools, among other things