Computer Weekly | Information Technology (IT) News, UK IT Jobs, Industry News

Latest News

CVE volumes may plausibly reach 100,000 this year

The number of vulnerabilities to be disclosed in 2026 is almost certain to exceed last year's total, and may be heading towards 100,000, according to new analysis.
London Assembly member: Police should halt facial recognition use

In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance
Peer ‘disappointed’ DWP review of prosecutions is months away

Government indicates that there are 108 DWP prosecutions of subpostmasters that will be reviewed so far, but little progress has been made
The Security Interviews: Mick Baccio, Splunk

Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, reveals how the experience of running cyber on a dime for a US presidential campaign has informed how he does security, and why the basics still matter
APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions
UK government datacentre planning decisions queried over EIA

The UK government’s admission that it made a mistake granting permission for a hyperscale datacentre to be built in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has raised questions about the validity of similar approved projects

AI enters its ‘grassroots backlash’ era

As artificial intelligence permeates aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel - but any impact on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear
From chaos to clarity: How AI is redefining construction at scale

Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead
Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court

The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases

Legacy IT? No problem- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ... Continue Reading
Kubernetes infrastructure now saved from 'minor repair bulldozer'- Open Source Insider

The Kubernetes community has released the latest version of Cluster API at version number 1.12 and it is described as a "significant update" for developers. A Kubernetes “sub-project” focused on ... Continue Reading
Cloudera offers AI inferencing progression & unified data access - CW Developer Network

Cloudera has this month developed its expansion to Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments. The company says this move will empower customers to ... Continue Reading
Salience Labs goes all-in on all-optical networking with photonics switches for AI infrastructure- CW Developer Network

Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could represent as much of a leap in computing power as the emerging field of quantum itself does. The ... Continue Reading

Microsoft Office is becoming a national security liability

The rapid exploitation of a bug in Office by Russian cyber attackers shows that the current system of patching - for a software application that is practically ubiquitous in enterprise IT - has become a security risk for everyone
Without governance, agentic AI could destroy social media

If organisations using agentic and generative AI don’t codify ethics and oversight now, the future may be filled with AI agents using generative AI to communicate with other agents, destroying trust in social media
How GenAI is breaking cyber security awareness tactics

With threat actors exploiting the growing use of generative AI tools and the prevalence of shadow AI, organisations must strengthen their security programmes and culture to manage the rising risk