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Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’?
Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill prompts ethical concerns
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is intended to improve school standards, child safety and social care. However, recent amendments to the bill lead to ethical concerns regarding personal data
Inside Europol’s shadow IT system
Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards
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Financial security experts participate in sector-wide hackatho
Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise.
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Solicitor who had phone seized wrongly identified as Hamas member
A police officer wrongly described a solicitor acting for Hamas in an appeal against its proscribed status in the UK as a Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure
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UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case
The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful
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Broadcom updates VCF to address on-premise AI
VMware is being repositioned as a platform to lower the total cost of hosting artificial intelligence workloads in private clouds
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Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way
Dutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers
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Closing the AI trust gap in MENA
Alteryx’s Sabya Sen explains why confidence in AI remains low for high-stakes decisions, and what CIOs must do to turn adoption into real business value
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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill prompts ethical concerns
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is intended to improve school standards, child safety and social care. However, recent amendments to the bill lead to ethical concerns regarding personal data
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Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics
AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment
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Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’?
Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out
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Blogs
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What to expect from Alteryx Inspire 2026- CW Developer Network
Alteryx is known for its analytics automation platform and its capabilities in end-to-end automation and data-driven decision-making. The Computer Weekly Developer Network last attended Alteryx ... Continue Reading
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IBM lays down ‘Big Blue’ blueprint for AI operating model- CW Developer Network
Traditionally a favourite technology conference that draws in press and swathes of coders, fans of IBM developer events will remember days at the Swan & Dolphin, when the words “Rational” were ... Continue Reading
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Nutanix VP: Next steps in cloud-native & AI infrastructure- CW Developer Network
During KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 Europe this year, the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) sat down with Dan Ciruli, vice president and general manager for cloud-native technologies at ... Continue Reading
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Pinecone Nexus offers a knowledge engine for agents- CW Developer Network
Pinecone’s Ash Ashutosh and Edo Liberty say that the primary user is changing. In their capacities as CEO and founder of Pinecone, the pair remind us that every technological paradigm shift ... Continue Reading
Opinion
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AI to help mainframes remain business critical in 2026
Mainframes are very much still vital for performance- and security-conscious use cases. To optimise TCO, AI and hybrid cloud can help them retain their advantages
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The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control
Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t control. Open standards are key to organisational agility
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The AI Correction Will Not Be Evenly Distributed
AI companies are reporting growing revenues but a more important question is not how much are they earning but what kind of revenues?
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