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Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses

Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the ...
Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion

Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation
Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space

Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption
Truecaller rings up Telna to power in-app travel eSIM service

Caller ID and spam call-blocking service selects multi-network infrastructure to power its recently launched travel eSIM service, allowing users to buy and activate a global eSIM directly in app
Pegasystems boss speaks out against AI agent ‘madness’

Pegasystems boss criticises big software suppliers for pushing enterprises to deploy unpredictable AI agents
CFIT is ‘shaking up business models’ with government backing

The Center for Financial Innovation and Technology received further government backing in April

CW@60: Fighting for justice - twice

On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends - experts, trusted contacts, IT leaders and suppliers - for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades
How can enterprise AI be made less sycophantic?

AI tools are increasingly deployed in enterprises, but their sycophancy and unreliability can hamper efficiency. How can organisations take advantage of AI without pain?
Navigating the AI access control minefield

Rather like the early days of e-commerce, everyone seems to be ‘doing artificial intelligence’. IT leaders must now ensure these systems have secure access to enterprise data

Shure: In an AI-code world, communication becomes a system dependency- CW Developer Network

A lot is written right now on the subject of developer productivity; everybody wants to know whether programmers will experience the boosts that AI-coding tools promise… and they want to know what ... Continue Reading
Why cloud-native applications need deep command-line observability- CW Developer Network

Virtue AI has announced “Shadow AI,” a new extension of the AgentSuite-Blue platform that gives enterprises comprehensive visibility into AI and agentic systems operating across their environments. ... Continue Reading
How Apprenticeships Are Powering the Next Generation of Skills- ITWorks

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Rhodri Arrowsmith, managing partner of IBM Consulting in the UK and Ireland, discusses the use of apprenticeships to develop a workforce with the ... Continue Reading
The Business and IT partnership of the future- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Andy MacMillan, CEO of Alteryx. 64% of UK organisations now use AI, up from 52% in 2025. This widespread and growing adoption reflects how quickly AI has moved to ... Continue Reading

Inclusion in engineering needs rigour like other systems

Engineering needs rigour to fix gender imbalances. By treating inclusion as a design challenge with intent and accountability, firms build better teams and more resilient system
Delivering better government after decades of disappointment

For three decades, governments have promised that technology would transform and improve the state - yet the same failures keep recurring. The missing ingredient is to find a better way to prove that a policy works
Achievable sustainability targets in the age of AI infrastructure

AI demands high-density compute, challenging sustainability goals. CIOs must shift from vague targets to operational, audited metrics and responsible hardware lifecycle management