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Re:Invent 25: Garmin foresees billions of AI agents in business

At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garmin projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data
Saudi Vision 2030 fuels surge in cyber security innovation

Global cyber firms are racing to support the Kingdom’s mega-projects, but building trusted partnerships remains key, says Exabeam CEO Pete Harteveld
UK prosecution of alleged Chinese spies labelled ‘shambolic’

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reports that China was engaged in malicious cyber attacks against UK Parliament and democratic institutions
Strategic shift pays off as Okta bids to ease agentic AI risk

Nine months after restructuring its go-to-market, Okta is buoyed by a growing recognition of how crucial identity has become thanks to the spread of AI agents
Use of digital ID in UK achieves statutory status

A formal regime of certification and governance is now in place for digital identity services – just as the UK government presses ahead with its controversial plan for a national ID scheme
Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches

Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO Checkout.com

Checkout.com’s CTO has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry – and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it
A framework for software development self-service

Keeping software developers happy is an essential ingredient in IT project success. Developer self-service is the way forward, but with guardrails
Can business software empower rather than control workers?

Acclaim Autism is a US organisation that has increased employee task discretion, with an increase in insurance approvals by using AI – but worker autonomy is declining across the UK

AWS Frontier Agents saddle up to extend software development teams- CW Developer Network

Developers, developers, developers… right? Wrong, it’s now developers, developers, agentic service constructs designed to provide autonomous app design, code reviews and penetration testing that ... Continue Reading
AWS recalibrates data economics further with S3 Vectors, batch & Intelligent-Tiering - CW Developer Network

AI needs data, AI needs inter (and intra) data repository contextual linking and AI needs all of that with a whole menu of search types spanning contextual search, semantic search, SQL search and ... Continue Reading
Pinecone blossoms on cost-performance for AI workloads- CW Developer Network

Because vector workloads aren’t one-size-fits, many applications, such as RAG systems, agents, prototypes and scheduled jobs, have “bursty workloads” meaning that they maintain low, steady traffic ... Continue Reading
Adaptavist: Why culture is king for successful self-service developer tools- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Saunders, VP DevOps, Adaptavist. It's becoming more widely accepted that any organisation with a large number of ... Continue Reading

UK's Cyber Bill should be just one part of a wider effort

New cyber legislation is necessary but a wider effort is needed to harden the UK's security and resilience.
Cyber's defining lessons of 2025, and what comes next

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.
What lies in store for the security world in 2026?

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.