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Nokia to helm Proactif to deliver ‘state-of-the-art’ UxV

Comms tech provider selected to lead major project backed by initiative aiming to redefine how Europe uses robotics and unmanned vehicle technologies to manage emergencies and critical infrastructure
Labour commits £17.2m to support Spärck AI scholarships

The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence
Compensation to Post Office scandal victims reaches £1bn

The government has now paid out more than £1bn to victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal
Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost

Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills
Government to build online platform for public sector tech buyers

The National Digital Exchange will be a one-stop shop for public sector tech buying, allowing organisations to rate and review products and gain access to pre-approved tech deals
Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees

Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff

Are we normalising surveillance in schools?

Children and teenagers are subjected to a vast array of surveillance technologies in schools. These are intended to keep them safe, but are we normalising surveillance for young people?
Local council devolution: Could it accelerate the pace of local government cloud adoption?

The UK government is on a mission to rationalise the number of local councils through its devolution agenda, which will see authorities gain autonomy over their budgets. We weigh up the impact this could have on cloud adoption in local councils
What happens if Silicon Valley’s AI investment bubble bursts?

US tech giants are burning through unprecedented amounts of capital to develop artificial superintelligence, but authoritarian regimes around the world could keep the pursuit of a techno-utopian future alive when the bubble subsides

Platform Engineering - GigaOm: It’s no quick fix, it’s a state of mind- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Collins in his capacity as VP of engagement and field CTO at GigaOm. Collins starts our platform engineering series (as ... Continue Reading
Information overload needs more than AI — think collaboration and automation tech- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, chief executive officer, the SER Group. In it he talks about why artificial intelligence is not the whole answer to handling vast swathes of corporate ... Continue Reading
Vast Data & Cisco team up to twist turnkey for enterprise AI- CW Developer Network

Vast Data Cisco have expanded their collaborative partnership. The two firms say they are focused on creating a validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage and ... Continue Reading
Platform Engineering Series: Editorial brief & scope- CW Developer Network

DevOps is dead, they say. The end is nigh for DevOps because platform engineering is about to take over as the “new” way to coordinate software application development and its corresponding ... Continue Reading

An industrial strategy without tech is no strategy at all

Ahead of the delivery of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy white paper, TechUK sets out how the tech sector can drive growth, and the steps the government should take to harness it
CISOs: Don't block AI, but adopt it with eyes wide open

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.
Building a roadmap for digital ID and sovereign data

Now the UK government has offered some clarity on the future of private and public sector digital identity services, it's time to work together to put the essential foundations in place to make digital ID work for everyone